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Monday, April 25, 2011
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Oh, the Tiger Hype
In his article, "Friday Night Lights don't shine perspective on Sunday Golf Tournaments", Ryan Ballengee writes an entire piece about how Buzz Bissinger, author of the popular Friday Night Lights series on NBC, is wrong about Tiger being done for. Ballengee writes, the Masters didn't mark the end of Tiger!
Instead, writes Balengee, Tiger was gone long ago. Back in 2009 when YE Yang came from behind to steal the tournament from him, that's why Tiger as we knew him faltered. But, either way, to both of these sports writers, Tiger is gone.
I think it's funny hearing people write about sports... I don't want to say I'm above them, just to the side of them. During the time I have been maintaining this blog I haven't been writing about sports as if they are mystical pop-culture fantasies as these writers seem to. It's funny because I know that both of these guys are so, so, so wrong. Sometimes you've got to just stop and realize the situation. Tiger woods will win again. He'll probably beat Jack's record. Instead of the Masters disproving that, the Masters proved that Tiger still has it: shot making ability, clutch putting, an intimidation factor. All of this was just too little to late, but it happened! That's a new development for anyone watching Tiger woods. He played well.
Here's to Tiger's next big win that I think will come sooner than later. And here's to those two writers being wrong and knowing it.
Peace
Instead, writes Balengee, Tiger was gone long ago. Back in 2009 when YE Yang came from behind to steal the tournament from him, that's why Tiger as we knew him faltered. But, either way, to both of these sports writers, Tiger is gone.
I think it's funny hearing people write about sports... I don't want to say I'm above them, just to the side of them. During the time I have been maintaining this blog I haven't been writing about sports as if they are mystical pop-culture fantasies as these writers seem to. It's funny because I know that both of these guys are so, so, so wrong. Sometimes you've got to just stop and realize the situation. Tiger woods will win again. He'll probably beat Jack's record. Instead of the Masters disproving that, the Masters proved that Tiger still has it: shot making ability, clutch putting, an intimidation factor. All of this was just too little to late, but it happened! That's a new development for anyone watching Tiger woods. He played well.
Here's to Tiger's next big win that I think will come sooner than later. And here's to those two writers being wrong and knowing it.
Peace
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Tiger Plays Well at Masters
Tiger was exciting to watch this weekend. Given how the sports broadcasters had written him off he proved them all wrong finishing tied for fourth. It was hard to see him play so well on Sunday only to come up a bit short, but encouraging to know he still has what it takes to win Major championships.
We will see if this new found confidence in his game translates to that illusive first win since the divorce. I'm happy to be a woods fan after today, but let's hope there's so so much more to come!
We will see if this new found confidence in his game translates to that illusive first win since the divorce. I'm happy to be a woods fan after today, but let's hope there's so so much more to come!
Monday, April 4, 2011
It's Finally Here! Masters Week.
I wish that I could get Tiger to watch this interview he gave ten years. He seems so much simpler. So focused in. Tiger is a more complex individual now.
Going into the Masters it will be very interesting to see if he can bring back any kind of game worthy of praise. It may be that he is so mixed up, so lost in a million different thoughts, that he can't conjure up the kind of focus he talked about in his very own interview that many years ago.
My time is up. Enough talking and hyping his masters tournament comeback. Starting thursday you can catch Tiger in action at one of the "big" tournaments. Exciting stuff.
Going into the Masters it will be very interesting to see if he can bring back any kind of game worthy of praise. It may be that he is so mixed up, so lost in a million different thoughts, that he can't conjure up the kind of focus he talked about in his very own interview that many years ago.
My time is up. Enough talking and hyping his masters tournament comeback. Starting thursday you can catch Tiger in action at one of the "big" tournaments. Exciting stuff.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Tiger's Turmoil
There is a lot being written about Tiger woods heading into April. He reportedly has a new girlfriend. He has recently purchased what Jimmy Fallon called "a golf nerd's barbie dream house." He has come to terms with the "boundaries failures" that have plagued the last year of his life and all the while he is trying to scrap his golf game back together.
Focusing on golf while his personal life fell apart (the divorce to Elin Nordegren and the spending decent amounts of children as a newly single father) has been "extremely painful for Woods." He says that, when looking to the future, he plans to take things a day at a time, that's all he can do (Excited about the future).
This doesn't bode well for his golf game, but we should be able to get a great look at how it is coming along the second week of April. The Masters will be such an exciting time for all of us who love watching Tiger woods.
Focusing on golf while his personal life fell apart (the divorce to Elin Nordegren and the spending decent amounts of children as a newly single father) has been "extremely painful for Woods." He says that, when looking to the future, he plans to take things a day at a time, that's all he can do (Excited about the future).
This doesn't bode well for his golf game, but we should be able to get a great look at how it is coming along the second week of April. The Masters will be such an exciting time for all of us who love watching Tiger woods.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
The Masters
Tiger Woods won the first major he ever played in at the 1997 Masters tournament by 12 strokes. He was 21 years old.
Tiger's career exploded. He accumulated 15 major victories along with nearly 70 wins on tour. By the age of 33 he was a shoe in for the greatest golfer of all time slot. All of this greatness was launched at the 97 masters.
It's masters time again. There is no bigger stage in golf. The same stage the young Tiger Woods stole the show on now 14 years ago. But, as we all of course know, a lot has happened to Tiger since that unprecedented victory.
Tiger is in a rut. He is down and out. His game has never looked, and most likely felt, so haphazardous. He is at the all time low in golf, and perhaps for Woods, in life. However, this doesn't make the masters any less exciting. Woods is the kind of guy who could shock the sports world by bringing it all together, mending it, glueing it tight, and pulling out a clutch victory this April.
If you were a betting man, at this point, you probably wouldn't have Tiger winning the 2011 tournament at Augusta. But, given the man's past, some part of you has to wonder if Tiger is capable of doing just that.
I'm certainly looking forward to see what happens. Some part of me doesn't want to get my hopes up that Woods will play well. Tiger has been breaking hearts lately, rather than lifting spirits. I just hope that I don't get too optimistic only to have a confused and broken former champion fail to show up to the tournament he dominated 14 years earlier.
Tiger's career exploded. He accumulated 15 major victories along with nearly 70 wins on tour. By the age of 33 he was a shoe in for the greatest golfer of all time slot. All of this greatness was launched at the 97 masters.
It's masters time again. There is no bigger stage in golf. The same stage the young Tiger Woods stole the show on now 14 years ago. But, as we all of course know, a lot has happened to Tiger since that unprecedented victory.
Tiger is in a rut. He is down and out. His game has never looked, and most likely felt, so haphazardous. He is at the all time low in golf, and perhaps for Woods, in life. However, this doesn't make the masters any less exciting. Woods is the kind of guy who could shock the sports world by bringing it all together, mending it, glueing it tight, and pulling out a clutch victory this April.
If you were a betting man, at this point, you probably wouldn't have Tiger winning the 2011 tournament at Augusta. But, given the man's past, some part of you has to wonder if Tiger is capable of doing just that.
I'm certainly looking forward to see what happens. Some part of me doesn't want to get my hopes up that Woods will play well. Tiger has been breaking hearts lately, rather than lifting spirits. I just hope that I don't get too optimistic only to have a confused and broken former champion fail to show up to the tournament he dominated 14 years earlier.
Friday, March 11, 2011
It's Getting Ugly
Friday Tiger Woods drove the ball all of 122 yards off the tee. For anyone who knows anything about the game of golf, that's not good.
It seems if you desire to play golf like Tiger, he is coming to you. His game is just struggling, and it's frightening because it has been struggling for so long. It seems the man you thought could pull his game through anything just can't.
I fear for Woods. I fear for his continued success on the PGA tour. It's like if Michael Jordan, suddenly after a marital divorce, could no longer shoot the ball with confidence.
What a calamity. What a disaster for not only the game of golf but all of professional sports. Don't look forward to the Masters this April either, Tiger's game is hurting so bad he may not even make the cut.
God help Tiger woods.
It seems if you desire to play golf like Tiger, he is coming to you. His game is just struggling, and it's frightening because it has been struggling for so long. It seems the man you thought could pull his game through anything just can't.
I fear for Woods. I fear for his continued success on the PGA tour. It's like if Michael Jordan, suddenly after a marital divorce, could no longer shoot the ball with confidence.
What a calamity. What a disaster for not only the game of golf but all of professional sports. Don't look forward to the Masters this April either, Tiger's game is hurting so bad he may not even make the cut.
God help Tiger woods.
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