I would like to see Tiger stand in the lane and try to take a Barkley charge (in his prime, of course).

Tiger might never get up.

You are funny, and kinda slow, I could run 50 yards almost a whole second faster than that before I got old.

You never answered my question about hand/eye coordination

I'm glad you're enjoying my commentary. :D

Anything in the low 5s is blazing. NFL receiver fast. You missed your calling perhaps. ;)

I never saw your question about hand/eye coordination.

Hand eye, as in a golfer hitting an immoble object on a purty little tee?

Personally, i suspect Video games are everybit as demanding in that sense, and people who play video games aren't athletes either. ;)

Badminton players aren't athletes? You've got a pretty narrow definition of "athlete" to exclude these guys.

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I stand humbly corrected. THOSE badmitton players are athletes.

Never let it be said i won't admit it when i'm wrong. ;)

Touche' my friend.

(LOL, that video is great! I could actually watch that on TV for a while i think.)

I should get some kind of Interwebs Medal of Achievement! lol

You's just a persuasive SOB bro. :)

no, you're just incredibly wrong a lot :p

That looks like badminton's version of the rope-a-dope. The one team has hammering away while the other team just volley'd it back until the hammering team was exhausted.

Tigers cool and all, and his tallent is impressive but Golf just does not do it for me. I guess it is the total lack of risk. If you make a huge mistake, your probably not gonna die, maybe sunburn?
Sadly this season I can think of 3 motorcycle road racing deaths off the top of my head, at the club racing level. This one really sucked, a up and coming 13 yr. old
http://www.roadracingworld.com/news/article/?article=32553

So I guess I expect courage to figure in the equation somewhere. A wide out crossing the middle, or a 13yr old racing a 125, both know it might really, really hurt and do it anyway.

It's my own fault for not watching as much TV golf. I don't play as often as in the past and have lost interest. The older players didn't seem quite as robotic. I can't get into the heads of todays players like I thought I could with the short list below....

Palmer, Nicklaus, Trevino, Crenshaw, Watson, Weiskopf, Stadler, Couples, Player, Stewart and others of their ilk.

no, hand eye coordination like bouncing a golf ball on a pitching wedge for a few minutes, popping it up, hitting it out of mid air and out of sight, one page back, same post you took the John Kruk comment from

These guys play four rounds of eighteen holes right?

That is an awful lot of walking and swinging clubs, I know after nine holes I'm ready to get back to the club for a cold one. :)

RE: The Tiger commercial where he bounces that ball off the face of the club then hits it mid air. Does anyone know if that is for real? It seems hard to believe even Tiger could pull that one off.

That is for real, he was goofing around waiting for them to set up a shot, someone saw it and asked how long he could do that, so he showed them and they made a commercial out of him playing around.

Another time when he was hitting balls for a commercial, they told him to hit one of the cameras that was sitting about 100 or more feet away. He did. Broke the lens.

Are you kidding me? Golf is one of the hardest freakin' things on the planet to do well. I know a lot of people who play Golf, but none of them can "play" golf. I am decent at it, but it takes a lot of practice and training mentally and physically to achieve what these guys do.

In fact I think I've only seen one "fat' pro, John Daly. He has so much natural talent, that he didn't need to take care of himself. I remember seeing him with the shakes holding a soda on the 18th green as he was withdrawing from alcohol abuse. He didn't last long in that kind of shape. I heard an interview with him on NPR not long ago and he mentioned an exchange he had with Tiger Woods. He said something to Tiger about him always working out and practicing and Tiger replied with, "Well John, we all don't have the talent you have."

Tell me my aching arms and legs that Golf isn't a sport with physical demands. Just because you don't have to run a thousand miles an hour and slam into people, doesn't make it any less of a sport.

+1

Millions try it, and nearly everyone suck at it. We all try to get better, but we know that it is incredibly tough to get half way decent. Even most of the people that say they are pretty good, suck.
To get to Tiger's level (mentally, physically, and skills-wise) is so tough.
If we spent the same time practicing as he had, I really do not think we would at his level; he is unique.

If you do not get golf, sorry but it is a great game; if not the greatest.

From America's Finest Sports News Source

June 19, 2008
Man Who Used Stick To Roll Ball Into Hole In Ground Praised For His Courage


SAN DIEGO—A man who used several different bent sticks to hit a ball to an area comprised of very short grass surrounding a hole in the ground was praised for his courage Monday after he used a somewhat smaller stick to gently roll the ball into the aforementioned hole in fewer attempts than his competitors. "What guts, what confidence," ESPN commentator Scott Van Pelt said of the man, who was evidently unable to carry his sticks himself, employing someone else to hold the sticks and manipulate the flag sticking out of the hole in the ground while he rolled the ball into it. "You have to be so brave, so self-assured, so strong mentally to [roll a ball into a hole in the ground]. Amazing." The man in question apparently hurt his knee during this activity.

What, like hackey-sack?

Hehe, great post Bill.

Well i often end up on the side opposite Dottore's and your own views.

I'm not so sure that makes me wrong. ;)

If you are opposite Dotty, you might not be right, but you can bet he is wrong.


Yeah, sort of like hacky sack, only it is a bit harder to bounce a golf ball on a pitching wedge than it is to bounce a bean bag on your foot.