I hear the Gaylord Perry argument a lot as well. Yes, he admitted doctoring the ball (other guys like Sutton were suspected of this as well), but I consider that gamesmanship more than cheating- in that the umpire could have and should have stopped it. Same thing as using a corked bat. These things were against the rules of the game, but were done right under the nose of the umpires. With steroids, how can you tell whether a guy has been sticking a syringe in his ass outside of a piss/blood test? The results are also much more dramatic, people use the 'You still need hand/eye coordination" argument a lot, but Canseco breaks down all the benefits in his book. the changes in not only muscle mass but 'twitch speed' are dramatic, how else could a stiff like Luis Gonzalez hit 57 home runs?
89 is a good score from the tips. I just don't have the distance anymore to attempt playing it off the back tees. I've heard that the hard part about the 17th hole is trying to get a guage on the winds swirling around it. The green itself is big. But I think it's the 6 inches between the ears that dooms most golfers there. I heard one guy shot a 66 on that hole 25 years ago. He had to end up putting over the walkway to the green to finish the hole...LOL. I think if I played that hole I wouldn't be using my best Titliest ball.
After tigers last knee surgery his weight went down to 165 lbs. Docs told him to keep his weight there don't go over 165, don't run, do heavy lifting etc....tiger bulked back up to 195 lbs, started running, did heavy lifting....pretty much everything the docs told him not to do, he did. Personally, I don't think he did roids. If he did do roids, I dnt think he was doing them to get stronger, if anything to recover from injuries. Brandel Chamblee said all this yesterday in case you are wondering where I'm pulling this from, not the roids stuff but the doc and weight stuff.
I dnt think its that big a deal that he is strong without roids. Pro athletes aren't typical chumps like us, and nobody has ever questioned tigers workouts.
Im curious if you have ever seen Tiger in person and if so, when was it? I saw him play in Milwaukee in his 1st pro tourney back in 96 and I remember saying to mysef when I saw him that he was much bigger than I thought or looked on TV. Not that he was huge, but he was built and pretty muscular at the very start of his pro career. He was definitely no Urkel thats for sure...
#17 is definatly more mental than anything. Its only like 137 yards from the back tees, which for me is a 3/4 wedge. Its a fairly easy shot. The hard part about playing it from the tips is its over 7200 yards. So it forces you to hit driver off the tee and with the rough 4" or higher you need to hit fairways to have any chance of making pars. I cant tell you how many times i had to chunk a 7 iron out of the rough just because there was no way to get the ball to the green cause of the tall rough.
Bump fit a Tiger birdie 2020 US Open
[h=2]Hole 6 – Par 4[/h]Short par 4 here and TW takes less than driver and finds the right edge of the fairway. Useful shot. Ooh baby he likes this one and for good reason. Tiger goes pin-seeking here and gets this one to stop just six feet from the hole. For once he has this for birdie and not a par or bogey save. Boom goes the dynamite. First birdie of the day for the Big Cat.
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[h=2]Hole 6 – Par 4[/h]Short par 4 here and TW takes less than driver and finds the right edge of the fairway. Useful shot. Ooh baby he likes this one and for good reason. Tiger goes pin-seeking here and gets this one to stop just six feet from the hole. For once he has this for birdie and not a par or bogey save. Boom goes the dynamite. First birdie of the day for the Big Cat.
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