Tiger missing Turnberry cut...

[Phil McGleno]

I could care less if Tiger missed the cut

How much less could you care? A little? A lot?

D'oh! Tiger should still be working with me instead of ol' Hanky the Christmas Poo. Haney had the driver yips and now Tiger's "stuck" with them too, but they've worked their way into his other woods and his long-irons too. Anything and everything from the tee.

[CG031]

tiger missing the cut does not surpise me. He isn't swinging the club consistently enough to contend on a really tight course when the wind is blowing hard. He might be able to win tournaments on wide open courses on the US PGA tour on target golf like tracks but not on a course where accuracy really is important. I was surprised at how bad his course management was at times. He should have left his driver in the bag.

I don't really see why people claim Turnberry is extremely narrow...I'm just not seeing that on T.V. Looks fairly open to me.

And I didn't see him hit too many bad drivers. He hit a lot of bad 5 woods today.

[DavidFehertysBike]

He has to be really humiliated right now. I kind of feel sorry for him.

[bogeyhitter25]

He's missed 4 cuts as a professional. 4. Big deal if he missed one cut. I guarantee that he'll win by 6 shots in the next tournament he plays in. He's still my favorite at Hazeltine.

[McIlroy_man]

it looked to me that his biggest problem was distance control in the wind. Even on the times that he hit fairways or got decent lies in the light rough he seemed to be firing the ball way over the pins, sometimes even over the greens. Coming from Scotland, the commentators made that weather out to be much worse than it was. I was there and it seemed like a pretty average days weather for a links golf course. They all should have played better than that. Guys like Poulter, Curtis etc were just a joke

[GaijinGolfer]

Tiger missing the cut will be a bad thing because it will result is far lower TV ratings. TV ratings are usually much higher when Tiger is contending for the win.

[iacas]

He's missed 4 cuts as a professional. 4. Big deal if he missed one cut. I guarantee that he'll win by 6 shots in the next tournament he plays in. He's still my favorite at Hazeltine.

The count is higher than that... It's either five or six, depending on how you count.

1997 Canadian Open 2005 Byron Nelson Championship, Disney 2006 U.S. Open. 2009 British Open There was also one with the AT&T;, but I think he simply failed to return to complete his round or something like that... But it's at least five.

[Mr. M]

He has to be really humiliated right now. I kind of feel sorry for him.

This is actually what I was going to say. He's probably extremely embarrassed. It wouldn't surprise me if he parlays that humiliation to the kind of fire and focus that wins next month's PGA by about eight strokes.

[Zeph]

Humiliated and embarrassed? How so? Every golf player miss the cut once in a while. He doesn't care what people think, he's probably annyoed that he didn't play good enough to catch the cut. His focus is on his swing and his game only, what everyone else does is irrelevant. He didn't play well enough this tournament and will probably try to find out what went wrong and correct it. One week he wins a tournament, another he miss the cut. Gof is a streaky sport, even for the worlds best.

This is his 5th missed cut as a professional, 13th through his career.

[mcfc_nick]

I don't really see why people claim Turnberry is extremely narrow...I'm just not seeing that on T.V. Looks fairly open to me.

its not the narrowest course but if you miss it you are in very big trouble!

[powerfader]

So all that talk last year about how Padraig's victories are devalued were totally unfounded. Perhaps commentators will start to talk about Tiger in a realistic way. On the BBC when Tiger made the putt on 16 for a bird some droning commentator said "he is just amasing!" yeah right he's a genius at 6 over.

Clearly he isn't as good as everyone makes out, no way near what Nicklaus was. There can be no excuses for his performance this week; Turnberry will never play easier than it did yesterday and frankly it wasn't exactly viscious today. He's been fit for months now and had nearly a year to exclusively work on his short game.

Nicklaus won what he did against a stellar field, a once in a lifetime crop of genius golfers, Tiger's been pitted against a fairly ordinary field for 15 years now. Perhaps they're starting to get their acts together, by the way my money's on Westwood.

[mcfc_nick]

So all that talk last year about how Padraig's victories are devalued were totally unfounded. Perhaps commentators will start to talk about Tiger in a realistic way. On the BBC when Tiger made the putt on 16 for a bird some droning commentator said "he is just amasing!" yeah right he's a genius at 6 over.

ye this definitely proves that he is no way near nicklaus mate, i mean having a bad week, jesus christ tiger you must be awful for missing a cut and nicklaus never missed a cut did he? mate that is actually one of the most stupid statements ive heard!

[shankapotamus]

So all that talk last year about how Padraig's victories are devalued were totally unfounded. Perhaps commentators will start to talk about Tiger in a realistic way. On the BBC when Tiger made the putt on 16 for a bird some droning commentator said "he is just amasing!" yeah right he's a genius at 6 over.

Yeah, Nicklaus never missed a cut

[mcfc_nick]

Yeah, Nicklaus never missed a cut

beat you to it haha ;)

[AmenCorner]

So all that talk last year about how Padraig's victories are devalued were totally unfounded. Perhaps commentators will start to talk about Tiger in a realistic way. On the BBC when Tiger made the putt on 16 for a bird some droning commentator said "he is just amasing!" yeah right he's a genius at 6 over.

Overreact much? The guy missed a cut, lets not poo poo on his extraordinary career. Yes Jack played against some legends, but Golf is much more competitive now and it is much harder to stand out (i.e. win multiple majors).

[big o fan]

I'll miss seeing him play this weekend but will still watch. If nothing else then Tiger gave Phil a reason to smile this afternoon with everything else that is on his mind right now.

[powerfader]

ye this definitely proves that he is no way near nicklaus mate, i mean having a bad week, jesus christ tiger you must be awful for missing a cut and nicklaus never missed a cut did he? mate that is actually one of the most stupid statements ive heard!

I wasn't basing my claim only on the pitiful performance this week, just one in a catalogue of chinks in his armour. I'm not even saying he's not the best golfer in the world, he probably is, even on current form. My objection (if you actually read my post "mate") is the way he's revered like some kind of deity. Commentators, magazine journalists and posters on this site are under the missapprehension that we're alive in the time of the great one, we're not.

[Zeph]

How do you know this when Tiger has yet to end his career? If not by amount of trophies, how can you judge who's the best golfer through the history?

He may not have caught up with Jack yet, but he's only 5 wins on the PGA Tour from surpassing him, and 14 from Sam Snead. Tiger has won 14 majors so far, Jack won a total of 18.
Tiger's been the dominant player in the world of golf from the day he became a professional in 1996. He's been ranked #1 on the money list in 9 of 14 years.

Still he's only 33 years old!