Holy crap. What a finish. He owns Bay Hill.
He owns Golf.
I was watching and heard the two golf “experts” discussing how Tiger should hit his approach shot at 17. They couldn’t understand why Tiger was aiming somewhere other than where they, with their superior knowlege, just knew was the right answer. So Tiger swings his club and the ball stops rolling about 2 feet from the cup. Hey golf experts guys, maybe he hit it there because he’s the best freakin’ golfer ever. By now you would think they would finally get that.
My wife and I said the exact same thing. Her saying Johnny Miller is a douchebag tool. And me remarking that these players (Tiger especially) are hitting shots that for all of Johynn Miller’s self serving awesomeness…he could never fathom.
I tuned in here at 1am and watched ZJ hit his putt and then Tiger hit that amazing putt. Ridiculous! The rest of them should be worried, very worried and my money is on him for the Masters, what a comeback.
He also looks bigger than he did at the US open…
Tiger is THE MAN!
how can anybody not LOVE him?
it’s like watching a Golf God.
Some great putts, but O’Hair simply blew it. 3 under shouldn’t have been anywhere near good enough for Tiger to win. Course was absolutely perfect as was the weather. All O’Hair had to do was throw up a mediocre round and he’d have won going away.
Some great putts, but O’Hair simply blew it. 3 under shouldn’t have been anywhere near good enough for Tiger to win. Course was absolutely perfect as was the weather. All O’Hair had to do was throw up a mediocre round and he’d have won going away.
Agreed…I am hoping someone with a spine can actually step up and challenge him consistently. Tiger walks and plays with 100x the confidence of every other tour player. Yes, he is physically better, but the margin between these guys physically is very small. I think Tiger is physically better for the most part because he actually trains his body not just his game. Someday maybe Phil and his bitch tits will figure that out.
I think O’Hair had that mediocre round, its not as if he pulled a Norman or Jean Van de Velde, I agree it was his for the taking but i think we can all settle down now and see that woods is 11 wins from his last 17? tournaments?
I’ve got to be honest I’m glad he’s back and I’d rather him be in it and winning every other week than having watched the golf for the last 9 months and not have him in it.
There are some good up and comers, McIlroy could well be someone thats young and fearless enough to take Woods on but these guy’s that have been out there with him for the last 10+ years have demonstrated they can’t and as someone famous once said “the first sign of madness is to do the same thing twice and expect a different result” and for 10 years they’ve done the same things and failed, why should we expect Mickleson et al to pick their games up this time?
I think O’Hair had that mediocre round
I disagree. 32 players, nearly half the remaining field shot par or better…only 12 players had a worse final round than O’Hair. In those perfect conditions, for the guy leading the tournament to do that is a lot worse than “mediocre”. He gave it to Woods. Had he shot a 69 and Tiger put up a 63 to beat him, it’d be an entirely different story.
Next step: Let me here you say “Senator Tiger Woods…”.
Would agree…you cannot come in with a 73, Tiger in your group and expect to win a tournament.
Was Sean O’hair thinking Tiger was going to pipe one in the water on the back nine on Sunday like he did?
(incidentally not the first time he found water down the stretch–but he isn’t Scott (c)Hoch yet.)
He probably did. How much was because he was not able to handle playing against Tiger and could not handle the pressure?
If tournaments were only one day Tiger would lose a lot more often. Putting together 4 good rounds is tough–even for the pros. For most, their bad rounds happen on one of the first three days. In this case, O’Hair had his on the 4th. There was very little chance that he wouldn’t have at least one bad day.
98% of it? To date no one has been able to step up and consistently perform against woods over the past 10+ years.
I think whats most surprising is that people still think someone in the current crop is going to step up and compete. Its the first sign of madness to do the samething twice and expect a different result yet we have the same people having failed to do it for the past X years yet we somehow believe they will step up and start competing.
I think the most likely scenario is someone new, perhaps McIlroy or someone else is going to come along and compete against Tiger but what I think we know for certain is that the current crop, phat phil included, are not, long term, up to the task.
Putting together 4 good rounds is a heck of a lot different than not “blowing it out his ass” on the 4th round, which is exactly what O’Hair did. The course was perfect, the weather was perfect, and 80% of the field shot better scores than he did. Dumping his ball in the water on 16, when Tiger was completely cockblocked, was an absolute bonehead amateur mistake…hell, that’s one right out of my playbook! :-/.