The Tiger Woods saga

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Pain meds have a very rapid onset peak concentration and then leave your body gently within 4 to 6 hours. This means he must've taking doses very late in the night hard to believe that would've been his first dose at midnight which would've caused that sort of reaction
 
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1972 Grad said:
I posted this 9 days ago in response to Orangesmokey's post saying that he "would just like to see him(Tiger) come back and play well. Maybe push people like Phil, Bubba, and Rory to play harder and better." I said the above ...."That is what Jordan Spieth is for." Looks like I was right after all.
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Bump from April 2015.
 
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I think that players get better all the time as the years pass. Does anyone on here think that Tiger faced players who could dominate a golf tournament and a golf course like Spieth's main Big 3 competition.....D. Johnson, McIlroy, and Jason Day?
 
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1972 Grad said:
I think that players get better all the time as the years pass. Does anyone on here think that Tiger faced players who could dominate a golf tournament and a golf course like Spieth's main Big 3 competition.....D. Johnson, McIlroy, and Jason Day?
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It would certainly have been cool to see Tiger in his prime vs the guys right now. Spieth's streak after the disastrous tee shot today was ridiculous. Nearly an ace after that??? Crazy.
 
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1972 Grad said:
I think that players get better all the time as the years pass. Does anyone on here think that Tiger faced players who could dominate a golf tournament and a golf course like Spieth's main Big 3 competition.....D. Johnson, McIlroy, and Jason Day?
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tiger can't control, what level of play his competition, competed at, what we do know is he completely dominated them

was a great back 9 for Jordan, would have liked to see Kuch win it, but great win for Jordan
 
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doozer said:
Spieth still isn't better than Tiger in his prime.
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Nobody is, or ever will be, better than Tiger in his prime (2000 - 2002). He won 4 majors in a row and 6 out of 12.

He had another run of dominance from 2005 - 2008 that might also be more impressive than any other player has done, except for his own aforementioned run from 2000 - 2002.
 
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1972 Grad said:
I think that players get better all the time as the years pass. Does anyone on here think that Tiger faced players who could dominate a golf tournament and a golf course like Spieth's main Big 3 competition.....D. Johnson, McIlroy, and Jason Day?
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Misinformed post of the year

I don't think it...I know he faced golfers that could dominate golf courses. Ernie Els and Phil Mickelson are at least as good as any mentioned here.
 
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114VOL said:
Misinformed post of the year

I don't think it...I know he faced golfers that could dominate golf courses. Ernie Els and Phil Mickelson are at least as good as any mentioned here.
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So was David Duval before all his injuries. He had the makings of an all time great.
 
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volfanbill said:
So was David Duval before all his injuries. He had the makings of an all time great.
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Yeah. In fact, on any back nine on Sunday of any major in their primes, I would take Phil and Ernie over DJ, Day and McIlroy every single time and win big. Duval too!
 
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In his prime, the huge advantage that Tiger had was his distance off the tee. Now most everybody can hit the ball a mile, but in the early 2000s they could not. And of course the older he got, that became less of an advantage.

"Tiger-proofing" the courses helped him even more; it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that lengthening the courses helps the longer hitters, which is why Tiger-proofing wasn't about leveling the playing field but about making it harder to Tiger to come in and embarrass the golf course.
 
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05_never_again said:
In his prime, the huge advantage that Tiger had was his distance off the tee. Now most everybody can hit the ball a mile, but in the early 2000s they could not. And of course the older he got, that became less of an advantage.

"Tiger-proofing" the courses helped him even more; it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that lengthening the courses helps the longer hitters, which is why Tiger-proofing wasn't about leveling the playing field but about making it harder to Tiger to come in and embarrass the golf course.
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The point you make in the first paragraph directly contradicts your second paragraph.

For the record: Tiger dialed it down off the tee in the early 2000s, strangely this is when he was most dominant.
 
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114VOL said:
The point you make in the first paragraph directly contradicts your second paragraph.

For the record: Tiger dialed it down off the tee in the early 2000s, strangely this is when he was most dominant.
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How so? When he was most dominant, he had a big length advantage off the tee. A lot of courses (Augusta included) started lengthening, which only helped him and longer hitters more. If he dialed it down, he dialed it down to an extent where he was still one of the longest guys out there.

As he got older, that progressively became less and less of an advantage, but he was still the dominant player because he simply was brilliant at every facet of the game.
 
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05_never_again said:
How so? When he was most dominant, he had a big length advantage off the tee. A lot of courses (Augusta included) started lengthening, which only helped him and longer hitters more. If he dialed it down, he dialed it down to an extent where he was still one of the longest guys out there.

As he got older, that progressively became less and less of an advantage, but he was still the dominant player because he simply was brilliant at every facet of the game.
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Sorry, but when he was most dominant, he had dialed back off the tee. His inability to hit fairways led him to make the change.
 
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1972 Grad said:
I think that players get better all the time as the years pass. Does anyone on here think that Tiger faced players who could dominate a golf tournament and a golf course like Spieth's main Big 3 competition.....D. Johnson, McIlroy, and Jason Day?
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Vijay Singh, David Duval and Phil Mickelson most definitely could put the pedal down as well as those guys.
 
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