06-17-2008, 01:58 AM
That guy is amazing.
Tiger wins again.
06-17-2008, 04:50 AM
He's a freak of nature.
Mediate played pretty tough.
Tiger grabbed his knee a little to much after every bad shot for me.
It would be cool if Tiger just played the majors this year and won them.
Mediate played pretty tough.
Tiger grabbed his knee a little to much after every bad shot for me.
It would be cool if Tiger just played the majors this year and won them.
See You In Toledo
06-17-2008, 10:10 PM
BIRD33 Wrote:He's a freak of nature.
Mediate played pretty tough.
Tiger grabbed his knee a little to much after every bad shot for me.
It would be cool if Tiger just played the majors this year and won them.
I told my wife early on that Mediate was going to be the guy to beat. He's like Fred Couples, calm and steady. He had the nerves to play at that level and just got lucky that he was in a zone for the week-end and not making any mistakes.
I'll agree on the knee though. I thought Saturday that Tiger was going to use the knee as his excuse for falling short. And I think he was hamming up so much on hole 1 on Sunday that it cost him badly. That's why I think after the first couple of holes he laid off all of the drama about the knee.
But it was a great win.
Another funny thing, is that every time Tiger starts knocking off Nickalous record's, they come up with a new one that looks tougher. The one they were touting this week-end is "Career Top 10 Finishes in Majors". Nickalous has around 60 or 70. Tiger only has about 18 or 20. They said if Tiger places in the top ten of EVERY major until 2019 that he can tie Nickalous.
06-17-2008, 10:20 PM
Flumper Barflusterbutt Wrote:I told my wife early on that Mediate was going to be the guy to beat. He's like Fred Couples, calm and steady. He had the nerves to play at that level and just got lucky that he was in a zone for the week-end and not making any mistakes.
I'll agree on the knee though. I thought Saturday that Tiger was going to use the knee as his excuse for falling short. And I think he was hamming up so much on hole 1 on Sunday that it cost him badly. That's why I think after the first couple of holes he laid off all of the drama about the knee.
But it was a great win.
Another funny thing, is that every time Tiger starts knocking off Nickalous record's, they come up with a new one that looks tougher. The one they were touting this week-end is "Career Top 10 Finishes in Majors". Nickalous has around 60 or 70. Tiger only has about 18 or 20. They said if Tiger places in the top ten of EVERY major until 2019 that he can tie Nickalous.
The one hole where he used his driver as a cane made me want to throw up.I think he was preparing his excuse in case he lost which is kind of chicken shit to me.
Once I saw that the playoff was going back to 18 I knew it was over.Tiger has to much driving distance over Rocco.
That Nicklaus record is nuts.
The Tiger record I saw that was really impressive was most majors per decade.Palmer was second in the 50's with 4, tiger already has 12 in the 2000's.
See You In Toledo
06-17-2008, 10:42 PM
BIRD33 Wrote:The one hole where he used his driver as a cane made me want to throw up.I think he was preparing his excuse in case he lost which is kind of chicken shit to me.
Once I saw that the playoff was going back to 18 I knew it was over.Tiger has to much driving distance over Rocco.
That Nicklaus record is nuts.
The Tiger record I saw that was really impressive was most majors per decade.Palmer was second in the 50's with 4, tiger already has 12 in the 2000's.
Mediate is a class act though. I thought I heard them say that if he had won the US Open, that he would be the oldest person to ever win a major. But I could have sworn when Nickalous won his last major, at the Masters I think, that he was older. I think they said that Mediate was 45? Hell, Nickalous had his son caddying and his son would have to watch his ball for him because his eye sight was so bad.
06-17-2008, 10:58 PM
Flumper Barflusterbutt Wrote:Mediate is a class act though. I thought I heard them say that if he had won the US Open, that he would be the oldest person to ever win a major. But I could have sworn when Nickalous won his last major, at the Masters I think, that he was older. I think they said that Mediate was 45? Hell, Nickalous had his son caddying and his son would have to watch his ball for him because his eye sight was so bad.
Oldest to win the US Open.Nicklaus was 46 when he won the masters.
Mediate was just happy to be there.Coming in second to tiger at the Open will be more remembered than all 6 of the tourneys he won combined.
See You In Toledo
06-17-2008, 11:02 PM
BIRD33 Wrote:Oldest to win the US Open.Nicklaus was 46 when he won the masters.
Mediate was just happy to be there.Coming in second to tiger at the Open will be more remembered than all 6 of the tourneys he won combined.
Yeah, and the $810,000 will probably come in handy.
I heard someone interviewing Mediate after Sunday when Tiger made his putt on 18 and asked him, "So, what is it going to take to beat Tiger tomorrow".
I was thinking, Fuck he beat Tiger today by 3 or 4 strokes.
06-17-2008, 11:19 PM
Flumper Barflusterbutt Wrote:Yeah, and the $810,000 will probably come in handy.
I heard someone interviewing Mediate after Sunday when Tiger made his putt on 18 and asked him, "So, what is it going to take to beat Tiger tomorrow".
I was thinking, Fuck he beat Tiger today by 3 or 4 strokes.
Tigers ability to make big puts is the most amazing thing about him which is made even more amazing considering he's one of the greatest long hitters ever.
You are living in an era where you will have a black president and the greatest golfer ever is a black.Watch out for swarms of locust on your way home.
See You In Toledo
06-17-2008, 11:45 PM
BIRD33 Wrote:Tigers ability to make big puts is the most amazing thing about him which is made even more amazing considering he's one of the greatest long hitters ever.
You are living in an era where you will have a black president and the greatest golfer ever is a black.Watch out for swarms of locust on your way home.
His driving distance versus the field this week-end was fucking crazy. I think they said he had a 365 yard drive on one hole.
I wished I could have watched him matched up head to head with Rocco on Monday. I bet on some holes, they were over 100 yards apart off the tee.
06-18-2008, 02:48 AM
fyi, they went to the seventh hole for the playoff
but great analytical work on on what is in tiger's mind
only another truly great athlete could share such brilliant insight
thanks, truly, for sharing with us, tweety
btw, when will the blog be starting??
i've told a lot of people and they are all geared up for it
but great analytical work on on what is in tiger's mind
only another truly great athlete could share such brilliant insight
thanks, truly, for sharing with us, tweety
btw, when will the blog be starting??
i've told a lot of people and they are all geared up for it
I realise that I have a past to break with--an accumulation of inertia, wrong, foolishness, rot, junk. A great need of clarification, of mindfulness, or rather, of no mind. A need to return to genuine practice, right effort. Need to push on the great doubt. Need for the spirit. Hang on to the clear light.
Thomas Merton
06-18-2008, 04:30 AM
snarg Wrote:fyi, they went to the seventh hole for the playoff
but great analytical work on on what is in tiger's mind
only another truly great athlete could share such brilliant insight
thanks, truly, for sharing with us, tweety
btw, when will the blog be starting??
i've told a lot of people and they are all geared up for it
You are right about the 7th.What I meant was it was a hole that favored the long hitters which it does.
Snarg the blog is started already, you're looking at it and you're my fucking old cranky side kick.
See You In Toledo
06-18-2008, 08:54 PM
Tiger Woods is done for the year, but not without one last major that he said might have been his best ever.
Woods explained why on Wednesday when he revealed he will have season-ending surgery to repair a torn ligament in his left knee that he injured 10 months ago.
He also suffered a double stress fracture of his left tibia two weeks before the U.S. Open, ignoring doctors' advice to take six weeks off to let it heal. And he still won the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines, going 91 holes over five days on a knee that was getting worse.
"Now, it is clear that the right thing to do is to listen to my doctors, follow through with this surgery and focus my attention on rehabilitating my knee," Woods said on his Web site.
He had arthroscopic surgery April 15 to clean out cartilage in his left knee, bypassing ACL surgery with hopes it could get him through the 2008 season. But the stress fracture and a ligament that could no longer sustain a powerful swing made it impossible to keep going.
Woods did not say when he would have surgery. His swing coach, Hank Haney, said the recovery is typically six to eight months.
"He's been playing way less than 100 percent for a long, long, time," Haney said. "It has limited him a lot in practice. He's going to come back better than he's ever been."
Woods was last seen in public late Monday afternoon walking with a pronounced limp across Torrey Pines toward the parking lot, the U.S. Open trophy in his arms.
Upcoming surgery makes his 14th major title even more staggering — despite the stress fractures, he managed to win a U.S. Open that required five days of flinching, grimacing and a long list of spectacular shots that have defined his career.
"Although I will miss the rest of the 2008 season, I'm thrilled with the fact that last week was such a special tournament," Woods said.
He won despite doctors telling him to rest.
Haney was with him in Florida when doctors told Woods the preferred treatment for the stress fractures was three weeks on crutches and three weeks of inactivity.
"Tiger looked at the doctor and said, 'I'm playing in the U.S. Open, and I'm going to win.' And then he started putting on his shoes," Haney said. "He looked at me and said, 'Come on, Hank. We'll just putt today."'
Woods explained why on Wednesday when he revealed he will have season-ending surgery to repair a torn ligament in his left knee that he injured 10 months ago.
He also suffered a double stress fracture of his left tibia two weeks before the U.S. Open, ignoring doctors' advice to take six weeks off to let it heal. And he still won the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines, going 91 holes over five days on a knee that was getting worse.
"Now, it is clear that the right thing to do is to listen to my doctors, follow through with this surgery and focus my attention on rehabilitating my knee," Woods said on his Web site.
He had arthroscopic surgery April 15 to clean out cartilage in his left knee, bypassing ACL surgery with hopes it could get him through the 2008 season. But the stress fracture and a ligament that could no longer sustain a powerful swing made it impossible to keep going.
Woods did not say when he would have surgery. His swing coach, Hank Haney, said the recovery is typically six to eight months.
"He's been playing way less than 100 percent for a long, long, time," Haney said. "It has limited him a lot in practice. He's going to come back better than he's ever been."
Woods was last seen in public late Monday afternoon walking with a pronounced limp across Torrey Pines toward the parking lot, the U.S. Open trophy in his arms.
Upcoming surgery makes his 14th major title even more staggering — despite the stress fractures, he managed to win a U.S. Open that required five days of flinching, grimacing and a long list of spectacular shots that have defined his career.
"Although I will miss the rest of the 2008 season, I'm thrilled with the fact that last week was such a special tournament," Woods said.
He won despite doctors telling him to rest.
Haney was with him in Florida when doctors told Woods the preferred treatment for the stress fractures was three weeks on crutches and three weeks of inactivity.
"Tiger looked at the doctor and said, 'I'm playing in the U.S. Open, and I'm going to win.' And then he started putting on his shoes," Haney said. "He looked at me and said, 'Come on, Hank. We'll just putt today."'
06-19-2008, 03:18 AM
He's a god.
I bet 95% of the rest of the tour was happy when they heard this.
I bet 95% of the rest of the tour was happy when they heard this.
See You In Toledo
06-19-2008, 07:31 PM
BIRD33 Wrote:He's a god.
I bet 95% of the rest of the tour was happy when they heard this.
I saw an interview with Vijay Singh. He said he thinks that Tiger should take off all the time he needs to properly get himself back healed up. I thought that was nice.
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