You realize you also just explained Tiger - who is arguably the best iron player of all time and can putt just as well as Speith? These are two of my favorite golfers...
Yeah, he had a really good explanation yesterday about how he made some changes in his set up and was working the wrong thing and it set him back even further! He's still had a pretty good year money wise, his names been on a bunch of leader boards!
No doubt, I was just concerned his back issues would slow his progress up, crazy how when he comes up that leaderboard guys start looking in the rearview mirror and get distracted! None of these young guns have experienced that yet!
No - it’s pretty exciting. But Koepka is as cool as a cucumber, and he won’t be phased. I’d love to see them go head to head in a final grouping. Athleticism vs athleticism but entirely opposite personalities...
Agreed. Very good year for most tour players but not for Jordan.
He's there, but he's not back. The Young Tiger never would have three-putted that 17th green at such a crucial moment.
Who cares? He’s still within reach. Aside from a possible single golfer who could outplay anyone (that’s every single major), Tiger has an equal chance as anyone else trying to win this. Don’t count him out...
Not counting him out, but he is no longer transcendent. He is still a top-tier player, but what separated him from the rest is no longer there.
He's still the straw that stirs the drink, but any hope he has of ever winning another major rests with getting that driver straightened out. And he just missed a fairway after teeing off with an iron. The pressure he puts on the rest of his game is enormous.
Why do you say that? He’s won plenty of majors without his driver being consistent. It’s always how he’s been, but consistently hitting second shots like he did on #9 is what bailed him out. If his iron play continues like it is now and he putts well, he won’t have to be much more consistent with his driver to win.
He will in order to win majors. The majors punish you for missing fairways and missing fairways puts huge pressure on the rest of your game. He was a much better driver of the golf ball earlier in his career than he is now, and I'm not talking about length, either.
Majors can sell as many tickets as the people running them want to and think the course can handle. The PGA sold a lot of tickets to this one, maybe to take advantage of the hoped-for Tiger factor. You can't do that at a place like Kiawah, where the infrastructure is inadequate. The atmosphere was electric because the Tiger factor materialized. But moving around and finding good vantage points had to be miserable for many of the spectators.
That's mainly what I was referencing, just the shear number of people, it looked 10 to 15 deep for Tiger and 10 deep everywhere else, don't think I remember ever seeing that many fans at a tournament, and they were loud, I couldn't hear the commentators a few times!
It got that loud at the '86 Masters, even though the Masters keeps the number of spectators at a level they deem optimal. But when something is happening, the fans that can walk fast or run try to get to where the story is happening.
Maybe; maybe not. He's playing his way back in to what may turn out transcendent after all.
The man will be 43 years old next major season. He's had multiple injuries, including several to his back. For him to become a big winner again, he has to be in the fairway or at least the second cut more often. Even the young Tiger Woods was in the fairway more often than this.
