tommyboy
Footballguy
Pretty sure these pros look at an 85 yd wedge shot the way a low handicapper looks at a chip. They're trying to hole every single one.There's a difference between aiming at the flagstick and wanting to hit the flagstick. Nobody expects to hit the centimeter they're aimed at from 100 yards, or whatever it was. I don't know what he was thinking, but I'm pretty sure he wasn't trying to make it, was aiming at the flag and was figuring on spinning the ball back under the hole for an uphill putt.So he was trying to hit the stick?Especially when the bad bounce was a direct consequence of hitting a perfect shot. Most bad breaks happen on missed shots. Tiger's was not your garden variety bad break.Sure- although I think that four shot swings on a single bad bounce are unusual, 2 shot swings certainly are not.There are countless shots in tourney where "an inch either way" is a huge swing for the golfer. Yes, it had a big impact on Tiger's score but I'm sure every single golfer could make the same statement over the course of 72 holes.Jesus this thread really does attract the worst posters in the FFA. You can't even make one reasonable point to a decent poster like Nutter (one that he immediately recognized) without a couple haters seizing the opportunity to jump in with dumb and irrelevant comments.
What kind of person hates a golfer this much?
But I wasn't saying he should have won or anything like that. What I said was that very unlucky shot cost him four strokes he would have saved if it was an inch off line, and four shots was exactly how much he trailed the leaders by when all was said and done. I don't consider one bad break to be a "significant distance" behind. That's all I said. It was a simple, not at all controversial point, one the guy I was addressing agreed with. It takes a significant amount of irrational hatred towards a golfer to see it any other way.