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Is Eldrick Woods done being the best?

#121
Between 1998 and 2005, Tiger Woods made the cut in 142 consecutive events to break the PGA TOUR record of 113 events previously held by Byron Nelson.

Woods has won a record 23.0% (80 out of 348) of his professional starts on the PGA Tour.

Woods has won 81 official PGA Tour events, second only to Sam Snead (82), and eight ahead of Jack Nicklaus's 73 wins.


The major wins are impressive enough, but when you add up everything...WOW.
 
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I fully expect Tiger to resume position as the darling of pro golf.

Given our society's propensity to forgive and forget when there is great achievement and a time span, I'm confident Tiger is now the top dog in coverage and in followers.

Sure, some will not forgive past transgressions, but that's true of just about any real or imagined transgression you can name. Essentially, just white noise in the overall situation.
 
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The stats tell one story, but the other story is hard for me to quantify. It would take me several paragraphs to describe it for me. I'll be as brief as I can.
Before Tiger, I thought golf was an old rich man sport. I tried it here and there, but had zero interest. Then the late 90's came along and that all changed for me.
I paid attention to golf on Thursday and Friday, keeping up with the leader board on Saturdays.
I remember being excited when I checked the Friday leader board and saw Tiger hanging around the top if he wasn't already leading. Then I heard golfers talking about the intimidation they felt to be leading a tournament and see Tiger hanging around the leaders. Now golf, to me at least, was exciting and it seemed like there was always some nail biter finish.
Following the death of his father and his fall from grace, I stopped watching golf altogether. It just wasn't interesting. Without Tiger, tournaments didn't have that charisma, excitement, competitiveness to it.

-Mike
 
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Pilgrim said:
I fully expect Tiger to resume position as the darling of pro golf.

Given our society's propensity to forgive and forget when there is great achievement and a time span, I'm confident Tiger is now the top dog in coverage and in followers.
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I am 110% convinced that the crowd roaring for Tiger played a huge role in everyone else not being able to close. I would HATE being in or near Tiger's group. I'm also dreading the insane media coverage that is sure to last until the next major.
 
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MJ5150 said:
The stats tell one story, but the other story is hard for me to quantify. It would take me several paragraphs to describe it for me. I'll be as brief as I can.
Before Tiger, I thought golf was an old rich man sport. I tried it here and there, but had zero interest. Then the late 90's came along and that all changed for me.
I paid attention to golf on Thursday and Friday, keeping up with the leader board on Saturdays.
I remember being excited when I checked the Friday leader board and saw Tiger hanging around the top if he wasn't already leading. Then I heard golfers talking about the intimidation they felt to be leading a tournament and see Tiger hanging around the leaders. Now golf, to me at least, was exciting and it seemed like there was always some nail biter finish.
Following the death of his father and his fall from grace, I stopped watching golf altogether. It just wasn't interesting. Without Tiger, tournaments didn't have that charisma, excitement, competitiveness to it.

-Mike
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I haven't watched a boxing match since Muhammed Ali retired. Don't plan to, either.

There was something special about him. Yes, it was a different time, but still - he was unique.
 
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buldog5151bass said:
I have a feeling that people would have found out about them if they had looked with 1/10 of the vigor that they did afterward. It's also the fact that with this one win, suddenly no one cares about them. He's still the same person he was when he did what he did to his partner. But winning makes all that go away, and Tiger worship is back.
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"Feelings, nothing more than feelings...":D I'm sure the gossip rags pursued any scrap of evidence of affairs before that point, I don't recall them coming up with anything. And I wouldn't want the "legitimate" sports reporters pursuing that kind of angle on every famous athlete with no reason to do so. Of course once the incident happened, they did have a reason to look into Tiger's personal life as it directly impacted his professional life.

As for yesterday's win...I'm looking at ESPN's home page now, and already you have to scroll down pretty far to find a Tiger story. Such is the news cycle.
 
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I'm not sure I buy into the worship part completely. I think that certainly goes on but I also think people are invested in the moment as much as the person. Getting to witness history in something as passionate as sports seems to have the ability to transcend a person. In Tigers case it's been so long ago since he had that very public relationship bonfire I'm not sure it should even matter at this point. I think people should be allowed to cheer for the guy without guilt. The public nature of his penance alone seem to me to be penalty enough. He's served his time, in the spotlight. It would suck to live in a world where I wasn't allowed to move on from my past mistakes.

Personally, I'm pulling for the guy.
 
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I think he's done being "The Best" meaning the way he was, the only one way out in front of the pack with no competition threatening. Now he's merely "one of the best". I don't think he's done winning, and if he does manage to win a few more Majors, he'll really have earned his place on top of the list... ...a chance to show his true character, as it were, is more when it don't come so easy any more. I think he's still got some fire in his belly.
 
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BadSanta1281 said:
Simply amazing comeback after that wreck and almost losing a leg 14 months ago. Already a win in my book no matter who gets the jacket.

Tiger's in the mix but Scheffler looks strong. I'll be on the couch watching all weekend.:D
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Me too buddy.
I was listening to Dan Patrick this morning talking about this weekend. He was observing that if Tiger gets within striking distance of the lead, even if he doesn't win, he feels bad for the guy who wins since he won't be the headline, it will be how Tiger almost won.

-Mike
 
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