That fucker Peter Alliss as well
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 14 April 2019 17:48 (five years ago) link
Tiger hasn't won the Masters since 2005? That's a quarter of my life--can't believe it's been that long.
― clemenza, Sunday, 14 April 2019 17:49 (five years ago) link
BBC commentary crushingly fatalistic.
I just can’t endure another five years of unflinching Tiger Woods coverage for every tournament regardless of score. :(
― alrakis morissette (tangenttangent), Sunday, 14 April 2019 17:50 (five years ago) link
Only 5 years?
― Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Sunday, 14 April 2019 17:50 (five years ago) link
Here's Woods at the eleventh etc
― imago, Sunday, 14 April 2019 17:51 (five years ago) link
It's a quarter of all our lives
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 14 April 2019 17:51 (five years ago) link
Just think of the Deadspin articles!
Andrew Coltart is possibly the dullest commentator in the history of BBC sports coverage.
― Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Sunday, 14 April 2019 17:54 (five years ago) link
I don't disagree with that. But the past few years of is-or-isn't-Tiger-back? has been just as exhausting.
― clemenza, Sunday, 14 April 2019 17:55 (five years ago) link
I wish to god I was watching Sky Sports and everyone talking about Rickie Fowler being a nice young man.
― alrakis morissette (tangenttangent), Sunday, 14 April 2019 17:55 (five years ago) link
I don't disagree with that. But the past few years of is-or-isn't-Tiger-back? has been just as exhausting
True, but still preferential to ‘how is Tiger doing?’ (He’s 12 over) every five minutes. Also, he’s not nice. I do not forgive him.
― alrakis morissette (tangenttangent), Sunday, 14 April 2019 17:57 (five years ago) link
He's never going to be 12 over again
― imago, Sunday, 14 April 2019 17:58 (five years ago) link
Fingers crossed.
― Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Sunday, 14 April 2019 17:59 (five years ago) link
.. that he drops 26 strokes in the last two holes.
― Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Sunday, 14 April 2019 18:00 (five years ago) link
That really would be (as worst twitter insists on calling it) ‘the news story of the year’
― alrakis morissette (tangenttangent), Sunday, 14 April 2019 18:03 (five years ago) link
Don't worry, we'll be knee deep in hyperbole when we wins it.
― Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Sunday, 14 April 2019 18:04 (five years ago) link
Adds to golf's rich folklore imo
― imago, Sunday, 14 April 2019 18:08 (five years ago) link
OK, if Koepka holes this, there's pressure
― imago, Sunday, 14 April 2019 18:11 (five years ago) link
This is still dicey--if Koepka birdies, I'm been waiting for that patented errant tee shot from Tiger.
― clemenza, Sunday, 14 April 2019 18:12 (five years ago) link
No error
― imago, Sunday, 14 April 2019 18:13 (five years ago) link
The Commander in Chief is glued to the screen apparently. Quick, North Korea!
― imago, Sunday, 14 April 2019 18:14 (five years ago) link
All right! Tough to lose now.
― clemenza, Sunday, 14 April 2019 18:15 (five years ago) link
Andrew Coltart is possibly the dullest commentator in the history of BBC sports coverage.― Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Sunday, 14 April 2019 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Sunday, 14 April 2019 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Is he the one that made the Francis Bacon comment and talked about Dustin Johnson's John Wayne-like walk?
Bet Harrington put it in his contract to avoid any stints w/Peter Alliss.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 14 April 2019 18:16 (five years ago) link
Dustin Johnson T2 then. Argh TOO HIGH
― imago, Sunday, 14 April 2019 18:17 (five years ago) link
Trump no doubt cheering on his fellow sex pest.
― Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Sunday, 14 April 2019 18:18 (five years ago) link
Think of this as the dying throes of the Republican era
― imago, Sunday, 14 April 2019 18:19 (five years ago) link
Jordan Spieth is Trump and Jagz's favourite!
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 14 April 2019 18:20 (five years ago) link
At golf, yes.
― Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Sunday, 14 April 2019 18:21 (five years ago) link
Wow
― alrakis morissette (tangenttangent), Sunday, 14 April 2019 18:22 (five years ago) link
You need to back that up with an actual Spieth endorsement tweet from the big man
― imago, Sunday, 14 April 2019 18:22 (five years ago) link
Also, Woods may be a shameless philanderer but there's no sex pesting in his record iirc
― imago, Sunday, 14 April 2019 18:23 (five years ago) link
Also he's a black man who's also the best modern golfer so this transcends him being a shit sometimes
― imago, Sunday, 14 April 2019 18:24 (five years ago) link
No, it doesn't, he's a dick.
― Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Sunday, 14 April 2019 18:25 (five years ago) link
:/
― alrakis morissette (tangenttangent), Sunday, 14 April 2019 18:26 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/b6SUnuY.jpg
― alrakis morissette (tangenttangent), Sunday, 14 April 2019 18:31 (five years ago) link
Tiger's record is fine, and this comeback is pretty much incredible - don't have to like it.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 14 April 2019 18:31 (five years ago) link
Counterpoint coming up
― imago, Sunday, 14 April 2019 18:32 (five years ago) link
That was beautiful and fuiud
― The Gapes of Wrath (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 14 April 2019 18:33 (five years ago) link
Because a sportsperson is great you have to like them, of course.
― Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Sunday, 14 April 2019 18:33 (five years ago) link
Also he's a black man who's also the best modern golfer so this transcends him being a shit sometimes― imago, Sunday, 14 April 2019 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― imago, Sunday, 14 April 2019 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This is what happens when you are woke.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 14 April 2019 18:33 (five years ago) link
Careful now.
― Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Sunday, 14 April 2019 18:34 (five years ago) link
Obviously dislike of Tiger is complex but he's the GOAT and
― The Gapes of Wrath (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 14 April 2019 18:35 (five years ago) link
In the moral compass of the universe--or at least the celebrity moral compass--Tiger's hardly the worst person out there. (And I basically don't care anyway--he's a golfer.)
I'm not sure if I was watching when Nicklaus won in '86--I think I would have been, but no clear memory. He came back from four down. Today was thrilling, that was undoubtedly just as thrilling.
― clemenza, Sunday, 14 April 2019 18:35 (five years ago) link
Comeback incredible in that he worked out a way to play safer and shorter and still twitchy as fuck off the tee and beat a field of much younger fitter men.
Imagine what his career record would look like without car/life crash & multiple surgeries.
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Sunday, 14 April 2019 18:38 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/TKCUaKk.jpg
― alrakis morissette (tangenttangent), Sunday, 14 April 2019 18:39 (five years ago) link
I don't like watching golfer's implode, so I didn't enjoy what happened to Molinari.
― clemenza, Sunday, 14 April 2019 18:40 (five years ago) link
that too
― imago, Sunday, 14 April 2019 18:40 (five years ago) link
It's a quarter of all our lives― xyzzzz
Just got this...I kind of fluffed up my point there, didn't I? There's some 14-year-old sitting out there today thinking "14 years--that's my entire life!"
― clemenza, Sunday, 14 April 2019 18:43 (five years ago) link
couldn't happen to a more horrible bastard. fs molinari
― ... and the crowd said DESELECT THEM (||||||||), Sunday, 14 April 2019 18:44 (five years ago) link
btw I disliked him even before the scandals etc. - its a complicated achievement. At the beginning he is clearing the cobwebs off golf through his approach, perhaps. Then it just becomes one-way track and strays into unwatchability.
How far do you want to push this btw? I'd argue, from the way Tiger speaks about things and is almost always so unpertubed that he has no conscience and that, once he overcame the physical obstacles and changed his approach that it was entirely possible to see this win. It is something to see, really impressive and yet.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 14 April 2019 18:50 (five years ago) link