MrKadash

You guys in Tenn, Missouri, NC, Ky, Va, etc., are in a catch-22 predicament. Your area, known as the "transition zone" by turf managers, is incredibly hard on Bent in the summers and Bermuda in the winters. Courses in northern states benefit from Bent due to the cooler summers, and courses in the south love the heat for Bermuda. This has been a brutal summer for most including bent courses up north due to 70+ degree nights and high humidity, providing for prime conditions for devastating turf diseases known as Pythium, Anthracnose, and Summer Patch. This is where economics influence course conditions. While man cannot combat mother nature totally, the more moneys available to spend on a good preventative chemical program, plus added funds to pay grounds crews for mechanical applications, the better off those courses will be.

The reward has to outweigh the risk for me to even try. I have a number of drivable par-4's that I play each season, and I might only go for 2 or 3. I have a ton of confidence in my wedge play, so normally I'll try to stick it for a birdie opportunity.

Well, he dresses loud enough to certainly garner a certain demographic. I've heard (unsubstantiated of course) that a vast majority of the tweets come male metrosexuals.

My U.S. open rota: Oakmont, Shinnecock, Merion, Pebble Beach, Baltusrol, Olympic Club, Pine Valley, Cherry Hills P.G.A. rota: Winged Foot, Oak Hill, Country Club at Brookline, Oakland Hills, Congressional, Medinah, Sand Hills, Inverness Call me old school (except for Sand Hills).

So Tiger needed Foley to tell him to keep his head still and a glove under his armpit? Wow.

Understood, although I believe that drill is to promote an inside-out swing path rather than (or primarily to) balance issues. I've seen it used by teachers for slicers as it is virtually (?) impossible to slice during that drill. As to the thread, Foley is as good as anybody IMO at this stage for Tiger.

Maybe Rory is flapping hoping to 1) push for Tiger as a captains pick, and 2) promote the Ryder Cup for viewership. Either way, at least he's calling out Tiger at the lowest point of his career. No way this happens at any other time given the history with Tiger's jaw-flapping opponents in the past.

Seriously? Watson hitting in the water is precisely why he didn't win. Congrats to Kaymer. Whether or not one deserves has nothing to do with it.

He doesn't deserve it.

Wouldn't you consider anything better for Tiger than this past tourney a bounce back? I do, and I'm not a hugger.

This is just an anomaly, a blip on the radar. I'm more surprised that he shot 18 over than I would have been if he had shot 25 under. He'll bounce back next week at Whistling Straits and play well. I'm not predicting a top 10 finish, but he'll be prepared and play better than this week.

In my opinion there are a number of guys who have been consistently better than Tiger this year, with two being Lee Westwood and Ernie Els. But like you said, it may all be moot.

newtogolf , you agreed with this quote above. I was trying to differentiate between off course outside issues with on course issues. I think it's ultimately what you state below coupled with lack of practice time, rather than how the crowds are acting outside the ropes. I believe the same.

Interesting point of view since Tiger is/was supposedly the greatest golfer mentally to ever swing a golf club, groomed to ignore outside influences by his father since day one. Not sure how plausible that is. I tend to believe what he said the other day in his presser that he simply isn't practicing enough.

Sure, he may very well have changed what we expect out of the number one player in the world which to me is unparalleled excellence week in and week out. He certainly hasn't lived up to that. Who has? Your guess is as good as mine.

Tiger hasn't been the number 1 player in the world for a while now, even though the rankings says he is. He needs to qualify for the Cup, period. If he's asked to play as a Captains pick (which I doubt), he might very well decline, who knows.

Part of your comment may very well be true, but I contend that this years British Open got such low ratings not because Tiger wasn't in the hunt, rather a nightmare scenario for the R&A; in which a no-name player (albeit a very good player) smashed the field. Last years final round did pretty well because Watson defied father time. Just my $.02.

Well, I can only comment on the states in which I have played, in no particular order: Michigan Ohio North Carolina South Carolina Florida The next three would be Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee, among others.

I haven't looked it up, but you could have drawn a line (imaginary) from point of entry to the flagstick, then taken that imaginary line straight back behind you as far as you wanted and drop. That should have taken the cart path issue out of the equation. Someone will correct me if I'm wrong.

Dad's course in NC has power lines that come in to play off the tee on a hole, and local rule is replaying the shot without penalty. Ball washer? Sorry, no dice.

I don't know who should feel more embarrassed, Canadien or Bruin fans.

Yes, partly in jest, but I agree that it is a logical alternative.

Phil is better right now. Anyone who thinks otherwise is dilusional. Phil just won the Masters for piss sakes and Tiger couldn't hit a fairway if it were from here to eternity wide. Career wise? That's obviously no contest.

Well, there's always the old standby steel shafted driver. C'mon Tiger, get back to your roots.

I was just going by the numbers: 6 wins, 14 top 10's in 17 events, 68.84 scoring average, and over 10 mil in earnings. I have a hard time believing Haney all of a sudden lost the ability to coach in the last year or so. If Tiger played to those results inspite of Haney, fine, but tough to prove. Just as one could surmise he has gone downhill due to Haney, one surely could point to Tiger's outside issues as well.