I so want someone to drape jumbo pair of bra and panties across the top of it.
Posted on 05/12/2011 10:48:23 AM PDT by crosshairs
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — The problems continue for Tiger Woods, only this time it's his livelihood, not his image, in the balance.
Woods withdrew after shooting 42 on the front nine at the Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass on Thursday, citing pain in his left leg that has plagued him intermittently throughout his career.
"The knee acted up and then the Achilles followed after that, and then the calf started cramping up," said Woods, who triple-bogeyed the par-4 fourth hole and made three bogeys and no birdies. "Everything started getting tight, so it's just a whole chain reaction."
The injury for Woods raises red flags because his knee has been operated on four times, and he reinjured it while hitting a shot from under a tree at the Masters last month. The exact diagnosis was a grade-one mild medial collateral ligament sprain to his left knee and a mild strain to his left Achilles? tendon, both suffered while hitting a shot from pine straw on the 17th hole of his third round at Augusta. In an effort to let it heal, he did not enter the Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow last week, an event he normally plays. He sounded optimistic about the injury earlier this week at Sawgrass.
"Oh, yeah, the knee is better, no doubt," Woods said Tuesday. "The Achilles is better, as well. So I'm here playing."
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Thursday, though, was a struggle from the outset. Woods said he began feeling pain in his leg from "the first tee shot," and more pain when his foot slipped on pine straw on the second hole. Now there seems to be nothing "mild" about his situation, and after withdrawing he admitted he's concerned. His 42 was his highest nine-hole score at the Players by three shots, but not his highest on Tour. He's shot 43 four times, most recently on the back nine at last year's Wells Fargo Championship.
Woods withdrew from the 2010 Players, too, with an inflamed neck joint.
As his playing partners Martin Kaymer and Matt Kuchar stepped onto the 10th tee at 10:30 Thursday morning, Woods stepped to the podium to offer a few quotes before ducking into the locker room. He was directed into the Tour's medical trailer, where he stayed for about 60 seconds, before emerging and gingerly climbing into a white Mercedes in the players' parking lot, presumably for a two-hour ride home that would offer plenty of time for reflection.
"Felt fine during warm-up," Woods said, "and then as I played it progressively got worse."
Woods, 35, has not won a tournament in 18 months, and has slipped to eighth in the World Ranking. It had been widely assumed that he would rebound from his tumultuous 2010, since his troubles then were personal and not career-threatening, but now it's anyone's guess when or whether Woods will win again.
aww, too bad
Tiger Woods: The Master of Excuses
Who cares?
The wheels have come off.
He’d better enlist Austin Powers to assist in the search for his lost “Mojo”.
Since the PGA started drug testing , Tiger can’t juice like he was doing before.
He has finally realized that he threw away some of the best things that he had. His mojo is part of what made him stray from his beautiful wife and children and now it is all getting to him. Neither he nor the golf world will ever be the same.
Good thing he has his rich young babe to drive him around.. (if she has her license).. and she can help him work out his kinks.
Golf is a game of honesty, integrity, and honor.
Tiger has demonstrated that he has none of those qualities.
Tiger Woods is done.
He’s free to whore around but them money is drying up. I suppose it’s not as exciting to whore it up as it was behind your wife’s back. Now he’s a failure in golf.
I so want someone to drape jumbo pair of bra and panties across the top of it.
“He has finally realized that he threw away some of the best things that he had. His mojo is part of what made him stray from his beautiful wife and children and now it is all getting to him. Neither he nor the golf world will ever be the same.”
I agree with you!
His wife is BEAUTIFUL and so are his kids.
It’s hard to believe he’d run around with a bunch of UGLY whores instead of tending his marriage.
What a fool he is.
Nike (and Phil Knight) is not happy... oh, too bad.
Nike (and Phil Knight) is not happy... oh, too bad.
Tiger will never win another major championship.
Golf is a game of honesty, integrity, and honor.
Tiger has demonstrated that he has none of those qualities.
AGREE!
He’s paying a price for what he did personally and professionally. I’d bet the whores he frequented don’t want him around either now that his money is drying up. What a fool he is. He should have been repairing his marriage and loving his wife and kids instead of money hungry ugly whores.
I think this is probably true .... and without performance enhancing drugs he's just another golfer .... nothing special.
10 years ago, the field would melt when Tiger showed up at the course. They were happy to play for the second place check.
Now, the problem for the PGA Tour is the only two bankable stars are Tiger and Phil, as far as the casual fan is concerned.
Given the above, and the stagnant economy, and that spells trouble for the PGA business model. The top players will still do well, but purses aren't likely to increase for the forseeable future.
If this were Daly the jock-sniffers who adore Woods would be talking smack already.
The Devil: “when you make deals with me, you always have to pay up!”
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