Are you a Phil Guy or a Tiger Guy?

[Madriver]

Well Tiger did it again.

Anecdotal...I met Peter Jacobsen once at the local mall. I was buying shoes and he was standing over me while I was tying up a pair of shoes. Not seeing him or looking up I said to my wife "what do you think?"…she had gone around the corner to look in another store….so Jacobsen chimes in…”their definitely you…buy em” at which point I look up to find Peter smiling at me. I was stunned at first but we struck up a conversation and had a few laughs over the next hour. The next day I head out to the Kemper to watch my new best friend. Anyway, I caught up to him on the 3rd or 4th hole and said something to him regarding the shoe encounter the night before. Mind you this was not a brief “hey your Peter Jacobsen” encounter. Basically he ignored me and went straight about his game. I took it stride and sulked away having lost my new best friend’s acknowledgement. Coincidentally the following months Golf Magazine had an article by Peter Jacobsen about how tour pros concentration is such that virtually everything around them is tuned out with the exception of the shot at hand.

My point being that maybe one reason Tiger is perceived as aloof, is just that. His ability to concentrate on the task at hand may seem off putting, but it’s his zone and no one else is in it. Also, Tiger seemed quite congenial with Chris Riley during the third round of the PGA. Vijay and Phil seem and have a rep as butt heads on the course, not Tiger.

[iacas]

My point being that maybe one reason Tiger is perceived as aloof, is just that. His ability to concentrate on the task at hand may seem off putting, but it’s his zone and no one else is in it. Also, Tiger seemed quite congenial with Chris Riley during the third round of the PGA. Vijay and Phil seem and have a rep as butt heads on the course, not Tiger.

I am not even sure Tiger

notices stuff outside of his tunnel vision when on the course, let alone chooses to ignore them. He may literally not even notice. His wife (yes, HIS wife) could jump out naked in front of him and he might not notice, literally.

[Thrash13]

I've said in the past that I don't care for the way Tiger handles his emotions on the golf course (he has improved ten-fold in the past few years, however).

The way he acts (or doesn't act) towards his playing partners is perfectly fine with me though. Like Dave said, he is out there doing his job and trying to make a career out of it. As long as he shakes his playing partners' hand before and after the round, I'm ok with it. I could care less if he talks to Vijay, Phil, etc. or not. I wouldn't be out there gossiping the entire round. I might talk to my playing partners a little more than Tiger does, but I may not. It just depends on how I was playing and what kind of mood I was in. So I don't blame Tiger one bit for giving the cold shoulder on the golf course.

His wife (yes, HIS wife) could jump out naked in front of him and he might not notice, literally.

Erik, as crazy as that sounds, you are probably right. He is one focused dude.

[cdriver]

If she jumps out in front of me naked, it is going to derail my train of thought for sure.

[Madriver]

If she jumps out in front of me naked, it is going to derail my train of thought for sure.

...he should post pics so we can decide for ourselves about how much of a distraction she might be...