Tigger Woo
The guy is amazing. He spent the whole weekend cool and calm, missed only a few fairways, missed only a few greens and the only time he seemed even a little bit flustered was when people kept using their phone cameras and flashing pictures when he was about to go on a his back swing.Some people call him robotic, and you know what I think thats a good thing, I call it focus. A lot of us do not have the focus and the ability to play one shot at a time and that's why he's so great at golf. There is a similarity that can be drawn from Golf and Poker and that is the term Tilt. Like Poker when a player takes a bad beat and gets flustered and in turn ruins their game, golf has a similar feel when you mess up a hole or a shot that you really think you should have made you can get off balanced and kill your remaining game. This visibly happened to Sergio, who after the missed putt on the second hole no longer had any confidence with his putting and it ran him out of contention after the front 9. Tiger on the other hand has the ability to stay even keeled more than anyone on the tour and this is a big reason why he has a chance to go down as the greatest player ever.
Intimidation Factor
For those fools that have stated that Tiger has lost his intimidation factor and that people are less afraid him now then they were in the early 2000s I would just like them to bear witness to the play of Ernie Els and Sergio this weekend. Combined they shot -14 the day before they played with Tiger, combined the following day they shot even par. They both had their worst rounds when playing with Tiger, still think that the players aren't intimidated by him.The No Driver Stuff
Some people are complaining that this course was too easy and that no course should allow a player to not use their driver and have the ability to win the golf tournament. I completely disagree. Everyone on the course other than Tiger pulled out their driver. Every single player, Tiger is just smarter and that much better than everyone with his iron play. Tiger is better hitting a 4 iron into the green than the majority of the tour is hitting a wedge into the green. In addition he can hit a 3-wood just as far as many players can hit their drivers. It just shows that he is a complete player with an unmatched skillset.
Most Ridiculous Outfit
Now that Europeans every have embraced color, PGA tour events have seen some ludicrous outfits. Whether it be either of Sergio's pastel feature suits complete with accenting Adidas Spikes and Visor, or any person wearing bleached white pants, or of course anything with pink in it. You have to wonder whether Sergio and other European golfers have more pairs of spikes than the typical woman has shoes. But the runaway winner for most ridiculous outfit has to be Ian Poulter. Not only is he wearing a British flag esque shirt complete with a ridiculous amount of rhinestones. But the man who is brash enough to have a headcover of himself, had the Clarett Jug embroidered on his pant leg. Now that is ludicrous.The Course
I know they were saying that it hasn't rained there in a long time and I know the typical British Open Course is no where near as green as the typical US course due to the British lack of desire to irrigate their courses, but come on. Bring out a hose on the green or something. My lawn seems to be in better condition and more lively than any piece of grass on the course.
My Prediction
The jinx went through again as I predicted Vijay to win, he had been top ten in the past 7 majors, and he didn't make the cut. I won't exactly take credit for a Woods victory, nor will I ever because it's too easy. I did call for a Sergio collapse and a pink outfit so I came close to that with his all yellow ensemble and his front 9 collapse on sunday. I would call my predictions ok, certainly better than the sham that were my US Open Predictions.
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