Don't give up your career in...whatever it is you do.
Your advice would take a sport thats already known as a sleeping pill to many viewers, and turn it into a mechanical description of a recreation event.
Take a few moments and find out what the "E" in ESPN stands for. If you watch and don't find it "E", then...drumroll...turn down the volume or don't even watch. Freedom to decide rules!
Hey dumbass its not on ESPN. Its on the Golf channel.
Same guy saying "get in the hole" every fucking times Tiger hits a shot. Golf fans for the most part are retards. And this just proves it.
ARe you the type of person that likes to listen to grown ass men blowing every little thing athletes do. Sorry I don't worship anyone. If it makes you feel better about yourself than thats ok for you. I worship no man.
Same guy saying "get in the hole" every fucking times Tiger hits a shot. Golf fans for the most part are retards. And this just proves it.
ARe you the type of person that likes to listen to grown ass men blowing every little thing athletes do. Sorry I don't worship anyone. If it makes you feel better about yourself than thats ok for you. I worship no man.
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we are on the same page on that. Some of my buddies know i bet alot of games. But they cant believe i dont watch espn. (I dont see how you can bet on sports and watch that trash too)
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LOL @ Jealous......no, faaaar from jealous......its about treating people EQUAL. ....I go by what people tell me.....why would a waiter that waited on him lie? Or a dealer in Las Vegas lie? Wait, maybe they are jealous too...I have seen lot of high profile people and they arent assholes.....some are very cool...this MY opinion of HIM....doesnt make me jealous. Hes a GREAT golfer....he just doesnt treat people well....but the media kisses his ass....Ive never met you, but your flying high on the radar as far as an asshole....You have the biggest ego maniac as your avatar.....ANOTHER overrated piece of shit, Howard Cossell........but then again thats just an opinion from a jealous guy like me....
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Gasm~
Tiger’s unfamiliar terrain
This is just … weird.
So weird, it may be time for the first outrageous proclamation of 2009: Are we now in the Post-Tiger Era?
Now, now, now. That’s just ridiculous. Somebody put away the nitrous oxide. Tiger Woods has three consecutive tournament finishes in which he has a real chance to win late on Sunday – the Masters, Quail Hollow and now The Players Championship – and doesn’t win any of them, and we wind up taking outrageous leaps of logic.
Like, this one: With his swing awry and his inability to put the ball in the fairway, is it time to fire swing coach Hank Haney and find a new set of eyes?
Now, now, now. That’s just ridiculous. (Or is it?) Tiger has 17 consecutive worldwide top-10s, an amazing streak of brilliance. He found something late in the day that allowed him to go 2 under on the finishing nine.
Still, Tiger shot a 73 in the final pairing at a significant championship. With the leaderboard a mess of opportunity early, Tiger shot 38 on the front. With an early chance to seize momentum, Tiger hit his second shot on No. 2 into the water, an almost inexcusable push to the right, well short of its intended target.
Oh, wait. It was not a push. It was a “spinner” to the right. Tiger said as much to Roger Maltbie after his disappointing day. “I kept hitting spinners to the right,” he said, and did so with some self-deprecating humor, granting the interview after what he called a “long and disappointing day.”
We’re being reminded some things about Tiger: He loses at Quail Hollow, shooting 72 in the final round, and he hangs around for a televised shake with winner Sean O’Hair. He loses at Sawgrass, and he hangs around to tell Maltbie and the world about his spinners. But he loses at Augusta National, bogeying 17 and 18, and he’s off to the parking lot, leaving a trail of furious steam in his wake.
Reminder: Tiger does majors. The other stuff is just for kicks.
Which is why any outrageous, ludicrous, hysterical proclamations – we’re in the post-Tiger Era; the Tiger-Haney relationship is on shaky ground – must be couched in this important fact: Tiger’s real test of his skill and shot making and competitive desire will come a month from now, at Bethpage’s U.S. Open. He wins there, and he makes a mockery of columns like these. As my buddy’s Italian-American grandpa from Brooklyn used to say: “It’s a ‘could happen.’ ”
Then again, Angel Cabrera at Augusta, Sean O’Hair at Quail Hollow, and now Henrik Stenson at Sawgrass did happen. One wonders if players in ’09 don’t quake in their soft spikes as much as they did, say, eight years ago, when Tiger was crafting the “Four Majors: Living Room Collection” furniture set.
And Haney is doing “The Haney Project” on The Golf Channel, futzing around with Charles Barkley while his guy is spinning shots all over Sawgrass. I don’t have a direct line to Tiger’s camp, so for all I know Tiger OK’d the whole deal, has zero problem with Haney filming a TV project likely taped way back when Tiger was rehabilitating his surgically reconstructed knee, but I do know this: It’s sort of a bad look.
We also know this: The last time a member of Team Tiger started doing side projects, Fluff Cowan started looping for Jim Furyk.
Moreover, Tiger’s body language on the golf course the last three events has been tough to watch. It’s hard to imagine somebody having less fun playing golf than Tiger when he spins a shot right. Shoulder slump? Check. Resigned drop of club in follow-through? Check. Hand run slowly over face in despair? Check.
If you had Tiger as a weekend four ball partner, you’d sidle up to another in your group and mutter: “Who invited Captain Bringdown and the Buzzkills?”
The NBC voices were appropriately concerned with the lack of Tiger on their TV. Minutes would go by without showing the guy in red. Gary Koch went so far as to say, “I’ve never quite seen him play this way on a Sunday when he had a chance to win.” Johnny Miller, naturally, piled on with some glib analysis, offering: “He just can’t hit it” or “He didn’t hit shots like that five times in the year 2000” or “You know how they say some guys make golf look easy? He’s not making it look easy.”
To which we say: Correct, correct and correct.
So we left Sawgrass with this amazing thought: Tiger Woods was cluttering up the joint. The party was up ahead, with Sweden’s Henrik Stenson announcing to America that, yes, he’s been a top-10 ranked player in the world, and yes, Henrik Stenson will be a factor at major championships for the next half-decade.
And we are left with questions. About the Post-Tiger Era. About Hank Haney’s future. And about Tiger’s relationship with The Players Championship.
If the past is any indication, he may just start skipping this shindig. After all, there are events and courses that are Kryptonite to Tiger. He went 0 for 9 at Riviera and never plays there anymore. He went 1 for 9 at the Byron Nelson, and once Lord Byron passed away, doesn’t play there anymore, either. He went 1 for 6 at Pebble Beach, and now Bill Murray works in a Tiger-free zone.
Tiger is now 1 for 11 at Sawgrass. You can see the text message to Tim Finchem already: “Commish: Am busy next May. Taking Sam and Charlie yachting. See you at the Memorial. T-Dub.”
This is just … weird.
So weird, it may be time for the first outrageous proclamation of 2009: Are we now in the Post-Tiger Era?
Now, now, now. That’s just ridiculous. Somebody put away the nitrous oxide. Tiger Woods has three consecutive tournament finishes in which he has a real chance to win late on Sunday – the Masters, Quail Hollow and now The Players Championship – and doesn’t win any of them, and we wind up taking outrageous leaps of logic.
Like, this one: With his swing awry and his inability to put the ball in the fairway, is it time to fire swing coach Hank Haney and find a new set of eyes?
Now, now, now. That’s just ridiculous. (Or is it?) Tiger has 17 consecutive worldwide top-10s, an amazing streak of brilliance. He found something late in the day that allowed him to go 2 under on the finishing nine.
Still, Tiger shot a 73 in the final pairing at a significant championship. With the leaderboard a mess of opportunity early, Tiger shot 38 on the front. With an early chance to seize momentum, Tiger hit his second shot on No. 2 into the water, an almost inexcusable push to the right, well short of its intended target.
Oh, wait. It was not a push. It was a “spinner” to the right. Tiger said as much to Roger Maltbie after his disappointing day. “I kept hitting spinners to the right,” he said, and did so with some self-deprecating humor, granting the interview after what he called a “long and disappointing day.”
We’re being reminded some things about Tiger: He loses at Quail Hollow, shooting 72 in the final round, and he hangs around for a televised shake with winner Sean O’Hair. He loses at Sawgrass, and he hangs around to tell Maltbie and the world about his spinners. But he loses at Augusta National, bogeying 17 and 18, and he’s off to the parking lot, leaving a trail of furious steam in his wake.
Reminder: Tiger does majors. The other stuff is just for kicks.
Which is why any outrageous, ludicrous, hysterical proclamations – we’re in the post-Tiger Era; the Tiger-Haney relationship is on shaky ground – must be couched in this important fact: Tiger’s real test of his skill and shot making and competitive desire will come a month from now, at Bethpage’s U.S. Open. He wins there, and he makes a mockery of columns like these. As my buddy’s Italian-American grandpa from Brooklyn used to say: “It’s a ‘could happen.’ ”
Then again, Angel Cabrera at Augusta, Sean O’Hair at Quail Hollow, and now Henrik Stenson at Sawgrass did happen. One wonders if players in ’09 don’t quake in their soft spikes as much as they did, say, eight years ago, when Tiger was crafting the “Four Majors: Living Room Collection” furniture set.
And Haney is doing “The Haney Project” on The Golf Channel, futzing around with Charles Barkley while his guy is spinning shots all over Sawgrass. I don’t have a direct line to Tiger’s camp, so for all I know Tiger OK’d the whole deal, has zero problem with Haney filming a TV project likely taped way back when Tiger was rehabilitating his surgically reconstructed knee, but I do know this: It’s sort of a bad look.
We also know this: The last time a member of Team Tiger started doing side projects, Fluff Cowan started looping for Jim Furyk.
Moreover, Tiger’s body language on the golf course the last three events has been tough to watch. It’s hard to imagine somebody having less fun playing golf than Tiger when he spins a shot right. Shoulder slump? Check. Resigned drop of club in follow-through? Check. Hand run slowly over face in despair? Check.
If you had Tiger as a weekend four ball partner, you’d sidle up to another in your group and mutter: “Who invited Captain Bringdown and the Buzzkills?”
The NBC voices were appropriately concerned with the lack of Tiger on their TV. Minutes would go by without showing the guy in red. Gary Koch went so far as to say, “I’ve never quite seen him play this way on a Sunday when he had a chance to win.” Johnny Miller, naturally, piled on with some glib analysis, offering: “He just can’t hit it” or “He didn’t hit shots like that five times in the year 2000” or “You know how they say some guys make golf look easy? He’s not making it look easy.”
To which we say: Correct, correct and correct.
So we left Sawgrass with this amazing thought: Tiger Woods was cluttering up the joint. The party was up ahead, with Sweden’s Henrik Stenson announcing to America that, yes, he’s been a top-10 ranked player in the world, and yes, Henrik Stenson will be a factor at major championships for the next half-decade.
And we are left with questions. About the Post-Tiger Era. About Hank Haney’s future. And about Tiger’s relationship with The Players Championship.
If the past is any indication, he may just start skipping this shindig. After all, there are events and courses that are Kryptonite to Tiger. He went 0 for 9 at Riviera and never plays there anymore. He went 1 for 9 at the Byron Nelson, and once Lord Byron passed away, doesn’t play there anymore, either. He went 1 for 6 at Pebble Beach, and now Bill Murray works in a Tiger-free zone.
Tiger is now 1 for 11 at Sawgrass. You can see the text message to Tim Finchem already: “Commish: Am busy next May. Taking Sam and Charlie yachting. See you at the Memorial. T-Dub.”
The true acid test for Tiger comes in a month at Bethpage.
The 2009 US Open at Bethpage CC's Black Course in Farmingdale NY during the week of June 15th should tell us alot about where Tiger's game is this summer. Bethpage's Black Course is not for the weak of heart.
In 2002 Bethpage was the first municipally-owned golf course to host a U.S. Open. At the time, the 7,214-yard, par-70 layout, originally designed by A.W. Tillinghast and later given a major facelift from Rees Jones, was the longest in Open history.
The parkland-style course more than proved itself as a major-championship venue, with only champion Tiger Woods finishing the 72-hole competition under par at 277 (three under). Some minor alterations have been made for the 2009 U.S. Open, but the course should essentially feature the same challenging characteristics that the world’s best golfers faced seven years ago.
The online application for 2009 U.S. Open tickets is no longer available. However, a limited number of additional Grounds tickets will be sold on a pre-championship, walk-up basis. Tickets will be available on a first-come, first-served basis while quantities remain.
Tickets will be on sale Thursday, June 11, through Sunday, June 14, from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. at the U.S. Open Will Call facility at Bethpage State Park. This offer coincides with the U.S. Open Pre-Championship Merchandise sale that will take place in the Merchandise Pavilion during the same hours.
<TABLE class=text18 cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=2 width=450 align=center border=0><TBODY><TR><TD width=332>Weekly Grounds ticket package </TD><TD align=right>$400</TD></TR><TR><TD>Daily Championship Round (Thursday – Sunday) ticket </TD><TD align=right>$100</TD></TR><TR><TD>Daily Practice Round (Monday – Wednesday) ticket </TD><TD align=right>$40</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
Cash or Credit Card (American Express, Discover, MasterCard & Visa) will be accepted.
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Bethpage Black Overview.
wil.
The 2009 US Open at Bethpage CC's Black Course in Farmingdale NY during the week of June 15th should tell us alot about where Tiger's game is this summer. Bethpage's Black Course is not for the weak of heart.
In 2002 Bethpage was the first municipally-owned golf course to host a U.S. Open. At the time, the 7,214-yard, par-70 layout, originally designed by A.W. Tillinghast and later given a major facelift from Rees Jones, was the longest in Open history.
The parkland-style course more than proved itself as a major-championship venue, with only champion Tiger Woods finishing the 72-hole competition under par at 277 (three under). Some minor alterations have been made for the 2009 U.S. Open, but the course should essentially feature the same challenging characteristics that the world’s best golfers faced seven years ago.
The online application for 2009 U.S. Open tickets is no longer available. However, a limited number of additional Grounds tickets will be sold on a pre-championship, walk-up basis. Tickets will be available on a first-come, first-served basis while quantities remain.
Tickets will be on sale Thursday, June 11, through Sunday, June 14, from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. at the U.S. Open Will Call facility at Bethpage State Park. This offer coincides with the U.S. Open Pre-Championship Merchandise sale that will take place in the Merchandise Pavilion during the same hours.
<TABLE class=text18 cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=2 width=450 align=center border=0><TBODY><TR><TD width=332>Weekly Grounds ticket package </TD><TD align=right>$400</TD></TR><TR><TD>Daily Championship Round (Thursday – Sunday) ticket </TD><TD align=right>$100</TD></TR><TR><TD>Daily Practice Round (Monday – Wednesday) ticket </TD><TD align=right>$40</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
Cash or Credit Card (American Express, Discover, MasterCard & Visa) will be accepted.
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Bethpage Black Overview.
wil.
