Fine.  How about this?

 

My buddy was at Augusta, right there to watch that shot in person, and he said that ball flight photo was way off.  It was an amazing shot, but that's a horrible diagram of it.

40th place again.  Me thinks his spiritual health is quite disconnected.  Poor guy, he might never get it back..

Rory McIlroy did worse than Tiger at The Players. Oh noes, what's WRONG WITH HIM?

 

People need to stop looking at one or two tournaments and getting all panicky.  Sometimes in golf everything clicks but if it's based on a new swing it may come and go several times before your game becomes more consistent.

 

Tiger did show a few weeks ago when he won that he's still capable of playing really good, dominant golf.  If he doesn't win again for the rest of this season, the maybe it's time to panic a little.

People with real addictive disorders take years, not months to gain control of their life and direction.  Five years of full sobriety is probably the bare minimum for most typical addicts to begin to start living a normal life.  It's entirely possible to throw down a great score or even great weekend here and there while high when focusing on the task at hand.  John Daly can still do it once in awhile.  Learning to do that entirely sober takes a lot more time and patience though. 

 

 

There's still some hope that in a few years he may do quite well on the senior tour.  That won't happen if he continues the party life though. 

One funny aspect of the TV hype about Tiger's future, is that there is one major, major golf commentator/color analyst who fell from the very top of the pro tour almost overnight.

 

One day Johnny Miller was on the verge of joining the  greatest then lost is so quick, never to recover. How come he does not compare Tiger to himself?

 Because Johnny is a horse's ass who still doesn't realize he under achieved. He was one of the best ball strikers I have ever seen, (we still call shots inside a foot goin' Johnny Miller) but was never a good putter. Go watch his Shell match against Jack at Olympic. 15 footer for birdie, 4 footer for par, tap in bogey. Hole after hole. Most announcers seem to call it like it was for them. Curtis fought his nerves a lot, so he constantly talked about how guy's guts were in a knot. Johnny sucked at putting, hence the ginch comments. Venturi thought the game was really hard, so you had the "put a bucket of balls there and you couldn't do better" stuff. Faldo always viewed it as a chess match, and calls it that way, which is probably why I like him the most, even if he's not quite as funny as he thinks he is.

Miller was a great player but he never had the sustained dominance of Tiger. Even he recognizes that he was never the putter or the consistently dominant player that Tiger was at his best. Johnny just had days where he was THAT good.

Tom Watson is a closer comparison. He took longer to win big consistently the way Tiger did, but once he did he was a remarkable winner, Majors especially (all 8 wins from 75-83) including taking down Nicklaus head to head a couple of times. At his peak he was a fearless putter and chipper. Then one day he stopped making putts. It's not like he was done done (as evidenced by the 09 Open Ch, which would have been the greatest sports victory ever!), but he just stopped winning like he once did. How many more Majors would Watson have won, considering how spectacularly he still hits the ball now, if he just could have regained his putting stroke and confidence? Unfortunately for these guys at that level, once they lose their edge on the greens they just never seem to get it all the way back.

This may be Tiger. Doesnt mean he didn't have the greatest run ever, or that he cant win a Bay Hill or even a major or two, but if the putts don't drop consistently it is pretty unreasonable for anyone to expect him to have what would essentially be another upper echelon Hall of Fame level career starting from now in order to pass Nicklaus. It isn't impossible, just unlikely with injury issues and putts that don't drop.

I just spit up on my computer, LMFAO!!!

 

I doubt that will ever happen. Now a belly putter, who knows. On futher consideration, no chance on that one either.

 

It ain't the putter it's the puttee!!!!

I seriously doubt Tiger will ever play on the Senior Tour.  He's said as much in the past.

Not a bad way to finish the day today.  NICE!!!

Amazing shot!  Simply "old school Tiger"  I was glad he carefully celebrated that shot by not twisting the knee

 

well done.

What a close out.  The putt at 18 to lock it down was a real exclamation point. 

 

Did not look like Fowler enjoyed the day much.

Thanks Tiger for proving my point.  *Ahem* - 3 weeks ago... "People need to stop looking at one or two tournaments and getting all panicky.  Sometimes in golf everything clicks but if it's based on a new swing it may come and go several times before your game becomes more consistent."

 

If he doesn't win the US Open at Olympic Club in 2 weeks (which, I might add, does not setup well for him), can we please skip all of the what's wrong with Tiger talk this time around?  He's now won at Bay Hill and The Memorial - two signature events on tour, and it's not even the middle of June.  I suspect he'll have at least 4 or 5 wins by the end of the season.  And I also suspect he may miss a few more cuts in between those wins as his new swing continues to settle in.

Great, awful, and all points in between the Tiger phenomenon is still amazing and captivating.  He is still the main topic of most golf related discussions regardless of how well or poorly he is doing at any given moment.  Even the John Daly train wrecks never gathered anywhere near the amount of attention that The Tiger Show does on a quiet day. 

^^^ We should add that to the standard forum smiley collection.

 

I may attend Friday's round of the US Open but I'm honestly torn between going in person and watching on TV.  I guess it's only a friday round so I may go for it.

He's back...... be hurting a little

 

Tiger Woods stops swing at U.S. Open range, grabs back in pain

The difference between Tiger right now and Tiger at Augusta is he is elevating the ball significantly - like he used to.  Have to like his chances after that opening round.