TIGER WOODS LOYAL FANS ONLY POST

[This is a serious POST... a humble one....with no intention of grabbing the No 1 position on these threads. It is a serious post to draw fans - loyal fans, of Tiger Woods to post comments and views about Tiger Woods and golf. I personally owe it to Tiger Woods for drawing my interest to the game, that I decided to take it up at a late age 40+, some time ago in 1999.  Many of us have our stories about him. Post it for record and memory. He may or may never play again. But, he has a rich decade of great golf behind him. Nothing, except for four more majors and a few more to break Sam Snead's all time winning streak, can take away his great achievements.]

This is TIGER WOODS....

T errific competitor
I ncredible shot-maker
G olf greatest golfer of all time
E xtraordinarily talented golfer
R esponsible for golf's exponential rise

World's No 1 Sportsman
O ne and only Sports Billionaire
O ne of the most recognised faces worldwide
Definitely greatest asset to golfing world
Sport's superstar of superstars


One may question the timing of this post, the appropriateness of it or even ridicule it, for what Tiger Woods seemingly represents at this moment. Those superlative words may sound offensive at the moment, for those who are constantly reminded of his escapades.

The purpose of this post is clearly to express your views about Tiger Woods, the man who put golf not only in the map of many nations of the world, but put golf in the hearts of many men and women.

He is indeed a terrific competitor, despite some `bad' breath, or clubs thrown.
He is an incredible shot-maker, with extraordinary talent, and is solely responsible for the exponential rise of golf as an economy, as a game, as a tool for marketing. It is true that billions were immediately lost with his fallen image, but that may well recover, given a second chance.
He is not yet the greatest golfer of all time....but he can come back and stamp his authority and claim the crown.

He is still the world's one and only sports billionaire, though his assets may have halved or shrunk, but he did reach the 1st billion, and is still No 1 in golf and no 1 sportsman in the world in many aspects.

Certainly, he remains one of the most recognisable faces worldwide....though Accenture and many others have taken down his posters. He is still the greatest asset to the golfing world and is sport's superstar of superstars.

 

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This is TIGER WOODS....(after Thanksgiving night 2009)

T errific manipulator
I ncredible shot-drinker
G olf's greatest adulterer of all time
E xtraordinarily talented juggler
R esponsible for Pro golf's recent exponential revenues loss 

W orld's No 1 Cheater
O ne and only Sports Billionaire Sex addict
O ne of the most recognized shame ridden faces worldwide
D efinitely greatest a** to the golfing world
S port's superstar of personal embarrassment and shame 

Hey, Itwentin-wherever?

This is a serious post for FANS-only....loyal ones.


Tim

Vlad,


I am touched by your words of sincerity and concern for Elin and family [which does include Woods].

If we look at the lives of many great people....great because of their human achievements....not that we idolize them, but that they have contributed greatly in their area of expertise, talent or ability....if we look at the personal lives of a lot of these people, many have flaws...weaknesses....shortcomings.
.....

Michael Jackson is one example. He has done so much for music and the world....but the world messed him up. Elvis Presley...the King too and many others...in music and the movie screen.

Maradona and George Best are the other two who were wizards with the soccer ball, but messed up badly.

Back to Tiger Woods, this is a GENUINE attempt to reflect his contribution, and memories of it....up to now.....whether or not he returns.

I am sure...positive.....definitely certain [double emphasis] that there are many people out there who have been touched by Tiger in one way or other [a pun not meant to offend!]....and many of them may not be on these posts, whether as writers or readers.

I am confident that among us, there must be some who will drop in  a note or two.

In creating this POST, my intention is not to make a smoke-screen to cover his `sins', but to look at him, his ability as a golfer, and his contribution to GOLF worldwide.


Write your piece.....peace with all men [and women].

Tim

PS....I saw the friendly cross-fire with Cher...over `Cheetah' Phil....

It was Tiger....

For some time before, I would follow golf news and read about Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Lee Trevino, Tom Watson, Greg Norman, David Duval.....winning this and that tournament. The scores intrigued me, and I understood that a lower score was better. My two brothers played golf, but I never got into the game then.

Then Tiger Woods came along...1994,1995,1996... It was my wife, who followed the news. She told me of this black American golfer, who was raised for golf by his father Earl Woods. ....she was fascinated. i began to read about him.

So, sometime in 1996, a friend came along and gave me two clubs, an old 9 iron [steel-shaft], an old driver and told me to pick up the games. These old clubs were hopeless really, but enough to get me going. I read over a dozen books, took up lessons.....and got off....and never stopped watching golf and Tiger Woods since then.

So, Tiger, thanks for introducing me to this game of golf.

To me, having played various sports, GOLF is the best that an individual can play, participate in......I will say why...on the next post.

Tim Sng 

TIGER WOODS - A TERRIFIC COMPETITOR

Tiger Woods, is without doubt a terrific competitor. He plays to win. He enters a tournament, only because he thinks he can win, and he believes he can win, and he goes all out to win! He never plays for second.

His string of victories....14 Majors, and over 80 wins are solid evidence of his terrific ability to compete to win. It is mind, body and soul...an all out effort to win.

Many of us enter a contest or competition just to be in it, and not many of us believe we can win. Tiger is perhaps the finest example, at least in golf of one who competes all out, totally to win.

What can we learn from this great trait of his. Winning does not come automatically or easily. There is a price to pay. ie. the sky is the limit, so is the price that one has to pay.

It means years and years of preparation and training. It means hours and hours of training. It means hours and hours of watching other.....Tiger viewed video after videos of Jack Niclaus, his idol for many years. It means hours and hours of thinking, study and planning.

In preparation, he works out hard in the gym. He works on his stamina, on his golf, on his shots etc.

One senior professional saw Tiger working out in the gym in full steam, just two hours before a tournament.

At one US Open, Tiger made the comment [with humility I believe], that many fellow pros were not fit. He commented that he saw some [the younger ones] with sagging shoulders by the end of a gruelling round.

He worked hard on his game, on his golf. In this respect, we will remember Vijay Singh who is always been reputed as a very hardworking golfer, who will head straight to the range after each day's rounds and work out till late evening. It paid out for him, when he took over Tiger as No 1, even though for a while, when he had a string of 11 victories in one year.

Tiger is no less diligent.

A terrific competitor prepares long before the tournament.

During the tournament, he is heart, mind and soul focused on the game, minimizing distractions.  Thus, he indeed hates distractions, and is troubled by the click or flash of a camera, especially before a swing.

His mental strength as a competitor is amazing. He does not give up unless, it is mathematical impossible.

In one interview, he mentioned that he has been there [the back 9 on Sunday] so often, that it is an advantage to him, compared to his fellow competitor. Because of that, he does  not wilt so easily.

One feather for his cap, is the fairness and integrity that comes along with his play, though arguably, one may say that the officials are equally terrified of this terrific player, who will not budge....if the rock does not budge!!

After his recent knee operation, he show some weaknesses, losing even when leading on Sunday.....the most well-known perhaps, being when he lost to relatively unknown YE Yang at the PGA.

Possibly, his personal life is coming into the equation, and until and unless he sorts that out, his ability to compete in the same way as before will be questionable.

Nevertheless....without any doubt, Tiger is a terrific competitor....and any golfer, walking side by side with him on Sunday, as the last pair will feel that awesome aura around him. Will that aura fade or fizzle, now that his weaknesses and fallibility is exposed.

I believe that, if ever he returns, he will be better....only humbler, gentler and `wiser' on and off the course.

We await the imminent return of Tiger Woods, the terrific competitor.

Tim

 

I play golf between 1 - 10 times per year depending on my time. Tiger Woods is absolutely the reason I even became interested in the sport. Golf is a boring game. It moves too slow. Somehow when Tiger is playing it's a whole different game. Every shot he takes and makes is amazing. All this proved was that Tiger is human. It didn't change the fact that he is the greatest golfer that ever lived.

mjc22,

Glad to hear that Tiger has an impact on you.....but concerned that you find golf boring....

I may be wrong....but I suspect it is because the scores aren't exciting or you are not improving as one should....

Think about that par.....or better still that birdie.....or the ACE....mine is coming....it is enough to keep you excited for a year.
If at the range, the shots are getting sharper, further, more consistent....and you translate that to the game on the course, that's something too.

Many of us will never play par....the strange thing about golf....and many of us may never improve to be a low handicapper....but one thing is for sure, if you take the right lessons [boy, aren't they expensive], get your swing analysed, and the speed monitored....you will find new life in golf again.

Sorry, I am no pundit.....but still struggling with high scores...believing I will hit low soon.

Tiger is and will be the greatest golfer of all times.


Tim

Tim:

I would suggest that your friend that gave you the two old clubs did more for you than Toger ever did.

Kinik,

You are right....old clubs for the beginner can start off one's game....but it was still Tiger who sparked off my decision, before I got the clubs.

Happy clubbing...

Tim

Tiger is the reason I became interested in golf. Normally, I only watch combat games like tennis and soccer.

I am more disappointed about his choice of women: the kind that give unsophiscated men amo to humiliate women in general. Maybe it's just a reflection of twisted social values, that the only thing men want in women is sex, and the only thing women want in men is money & fame. Love? we are too idealistic.

Whatever, I will still watch Tiger play because golf has become an exciting game, just like tennis and soccer to me.

From Steve Eling's POST,

"Ten years ago, basically to the week, at the Pebble Beach Pro-Am, is where the Tiger legend was truly cemented. Pebble was like the Cape Canaveral of the West Coast, and liftoff was achieved when he erased a seven-stoke deficit with seven holes to play to win the tournament, the beginning of a season that truly put him in a different orbit altogether. Four months later, he won the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach by a record-obliterating 15 strokes. Then he won the British Open by a commanding eight shots. And the PGA Championship two months later in a stirring playoff. Sure, Woods had won eight times in 1999 and was clearly off and running at age 23, but his nine-victory season in 2000, with the three majors included, was indisputably his career-defining campaign. The following April, he won the 2001 Masters to complete the first wraparound Grand Slam in history. Last fall, there was plenty of speculation among fans and media as to whether Woods would return to the Pebble Beach Pro-Am this week, a tournament he had scratched off his annual visitation list years earlier."

Tiger Woods - The Terrific Competitor......proven with his string of victories, about to overtake Sam Snead soon, if he comes back to the TOUR...

Incredible Shot-Maker, he is.......when we recall the famous 2005 Masters' 16th hole chip in from above the hole, curling in pausing with the Nike logo in full focus.......that one shot....that one incredible shot....is enough for NIKE to say...."Hey....we will stick with the man....through thick or thin, through fame or shame, through good times or bad times....he is our man....the great incredible shot-maker."

Watching a replay of that hole should be enough to persuade Tiger to return again......pay the price for it, be humble, hang his head low for a while, call for an interview....answer a whole barrage of questions, allow the press, media, to scrutinize him, query, ask and grill him....even for a few hours.....and then return...to play more of those incredible shots......

Terrific Competitor
INcredible Shot-Maker......how can we forget.....and it is not just this shot.....there are many more of such great shots.....

Incredible Shot-Maker

Nostalgia....2005 Masters 16th hole....this is it!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnP3Mz1wh9c

Calling on Tiger fans,

We want Tiger back......[washed, shampooed, cleaned, humble, refresh, renewed, spin, dried, and in tip-top form...]

sign in......the list...,

1. Tim Sng

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcZ-arbR0EE&feature=player_embedded

Tiger Woods is NOT the greatest golfer of all time. That is yet to be determined. When and if he gets to 18 majors you can start with all that talk.

Beers,

thanks.,...the ending was great !!

Tim


24hours,

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..agreed...that's why it's in italics....

tim

What Tiger did off the course is unforgivable for those directly effected by it; his family and friends.  For us fans this really is not different than the 100's of other professional athletes that succomb to the temptations that surround their celebrity status.  For Tiger Woods, it just gets magnified because of the money he makes, the family he has, and the fact that he is the most successful athlete of all time (monetarily to this point).  I'm not trying to justify what he did; I'm simply trying to emphasize the context of this and in a world of tabloids and gossip, it's really no different than Joe Schmo next door doing the same thing.

In the end, Tiger Woods is a professional golfer and the very best at playing golf, but that is as far as us fans need to take this infatuation with athletes like him.  I don't like Tiger because he has a big house, a big boat, can go to any sporting event he wants, has (had) a gorgeous wife, or any thing like that.  I like Tiger because he is the best golfer and as a golfer, I can respect and appreciate what he is able to do with a little white ball.

When he returns, I'll go back to watching and marvelling at the way he is able to play.  I'll just know that he's more human than a lot of people made him out to be.