2016 Golf thread

Insert hole in one joke here......

 

No Laying Up does not really enjoy the current state of golf on CBS:

http://nolayingup.com/2016/02/21/eye-on-cbs-an-intervention/

 

The dude is spot on. I was watching on dvr, so the commercials weren't as bothersome. But holy fuck, I was fast forwarding a lot. TONS of commercials. And they can ditch the Sir Nick Faldo exercise tips.

There was not a lot of golf in that golf telecast yesterday.

 

Did see the brilliance of Bubba though, he bombs it and then has the silky touch around the green and with the putter. What a combo. (I'm on the fence about how he is as a person but what a talent.)

 

It's odd. There are courses, hard courses too, like Riviera and Augusta where Watson blooms and looks damn near impossible to beat. Then there are other occasions where he seems beat before he starts.

 

Pebble Beach is a joke watching on TV.
The Masters isn't.

 

Earlier this week Mickelson heaped high praise on TW noting none of today's players have the total package Woods had at the height of his career.
Case in point: McIlroy misses the cut this week..

Then there was the rumor TW's back recovery was so off the track he couldn't sit. The rumors were such he took to social media to post a video of him swinging as he tries to work his way back to some form of golf.

 

Tiger missed the cut at the 2006 U.S. Open, a year after winning his fourth Masters and the British.

Shit happens.

 

When are my fellow sportswriters going to learn that the public doesn't give a rat's ass if we're inconvenienced? Quit writing this kind of shit. Just say the player had no comment and leave it at that. Same thing with Cam Newton. The whole post-Super Bowl ripping he got was just because the media didn't get the quotes it wanted and got pissy about it.

 

From February of 1998 into May of 2005, Tiger Woods made the cut in every tournament he entered on the PGA Tour. That streak of 142 consecutive tournaments without missing a cut is the PGA Tour's all-time record.

Friday marked the 29th time Rory McIlroy has missed the cut as a professional -- 11 of those have come on the PGA TOUR and it was his first missed cut since the 2013 Open Championship at Muirfield.
Woods, who turned pro in 1996, has missed just 13 cuts worldwide in his nearly two decades in the game with a dozen of those coming on TOUR.
Phil Mickelson, meanwhile, has 72 missed cuts as a professional.

 

Jesus.

I didn't realize he was THAT unstoppable.

Conversely, I didn't realize Mickeltits was THAT stoppable.

 

When on the cut line on a Friday, Woods, as per his personality, would grind it out on every putt to make it.
When on the cut line on a Friday, Mickelson, as per his personality, would try for an eagle on every hole and wind up missing some cuts.
This is one of the reasons Woods was a better golfer than Phil, and one of the reasons fans love Phil win or lose while they admired but didn't always love Tiger.