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This is when you know Tiger Woods is on his game.
RonBurgundy
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When his opponents throw everything including the Stewart Cink at him and he still wins easily!
Come on, give me a rim shot! You know you laughed!
Ron
Come on, give me a rim shot! You know you laughed!
Ron
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not bad though!
fight Greg Norman....who else is there today? Lefty shows up once a year, and after that there are a bunch of hacks.
Too bad, I would love to see Tiger with some decent competition!
JS
Arnold Palmer - 7 majors
Ben Hogan (was on the downside of his career, but still great)
Sam Snead (same as Hogan)
Lee Trevino - 6 majors
Tom Watson - 8 majors
Greg Norman - 2 majors
Johnny Miller - 2 majors
Tom Weiskopf - 1 major
Gary Player - 9 major
Peter Thomson (Never heard of him? He won 5 majors from 1954-65).
Seve Ballesteros - 5 majors
Ray Floyd - 4 majors
Julius Boros - 3 majors
Billy Casper - 3 majors
Hale Irwin - 3 majors
Larry Nelson - 3 majors
Ben Crenshaw, David Graham, Hubert Green, Tony Jacklin, Andy North, Dave Stockton, Fuzzy Zoeller - 2 majors each
Tiger's competitors:
Els, Singh, and Mickelson - 3 majors each.
Daly, Goosen, Olazabal, and friggin Lee Janzen - 2 majors each.
Crickets. No one else has won more than one in the Tiger era.
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<< <i> Golf isn't an actual competition where your competitor can "keep" you from scoring. Tiger has broken alot of course and scoring records during his run, I don't think having tougher competition would have kept him from winning when he shot the lowest score ever in the tournament. >>
I agree. One can say poor competition is more of the case when one talks about roger federer. Or the patriots. or any sport where it pits one person/team against another person/team.
with golf, it's as much as the course itself as the opponent(s). Maybe even more so. A player's/team's score is more of a function of his/their opponent in most other sports. It is less so in golf. Tiger is "facing" opponents, yes, but he's also facing the course. that really cant be said for most sports.
When an athlete dominates a sport like tiger has in the past decade, sports fans tend to label the era as "no competition." People said that about the Bulls in the 90's...federer and the patriots today. The underdog becomes the top dog...and sports fans, no matter how nice or skilled the guy/team is, will tend to root against the top dog just to see something new.
would tiger have less tour wins if hogan, palmer, nelson and all the other greats were his competition today? sure. but, he still would rack up plenty of wins given the course records he has set in the past 10 years. let's not take that away from him by using "no competition" as an excuse.
<< <i>Is Woods that good, or is the competition that crappy? Arnold had to fight Jack and Jack had to fight Watson and Watson had to
fight Greg Norman....who else is there today? Lefty shows up once a year, and after that there are a bunch of hacks.
Too bad, I would love to see Tiger with some decent competition!
JS >>
The lefty with man-breasts puts up a fight once in a while. But that's pretty much it.