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Obvious reason.. he hasnt won there. I cant really put my finger on why. Its commonly thought of as one of THE best course's by many of the players. Yet Woods seems to be, for lack of a better word.. "ducking" any chance he gets to play here.

Wouldnt Woods be itching to win here? A thorn in his side, get the monkey of his back type thing.

There have been questions that he doesn't approve of the weather because it always seems to rain during tournament week. Doesnt change the fact that the best player in the world should be able to win at this course... and shouldnt he want to win here?

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That is an interesting question. He is pretty careful about the tournaments that he picks and tends to play those that favor his game.

Now it may have something to do with the fact that it is right before the match play.

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He didn't want to chase Phil all weekend... pure intimidation. Tiger knows that Phil is the best player in the world, and he tries to avoid him at all costs. Too bad there's no escaping the a$$ kicking Tiger has comming at one of the majors by Phil... guess no grand slam this year for the puddy cat. G O P H I L !
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He didn't want to chase Phil all weekend... pure intimidation. Tiger knows that Phil is the best player in the world, and he tries to avoid him at all costs. Too bad there's no escaping the a$$ kicking Tiger has comming at one of the majors by Phil... guess no grand slam this year for the puddy cat. G O P H I L !

I hope that was sarcasm!

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My understanding of it is that Tiger played out of gratitude for the previous sponsor, as they had given him a sponsor exemption when he was an amateur. It kept him coming back when he could make it to help them as they had helped him.

The current event being right before a WGC doesn't help.

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I hope that was sarcasm!

it was sarcasm and hope mixed together... I want Phil to challenge Tiger more often... I want to see Lefty get a major this year... I don't think Tiger will pull the triger on 4 straight (this year)... but as far as avoiding and whose #1... Tiger doesn't care who's in any particular field, and Tiger IS the best golfer in the world... at least until some other players reach their full potential, and of course he IS more beatable than ever nowadays.

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it was sarcasm and hope mixed together... I want Phil to challenge Tiger more often... I want to see Lefty get a major this year... I don't think Tiger will pull the triger on 4 straight (this year)... but as far as avoiding and whose #1... Tiger doesn't care who's in any particular field, and Tiger IS the best golfer in the world... at least until some other players reach their full potential, and of course he IS more beatable than ever nowadays.

I am as big a Tiger fan as there is, and I whole heartedly agree. I would love to see Phil take things up a level, and put some ground between him and the 3-1000 golfers behind him. And if Philski can keep that putter hot. . . sky's the limit!

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Obvious reason.. he hasnt won there. I cant really put my finger on why. Its commonly thought of as one of THE best course's by many of the players. Yet Woods seems to be, for lack of a better word.. "ducking" any chance he gets to play here.

It looks like Tiger has reached that great plateau: He plays less than 20 events a year. He has to draw the line somewhere. Maybe he would like to win there. As I recall, he teed it up there as a teenager and didn't fare well. Maybe that doesn't stack up against picking the tournaments that add the most to his world ranking.

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Oh, hasn't the "West Coast Swing" been going down in participation for a while?

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Tiger plans his whole season around the majors / WGC events and it is only natural that he avoids tournaments on courses that don't suit him as in reality winning one extra PGA Tour event doesn't matter to him.

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speaking of riviera, did it end yesterday? my dad and espn said that it was over/completed.....i know that the womens even ended yesterday....so just wondering

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speaking of riviera, did it end yesterday? my dad and espn said that it was over/completed.....i know that the womens even ended yesterday....so just wondering

NO it is not over... and I can't imagine ESPN said it was over... they probably just said the third round was over.

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k.....i think my brain was melting from listening to Frank Zappa when i was espn.......

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He didn't want to chase Phil all weekend... pure intimidation. Tiger knows that Phil is the best player in the world, and he tries to avoid him at all costs. Too bad there's no escaping the a$$ kicking Tiger has comming at one of the majors by Phil... guess no grand slam this year for the puddy cat. G O P H I L !

With all the respect for PM, if he's the best player in the world, then I'm the best portuguese player ever...

I mean, common! If he's so good, why hasn't he beaten all the golf records? Tiger's doing that. Why isn't Phil?

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