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
haha yeah, I don't think any 14 yo is posting on ilx these days tho'
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 14 April 2019 18:51 (five years ago) link
*Principal Skinner voice* Prove me wrong kids!
take the zing, move on
― imago, Sunday, 14 April 2019 18:52 (five years ago) link
are you ok, woke boy?
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 14 April 2019 18:55 (five years ago) link
I can't really defend him as a person--he's done horrible things, and I found that photo of him, Nicklaus, and Trump a few weeks ago nauseating.
But he single-handedly renewed my interest in golf when he arrived in the mid-'90s, and his dominance for the next decade was like nothing I've ever seen (I suppose there have been tennis players just as dominant). And it did matter that he's black. I wanted to see him catch Nicklaus, and when everything fell apart, that felt like an unfinished story. Still a longshot, but after today, it doesn't feel like an unfinished story anymore.
All of that, for me--a fan--easily outweighs his personal life. His kids have every right to hate him, but he's not my dad; his ex-wife has every right to hate him, but he didn't cheat on me. He didn't break laws, I don't think, and I believe his 3,000 mistresses were all consensual.
― clemenza, Sunday, 14 April 2019 19:05 (five years ago) link
I hated Faldo too and I have no idea about his personal life.
― Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Sunday, 14 April 2019 19:08 (five years ago) link
xyzzzz_ and imago to play a round of golf this summer
― alrakis morissette (tangenttangent), Sunday, 14 April 2019 19:08 (five years ago) link
Also xp to Clemenza - that’s fair enough! I love R.D.Laing whilst accepting him at the biggest hypocrite and worst family man ever.
― alrakis morissette (tangenttangent), Sunday, 14 April 2019 19:10 (five years ago) link
The fact that Woods' physical problems seem to be self-inflicted, stemming from him playing soldiers, makes his coming back from them less romantic. But 11 years without a major title is definitely remarkable.
He is also very obviously a total tadger of a man and a boring bastard,but plenty golfers are
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Sunday, 14 April 2019 19:20 (five years ago) link