Why are you a Tiger Woods fan?

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Hi all,

Clearly this post is not relevant if you are not a Tiger fan. This post is the spawn of another asking who your favorate golfer is out of a list. I like alot of golfers and it got me thinking about why I like Tiger as he is such a contentious sportsman.

I do not care one bit that he cheated on his wife, I am not a tabloid sort of person, I don't know him or his wife or life, outside golf he can do what he likes, I don't pay to watch that. I also don't REALY like the way he carries himself in golf (call yourself a fan I hear you say). I do however love to see him feed off his emotions even when it makes me cringe. I love the way he dominated and I love that he believes he can again. It exites me that he could come back and get the majors he wants, you can never count him out.

The money he demands and gets from sponsors and appearances is totally fair because people are stupid enough to pay it, more power to him.

He is a winning machine and he fails at everything except winning.


I hope to never meet him.


Why do you follow him?
 
I like him as he is by far the best played of my lifetime and in my opinion still the best player around now, although the gap isnt as big. I love watching him play, even when hes not having a great round I would happily watch him play the whole 18 and barely see anyone else, hence why I love the American coverage of showing the best players out there.

He is probably one of the only golfers who actually wear their emotions on their sleeves, he hits a bad shot he lets you know about it, he hits a good one and its the fist pump, just like people in your sunday morning medal. I cant stand the golfers who are just the same emotion all the way through. Tiger at his best always strived for more he was never happy unless he had the perfect round.

Most of all though why I like Tiger is if it wasnt for him I am sure there wouldnt be as much golf on tv and if it wasnt for him and the fact golf was on the tv I probably would never have tried the sport out and for that I couldnt thank the bloke enough.

I dont like judging people without actually knowing them personally so to me he could be a knob in person or he could be the guy you just couldnt fault but I dont know him so I think its wrong to judge him personally on what hes like. I can only comment in the golf arena.
 
I don't follow him but sadly he's the only show in town when the US are covering a tournament. He's best days are behind him in my opinion but there will be days like the 62 at the Honda and if he can keep fit and post four decent and consecutive scores together he will win on tour again. Will he win a major though? Not in my book as there are too many others that have the game and the belief to do so now and he doesn't have that aura of invincibility about him

At his pomp he was unstoppable and made fantastic viewing. today he can be equally captivating but sometimes it can be a car crash scene like last years USPGA or something magical like his recent return to form. Either way and ignoring anything to do with sponsorship, endorsements, off course behaviour or any of the media hype he is still worth watching.
 
For me he was the first golfer who was a proper athlete his swing around the year 2000 is the best golf swing I have ever seen so simple and so powerfull plus winning is all that mattered he was awesome, when he played well he won it was that simple no one got near
 
Tiger at his best, and a few years after 2000 was exciting to watch. There was always an expectation that he would explode into life and go on a run.

But I don't watch golf to see a run of pars and bogies with the odd birdie thrown in, and I don't like watching someone who was so good play indifferently. Besides, whilst they're showing the (current) him they're not showing the guys who are knocking in good shots...

Loved watching get in his Merc and drive down the Freeway - not.
 
I could not give two hoots about his personal affairs, I watched his press conference before the Honda and I feel for the guy the press are relentless constantly asking about this book, his ex caddie and his life he is clearly doing well to not just stand up and walk off. Even the ones that do ask about his golf start the question with "Tiger a golf question now"!!! they should all be golf questions what do you want a medal lol

Tiger fills me with excitement every time I watch him. I wasn't fortunate to see him in his prime and really feel like I missed out.

All those guys following him shouting "GET IN THE HOLE" need shooting its a par 5 600 yards and this is my tee shot why bother!

They say Rory is the next tiger i disagree yes he is good but tiger doesn't need to play his best golf to win as he proved last year in his own tournament.

And for all those that say he is arrogant he is not he is in the zone, that's where he lives. When I saw him at the 2010 Ryder cup I was stood 4 feet away as he walked past in the closing ceremony I said "well done tiger, its great to have you back" and he replied "thank you" with a node of his head! he's a nice man really :)
 
I follow tiger because hes a good golfer, and you cant just lose the talent
forget his personal stuff i only care what he does on the course,
hes a great golfer thats all there is to it,
Doesnt matter what hes like personaly we wont ever know
 
I love what Tiger has done for golf and as Fundy said, he is the best (by a long way) golfer I've experienced in my lifetime.

I vaguely remember the early days of Seve but I was very, very young. I love Jack and Seve more on the whole, but Tiger at his peak was just pure ridiculous.

I could careless what happened in his personal life.

What I don't like is the continual media circus surrounding him now he's making his "comeback". Every week it's "Tiger is in the field and after shooting a 62 in the final round at the Honda, he's definitely in contention this week!"...and EVERY week (aside from the Honda the other week) he's not in contention and every week we're disappointed and have to hear hours of analysis as to what went wrong. And in all honesty has ruined some of my love for him because the coverage of him has just been massively saturated. Sunday was a best example where the MetLife blimp was covering him driving home whilst there was still exciting golf being played!

I know it's not ALL his fault, but after such a spectacular fall from grace, it was bound to highlight any comeback all that bit more.

I truthfully don't think he'll reach Jack's record...sadly, I don't think his body will last that long (I said this last year).

It's exciting when he's in the field and in contention, definitely, and you really can't deny the buzz of a Major Sunday with Tiger creeping up the leaderboard. And if I think of my top 5 favourite moments from golf, Tiger is a part of at least 2 of them, if not more. The chip in at 16 on Masters Sunday was quite easily the most ridiculous and exciting thing I've ever watched live.
 
I dislike Tiger for misleading his fans and fellow professionals at last weeks WGC Cadillac at Doral.Walks off course after a run of bad holes saying he'd injured his Achille's,he then walks without any discomfort from the marshalls buggy to his car climbs into the drivers seat and drives away.Low and behold he declares himself fit two days later and joins the starting line up for this Thursday.
 
Mungoscorner said:
I dislike Tiger for misleading his fans and fellow professionals at last weeks WGC Cadillac at Doral.Walks off course after a run of bad holes saying he'd injured his Achille's,he then walks without any discomfort from the marshalls buggy to his car climbs into the drivers seat and drives away.Low and behold he declares himself fit two days later and joins the starting line up for this Thursday.
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It was precautionary, footballers get taken off the pitch to prevent further injury all the time and are then fit for the next game. Just because he wasn't on a stretcher doesn't mean he wasn't injured.
 
I mean it isn't the first time he's had a bad round. Had a nightmare in the final round against Mickelson at Pebble and didn't walk withdraw. Some people are just too quick to assume conspiracies and think they know more than they do and also if Tiger does something it's constantly highlighted despite the fact that other players spit and slam clubs all the time.
 
I like Tiger because he was the best.
He isn't a role model for Kids, that's what parents are for.
He isn't the best behaved on the course.
But when playing in his pomp, which lasted over a decade, he was the best golfer. The swing, short game prowess and imagination are what we should try to impersonate.
He wasn't necessarily the very best at each part of the game but he was one of the best at all of them.
 
Mungoscorner said:
I dislike Tiger for misleading his fans and fellow professionals at last weeks WGC Cadillac at Doral.Walks off course after a run of bad holes saying he'd injured his Achille's,he then walks without any discomfort from the marshalls buggy to his car climbs into the drivers seat and drives away.Low and behold he declares himself fit two days later and joins the starting line up for this Thursday.
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Oh man Bomber likes this post:thup:

I am 100% behind you on this one, he has lied to many times and will continue to do so and what is worse is that people still defend him:(
 
Mungoscorner said:
I dislike Tiger for misleading his fans and fellow professionals at last weeks WGC Cadillac at Doral.Walks off course after a run of bad holes saying he'd injured his Achille's,he then walks without any discomfort from the marshalls buggy to his car climbs into the drivers seat and drives away.Low and behold he declares himself fit two days later and joins the starting line up for this Thursday.
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sorry I didn't realise you couldn't read which words in the title are a struggle for you
 
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