Tiger Woods (Offical Thread)

[fourteenandoh]

Goosen just ripped him a new asshole!

'It just seemed when he (Woods) hit bad shots his knee was in pain and on his good shots he wasn't.'

'Nobody knows if he was just showing off or if he was injured and I believe if he was really injured he would not have played.'


he also said that it didn't seem to hurt when he was fist pumping and going crazy after his eagle putts.

I pity Goosen if they ever go head to head after this. Tiger keeps score with stuff like this.

 

[jimotis4heisman]

i had my knee blown out playing hockey. all gone. similar to this but i never really went airborn. i was much older than pic and it was awhile back. but i finnished up the shinny tournament (it was for the cup)
[ame=http://youtube.com/watch?v=NpXN7C60HjE]YouTube - Curtis Glencross Goal vs Amerks - Picard Injury 4/13/07[/ame]

i think youd be suprised how many players play hurt and do say a thing. the number of major injuries nfl players have... guys play months in hockey on broken legs. im not saying its not courageous and he isnt tough. im just saying the world can get off his nut sack, i shouldnt hear about it all day.

im not saying mike milbury was right to call him tiger wuss but...

 

[coastalbuck]

Impressive performance if you ask me. Golf will be more exciting to watch while he's out. Even better when he comes back. Collectively they need to figure out how to beat the guy, he's that good. It will happen though, it always does. We should be happy we can see this stuff. We're lucky.

 

[jimotis4heisman]

We should be happy we can see this stuff. We're lucky.

absolutely folks, enjoy it.

 

[OH10]

I pity Goosen if they ever go head to head after this. Tiger keeps score with stuff like this.

What ends up happening to guys like this (e.g. Poulter and Sabbatini) is that they psyche themselves out by trash talking Tiger. They feel the pressure to live up to the comments and beat him, and they ultimately crumble like a peanut butter cookie.

 

[BuckeyeNation27]

I saw him wince/cringe/grimmace after several good shots. Commentators even brought up how you couldn't tell what kind of shot it was by his reaction for a while on Sunday.

I didn't see much of the Monday action.

he hit a shot way right on monday into the crowd that ended up in a bunker. he limped all the way down the fairway....sometimes using a club as a crutch. he hit a flipping amazing shot out of the bunker to within 5 feet and walked normal to tap in.

that's one example of several that I saw.....but of course I was looking for it.

 

[LitlBuck]

What ends up happening to guys like this (e.g. Poulter and Sabbatini) is that they psyche themselves out by trash talking Tiger. They feel the pressure to live up to the comments and beat him, and they ultimately crumble like a peanut butter cookie.

Show some respect for the peanut butter cookie:)

 

[billmac91]

he hit a shot way right on monday into the crowd that ended up in a bunker. he limped all the way down the fairway....sometimes using a club as a crutch. he hit a flipping amazing shot out of the bunker to within 5 feet and walked normal to tap in.

that's one example of several that I saw.....but of course I was looking for it.

I think there is probably some truth in this, although I saw Tiger grimmace and limp after some monster drives as well.

But to your point, I'd think after a bad shot you'd immediately think about the knee as an excuse for the shot, and after a great shot the adrenaline rush/excitement might help you forget about it for a few seconds.

I don't know, but Tiger has never seemed like a drama-queen to me. He gets jacked up in dramatic moments (fist pumping, cursing, etc.) but he doesn't seem like the type of guy to over-act on an injury. If that's the case, he'd probably have let the cat out of the bag before the tournament regarding his knee.

 

[BuckeyeNation27]

He seems like a guy who will blame any shortcoming (and there aren't that many) on anything but himself. Camera shutters, somebody coughing, fingernails growing.

 

[zincfinger]

A bit off-topic, but I got a chuckle out of this sidebar on a Pat Forde article on Tiger:

How far ahead of the rest of the world is Tiger Woods? He has more than twice as many points as anyone else in the World Golf Rankings -- and there are more points between him and second-place Phil Mickelson than there are between Mickelson and anyone with zero points.

Now I may be no math genius, but it seems to me there's something a bit redundant about that.

 

[billmac91]

He seems like a guy who will blame any shortcoming (and there aren't that many) on anything but himself. Camera shutters, somebody coughing, fingernails growing.

That's a bit over the top though and I think you realize that.

Isolated sounds jack up a shot b/c it's unexpected. If they decide to allow noise and cameras going during shots, fine. At least then the players could anticpate it and not be distracted. But you can't expect players to just play through unexpected noises mid-swing. And if a hard stance isn't taken, it'd happen 30x more frequently than it currently does.

 

[MaxBuck]

Tiger Woods is a guy who has some faults, including a foul mouth and an inability to act like he's not pissed at others' poor behavior.

He is also the greatest golfer who ever lived, and one of the seven most dominant athletes I have personally ever witnessed, the others being:

Jim Brown
Bo Jackson
Edwin Moses
Michael Jordan
Wilt Chamberlain
Barry Bonds

Stewart Cink said it best. "Tiger Woods isn't one in a million. He's one in ever."

 

[COTiger]

Tee shots with a driver where Tiger loads up and puts the most stress on the left leg is where it effected him most. Flip wedges around the green where you aren't putting a lot of load on the left leg is where the effect would have been least noticeable.

 

[BB73]

My father is over 80 and played golf with a stress fracture in his lower leg, so I'm not overly impressed.

I believe Tiger was in pain at times when he played. But the difference with a golfer, compared to athletes in contact sports, is that a golfer can control his own movement.

A football, basketball, or hockey player can't decide from which angle and at what speed the stress of impact is coming from.

If the ACL was damaged last summer, I don't undestand why he didn't have it surgically repaired right after the PGA.

 

[Wingate1217]

Hopefully some of the posters here that have ties to the medical field can explain to me how a person can do this when they have a major knee problem. My wife has a knee problems and she can barely bend it much less do what Tiger's is going here. Maybe his issue is a side to side one and has nothing to do with bending of the knee.....

The first picture is from the this week's tourney. The second picture is not form the tournement but is for illustrative purposes only. I remember (I think it was Monday on 17) when Tiger missed a putt and he fell to his knees all the way to the ground. Can a person do that if he has a severe knee injury? I don't know (and I am not trying to be a smart ass) hopefully someone with medical knowledge can clear this up for me.....