Both makeable/missable. It won’t be over until it’s over.
Are you not entertained?
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I’m gonna be retired before Rose fucking putts.
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Finally!
Would be nice for a birdie to win it because, if these two go again, someone will win with a double.
Cinderella boy…tears in his eyes….
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And now to the creepiest thing in golf that doesn’t involve Trump and the drinks cart girl: the ceremony in Butler’s Cabin.
Rose had a helluva Sunday round. Just wasn’t quite enough.
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That was a fun Final Round
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Good for Rory.
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Tiger Woods has done a lot of weird shit in his time, but I dislike him mostly for something outside of his control: the endless, obsequious fawning of the media. I lost count of how many times he was mentioned over the weekend during a tournament in which he was not participating, and then there is shit like this:
The Guardian’s lead article on McIlroy’s victory where the headline and even the first fucking sentence of the piece is about Tiger Woods.
At least this weekend we were spared repeated incidences of the TV coverage cutting away from the leader’s eagle putt to watch Woods save double bogey on his way to missing the cut.
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Yeah, it’s really annoying to hear mentions of the greatest golfer of the past half-century during hours and hours of coverage of a tournament that he won five times. They should really stop talking about Jack as well, as he wasn’t playing and he only won six times. Maybe next year ANGC will add “Tiger Woods” to the list of ban-able utterances, along with “mashed potatoes” and “youdaman.”
When he gets a higher billing than the person who actually just won, you have to admit it’s an issue.
Agree 100%.
As a very casual/occasional observer of the game the constant Tiger references are annoying.
I’m sure it generates clicks and holds viewers. But it’s not for me.
Yeah, I hate the guy because I have to read about him all of the time.
I watched parts of it with my 85 year old mother who is having memory issues. Every once in a while, she’d ask about that really good golfer who she and dad used to like and how come he was not playing. Then a piece on Tiger would show up and she’d say, “Oh yeah, Tiger Woods!”
Why is your issue with Tiger Woods and not The Guardian or whatever other publication crosses your line?
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Higher billing from whom? The Guardian? Not trying to be all MAGA or whatnot but I don’t care how a British newspaper covered an American golf tournament. There’s enough in the news each day to make my blood boil, I don’t need to invent reasons from non-controversies.
Rory won. It was great for golf and I’m happy for the guy. A year from now… ten years from now… people are going to remember the crazy up-and-down final round, the perfect iron shot into 18 during the playoff, and his emotional collapse after the final putt. No one is going to think, “I sure was happy for Rory, but goddam I can’t believe the Guardian made it all about Tiger the next day.”
It feels like you’re going out of your way to be upset about something that’s not a very big issue.
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See also: “the leaderboard, tied atop”
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It’s not really with Woods at all. I just hate all the media fawning over him which - even for someone with his historic record - is excessive. It’s just that he’s the subject, so he is the trigger for me.
This issue for me is more about the fact that he has been given a get out of jail free card for his historic record of personal transgressions. He was a shadow of his former self upon his return to the sport after an ocean of shit that would’ve drowned anyone who was less of a media show pony, and still they fawned.
Now he isn’t even playing and never again will he threaten the leaderboard at a major, and yet watching the current tournament combatants we still get “Tiger this” and “Tiger that” to the point that his mentions probably double those of all past champions combined.