VS. Tiger Woods
Posted on 05/14/2005 6:12:23 AM PDT by beyond the sea
IRVING, Texas - The moment was packed with the kind of tension usually seen only at a major. In the locker room at the Byron Nelson Championship, players huddled around the television as Tiger Woods stood over a 15-foot putt. Upstairs in the family dining area, about 60 people set down their silverware and stopped their chatter to watch. On the course, the 1,500 fans surrounding the 18th green went stone silent.
They witnessed something that had not happened on the PGA Tour in seven years and 142 tournaments.
Woods missed the cut.
"Every guy in the locker room was watching," Jesper Parnevik said. "We're not allowed to bet, but guys were offering $1,000 he would make it."
No wonder there were no takers.
Woods made a slippery 6-foot birdie putt at Torrey Pines three years ago to make the cut on the number. He made a downhill par putt from 4 feet in the Masters two years ago to do the same thing. And who can forget that 6-foot putt in the 2000 PGA Championship to force a playoff, or that 15-footer in the dark at the Presidents Cup.
Maybe that's what was so surprising about this one.
He studied the line from both sides, consulted his caddie, then stood over the ball and went through his routine. One look at the cup. Shift his feet and give it another look. A third look and pull the trigger.
The ball broke gently to the right toward the cup, then flattened out in the final 6 inches and trickled by, a dramatic end to one of the greatest streaks in sports.
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n. - sport, athletics -- an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition
Hoowee!! Now I have changed my mind. Gads the drama! NOT
There is no other sport that can do that, is there?
Well, I got to hit with Chesnekov, the Jensen brothers, I sat down to talk to Patrick Rafter with my wife after he suffered a loss at New Haven. And, I have volunteered my time to teach hundreds of inner city and suburban children how to play tennis. I have even seen a couple of them hit their first tennis ball and then go on to college to play on their teams.
That's a rush. Not standing there wishing I was someone else.
There is no doubt that tennis is a much more physically draining sport than golf. Who doubts that?
But you're just silly to keep professing that golf is not a sport when you HAVE NO IDEA what it takes to play it well..... you never have!
BTW, raquetball is the real killer..... and try speed skating and NCAA wrestling some time.
I almost died playing raquetball once with the Pitt wrestling coach back in '68.
LOL
show me an article, not your assumptions....
show me anyone other than you who has written about that?
The guy was hitting 300 yard drives when he was 10!! Was he on the roids then too?
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I agree. I wrestled in high school and I played racquetball too.
I just don't thing the adulation of golfers is merited at the level there is today. It's really a pretty cheesy sport.
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I hear this crap about Tiger all the time.
Why do people expect the worst when someone is naturally talented at something?
Can't we just say, Damn - that Tiger is one heck of a golfer. And not try to say - he got there because he's a minority, or he's on 'roids, or it was handed to him. He's just DAMN GOOD!! And you know what? He practiced and practiced and practiced.
When he was at Stanford, we used to watch him at the Driving Range - he was there all the time. He's just good. Period.
I am really skeptical of this. Tiger isn't that big. His physique seems to be within the normal range of his natural size. Would you elaborate on how steroids would help someone's short game? The short game is a matter of feel, distance control, and precision. I never heard such a claim before. Steroids allow you to work out longer and recover faster between sessions, thus making you stronger. I don't see how they wouldn't help a person's driving distance.
or how about this one...
Michelle Wie is a 6'2" 15 year old girl. Let me guess, since she can hit 330 yard drives, she is a roided up transvestite?
sheesh....
yeah...
he doesnt get the water weight in his face, like Bonds did...
he isn't a complete freak of nature, like Canseco was...
he is a good golfer. The fact that his short game is to the point that it keeps him in more tournaments than his drives do just shows that he has a touch, which would be lost if he were a roided up megalomanic like some football and baseball players have become....
jealousy and bitterness are a terrible thing
VS. Tiger Woods
you have to get a close up of the eyes of Ben Johnson. I have heard that they were yellow, because his liver functions were off the chart due to his roid usage....
Not really, even a bird has more to do in life than spread ugly, unproven rumors about people. The older I get the more wisdom I see in the Bible, esp. when God talks about gossip.
Its not about driving, but the short game and help in the deep salad. Duval admitted to creatin use (Sosa) when questioned about his new Physique in 99. Duval hasn't seriously competed since winning the British in 02. What happened......vertigo? Yea right Duval
Steroids don't always make you look like a pro wrestler! They help you recover from workouts faster.
The yellow eyes are the first - maybe second - thing you'll notice. The skin erupts with pimples, and becomes a rougher texture, the face starts to swell and well, the testies shrink and harden - otherwise, I'm sure Steroids are good for you.
/sarc
Few people talk about the psychological effects. I remember in college - where I knew many steroid takers - the guy who threw the coke machine off the roof - he was probably on steroids. They act like the Hulk - attacking everything in sight. Remember when Canseco was playing and he had bar fights on a weekly basis?
'nuf said.
creatine does not equal steroids.
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