U.S. Open

[Antitrust32]

Originally Posted by Gander

Lighting it up? Thats exactly how Phil plays...3,4 birdies, an eagle but a few bogeys and double bogeys as well. Steady is hardly a term that comes to mind when describing Phil's play, which is why he is so popular and enjoyable to watch, and at the same time why he has failed to win so many more majors.

Call it what you want but Tiger completely choked today. Forget what he did the last 3 days. The bottom line is at one point today, he was 3 shots off the lead and he still had 3 holes left to put himself as the leader in the clubhouse. But he hit bad shots and made even worse putts.

Even if he did putt horrible all week long, which by his standards he did...what the hell does that have to do with the last nine holes of a major where the guys in front of you are struggling, given you a window to walk through and make things very close? Its absurd to bring up the way Tiger putted the first 63 holes of this tournament.

As bad as he did, the fact is he knew he still had an excellent chance to win and he didnt.

whatever makes you happy man! but I 100% disagree!

[Gander]

Look, I am a huge fan of Tigers. He probably is my favorite professional athlete in any sport. If you told me growing up that my favorite "athlete" would be a golfer, I would have thought you were crazy.

I'm just being a little objective here. Knowing the personalities of both Tiger and Phil I could pretty much guarntee you that both players feel like they let another major slip away. More obvious to the casual fan was Phil who was tied late in the round, but Tiger would never kid himself...this was one that he let get away.

As GPK said earlier, as bad as he putted, the fact is he was still (in his mind) very much in contention and one of the more likelier winners as late as the
16th-17th holes.

Without Tiger and Phil, the PGA Tour would be the equivalent of Harness Racing.

[Antitrust32]

Originally Posted by Gander

Look, I am a huge fan of Tigers. He probably is my favorite professional athlete in any sport. If you told me growing up that my favorite "athlete" would be a golfer, I would have thought you were crazy.

I'm just being a little objective here. Knowing the personalities of both Tiger and Phil I could pretty much guarntee you that both players feel like they let another major slip away. More obvious to the casual fan was Phil who was tied late in the round, but Tiger would never kid himself...this was one that he let get away.

As GPK said earlier, as bad as he putted, the fact is he was still (in his mind) very much in contention and one of the more likelier winners as late as the
16th-17th holes.

Without Tiger and Phil, the PGA Tour would be the equivalent of Harness Racing.

now this I 100% agree with! I'm sure Tiger knows he let this slip away. I've never seen him miss so many makeable birdie putts. If this was a regular US Open where a -1 or E par wins its okay to make par after par... but you had to score to win this tourney. Tiger should have won and he should have putted better, & its crazy that he was even in contention while averaging 30 putts per round. But I just dont think he choked. Choking is folding under pressure, and he didnt do that... he just didnt have it.

[gales0678]

you know lori there are people in ohio that still think that Tom Weiskopf had more talent than Jack Nicklaus

they are not necessiarly wrong , he had a better swing than jack , hit the ball as good if not better, but, when history was on the line (see the '75 masters) Tom terrific looked like a sunday hack next to Jack - he couldn't do 1 thing that jack always did on sunday ........get the ball into the hole in big spots time after time

[GPK]

Originally Posted by gales0678

you know lori there are people in ohio that still think that Tom Weiskopf had more talent than Jack Nicklaus

they are not necessiarly wrong , he had a better swing than jack , hit the ball as good if not better, but, when history was on the line (see the '75 masters) Tom terrific looked like a sunday hack next to Jack - he couldn't do 1 thing that jack always did on sunday ........get the ball into the hole in big spots time after time

Tom wasn't the only player that had more talent than Jack.

[gales0678]

Originally Posted by GPK

Tom wasn't the only player that had more talent than Jack.

if the guy on NBC could putt , who knows how many he wins , his iron play was light years ahead of jack , probably the straighest iron player in the history of the game

if you could design a golfer that hit a driver like greg norman , hit the irons like johnnie miller , improvise with the wedge like trevino , putt like crenshaw and have jack's head - that would be the perfect player , the only possibile player that could even beat tiger

[Gander]

Originally Posted by gales0678

if the guy on NBC could putt , who knows how many he wins , his iron play was light years ahead of jack , probably the straighest iron player in the history of the game

if you could design a golfer that hit a driver like greg norman , hit the irons like johnnie miller , improvise with the wedge like trevino , putt like crenshaw and have jack's head - that would be the perfect player , the only possibile player that could even beat tiger

That sure is a lot of ifs. Are you going to build this golfer in your garage?
Adam Scott has more talent than any of them except for Tiger, but he cant seem to play well in majors.