Rory Mcilroy: More Talent than Tiger? - Page 4

I'd say that's probably pretty fair. I remember watching him at the British Open at Carnoustie. Was the the most amazing play from a young player I'd ever seen.  I'll be interested to see how Seung-yul Noh progresses in the next 3-4 years. He flat out bombs it, and decent short game too.
 

 

when is tigers next tournament?

End of Jan

I think people were fairly quick to call Ben Crenshaw and Loren Roberts talented, but yeah, not the way they fawn over people who bomb it.  That's where Daly was truly underrated though - around (and on) the greens he was deadly too.

what???  for reals?  hes not playing anything in dubai or UAE or something like that this month?

He's playing with Santa Claus in the Dubai Christmas Shootout in a few weeks

 

No point in debating talent but tiger has had some of the most entertaining shots regardless. 

 

The context isnt really there but i still like this one the most

Yea, when you think how good Rory is, it really puts into perspective how good Tiger was at that age. He'd won a couple of majors. 

As for 'talent', it's a tough one. We all know how hard Tiger worked as a kid, so its hard to tell where the talent and sheer hard work merged together. 

I'd go with Tiger though. 

A bit nitpicky, but Tiger only had 1 major win at 22 also. His 2nd major was the '99 PGA at the age of 23 and 8ish months.

 

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You should look at how many years they have been pros, not their age.

I'm not sure I fully agree with that. Some players decide to learn their trade by playing college golf in America, others decide to learn their trade by becoming pro. I don't think turning pro as a 20/21 year old straight out of 3 or so years of college golf can be compared to a fresh faced 16/17 year old turning pro and trying to make it.

 

 

Ty Tryon is a good example of an ultimate fail turning pro so young ( 16 I think? )

 

Too much, too soon.

 

And at the other end you have players like Seve Ballesteros turning pro at 16 and having fantastic careers

 

 

I wonder if the era had anything to do with that.

 

Ty was bombarded with endorsements and expectations....I wonder if Seve was, maybe he was, but I doubt to the same dgeree

Perhaps. I was too young (10) to remember the hype surrounding Ty and the pressure put on him the year he turned pro. I remember him being on one of the Tiger Woods PGA Tour games though, which says enough about the hype!

 

Justin Rose turned pro at 17 after finishing T4 at the Open and missed his first 21 cuts...he managed to turn that around though somewhat!
 

 

More likely just personality and  a bit of luck. If you fail, your choice will always be criticized.  If you succeed, you made the right one.
 

 

To me, Talent is getting the ball in the hole in the least amount of strokes possibe.  It doesnt matte if you are luke donald and sink every putt, or Seve and make birdie from 3 holes over.  

 

Tiger has been the best ive ever seen (never saw jack, arnie or seve play) at getting the ball in the hole.  He may not drive the ball well, but he sank any putt he needed to, and made some miraculous recovery shots no one could have imagined possible.  Tiger has raw golf talent that has since to be matched.

 

BUT, Rory has not had the chance to do so, he may not have won the masters by 12 strokes his first year, which i think gives Tiger a lot of points in the talent category, but he may make up for it in some other way.  

 

I Think we just need to wait and see what happens with Rory...im certainly excited to find out

 

 

ANd.....on a side not, iacas,

 

how do you say "John Daly has more talent on his pinkie, that Tiger does in his hole body"  This just confuses me and makes me laugh very hard, i dont understand...please elaborate

Because most people don't define talent the way you do. To most people, talent is independent of hard work. John Daly's never done a "Tiger day" in his life, or anything close to it. If Tiger was always as lazy as Daly, we might not ever have heard of him. Daly can get away with it, to some extent.