So I'm watching the Bay Hill on TV and the wife and I are about to head out for dinner. I tell her to hold on because I want to see Tiger get his par on 18 so I can record the playoff. Johnny Miller says there's a 90% chance the tourney is going to a playoff. The NBC guys throw out the similarities between this putt and the putt he holed out in 2001 to beat Mickelson and how Tiger hasn't made a put over 18 feet the entire tournament. So what does Tiger do? He coolly steps up and drains a 25 footer to beat Bart Bryant on the 72nd hole! The man is unreal--is there anything he can't do? It seems like every time Tiger has two putts to beat you he takes one. The guy just has another gear altogether and absolutely feeds on the ultimate pressure. I think if I needed emergency heart surgery I'd just go with Tiger--dude is unreal in the clutch. So now his winning streak around the world is extended to 7 tourneys and official PGA starts to 5. What's scarier is the consistency for Tiger over the last five years. Since 2004, Tiger has played in 74 PGA Tour events. He's won 25 of those events, been 2nd or 3rd in 19 of them, and finished in the top 10 in 11 of the tournaments. For those of you who went to Oregon public schools that means he's won 33% of the events he's entered and finished in the top 10 74% of the time. He is now tied with Ben Hogan for third all time with 64 victories. He trails Nicklaus by 9 and Sam Snead by 18. Anyone who doubts Tiger keeps growing his legend on his way to becoming the greatest golfer that ever lived is kidding themselves. For those of us who are growing up in this era of Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods and possibly A-Rod we are truly lucky to watch/have watched the legends of the sport become just that in front of our very eyes.
17 March 2008
I Am Legend
So I'm watching the Bay Hill on TV and the wife and I are about to head out for dinner. I tell her to hold on because I want to see Tiger get his par on 18 so I can record the playoff. Johnny Miller says there's a 90% chance the tourney is going to a playoff. The NBC guys throw out the similarities between this putt and the putt he holed out in 2001 to beat Mickelson and how Tiger hasn't made a put over 18 feet the entire tournament. So what does Tiger do? He coolly steps up and drains a 25 footer to beat Bart Bryant on the 72nd hole! The man is unreal--is there anything he can't do? It seems like every time Tiger has two putts to beat you he takes one. The guy just has another gear altogether and absolutely feeds on the ultimate pressure. I think if I needed emergency heart surgery I'd just go with Tiger--dude is unreal in the clutch. So now his winning streak around the world is extended to 7 tourneys and official PGA starts to 5. What's scarier is the consistency for Tiger over the last five years. Since 2004, Tiger has played in 74 PGA Tour events. He's won 25 of those events, been 2nd or 3rd in 19 of them, and finished in the top 10 in 11 of the tournaments. For those of you who went to Oregon public schools that means he's won 33% of the events he's entered and finished in the top 10 74% of the time. He is now tied with Ben Hogan for third all time with 64 victories. He trails Nicklaus by 9 and Sam Snead by 18. Anyone who doubts Tiger keeps growing his legend on his way to becoming the greatest golfer that ever lived is kidding themselves. For those of us who are growing up in this era of Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods and possibly A-Rod we are truly lucky to watch/have watched the legends of the sport become just that in front of our very eyes.
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