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British Open 2006

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strohs said:
Tiger's style of play on the course mandated that he have many, many 40+ foot putts, you dont hole those very often.
If he had chosen to play the course like the rest of the field, he probably would have putted "average," but would have assuredly lost strokes elsewhere (bunkers, rough, etc.).

He was dominant though
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Tiger's # of putts for the tourney were 28, 28, 34, 31. My point was he had on an off day on Saturday in terms of putting. Had he achieved an average day he would have left the entire field in his wake. A two stroke victory was impressive but he could have won by 5-8 shots. By the way Tiger averaged 30 putts a round while the average for the field was 30.5. He was just a machine in hitting fairways (86%) dure to his game plan of putting the driver away. The rest of the field averaged 67%. Tiger's GIR was an outstanding 80.5%, the rest of the field 66.6%. just an awesome display.
 
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MililaniBuckeye said:
Uh, no. He may be the most dominant "player" in his particular sport, but no way is he the best "athlete". When Tiger can swim a half mile, bike 25 miles, and run six miles non-stop with no breaks in between (like I did today in the Honolulu Tinman triathlon), then we can talk about him being an "athlete"...
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Maybe you don't realize that besides walking a few miles in 4 to 5 hours every day, Tiger actually has to use physical skill by swinging a club for between 6 and 7 minutes total time over the course of 4 days!

I'm surprised he can still stand up after all of that exertion. :tongue2:

Tiger got a lot more coverage than Floyd Landis did over the last few days, which is an real injustice. Landis, after almost 3 weeks of riding a bike over 2,000 miles, gained about 6 minutes on the best bike riders in the world, by riding in a breakaway by himself for over 80 miles on Thursday. That was on the third straight day of riding in the Alps, and the day after he ran out of gas on the last climb, seemingly ending his chances to win. The magnitude of his comeback was truly of epic proportions, one of the best I can recall in any sporting event.
 
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BB73 said:
Tiger got a lot more coverage than Floyd Landis did over the last few days, which is an real injustice. Landis, after almost 3 weeks of riding a bike over 2,000 miles, gained about 6 minutes on the best bike riders in the world, by riding in a breakaway by himself for over 80 miles on Thursday. That was on the third straight day of riding in the Alps, and the day after he ran out of gas on the last climb, seemingly ending his chances to win. The magnitude of his comeback was truly of epic proportions, one of the best I can recall in any sporting event.
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All that with a bad hip that needs replaced!

I had given up on him after Wednesday's stage, and it sounded like he had too. But he "went for it" like true champions do the next day and he pulled it off. A great story.
 
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NightmaresDad said:
All that with a bad hip that needs replaced!

I had given up on him after Wednesday's stage, and it sounded like he had too. But he "went for it" like true champions do the next day and he pulled it off. A great story.
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There probably weren't people loudly breathing in the background though. Tiger has to go through that all the time.
 
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Golf is a game of concentration. Annoying sounds like camera phones (yes, they make annoying sounds) can cause a big distraction during a backswing.

Also, Tiger may not be able to run miles and all that stuff, which is very hard and those that can are tremendous athletes. But I'd bet anything that someone who is good at triathlons and such cannot shoot a 65 at the British Open.
 
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BuckeyeTillIDie said:
Golf is a game of concentration. Annoying sounds like camera phones (yes, they make annoying sounds) can cause a big distraction during a backswing.

Also, Tiger may not be able to run miles and all that stuff, which is very hard and those that can are tremendous athletes. But I'd bet anything that someone who is good at triathlons and such cannot shoot a 65 at the British Open.
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And as quarterbacks, Brett Favre and Ben ToothlessBurger should require absolute silence to "concentrate" on the field, right?
 
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BuckeyeTillIDie said:
Golf is a game of concentration. Annoying sounds like camera phones (yes, they make annoying sounds) can cause a big distraction during a backswing.

Also, Tiger may not be able to run miles and all that stuff, which is very hard and those that can are tremendous athletes. But I'd bet anything that someone who is good at triathlons and such cannot shoot a 65 at the British Open.
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I bet they could if nobody was ruining their concentration :roll2:
 
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fourteenandoh said:
they are identical twins. HOT!

DiMarco just sewed up his spot on the Ryder Cup team. One thing I think worth mentioning is the fact that DiMarco seems to be the only one with the balls to challenge Tiger when he is on his game. He stood up to him and played some awesome golf (quite like he did in the Masters two years ago). The same can not be said about Ernie or Goosen. As far as Sergio is concerned he was doomed the minute he stepped out of his hotel room wearing all that yellow. Great job by Tiger though, he played unbelievably. I can't wait to see him here in chicago at the PGA
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Actually, this is a bit of an unfair comparison. DiMarco did not play with Tiger, he was in the twosome before. It was a really good performance but it was done playing in a different twosome and he never really made a meaningful challenge to Woods.

Els and Woods are big mates and co-investors in a number of things outside golf and a juniors tournament for USA and RSA golfers.

He has been through a lot the last year, and his confidence has been shattered until the last two weeks. Tiger will not have missed the point that Els played him evenly, stroke for stroke in the third round, in the same twosome. In the final round, the two bogeys between eight and eleven sealed his fate.

All three of these players had demons to overcome. Tiger his Dad. Chris his Mom. Ernie his knee surgery.

What I saw is that Ernie is back. Back to back good tournaments. I expect to see him now back in the top five on a weekly basis. Big Easy is back.
 
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BuckeyeTillIDie said:
once again, golf and football are two completely different sports
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When I'm golfing and somebody bitches about somebody else making noise in their backswing (usually me bitching), it has nothing to do with the noise and everything to do with the fact that I'm playing like shit.

I had the BO on for about 5 minutes where Tiger cried 3 different times about people making noise....all of those coming in his "bad" stretch. Big coincidence I'm guessing.
 
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