The Players Championship Golf's 5th Major...Anyone Watching?

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« Reply #20 on: 13 May 2013, 02:59 pm »
Sergio is a crybaby complainer and I was waiting for him to blame Tiger for the three water balls.  He totally caved under the pressure.  That will go down as one of the bigges collapses of all time. 

Maybe next time he wiil think twice before running his mouth.  Tiger is playing well and looks to be back on track. Like it or not, he brings lots of attention to the game.  I'm a fan!

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« Reply #21 on: 13 May 2013, 03:01 pm »
  Just like Ben Hogan. Not the most well liked guy during his time. He won and them quite.  The blame game never works.  It is just so common today I guess its rampant.




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Re: The Players Championship Golf's 5th Major...Anyone Watching?
« Reply #22 on: 14 May 2013, 03:40 am »
All I can say is....Tin Cup anyone?  (finger snap) Ball.

rodge827

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« Reply #23 on: 14 May 2013, 12:58 pm »
I saw the whole Sergio "meltdown" a little differently.
He comes to 17 tee tied with Tiger at 13 under and needs birdie to go one up.
There is no guarantee of birdie on 18 so this might be his best shot at it.
He took dead aim and rinsed his first ball.
He now has a choice of the drop zone or re-tee.
He re-tee's knowing that the pin placement is a tough up and down from the drop zone for bogey.
He rinses the second ball and his tournament is over.
Gas up the jet and go home! 

The quiet story here is Lingmerth who played a very solid round.
He opened up with birdie on 1, went par for the next 8 holes, bogies 10, birdies 12 &13, bogies 14 from the same place Tiger made double,  pars 15,16, 17, and bogies 18 for a three way 2nd place tie.
The kid threw a dart on 17 with all of the Sergio drama going on around him. Pretty cool customer if you asked me.
He missed the putt high right and the rest is history.

Tiger is back to winning with a new swing, newhot blonde, and is having fun playing golf again.
The rest of us be damned!

 


jackman

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« Reply #24 on: 14 May 2013, 01:06 pm »
Nothing like a hot blonde to make everything more enjoyable.  I can't imagine the after-match celebration. 

Sergio's first who on 17 was so bad, I have to think his nerves got the best of him.  I was hoping for a dramatic playoff between Sergio and Tiger. 

rodge827

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« Reply #25 on: 14 May 2013, 01:31 pm »
  I was hoping for a dramatic playoff between Sergio and Tiger.

Me too, and perhaps Lingmerth thrown in to make it interesting.

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Re: The Players Championship Golf's 5th Major...Anyone Watching?
« Reply #27 on: 16 May 2013, 04:16 am »
The link was very interesting to read, but I'm unclear how it settles the issue, still seems cloudy.  I enjoyed the read regardless.

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« Reply #28 on: 16 May 2013, 04:32 am »
That Tiger relied on the Marshall and that was verified.  There was no intent whatsoever on Tiger's part.  However, there were several occasions where Sergio stood on the green where he was in Tiger's periferal line of sight when Tiger was putting. 

Not once did Tiger do that to Sergio that I saw.  I lost respect for Sergio, sad because he is super talented and doesn't need to play mind games to win.

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« Reply #29 on: 16 May 2013, 04:47 am »
Well I agree with you there, a whiny little irritating person that I used to root for. 

Maybe I read the article wrong, it seemed there was a discrepancy between Tiger saying he was told Sergio had hit, reading how he describes it one assumes before Tiger went for his club, and the Marshall saying he told him Sergio had hit after Tiger pulled the club.  Thus the other Marshall saying he never told Tiger Sergio had already hit, one assumes meaning he didn't tell him that before he pulled the club.  All this assuming is what is cloudy for me, maybe I shouldn't be doing that, feel free to point out anything I missed.  Also the first reports that I quoted saying that Tiger thought he was away seem to be in error, this article says nothing of the kind. 

At this point it's unlikely that any definitive truth will be forthcoming, and as noted above, I don't care about the complainant's issues anyway.   

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« Reply #30 on: 16 May 2013, 04:56 am »
I guess I look at it this way, a winner doesn't need to look for excuses, a loser does.

Jim

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« Reply #31 on: 16 May 2013, 10:18 am »
Looks like the Tiger/Sergio debate will go on and on and on...

Switching gears I just read where 14 year old Guan Tianlang will be teeing it up at The Byron Nelson championship.

http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/sports-golf/20130515/Byron.Nelson-14-Year-Old.Guan/

I hope he makes it to the weekend it will be fun to watch.

jackman

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« Reply #32 on: 16 May 2013, 02:25 pm »
I read today tha both officials stated they never told Tiger that Sergio had already hit.  His account  seems to be in doubt. Either way, he had no way of knowing Garcia was mid swing when he pulled his club.  It made for some exciting tension! 

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« Reply #33 on: 16 May 2013, 02:37 pm »
I read today tha both officials stated they never told Tiger that Sergio had already hit.  His account  seems to be in doubt. Either way, he had no way of knowing Garcia was mid swing when he pulled his club.  It made for some exciting tension!

Brian Nedrich who was the Marshall in question does say that he told Tiger that Sergio already had hit.  It's in the story that I posted above.

It is what it is,

Jim