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RhymesayersDU

01-29-2006, 05:39 PM

Man, what an amazing start to the golf season. Tiger Woods winning the Buick Invitational after 2 playoff holes when Jose Maria Olazabal missed a pretty short putt to send it to a 3rd playoff hole.

Now personally I'm a Phil fan, and he didn't play to well today, but nontheless it was a great day for golf, with an exciting finish.

ludo21

01-29-2006, 05:42 PM

nope.

but sounds exciting. I like Phil as well, from AZ, but seems to choke a lot.

Malcontent

01-29-2006, 05:50 PM

BMF Bronco

01-29-2006, 05:55 PM

Yep! Excellent start to the golf season.. Tiger seemed to have the other two competitors reeling by his mere presence. he did NOT win that tournament in OT by making unbelievable shots, moreso by having Ola&*%&, and Green going braindead!
NOw you sound like the Pats fans! That's half of Tiger's game, his very presence, the guy is a Silverback and everyone knows it. He keeps his game together to get wins just as this one when others pull a Vandevelde!

GonzoLays

01-29-2006, 06:03 PM

Here is some good info for Phil Mickelson fans:

8. Phil Mickelson

Last August at the PGA Championship at Baltusrol, in New Jersey, a reporter turned to a golfer on the tour and said of Phil Mickelson, “Man, the fans here love Phil.” The golfer replied, “They don’t know him the way we do.” It blew our minds a little when we heard this, since Mickelson ranks among the most admired golfers in America. But today the same reporter makes his case bluntly: “Phil Mickelson literally has no friends out there. He annoys everybody.”

Mickelson has earned many nicknames on the Tour, but our favorite is FIGJAM (****, I’m good—just ask me). “There are a bunch of pros who think he and his whole smiley, happy face are a fraud,” another reporter says. “They think he’s preening and insincere.” Mickelson has aggressively pursued a family-man image that is crucial to his success as an endorser. In 1999, when he nearly won the U.S. Open, Mickelson wore a beeper onto the fairway to alert him when his wife went into labor. If the beeper went off during the ﬁnal round, he announced, he would simply walk off the course. Some of Mickelson’s peers, smelling a PR stunt, badly wanted to call his bluff. “Everybody’s saying, ‘Oh God, I want that beeper to go off,’ ” recalls one writer. (It didn’t.)

In 2003, Mickelson violated multiple taboos when he told a reporter that Tiger Woods was playing with “inferior equipment” and that he envied Mickelson’s longer drives from the tee. Woods was infuriated. “You just don’t say **** like that in golf,” says a reporter. (To be fair, another reporter says, “Phil was right.”)

Shortly before the 2004 Ryder Cup, though, Mickelson abruptly switched from Titleist to Callaway equipment. He left himself little time to get used to the new balls and clubs. “It wasn’t in the best interest of the team,” says a reporter. “The only thing that it was in the best interest of was his ﬁnancial gain.” The contract paid a reported $7 million to $10 million annually. “What it did was set up a bull’s-eye on him if he played poorly,” says a different reporter. “Which he did.”

Most recently, Mickelson blew off the 2005 Tour Championship, though the PGA was in the midst of negotiating its new TV contract. One reporter says, “The Tour was trying to come up with a plan that would make the networks happy, so it wouldn’t have to give back a lot of money, and here’s the number three player in the world skipping the premier season-ending event. Other players said, ‘How about helping the rest of us who aren’t as rich?’ ” Adds another reporter: “It’s like not showing up for somebody’s wedding.”

http://men.style.com/gq/features/full?id=content_4103&pageNum=2

FADERPROOF

01-29-2006, 06:04 PM

NOw you sound like the Pats fans! That's half of Tiger's game, his very presence, the guy is a Silverback and everyone knows it. He keeps his game together to get wins just as this one when others pull a Vandevelde!

Come on now, no one deserves to be labeled a "Vandevelde."

There's choking, there's choking big time, there's choking under impossible circumstances, and then there's pulling a Vandelvelde.

BMF Bronco

01-29-2006, 06:09 PM

Come on now, no one deserves to be labeled a "Vandevelde."

There's choking, there's choking big time, there's choking under impossible circumstances, and then there's pulling a Vandelvelde.
That was the most painful thing to watch, even though I was cheering against him, I still felt somewhat sorry for the dude.

epa86b@netzero

01-29-2006, 06:10 PM

I would say the Jose Maria Olazabal did not choke. He hit the hole. Maybe that wedge shot in the playoff on 18 was a choke job.

THe other dude choked because he flubbed the flop shot and a chip on 18 in the playoff. On both shots, we hit the ground well behind the ball.

THe funny thing is thought Tiger was going to lose after that first putt on 18 in regulation. He had no business winning that tournament.

Bronco_Beerslug

01-29-2006, 06:12 PM

Tiger is simply amazing! Only 30 now with many good years in front of him.

OrangeShadow

01-29-2006, 07:19 PM

what is this "golf" you speak of?

azbroncfan

01-30-2006, 01:23 PM

Tiger is simply amazing! Only 30 now with many good years in front of him.
People choke when they play Tiger in a playoff, they get the situation get to them that they are in a playoff with the best golfer ever and choke, Tiger has won a lot of playoffs with Par.

ludo21

01-30-2006, 01:29 PM

what is this "golf" you speak of?

i use to say that. But bo yis it a toug and challenging sport to play. Its very fun, but can also be the most frustrating sport eVER!!

Rohirrim

01-30-2006, 02:12 PM

That wasn't a choke by Jose. If you've ever played on Poa greens, you know that a four footer can get real nasty. I grew up playing on that crap. Anything outside of 1 foot can be a biatch. I'm surprised Tiger made the 8 footer to get into the playoff. He does seem to make them when he has to.

yavoon

01-30-2006, 02:15 PM

well he was up against the best golfer ever. tiger before the buick was ahead of vijay singh in the world rankings by approximately the same amt that vijay singh is ahead of the #23 in the world.

cool stuff.

azbroncfan

01-30-2006, 02:21 PM