posted Jun 15, 2008

1. Woods
2. Ogilvy
3. Mahan
4. Allenby
5. Sabbatini

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posted Jun 15, 2008

woods hit one fairway out of the last 5
NO FOREGONE conlcusion here I think, he made 3 shots 2 great puts and a luvcky chip in. to be where he is, not by driving or iron play.
if westwood holds steady and woods tee shots are as bad as yesterday , westwood has a very good chance

unlike woods i play out of 12" rough when im 20 yds off the fairway at fraserburgh
woods is lucky in that he plays off 6" grass that has been trampled down to an inch by spectators.
i think t is unfair that 2 times he can be so far off the fairway and have a good enough lie to play a shot to the green, thats not what golf is about it should be about being punished for being wayward off the tee, and Mediate being rewarded for being straight.
but these tournamnets are orgnaized in a way it is impossible to not trample down all the rough down i suppose as thats where the spectators walk?

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posted Jun 15, 2008

If Lee plays as well today as he did for the last three days we are in for an absolute treat today.

Tiger is the greatest front runner that this game has ever seen I just hope we don't see everyone fall away as has happened on a lot of major sundays.

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posted Jun 15, 2008

i was watching in venezuela on espn from USA.
believ me , westwood was one behind all day on the secoond round and we saw about 3 shots. all we saw was woods and michleson, i almost think this was organized for the ratings on the first two days.
and yesterday, instead of showing westwood we saw tiger woods repeats and tiger woods walking, instead of the leaders
once i saw westwood had dropped to even, the next time we saw the leaderboard he was one behind the leader at one under. and we never got a glimpse of that because tiger was limping on the fairway
they even stayed so long waiting for tiger to put after 10 minutes as usual, that the next scene was applebey putting and they had to cut for ads, to get back to tiger on the netx tee, they cut for ads after he had putted but before the ball got to the hole????????????
disgrace

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posted Jun 15, 2008

good to see the last tream playing at normal pace instead of lwgging behind to get an advantage and know the other scores
mediate was waiting for woods to clear the green to play, excellent
as opposed to others including woods, who when are in last group take a illega amount of time to putt etc, in order to let the others go ahead
i think soeone mentioned that immelman took 5-12 hours on the masters last round
this should be penalised as when then family want to go to the beach on sunday, nobody sells video tapes longer than 4 hours long, in order to taope and watch later
4 hours should be made standard, or minutes per yards for eahc course, so each player gets the same amount of time to line up etc

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posted Jun 15, 2008

Even if Tiger fails to win this major no one can be in any doubt as to his commitment, will, determination and strength of character to succeed let alone his ability.

Whatever the outcome tonight we are privileged to be watching the greatest golfer that has ever lived

He is an example of what all Britsh sportsmen and women should aspire to be. Resilient, determined in the face of adversity and totally professional in every respect.

Our footballers, in particular, should take note.

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posted Jun 15, 2008

That chip in was lucky because the ball went into the cup directly on the second bounce. No matter how good Tiger is, that is not a shot he could duplicate. If the ball had not gone into the cup, it might well have gone off the green the other side. And those long putts....had to have a huge quantum of luck,,, work out the math of angles....how many fractions of a degree do you have to be off line to miss a cup a bit over 4 inches in diameter, from 100 feet....and running over a surface that probably has hundreds of spike marks to deviate the ball. To claim he is not lucky consistently, is to insult the game. Look at it...he drives it waaay off line and gets a free drop due to a line of sight relief, onto trampled down surface which leaves the ball sitting up. The guy is good....let's accept that...but he was also born with a golden "golf club" in his mouth...let's not deny that.

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posted Jun 15, 2008

If the US feed emphasized Westwood or even Mediate over Tiger Woods absolutely no one would watch. Tiger Woods is golf in America, and NBC is more motivated by ratings than the BBC. Asides from Woods and Michelson, the only players with some "star power" for an American audience are guys like Garcia, Els, Singh, and possibly Scott and Goosen. Daly too would obviously draw big ratings if he ever played well in a major. Westwood has been great but he doesn't have a big name and is simply nowhere near as compelling as Tiger to a US audience.

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posted Jun 15, 2008

"No matter how good Tiger is, that is not a shot he could duplicate"

I'm astonished that someone could actually write this. Why would he possibly need to duplicate it? He already did it where it mattered, in the US open. If you write off Woods' consistent success to luck you are simply not living in reality. It might be a nice place but it is not governed by logic.

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posted Jun 15, 2008

to hawkeye58 (U11451681)


ok, i do maths and futher maths - so lets talk angles and probability.

if you are saying to me that each hole he nailed yesterday was supremely lucky.

and he got about 3 amazing shots yesterday.(not to mention the eagle the day before and all his career)

then theoretically it would be impsossible for him to keep sinking them. the law of averages does not allow it.

so the only viable alternative is that it is not luck, but skill. point proved from your own premise thank you very much.


also, have you ever read up on tigers history?! ok he stared golf young...but "born with a golden club in his mouth"?!! thats abit much. how many kids start sports young but fade away?

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