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Will anybody else be glad when Tiger retires ?...

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  • NOVADAWGNOVADAWG Posts: 921 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Tiger Woods made the sport popular again. While he was out of the game the ratings went way down. The ratings at the British open this year were the highest viewer ratings in years. Watch the gallery’s, more people watch him the anyone else. I turn it on tv I don’t care about 20th ranked player in the world, its were is tiger!!

  • PeachCoDawgPeachCoDawg Posts: 489 ✭✭✭✭ Senior
    edited August 2018

    Yes and I was his biggest fan back in the day. Still have the SI with him on the cover after he destroyed everyone in that first Master's. I thought "Man, this kid is going to have the Bear beat by 5-10 majors. I think Tiger got 'roided up and it effected his swing and eventually his personal life. He's a shell of the player he was. Then again, it could be that he simply peaked very early and the tank is empty. Idk.
    But I stick with yes. Great player, sad story despite the accomplishments

  • gdawg4lifegdawg4life Posts: 799 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    @WCDawg said:

    @BigDawg747 said:
    Actually he is 7 shots back with 11 holes still to play and was in contention for the win at the British Open. He still has a lot left in the tank, he just had to find his game again and I do believe that he has probably found it. He may not have any major wins but he still does have a few tour wins in the past few years. Tour wins are just as hard to win as a major. So major or not, he is still the hottest name on tour.

    Retire already.
    He is at best a top 20 player now.

    Does that mean everybody below 20 should retire too?

  • dawfanfromalabamdawfanfromalabam Posts: 1,133 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Yeah, I’ll concentrate on the others guys with the second-most wins and second/-most Major wins in Tour history.

  • dawfanfromalabamdawfanfromalabam Posts: 1,133 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    @WCDawg said:

    @BigDawg747 said:
    Whatever dude. The point is, if you are a top 20 player then your chances are just as good as the number one player. All in all you got to win and there hasn't been a clear cut #1 player since Tiger.

    Tiger's play does not warrant the attention he gets in tournaments now. It robs more deserving players and more important, annoys ME.

    Well, it is all about YOU.

  • BigDawg747BigDawg747 Posts: 189 ✭✭✭ Junior

    @WCDawg said:

    @BigDawg747 said:
    Whatever dude. The point is, if you are a top 20 player then your chances are just as good as the number one player. All in all you got to win and there hasn't been a clear cut #1 player since Tiger.

    Tiger's play does not warrant the attention he gets in tournaments now. It robs more deserving players and more important, annoys ME.

    He is the Notre Dame of olf. It is what it is, get over it.

  • RailroadDawgRailroadDawg Posts: 15 ✭✭ Sophomore

    He had the lead by himself on the back 9 of the final round of the British Open. It’s a fantastic story to watch one of the top 2 players of all time try and come back and have one more run at glory against an extremely talented group of young players. Couldn’t be pulling for him any harder.

  • RailroadDawgRailroadDawg Posts: 15 ✭✭ Sophomore
  • NYCLawDawgNYCLawDawg Posts: 66 ✭✭✭ Junior

    he’s definitely winning another major before it’s all said and done.

  • donmdonm Posts: 10,241 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    @WCDawg said:
    He's 8 shots off the lead today, yet he's the top story ?
    The guy hasn't won a major since WWII..or there about.
    It's past time to promote the top players today.

    @WCDawg said:
    He's 8 shots off the lead today, yet he's the top story ?
    The guy hasn't won a major since WWII..or there about.
    It's past time to promote the top players today.

    PLEASE. avoid WWII references!

  • WCDawgWCDawg Posts: 17,293 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    @DamnYankeeDawg said:
    No, he does not need to retire. Nobody on the modern day tour moves the needle at an event on the pga tour like Tiger. He does warrant the attention even though he is nowhere close to as dominant as he was in the late 90s and 2000s. He built the modern pga in terms of purse money for the tour, attendance and tv rights $$$ from the the networks. The only guy who comes close to Tiger is Phil. Speith, Rory, Sergio, etc couldn’t do it.

    You were probably the same guy who said Jack needs to hang up the spikes going into the 1986 Masters.

    You exaggerate Tiger's overall affect on the game.
    Compare the increase in prize money to other sports, it has followed the prevailing course.
    What he HAS done is monopolized the available air out of the proverbial room.
    Instead of having 5 or 6 interesting stories divided fairly equally, it's usually about a single player who is no better than a dozen or more other guys.

  • WCDawgWCDawg Posts: 17,293 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    @donm said:

    @WCDawg said:
    He's 8 shots off the lead today, yet he's the top story ?
    The guy hasn't won a major since WWII..or there about.
    It's past time to promote the top players today.

    @WCDawg said:
    He's 8 shots off the lead today, yet he's the top story ?
    The guy hasn't won a major since WWII..or there about.
    It's past time to promote the top players today.

    PLEASE. avoid WWII references!

    Patton, MacArthur and myself concur.

  • WCDawgWCDawg Posts: 17,293 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    @dawfanfromalabam said:

    @WCDawg said:

    @BigDawg747 said:
    Whatever dude. The point is, if you are a top 20 player then your chances are just as good as the number one player. All in all you got to win and there hasn't been a clear cut #1 player since Tiger.

    Tiger's play does not warrant the attention he gets in tournaments now. It robs more deserving players and more important, annoys ME.

    Well, it is all about YOU.

    ALWAYS.

  • WCDawgWCDawg Posts: 17,293 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    @gdawg4life said:

    @WCDawg said:

    @BigDawg747 said:
    Actually he is 7 shots back with 11 holes still to play and was in contention for the win at the British Open. He still has a lot left in the tank, he just had to find his game again and I do believe that he has probably found it. He may not have any major wins but he still does have a few tour wins in the past few years. Tour wins are just as hard to win as a major. So major or not, he is still the hottest name on tour.

    Retire already.
    He is at best a top 20 player now.

    Does that mean everybody below 20 should retire too?

    Maybe they already have retired, we wouldn't have noticed because all the cameras are on Tiger.

  • WCDawgWCDawg Posts: 17,293 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    @NOVADAWG said:
    Tiger Woods made the sport popular again. While he was out of the game the ratings went way down. The ratings at the British open this year were the highest viewer ratings in years. Watch the gallery’s, more people watch him the anyone else. I turn it on tv I don’t care about 20th ranked player in the world, its were is tiger!!

    It's like a drug.
    The interest in other things has diminished, replaced by cravings for Tiger.

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