Posted on 06/18/2015 11:42:41 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Maybe there was a time you figured the artist formerly known as Tiger Woods had earned his own demise, that he had this coming to him all along. Maybe you thought he deserved to suffer on the golf course after the scandal, and after he spent his dynastic years wearing that invisible Do Not Disturb sign while keeping you, the sports fan, as far away as possible on the less fortunate side of the ropes.
Maybe you were a blind believer in karma, entrenched enough in the what-goes-around, comes-around crowd to enjoy watching Woods devolve into the worst kind of a muni-course hacker.
But even the most passionate haters can't find satisfaction in this anymore. Like him or not, Tiger Woods stands among the greatest athletes this country has ever produced. Who really wants to see him keep getting humiliated like he was Thursday at Chambers Bay, where the tattered remains of his indomitable aura were pancaked by the freight trains rumbling across the banks of Puget Sound?
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His slide in golf also coincided with the PGAs decision to begin steroid testing. Coincidence? Maybe
Steroids would have contributed to those long drives and quicker recovery from minor injuries. He noticeably bulked up his physique.
I doubt he did — for golf, no
secondly, the same thing for baseball or bike racers who cheat on their wives -- bad guys off the field, but no detraction from their sporting legacies
Not while his dad was alive.
I have no opinion about steroids and sports, but as an avid golfer, I know that no drug helps a golfer to make putts.
If you watched the open yesterday, Tiger was in position to shoot a decent round, but he could not make a 5-7 foot putt all day.
I don't care a whit about Tiger Woods, but he was one of the best golfers of all time, with or without steroids, because he made putts when he had to make them.
I've been hitting the ball exceptionally well this year, but I'm not scoring at my handicap because my putter has taken the season off {actually it's my fourth putter and they all have taken the season off}.
It is costing me all of my beer money, and some of Ted Cruz's donations {that is a joke, I think}.
Nicklaus, Palmer, Jones, Hogan, Player, Snead, Nelson, etc. — these men are the giants of golf. Men of talent and character.Back in the day, Arnold Palmer was a notorious skirt chaser.
Not as blatant as Tiger, but he loved him some ladies.
And history doesn’t repeat itself - but it does rhyme.
Not while his dad was alive.IMO, the death of Lieutenant Colonel Earl Woods was the beginning of the end of the Tiger Woods era.
Similar to the relationship between Elvis Presley and his mother, each parent represented an anchor in the tempest of worldwide celebrity. When they lost the one person that kept them grounded, they eventually were swept adrift in the currents.
Hopefully, Tiger's story will have a happier resolution.
Golf is all mental and once you lose that aspect, you're done........
Ian Baker-Finch comes to mind. He was once the top golfer in the world but after winning the 1991 British Open he missed 32 cuts in a row on the PGA Tour from 1994-'97 then dropped off the tour......now he's a commentator.
The mechanics of the golf swing are hell on your back. When you could swing a club with the torque that Tiger did, that power is not going to last forever.
In order for him to gain some part of his old glory he would need to change to a finesse game. He might never be able to “get it back.”
Let’s face it..it’s just a rotten time for cablinasians..
Can’t feel too sorry for Tiger - he made a lousy bed as far as relationships go, but he also got immensely rich along the way.
Wrath of the gods!
So I’ll never dance again, guilty feet have got no rhythm.
Unless he spent very foolishly,invested very foolishly or had an accountant or financial adviser who was a crook Tiger Woods can live very,*very* comfortably on what he has left of the hundreds of millions he earned in the 10+ years before his collapse.
It’s the nature of golf. Go out on your local course and you can see the same reaction from non pros.
But as big fan of Tiger, this is all self inflicted pain, aggravation, and stress. He needs to go get his head straight and realize that most of his best days are behind him when it comes to golf.
If there’s any solace in yesterday’s round is he only shot the second worst score in his threesome
Golfers aren't "athletes".Golfing requires skill but so does chess.
Have you noticed that Tiger Woods is one of those that started as a ‘wunderkinder’?
A child ‘athlete’ (golf is not athleticism in my eyes), brought up under daddy’s drive, mentoring, and since he has an Asian bloodline, that Oriental family honor system.
Life lessons, experienced by many of the golf champions of days past, were not his to have.
So, now, in this day and time, Arnold Palmer still rings the bell as a golf gentleman, whereas with Tiger Woods, in this generation of cameras, lights, open lives and zippers, he has sullied the game, forever.
Next, we will be watching ‘Tigress Woods’.
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