Resurrecting Tiger

[Art Vandelay]

IIRC, Tiger recently admitted that he's been playing a Bridgestone ball branded as a Nike ball for several years. Are we sure he wasn't doing the same with his irons?

I think there is ZERO chance he was playing anything close to the equipment the swoosh was selling commercially. I would think replicating a competitors irons (not sure about woods) would be easier than ripping off a ball design.

[Donuthole]

His two big mistakes... playing soldier with Seals and messing up his back and knee... Sucky bad equipment. Imagine if he took his health seriously - in the last 11 years he could have had another 7 or so majors.

The whole episode when Phil called him out on lousy Nike equipment holds true now. I tried Nike - PING - Calloway - Taylormade - give me PING irons and Taylormade woods - that's the best combo. NIke was so bad that they were almost a joke.

IIRC, Tiger recently admitted that he's been playing a Bridgestone ball branded as a Nike ball for several years. Are we sure he wasn't doing the same with his irons?

[clackamascoug]

After I saw him lay some turf over the ball on a simple chip at Torrey Pines I thought he was done. I'm shocked at what he did yesterday. Just think of the career he would have had if he had only gotten rid of that shitty Nike equipment earlier.

His two big mistakes... playing soldier with Seals and messing up his back and knee... Sucky bad equipment. Imagine if he took his health seriously - in the last 11 years he could have had another 7 or so majors.

The whole episode when Phil called him out on lousy Nike equipment holds true now. I tried Nike - PING - Calloway - Taylormade - give me PING irons and Taylormade woods - that's the best combo. NIke was so bad that they were almost a joke.

[RC Vikings]

Lots of good predictions in here.

After I saw him lay some turf over the ball on a simple chip at Torrey Pines I thought he was done. I'm shocked at what he did yesterday. Just think of the career he would have had if he had only gotten rid of that shitty Nike equipment earlier.

[falafel]

Sounds like you just might

http://msn.foxsports.com/golf/story/Tiger-Woods-PGA-Championship-first-round-081111

There needs be opposition in all things, so I will go ahead and call it, probably against popular opinion: Tiger is done. No mas majors for him.

Interested in a Tiger Woods straw poll now. Not necessarily because of today's performance, mind you....but today made me think about the issue, in general.

Are you still a big fan of Tiger or are you growing more indifferent as more time passes with no majors? Are you rooting against him? Has your enthusiasm changed at all?

I don't know if this will prove to be premature, but I get the feeling that Tiger is done. The Tiger era is over. I just don't see him bouncing back to form.

I'm open to whatever. Doesn't have to be super expensive. How much would be good?

I do not think Tiger will win a major this year and I'm actually not against the notion that he will not win another major at all (although I still think he might at some point in the future.)

I would prefer Tiger to be winning. It is fun to watch him dominate. But he isn't the same anymore.

bump.

Why seek ye the living among the dead?

this thread is cruel at this point. tiger is dead. no reason to ever bump this thing again.

Forget about winning a major. Will Tiger ever wear a red shirt at a major again?

Did anyone bet Triplet way back when he made the then absurd claim that Tiger wouldn't win another major? Dude could have cleaned house on that one.

Scroll down to the fourth post in this thread, as well. I'm basically NotraDDDamus.

http://www.cougarstadium.com/showthread.php?59557-Most-Pressure-to-Win-a-Title

Tiger is getting remarkably worse, not better, reaching new lows that were unfathomable in years past. He isn't just missing cuts, he is doing so in Happy Gilmore fashion....errant clubs flying through the air, profanity on live TV, falling over himself as he tries to pick up a ball. lol. he should embrace this new phase of his career and hire a homeless caddy or punch bob barker in the face.

I was surprised he went low with a 65 one day and didn't finish last but i would still be shocked to see him ever win again. He made a lot of birdies, probably should have kept that Scotty in his bag these last eight years.

"The surgery went well, and I'm optimistic this will relieve my back spasms and pain," Woods said in a statement on his website. "When healed, I look forward to getting back to a normal life, playing with my kids, competing in professional golf and living without the pain I have been battling so long."

I think he should just be honest with himself and say he's done. He's had a twenty year run and he was never going to play the Senior Tour.

Lots of good predictions in here.

[Shaka]

SUwish!



Is there a Perkins near Augusta? Google says the closest is in Savannah . . .



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Against all odds! He should be awarded the Presidential Medal for Freedom.

[Donuthole]

I think [Augusta is] where his remaining majors, if any, will come from. He knows that course as well as anyone ever has, and I think he'll contend there just about every year as long as he's reasonably healthy.

SUwish!

He'll be winning majors when he's eating at Perkins again.

Is there a Perkins near Augusta? Google says the closest is in Savannah . . .

Am I the only one that thinks Tiger will never win again... even if it's the Fry's in October?

Whoops.

I don't think he will ever win another major. He might pull off something else.

Whoops.

[Jeff Lebowski]

No matter if you like him or not or you're a fan of golf because of him or not, it's a huge story. He was the best, on pace to break the all time records. He was Muhammad Ali, Michael Jordan, Elvis, Michael Jackson level famous. Then he lost it all, fell off the planet. That also is nearly unheard of in terms of athletes being at the peak of their game, best in the world, and then boom nothing. So his return is obviously one of the biggest sports stories ever. It was 11 years between major championships.

His kids are so young that they had only experienced him losing or trying to come back. Pretty cool they got to see him win in such a big way.

[jay santos]

I was at Reagan coming home from DC yesterday around 4pm and the entire concourse had stopped and was watching Tiger putt for what must've been the win. So many people stacked up deep outside of the sports bar watching that it was tough to even get by them. Huge cheer when he hit the shot.

People still love to watch Tiger. It's weird to me, as someone who really doesn't ever watch golf. I mean, I appreciate that he's a huge talent and was unstoppable at one point. But it seems like there are other golfers who have caught up to him. I guess some like to see him win again and recapture some of what he lost. But he isn't the guy on an island so clearly above the rest anymore. So I find it weird that people are still that into watching HIM and not golf.

No matter if you like him or not or you're a fan of golf because of him or not, it's a huge story. He was the best, on pace to break the all time records. He was Muhammad Ali, Michael Jordan, Elvis, Michael Jackson level famous. Then he lost it all, fell off the planet. That also is nearly unheard of in terms of athletes being at the peak of their game, best in the world, and then boom nothing. So his return is obviously one of the biggest sports stories ever. It was 11 years between major championships.

[Donuthole]

I was at Reagan coming home from DC yesterday around 4pm and the entire concourse had stopped and was watching Tiger putt for what must've been the win. So many people stacked up deep outside of the sports bar watching that it was tough to even get by them. Huge cheer when he hit the shot.

People still love to watch Tiger. It's weird to me, as someone who really doesn't ever watch golf. I mean, I appreciate that he's a huge talent and was unstoppable at one point. But it seems like there are other golfers who have caught up to him. I guess some like to see him win again and recapture some of what he lost. But he isn't the guy on an island so clearly above the rest anymore. So I find it weird that people are still that into watching HIM and not golf.

Tiger brought the masses to golf. He brought golf back into pop culture for the first time since the late 70s/early 80s. Because of Tiger, there are a ton of people who follow and play golf that wouldn't have otherwise. That said, for many who loved golf before Tiger, our love of the sport is not, and never was, predicated on his involvement or success. In fact, we saw golf get pretty boring when he was so much better than everyone else. So while it's a nice redemption story, it doesn't mean to us what it means to the people who love golf because of Tiger. And, of the people these days who love and follow golf, probably half or more of them do because of Tiger. So yeah, there's a Tiger bandwagon. But it's good for golf.

Personally, I don't actively cheer against Tiger, but i'm not a fan boy. I'm glad he won over Molinari or Koepka (who I find very off putting for some reason I can't quite explain). But I would have rather seen Finau, Fowler, or Schauffele win their first major.

[Eddie]

I was at Reagan coming home from DC yesterday around 4pm and the entire concourse had stopped and was watching Tiger putt for what must've been the win. So many people stacked up deep outside of the sports bar watching that it was tough to even get by them. Huge cheer when he hit the shot.

People still love to watch Tiger. It's weird to me, as someone who really doesn't ever watch golf. I mean, I appreciate that he's a huge talent and was unstoppable at one point. But it seems like there are other golfers who have caught up to him. I guess some like to see him win again and recapture some of what he lost. But he isn't the guy on an island so clearly above the rest anymore. So I find it weird that people are still that into watching HIM and not golf.

[old_gregg]

Still needs to be done.

i started and quickly got bored.

[falafel]

Someone needs to catalog all the DDD posts staying that Tiger would never win again.

Still needs to be done.

[clackamascoug]

Am I the only one that thinks Tiger will never win again... even if it's the Fry's in October?

He hasn't won again... and I don't think he will. (So we've got that going for us.) This latest comeback does show that he has some grit... but I think he'll injure his back soon enough and will realize that he needs to move on to Phase II of Del Bocca Vista game of life.

Anybody want to buy some bitcoin?

[Moliere]

Bump

I didn't see today's match since they started early and I was at church. I did track the scores during EQ. I did watch most of Saturday and it was fun when Tiger went on his run on the back nine. The crowd was just waiting for it, as they have been for 10 years, and it was nice to see him play very well again. I grew up watching Tiger and really wished he'd have stayed healthy. Hopefully he stays healthy now and somehow creeps up on Nicklaus, which would make golf a lot more entertaining than it has been without him.