Golf - classic or dud

BBC commentary crushingly fatalistic.

I just can’t endure another five years of unflinching Tiger Woods coverage for every tournament regardless of score. :(

Only 5 years?

Here's Woods at the eleventh etc

It's a quarter of all our lives

Just think of the Deadspin articles!

Andrew Coltart is possibly the dullest commentator in the history of BBC sports coverage.

I just can’t endure another five years of unflinching Tiger Woods coverage for every tournament regardless of score. :(

I don't disagree with that. But the past few years of is-or-isn't-Tiger-back? has been just as exhausting.

I wish to god I was watching Sky Sports and everyone talking about Rickie Fowler being a nice young man.

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.

He's never going to be 12 over again

Fingers crossed.

.. that he drops 26 strokes in the last two holes.

That really would be (as worst twitter insists on calling it) ‘the news story of the year’

Don't worry, we'll be knee deep in hyperbole when we wins it.

Adds to golf's rich folklore imo

OK, if Koepka holes this, there's pressure

This is still dicey--if Koepka birdies, I'm been waiting for that patented errant tee shot from Tiger.

No error

The Commander in Chief is glued to the screen apparently. Quick, North Korea!

All right! Tough to lose now.

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

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.

Dustin Johnson T2 then. Argh TOO HIGH

Trump no doubt cheering on his fellow sex pest.

Think of this as the dying throes of the Republican era

Jordan Spieth is Trump and Jagz's favourite!

At golf, yes.

Wow

You need to back that up with an actual Spieth endorsement tweet from the big man

Also, Woods may be a shameless philanderer but there's no sex pesting in his record iirc

Also he's a black man who's also the best modern golfer so this transcends him being a shit sometimes

No, it doesn't, he's a dick.

:/

https://i.imgur.com/b6SUnuY.jpg

Tiger's record is fine, and this comeback is pretty much incredible - don't have to like it.

Counterpoint coming up

That was beautiful and fuiud

Because a sportsperson is great you have to like them, of course.

Also he's a black man who's also the best modern golfer so this transcends him being a shit sometimes

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This is what happens when you are woke.

Careful now.

Obviously dislike of Tiger is complex but he's the GOAT and

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.

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.

https://i.imgur.com/TKCUaKk.jpg

I don't like watching golfer's implode, so I didn't enjoy what happened to Molinari.

that too

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!"

couldn't happen to a more horrible bastard. fs molinari

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.)

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.

haha yeah, I don't think any 14 yo is posting on ilx these days tho'

*Principal Skinner voice* Prove me wrong kids!