Will Tiger ever lose again?
Tiger Woods just won No. 4 in a row, beating Stewart Cink in a playoff. Instead of wondering about his swing changes, most pundits now are wondering if he will ever lose again. I doubt it.
UPDATE: Golf Digest has a nice montage this month of all of Tiger's victories.
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A couple great quotes from Cink on his battle this weekend:
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I take my hat off to Stewart Cink....I didn't like him as a Captains pick, and he's proving me wrong. Cink birdied two holes down the stretch to make it tight, and all Tiger had to do was slightly flinch and he's right there.....and he almost won it outright in the playoff.
Tiger's shot in the rain to win the tournament was a thing a beauty!
I'm sure all you Phil fans will love Steve Williams taking off his bib on several occasions. The guy has got guts! I give Tiger credit though for letting him have that...Tiger has obviously pre-approved the Valvoline exposures. He respects Williams and believes he's an important part of his success, and is allowing him to make some serious coin from Valvoline. I mean, think about it....there's no advantage for Tiger allowing this. It's Williams' contract, and all Tiger's going to get is criticism.
I posted that I didn't think Tiger would win this week, because he has just been at too high a level for too long -- two majors! And the year, overall, must have been incredibly draining for him.
Unbelievable.
And everyone who raps on current competition can get bent.
What a great tournament! To see Tiger fight through his swing problems yesterday and today was awesome.
Was anyone else getting really annoyed of CBS showing shots out of order? In other words, they would show a shot hit the green and you would see the other person's ball. Then they would show the taped shot that hit that ball there. Hey, thanks for ruining it for me. Just slightly annoying.
The question is not "Will Tiger ever lose again?"
The question is "Who Else Can Win?"
Today, Tiger wasn't even "on," but he knows where to go in his psyche to find the calm place and pull off the shot.
I honestly don't think Cink was at all intimidated. He played great. Except for one shot at the end...the shot Tiger always pulls off.
Eveyone else folded like an old suitcase. Pitiful, really. After 10 years, there's not one golfer who can step up and look Tiger in the eye. Vijay had it for nearly a year, but it was a fluke at a time when Tiger's game was very off.
Anyway, congrats to Cink. The rest of the current competition, as usual, couldn't handle the level of play.
As far as CBS's delayed broadcast... man, it was handled horribly. It was handled so sloppily that I had to go to the PGA tour site and see who won.
Congrats to Tiger gutting it out to win, and congrats to the top ten, who actually did relatively well.
Hey, if Tiger didn't get that free drop after hitting it into the parking lot, he would've lost and Cink would have won. That should've been OB, stroke and distance.
whoever thinks tiger won because of a free drop should consider that point well made up for with tigers four bogeys in a row the following day... perhaps he did that on purpose to give the shots back that he should have lost... besides...he left it up to the rules official, bitch
Jeebus, c'mon -- the drop was not the deciding factor. Tiger just comes through when needed.
And yes, he won w/o his "A" game -- often his "C" game!
Now to Ireland, then another tourney. Yeesh.
Lots of players get "breaks." It's called "rub of the green." It involves human beings, too, like people who touch golf balls or deflect them or get nailed between the shoulder blades.
There's nothing bad to say about Tiger unless you just hate the game. He's gracious in defeat and when winning.
cink showed a lot of guts, and game. during the first nine, tiger struggled, then recovered, then struggled, but finally, did what he usually does to win. the tv coverage was lousy. though i'm a great fan of tiger's, i grew tired of the commentators fawning over tiger. and, the denigrating of today's competitors is way out-of-line, in my opinion. i was around when jack was at his best, and i clearly remember his intimidation factor. when his name jumped up on the leaderboard on the weekend, his competition faded away. in my opinion, tiger's competition plays at a much higher level than did jack's. tiger is a great golfer, and we're privileged to be present to observe his career. re those comments concerning the 'free drop, ob, etc". there was no ob. he got relief as the rules call for.
The commentators are embarrassing. McCord's banter is waaay over. In the face of golf history, the commentators still cannot find any new words or phrases, repeating the same old ones over and over and over again. I miss Johnny Miller. He's actually tough on Tiger...imagine! He's great. Johnny holds Tiger to Tiger's own standards, and he holds the pros to professional standards. He would have also given Cink his props. Cink was great. Furyk was great. Take out Nance's cliches, and I think Miller and Nance make a great couple. Miller tells it like it is, Nance keeps it light entertaining. Some of the player announcers are okay, too...Azinger particularly. Just keep Brandel away from me. Eesh.
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