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Tiger Woods authors one of the greatest sports stories of all time. Wins 5th Green Jacket. 15th Major.
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Yeah, Jack is and always will be #1. I'm not sure anyone is going to dominate the way Jack was able too. I'm a huge Tiger fan too.. but I grew up watching Jack and he was an amazing player.. and had personality that Tiger lacks.
Tiger dominated the game more than Jack ever did, despite Jack winning more majors. 2000 US open was the best golf ever played by anyone.
Well, to be clear.. Tiger was physically in bad bad shape... there was a question whether he could even play again.. not be competitive.. but play.
Whew lads.
I remember my mom calling me into the living room in 1997 to see Tiger put on that green jacket. At the time I was like "Okay, cool...?" and then she told me it was an important moment, and I'd remember it for the rest of my life. You were right mom!
Great job, Tiger
I remember my mom calling me into the living room in 1997 to see Tiger put on that green jacket. At the time I was like "Okay, cool...?" and then she told me it was an important moment, and I'd remember it for the rest of my life. You were right mom!
Great job, Tiger
This is the truth. Watching him win by 15 freaking strokes in shitty weather was the most amazing domination of competition I have ever seen. So glad I got to watch that live. Even though he had it won going into the final round it was still mesmerizing because everyone else was disintegrating and Tiger was playing in his own vacuum unfazed by anything.
This is a little off topic. In Australia, the word Coon is a cheese brand named after the american creator Edward William Coon due to him patented a method, known as the Cooning process for fast maturation of cheese via high temperature and humidity.
So for aussies saying coon, we automatically think of cheese.
They can't HB Studios has the rights with 2K being the Publisher releasing The Golf Club series with it's first games came out this year.
So for aussies saying coon, we automatically think of cheese.
They can't HB Studios has the rights with 2K being the Publisher releasing The Golf Club series with it's first games came out this year.
That's the PGA license. Players have to be licensed separately I believe, so EA (or anyone else) could technically create a Tiger Woods game, though Im not sure it'd be worth it.
Everyone is going to have a different sports Rushmore, but mine would be Federer, Phelps, Jordan, Bo Jackson
Just remember the injuries were very likely self inflicted because he had delusions of becoming a Navy Seal so he put himself through their ridiculous training regime.
This story always makes me laugh:
This story always makes me laugh:
Jack finished 2nd 19 times in majors and was top 3 FORTY EIGHT times. Also came from behind to win 8 times. Tiger has certainly had dominating moments but for his career Jack was more dominant.
I agree that Federer has to be on there.
Tiger
Jordan
Federer
Gretzky
would probably be my 4.
Dear lord please after that horrible Rory shank.
Counterpoint- plop tiger into the 1960s Augusta course which was 500 yards shorter and I'd think he'd dominate. Conversely, force jack to play on a course 500 yards longer, and I don't think he'd be able to compete.
Devils advocate: A lot of that has to do with increase in the quality of equipment.
Plop Tiger against Arnold Palmer, Tom Watson, Gary Player, Johnny Miller, etc?
Yea No.
Tiger was stomping majors over Chris DeMarco and Ritief Gooson.
Edit. Tiger was dominating on shooter courses. Go back and watch his earlier Masters wins. He was driving it 330yds and had less than 150yds into every par 4. In a lot of cases less than 100yds.
The story now is Tiger beating this current gen where everyone is driving >300yds and stacked with muscles.
I have no argument for tiger against jack, but watching tiger in is prime was a hell of a show and it's hard to imagine anyone doing it better. All stats and the competition does point to jack being the goat though.
Reading this thread, maybe it's time to revisit having a separate Politics area of Era? I did not expect a thread about this historic win to almost immediately become yet another Trump thread.
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Tiger's golf at his zenith in the early to mid 2000's was vastly superior to Jack's best golf. And I'd also argue that Tiger's personality has shaped the generation we're seeing much more than Jack's did. Tiger has brought more excitement and emotion to golf than anyone.
I have tiger woods 14 historic masters edition on ps3 with face mapping tech so my ugly mug is wrapped around the players face like a saw movie.
When I get home I'll see if I can Sim a jack vs tiger match play round to see who's really the best.
You don't enjoy American politics being the basis of everything in life???
Congrats to Tiger. What a comeback for him as an athlete.
Sure put him in the 60's without modern day player conditioning, course maintenance, equipment, and facing better competition, etc... Put young Jack in today's game with modern benefits, etc... I'll take Jack with that switch too.
I'm surprised history channel didn't already make a show called "Who's The GOAT" where they spend 37 minutes and 23 minutes in commercials hyping a showdown in their state of the art simulator ( a 2 years out of date sports game with create a player ) to help answer who's the greatest to ever play _______. Most of the show is two fat guys arguing about what stats to put for each player in the game and settling their arguments with unrelated and unscientific tests that they act really surprised at the results for.
What crap do they even air now a days?
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Unbelievable day. So happy to see him win a major again and for his kids to get to experience it. Big congrats to Joe LaCava for getting one with him as well. He stuck with Tiger though the dark ages, even though Tiger told him it was okay to get on another bag. That loyalty paid off big-time.
who's ths brady fellow and did he kiss his dad on the mouth?
man he never getting to 18 if he still fighting these back problems
We can only hope. The Tiger Woods games were amazing for their time. They'd be ruined by micro transactions now though, because they were largely based on cosmetic progression
Yeah Jack was a long hitter for his time. He would just as good today IMO.
Tigers peak is the best golf has ever seen though. His 2000-2001 is untouchable. Especially the 2000 US Open. No one has ever played that well.
Jack was definitely more consistent, though some of that definitely has to do with health.
Tiger won against an overall better field a much higher percentage of the time he teed it off, plus his very best is clearly better than Jacks
Other than Phil, who on this list supports that claim?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_men's_major_championships_winning_golfers
This is actually wild, dude was a complete washout with a gut and on some "I was great, and I'll do it again, you'll see!" type shit. This is like Lamar Odom coming back to the league and winning finals MVP.
How many people in jacks day were capable of winning any given tourney? Nowadays almost anyone in the field can play their brains out and win any given week. It's definitely harder to win nowadays
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Yep, the depth today is insane and much deeper than anything Jack ever had to deal with. Realistically, 30-40 guys can win any tournament any given week.
