i'll be waiting to see if i can get better than +1600 on him for pga champ....if i cant get +2500 on this week, thats worth $100 in my betting mind.....i would imagine you are more than a small better, so i'd be guessing you would be hedging for the pga champ.....you'd feel like an idiot if he decided to bring his golf game and you lost on guaranteed money
i'll be waiting to see if i can get better than +1600 on him for pga champ....if i cant get +2500 on this week, thats worth $100 in my betting mind.....i would imagine you are more than a small better, so i'd be guessing you would be hedging for the pga champ.....you'd feel like an idiot if he decided to bring his golf game and you lost on guaranteed money
i'll quit knowing he is the best player in the world when he quits playing and doesnt have 18 majors, cause like i've said before, up to this point in his career he is unmatched by anybody that has ever took a breath of air, if you dont agree, prove me wrong....yips with the putter? come on man, you def dont have any respect for tigers golf game.....yes the putting stroke was off this week, other than thursday, but the putting stroke is the least of my worries as a tiger homer.....i actually look at this week as a huuuugge positive. why?
1. he didnt emberrass himself on this time on the comeback effort
2. in all honesty, he hasnt hit the ball bad
3. one good day of putting, and i'm expecting under par tomorrow (who knows though)
4. he doesnt have any assistance from a "real" caddy this week, and he will in the future
5. lastly, he has a good attitude....he talked the talk about expecting to win cause thats what he does, but he has had a good attitude about learning his game this week...next week, i'd expect he'd be getting pissed off if he didnt hit a good shot, this week, he is learning for next week regardless what he says.
AND most importantly, this is a guy that has been sitting around, no golf club in hand for 4 months.....the dude can obviously still play, just wait till he gets some rounds under his belt
Yea we'll keep waiting, and waiting, and waiting ................ !! I could go up in front of the press and say " I expect to win " ! So !!!!! 1 out of 5 isn't bad, his attitude does seem better, but all that does his give you a tee time the next day. Sorry to tell you this, but 18 majors is not coming thru that door. ... You know, your like the guy that still wants the girl that got away 2 years earlier, she's not coming back
I'll tell you a little story from my past as somehow it seems to apply a little. I'm far older than most posters here and back in the day when I was young Arnold Palmer was the people's choice. He was a great golfer but He was also so likeable. He would pull up his britches and always go for the seemingly impossible shot. More often than not He would put the ball across the water and the world would cheer. I think He really put golf on the Sport's Map. Then the unthinkable happened. Someone came along and He was a better golfer than Palmer. Jack Nicklaus wasn't at all like Palmer as He was more sullen and my favorite golfer was getting beat on a regular basis by a golfer that I didn't like. I wasn't alone as even though Nicklaus wasn't a bad guy in any way, He wasn't Palmer and He kinda became the guy We hoped would lose. However over time I started to realize that a legendary golfer had entered the scene and Jack was more then just great... He was the greatest golfer ever. The fans gradually warmed to him and enjoyed watching Nicklaus win. Palmer and Trevino will always be my 2 favorite golfers but neither of those 2 were as great as Nicklaus. If Tiger can come back and win majors once again, I will think about moving him next to Nicklaus. I take it that Tiger is your all time favorite golfer much like Palmer was my all time favorite. It hurt for me to admit that Palmer wasn't as great as Nicklaus and I think that it's possible that someday you might have to admit that Tiger wasnt quite as great as Nicklaus. However don't even think about giving up on Tiger until it's in the books as I've been there with Palmer. BTW I've always been an almost unbelievable marksmen on the rifle range and hunting and I'm 70 years old. Can I still shoot good ? Yes and if you see me in person and ask to see my hands, you will see that my hands are still very steady and I don't have the Yips as they say. I know that is very unusual for someone my age and I know I am very lucky and someday soon I will start shaking. I mention this because some golfers may get the yips far earlier then others. For you, I hope tiger is one of the fortunate ones like me. Of course I hope his golfing remains in the doldums for one more major. gl in the future years with Tiger:lolBIG:
I really don't think posters were dissapearing on Thursday, one decent round doesn't qualify to alot of us that he is back to where we all have to go into hiding. What you have to understand is, this a gambling forum where alot of us take this serioulsy and don't overreact... With that being said, most of us here are anylzing what we see, not what we want to see.
Tiger Wraps Up Sloppy Bridgestone At 1 Over
AKRON, Ohio -- Tiger Woods finished his first tournament in four months and got some predictable results.
At times, he looked good. Far more often, he looked ordinary. And with no cut in the Bridgestone Invitational, he got in four rounds going into the final major of the year.
Woods lost momentum of a good start by losing his swing in the middle of the round, then pieced it together at the end for an even-par 70 Sunday that left him in the middle of the pack on a Firestone course where he is a seven-time winner.
"I had it in spurts this week," Woods said. "I hit it really well, and then I'd lose it and get it back."
Even so, the guy who said he wouldn't play if he didn't think he could win found a few positives out of his first time playing golf since May 12 because of injuries, and his first time completing 72 holes since April at the Masters.
"Absolutely encouraged," said Woods, who finished at 1-over 281. "I hadn't played. I mean, this is my first tournament since, what, April? So it's been awhile."
Woods, 13 shots out of the lead when he began the final round, had birdies on two of his opening five holes when it fell apart in a hurry. He went left off the tee at No. 6, escaped decently into a bunker, then barely got out of the sand chipped long on his way to a double bogey.
So began a stretch in which he missed the fairway on seven consecutive tee shots, a stretch he played in 5-over par.
"I got off to such a great start," he said. "Then all of a sudden, I just absolutely lost it."
Woods switched back to a Nike putter -- the first three rounds he used the Scotty Cameron he's had since 1998 -- and the improvement wasn't noticeable. He finished strong with three birdies on his last four holes, starting with a 15-foot putt on the 15th, a wedge to 4 feet on the 16th and a 15-footer on the 17th.
It helped a little, but not enough.
Woods started the week at No. 135 in the FedEx Cup standings, and he is not likely to crack the top 125, the number that gets him into the first round of the playoff series that begins with The Barclays.
He still has the PGA Championship next week in Atlanta, although Woods said he would not play the Wyndham Championship in North Carolina, the final event to qualify for the FedEx Cup, even if he is outside the top 125.
"No, I'm not playing that week, no," Woods said. "Family obligations."
That usually means he has custody of his two children, and since Woods has never played in Greensboro, N.C., there was no reason to think he might this year.
Woods conceded he was not tournament sharp.
"It's nice for me to get out there in this competitive atmosphere no matter how I was playing just to figure out how to score, because I haven't been forced to score," he said. "At home, playing money games with my buddies is just not the same. Being out here and being forced to have to post a score, hit shots ... that's a different deal."
Next up is the PGA Championship at Atlanta Athletic Club, which starts Thursday.
Woods has been hitting balls on the practice range after his rounds, an indication that his left leg is no longer causing any problems. His biggest obstacle now is time.
He has three days of practice before the final major of the year, and if he doesn't figure it out in Atlanta, he won't be playing a PGA Tour event for the next six weeks.
"I've got three days," Woods said. "So I'm going to worry about these three days and apply it accordingly, and be ready come Thursday."
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AKRON, Ohio -- Tiger Woods finished his first tournament in four months and got some predictable results.
At times, he looked good. Far more often, he looked ordinary. And with no cut in the Bridgestone Invitational, he got in four rounds going into the final major of the year.
Woods lost momentum of a good start by losing his swing in the middle of the round, then pieced it together at the end for an even-par 70 Sunday that left him in the middle of the pack on a Firestone course where he is a seven-time winner.
"I had it in spurts this week," Woods said. "I hit it really well, and then I'd lose it and get it back."
Even so, the guy who said he wouldn't play if he didn't think he could win found a few positives out of his first time playing golf since May 12 because of injuries, and his first time completing 72 holes since April at the Masters.
"Absolutely encouraged," said Woods, who finished at 1-over 281. "I hadn't played. I mean, this is my first tournament since, what, April? So it's been awhile."
Woods, 13 shots out of the lead when he began the final round, had birdies on two of his opening five holes when it fell apart in a hurry. He went left off the tee at No. 6, escaped decently into a bunker, then barely got out of the sand chipped long on his way to a double bogey.
So began a stretch in which he missed the fairway on seven consecutive tee shots, a stretch he played in 5-over par.
"I got off to such a great start," he said. "Then all of a sudden, I just absolutely lost it."
Woods switched back to a Nike putter -- the first three rounds he used the Scotty Cameron he's had since 1998 -- and the improvement wasn't noticeable. He finished strong with three birdies on his last four holes, starting with a 15-foot putt on the 15th, a wedge to 4 feet on the 16th and a 15-footer on the 17th.
It helped a little, but not enough.
Woods started the week at No. 135 in the FedEx Cup standings, and he is not likely to crack the top 125, the number that gets him into the first round of the playoff series that begins with The Barclays.
He still has the PGA Championship next week in Atlanta, although Woods said he would not play the Wyndham Championship in North Carolina, the final event to qualify for the FedEx Cup, even if he is outside the top 125.
"No, I'm not playing that week, no," Woods said. "Family obligations."
That usually means he has custody of his two children, and since Woods has never played in Greensboro, N.C., there was no reason to think he might this year.
Woods conceded he was not tournament sharp.
"It's nice for me to get out there in this competitive atmosphere no matter how I was playing just to figure out how to score, because I haven't been forced to score," he said. "At home, playing money games with my buddies is just not the same. Being out here and being forced to have to post a score, hit shots ... that's a different deal."
Next up is the PGA Championship at Atlanta Athletic Club, which starts Thursday.
Woods has been hitting balls on the practice range after his rounds, an indication that his left leg is no longer causing any problems. His biggest obstacle now is time.
He has three days of practice before the final major of the year, and if he doesn't figure it out in Atlanta, he won't be playing a PGA Tour event for the next six weeks.
"I've got three days," Woods said. "So I'm going to worry about these three days and apply it accordingly, and be ready come Thursday."
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Taylor, I do have some decent $$ on Tiger not winning a Major this year. However I have seen nothing so far that would tempt me to waste any of my hard earned $$ on Tiger. on tomorrow'S PGA. I will sit tight on a great wager and if Tiger should happen to win, I'll come online and eat crow ! Will you be at next week's Bash ?
I predict Tiger will finish in top 20.
