I just remembered why I watch professional golf...

[whip_it_out]

To watch professional players choke. Now, I like Freddy Couples, but it makes for enjoyable television to watch the best players in the world throw up all over themselves at the most inopportune moments, costing them millions and large amounts of satisfaction. To professionally shank a ball, than nearly hole your recovery, but still completely throw away any chance of winning, is interesting to watch. It makes you feel bad for him, and that is part of what makes it fun.

Great golf is a lot fun fun to watch too, but only when two or more players are making the low numbers. When they both play extremely well, almost identically. Then it's fun to watch dominance. But Tiger's usual beat down on a golf course is fun, for a limited time. The it's just so anti-climactic.

I really am looking forward to next week, watching some good match play where players are bound to choke, I really don't care who it is. I just want to see some interesting play.

[Franco!]

They said the shot was a foot off line, he aimed where he shouldn't have and just missed it on the wrong side of one foot.
I wouldn't call that a choke, he was losing at that point and really didn't have much of a chance to birdie.
He is the best at that hole and is only 3 under in his career at Riviera, which he's played for 100 years.
I would not call his 18th hole a choke.
I'd call Phil's final round a choke though, he just got lucky.

[GaijinGolfer]

To watch professional players choke. Now, I like Freddy Couples, but it makes for enjoyable television to watch the best players in the world throw up all over themselves at the most inopportune moments, costing them millions and large amounts of satisfaction. To

How many PGA Tour events have you won?

They said the shot was a foot off line, he aimed where he shouldn't have and just missed it on the wrong side of one foot.

I agree. Freddie played well, he just came up a little short. Phil is the one who choked. He had a 4 shot lead, at one point was 2 shots back and the only reason he won was because Stricker choked.

Now things are going to get back to normal: Tiger wins and everyone else plays for 2nd.

[ctmurrray]

I also thought this was great drama today. I felt for Freddie, I would have liked to see him attempt a birdie putt. Phil hung on and got the birdies when needed.

[Stacey_E]

Freddie, as for many others, is my favorite. It broke my heart to see that happen on the 72nd hole. I wish he hadn't put his drive so far to the right. We saw Rory Sabitini (sp?) do the same thing, flirting with those gum trees on the right.

I don't think Phil has anything major to be proud of at all. If Andres Romero doesn't hit O.B. on the back 9, Stricker and Couples doesn't bogey the 18th, and Sabitini doesn't meltdown he could have been grinning all the way to the 2cd or 3rd place bank. He didn't win that tournament, he just didn't lose it.

I'll take back what I said, Phil SHOULD be proud that he put the driver in the bag on the last few holes after playing Army Golf...left, right, left, right. That was smart. A game winning stategy that more of us should pay attention to.

[shortstop20]

Phil might as well keep hitting those lazer like 3 woods until he gets the driver figured out. I don't remember which drive it was but he was so far across the line at the top I thought right away he'd spray the drive.

Who am I to criticize though I guess.

[kfowler]

I was so hoping Freddie would tie it up. It's awesome to watch a 49 year absolutely crush it down the fairway. If he stays healthy, he will dominate the Champions tour.

[PiKapp23]

I like the tournament to have drama in final round as this one did. 2 of my favorite players are Phil and Freddie, so that made this a lot of fun to watch. I like to see the winner 'win' the tournament instead of someone backing in to win (which is what I think Stricker sorta would have been doing if he won because Phil was was over par). It's always amazing how the best players seem to find something that allows them to win when they do not have their best game. That's the one thing I like about Tiger - he's great to watch when he's off his game because he just seems to 'will' himself to win. I do not really enjoy watching Tiger when he's on. I might not enjoy Phil when he's on either, but fortunately for me it doesn't happen very often .

[kingofcars08]

Im sick of Phil, I was pulling for freddie the entire time. But I watch the PGA tour because of all the great golf shots in the last couple groups. I watch all the tours, and it was fun to see it come down to the 18th on the champions tour yesterday, and I am an avid LPGA tour watcher, especially when paula is in the hunt.

[play4him]

I wouldn't say Phil choked completely. He birdie two of the last three holes when he needed to. That's not choking, that's showing heart which the better players do.

[pusher]

The game can be so unpredictable. That's why it's fun to watch. I love to see the pros walk the tight rope, always knowing that disaster may strike at any time. The poor shots, the recoveries, the miraculous shots and the perfectly executed ones all make it exciting (do I sound like a fan?).