Golf Talk [Episode 077]
Posted February 6th, 2008 by Erik J. Barzeski
Odds of Tiger Woods winning the grand slam? Let's put it this way: Annika Sorenstam has less of a chance of getting back to the top of the World Rankings.
Tiger Woods goes 2-for-2, coming back in Dubai, and J.B. Holmes goes 2-for-3 at the FBR Open. Also, Ian Poulter's comments, Phil the Fake, Ernie the Choke Artist, a blind hole-in-one, and much more in this week's episode of Golf Talk.
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Posted 06 Feb 2008 at 3:23pm #
Re: Phi the Fake.
Nice thing to do, but I would hardly call it "classy". It would have been classy if we didn't know about it. So much of what Phil does seems so staged and manerred - even his interminable conversations with Bones which to me sound as if they're designed for an audience. I think Bones is paid by the word. Phil's "Happy Mothers' Day" thing to the cameras last year was exactly the kind of thing that makes a lot of people see him as a phony. By focusing on others, a person in his position is really trying to draw attention to himself.
Posted 07 Feb 2008 at 12:15am #
Your comments to the effect that Ernie hasn't won any majors since Tiger was on the scene... and in the same tournament...
Want to rethink that?
Posted 07 Feb 2008 at 11:03am #
will said on February 7, 2008:
Yeah, you got us there. We didn't say Ernie hadn't won any tournaments, just majors since Tiger came around. How can 2002 seem so long ago? In our defense, both of Ernie's victories came while Tiger was overhauling his swing and the general point remains: Ernie's success rate dropped significantly post-Tiger. He admits it as well, hence the infamous "three year plan."
P.S. Man was 1997 a long time ago. Congressional? Gee whiz.
Posted 11 Feb 2008 at 8:25pm #
How were you able to extrapolate from the link that Phil Mickleson's decision to give some Super Bowl tix to a father and his son was phony or a fake?
My wife and I both thought the gesture was awesome. So were you of the opinion that Phil is a phony?
Posted 11 Feb 2008 at 8:44pm #
The Raptor said on February 11, 2008:
The link changed after we posted to become a far more generic version of the story.
Did you listen to the podcast? I think Alan and I both came down on the side of "phony." He made a show out of it when he needn't have.