Tiger cleared for full golf activity

[Conrad1953]

I think if you win more than one US Open or have achieved the Grand Slam in your career, you should be exempt for life for the US Open.

 

If your career wins gets you into the HoF and earns you lifetime exemptions on the Tour and in all the other Majors, assuming you won them at least once, why should the US Open be any different?

 

Didn't Tiger win all the Majors back to back and achieve 3 Grand Slams so far?

 

He was World Number one collectively for 683 weeks and consecutively for 281 weeks. Come on. That is an incredible achievement. I'm not even going to attempt to compare that with anyone or anything anyone in Golf has done. That is just simply amazing.

 

Tiger didn't win a Grand Slam

 

He had all 4 majors at once, that's a Grand Slam in my book.

 

I agree and I think what Tiger did was harder as he had to wait from August

until April as he sat on 3 straight and then going for the 4th 8 months later...

.......but I'm fine with it being called the Tiger slam. That's pretty special.

[Hankshank]

Now about his maybe-comeback to the tours: Is it possible that Tiger might adapt to a swing that is not so hurtful for his back and still be competitive?

[Man_O_War]

Phil who?

 

Phil Mickelson of course. Shot 63 at the British Open, great with fans, total family man. He's a great role model.

 

 

great for Mickelson

These days you ought to be careful calling someone a "total family man"..unless your whole life is dedicated to monitoring the man

[nichho]

Phil who?

 

Phil Mickelson of course. Shot 63 at the British Open, great with fans, total family man. He's a great role model.

 

 

great for Mickelson

These days you ought to be careful calling someone a "total family man"..unless your whole life is dedicated to monitoring the man

 

Guilty until proved innocent then?

[Conrad1953]

Phil who?

 

Phil Mickelson of course. Shot 63 at the British Open, great with fans, total family man. He's a great role model.

 

 

great for Mickelson

These days you ought to be careful calling someone a "total family man"..unless your whole life is dedicated to monitoring the man

 

Guilty until proved innocent then?

 

Maybe more like trust but verify before you stick your neck out.

[Titleist 670]

Give everyone a medal for participating.......it’s not as if it’s a competition or anything is it?

 

No kidding. My nephew is like 5 years old, playing tee ball league. They don't keep score.

 

That would be too competitive.

 

Is there a big demand for keeping score in tee ball games?

 

I'm not a fan of the "everyone gets a medal" culture, but I'm equally not a fan of parents who think winning is everything from the time kids start playing sports, which is now apparently 3 years old, with everyone having to specialize.

 

Nothing makes me laugh more than seeing brutally out of shape, overweight parents sitting at a soccer (or other) game, complaining about refs or how much "tougher" they had it when they were younger.

 

Yup, all that competition when they were growing up paid huge dividends, so now they can sit around complaining about youth sports without even being able to run a mile without collapsing.

 

Let's teach our kids to be good people. Whether or not they want to be competitive will ultimately be up to them. It's not going to be because they won a tee ball game.

 

Again, I'm not a participation trophy person. But when I go to say, a five year old soccer game, I expect to see kids running to the ball like a pack of ants and having a great time. Not parents screaming at refs or a box score that we can break down and determine how this will impact the remainder of the kid's life. I know plenty of super competitive people growing up who didn't amount to much of anything, and people who never even cared about athletics who actually turned into good athletes later on and were extremely successful personally and professionally.

 

For some reason our culture literally thinks 99% of what we learn is on the playing field, and 99% of parents think, for some reason, their kid is going to play professional sports. I played competitive sports into my early 20's, and I remember the fun times, but never am I at a Board meeting drawing on my experience in a critical baseball game.

 

Wait what is this thread about? Oh yeah, Tiger. He was a great golfer, maybe the best of all time. But he's no Bill Brasky.

[bscinstnct]

^

 

"Nothing makes me laugh more than seeing brutally out of shape, overweight parents sitting at a soccer (or other) game, "

 

Titleist is built like a linebacker ; )

 

 

"I played competitive sports into my early 20's, and I remember the fun times, but never am I at a Board meeting drawing on my experience in a critical baseball game."

 

[Titleist 670]

^

 

"Nothing makes me laugh more than seeing brutally out of shape, overweight parents sitting at a soccer (or other) game, "

 

Titleist is built like a linebacker ; )

 

 

"I played competitive sports into my early 20's, and I remember the fun times, but never am I at a Board meeting drawing on my experience in a critical baseball game."

 

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Fact, Uncle Rico would make half the NFL teams these days. Guy has a monster arm.

[bscinstnct]

^

 

"Nothing makes me laugh more than seeing brutally out of shape, overweight parents sitting at a soccer (or other) game, "

 

Titleist is built like a linebacker ; )

 

 

"I played competitive sports into my early 20's, and I remember the fun times, but never am I at a Board meeting drawing on my experience in a critical baseball game."

 

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Fact, Uncle Rico would make half the NFL teams these days. Guy has a monster arm.

 

Ha! Titleist is a good sport, as always.

 

Hey! I threw 70lb dbs on 30* incline for 7 reps. Not bad for an old guy.

 

Check me out flexin

 

 

Man, Yanks are killin me. But, they went pretty far.

 

Cheers.

[Titleist 670]

^

 

"Nothing makes me laugh more than seeing brutally out of shape, overweight parents sitting at a soccer (or other) game, "

 

Titleist is built like a linebacker ; )

 

 

"I played competitive sports into my early 20's, and I remember the fun times, but never am I at a Board meeting drawing on my experience in a critical baseball game."

 

[media=]

[/media]

 

Fact, Uncle Rico would make half the NFL teams these days. Guy has a monster arm.

 

Ha! Titleist is a good sport, as always.

 

Hey! I threw 70lb dbs on 30* incline for 7 reps. Not bad for an old guy.

 

Check me out flexin

 

[media=]

[/media]

 

Man, Yanks are killin me. But, they went pretty far.

 

Cheers.

 

As an FYI, my rant was more general, not at you. I have no idea how old you are/what type of shape you're in.

 

I felt the same way growing up where guys on my team were getting run into the ground by parents who couldn't walk without calling an ambulance. Expect kids to devote 100% effort to everything sports related, be in phenomenal shape, and play every game like it's the 7th game of the World Series.................when Dad can't run down the street without getting winded.

 

Good times!

[justasgood]

Another opportunity for dashed hopes, misplaced optimism and endless topics and posts about Tigah ?

[imakaveli]

I think if you win more than one US Open or have achieved the Grand Slam in your career, you should be exempt for life for the US Open.

 

If your career wins gets you into the HoF and earns you lifetime exemptions on the Tour and in all the other Majors, assuming you won them at least once, why should the US Open be any different?

 

Didn't Tiger win all the Majors back to back and achieve 3 Grand Slams so far?

 

He was World Number one collectively for 683 weeks and consecutively for 281 weeks. Come on. That is an incredible achievement. I'm not even going to attempt to compare that with anyone or anything anyone in Golf has done. That is just simply amazing.

 

Tiger didn't win a Grand Slam

 

He had all 4 majors at once, that's a Grand Slam in my book.

 

That's not a Grand Slam, but I understand what you mean, it's an incredible achievement

[Valtiel]

I think if you win more than one US Open or have achieved the Grand Slam in your career, you should be exempt for life for the US Open.

 

If your career wins gets you into the HoF and earns you lifetime exemptions on the Tour and in all the other Majors, assuming you won them at least once, why should the US Open be any different?

 

Didn't Tiger win all the Majors back to back and achieve 3 Grand Slams so far?

 

He was World Number one collectively for 683 weeks and consecutively for 281 weeks. Come on. That is an incredible achievement. I'm not even going to attempt to compare that with anyone or anything anyone in Golf has done. That is just simply amazing.

 

Tiger didn't win a Grand Slam

 

He had all 4 majors at once, that's a Grand Slam in my book.

 

I'd actually prefer this definition over the current "all in the same year" one but I don't get to make the rules. :p

[Conrad1953]

I think if you win more than one US Open or have achieved the Grand Slam in your career, you should be exempt for life for the US Open.

 

If your career wins gets you into the HoF and earns you lifetime exemptions on the Tour and in all the other Majors, assuming you won them at least once, why should the US Open be any different?

 

Didn't Tiger win all the Majors back to back and achieve 3 Grand Slams so far?

 

He was World Number one collectively for 683 weeks and consecutively for 281 weeks. Come on. That is an incredible achievement. I'm not even going to attempt to compare that with anyone or anything anyone in Golf has done. That is just simply amazing.

 

Tiger didn't win a Grand Slam

 

He had all 4 majors at once, that's a Grand Slam in my book.

 

I'd actually prefer this definition over the current "all in the same year" one but I don't get to make the rules. :p

 

Tiger Slam sounds better anyway........he has a slam named after him. How much

better is that? No one's heard of a Jack Slam................................oops. :D

[Darth Putter]

With golf in the Olympics, we also now have the Golden Slam.

[MK7Golf21]

Tiger gonna win da gran slam 2018

[bscinstnct]

Tiger gonna win da gran slam 2018

 

Either him or

 

4 other seperate guys combine to.

 

Nobodys gonna win 4 modern majors in a row.

 

Impossible.

 

Wait.

 

Tiger did that already ; )

[PlatinumNike]

Return of the stinger

 

 

Funny, Fowler commenting to Thomas

[lowheel]

Phil who?

 

Phil Mickelson of course. Shot 63 at the British Open, great with fans, total family man. He's a great role model.

 

 

great for Mickelson

These days you ought to be careful calling someone a "total family man"..unless your whole life is dedicated to monitoring the man

 

I know it hard for tiger fans to fathom guys like Jack and Phil are exactly what they appear to be and arent banging anything that moves and popping pills like skittles and almost killing some innocent person with their 100k car... ;)

[lowheel]

I think if you win more than one US Open or have achieved the Grand Slam in your career, you should be exempt for life for the US Open.

 

If your career wins gets you into the HoF and earns you lifetime exemptions on the Tour and in all the other Majors, assuming you won them at least once, why should the US Open be any different?

 

Didn't Tiger win all the Majors back to back and achieve 3 Grand Slams so far?

 

He was World Number one collectively for 683 weeks and consecutively for 281 weeks. Come on. That is an incredible achievement. I'm not even going to attempt to compare that with anyone or anything anyone in Golf has done. That is just simply amazing.

 

Tiger didn't win a Grand Slam

 

He had all 4 majors at once, that's a Grand Slam in my book.

 

I'd actually prefer this definition over the current "all in the same year" one but I don't get to make the rules. :p

 

Tiger Slam sounds better anyway........he has a slam named after him. How much

better is that? No one's heard of a Jack Slam................................oops. :D

 

True he was busy still winning them at this point of his career... :)

[MMB1500]

[mdhyden]

Phil who?

 

Phil Mickelson of course. Shot 63 at the British Open, great with fans, total family man. He's a great role model.

 

 

great for Mickelson

These days you ought to be careful calling someone a "total family man"..unless your whole life is dedicated to monitoring the man

 

I know it hard for tiger fans to fathom guys like Jack and Phil are exactly what they appear to be and arent banging anything that moves and popping pills like skittles and almost killing some innocent person with their 100k car... ;)

 

I don’t remember an automobile accident being in the report for that story. Maybe I missed it?

[sandy]

Maybe he had another run in with another inanimate object. Is strange nobody found any ticket relating to the damage to the Mercedes. Of course it could have been that way for a while and in his doped up condition he didn’t notice it when he went for his drive to or from CA (in FL). Looking at the condition of the wheels it appears Tiger doesn’t maintain his vehicles to any degree.

[bscinstnct]

Phil who?

 

Phil Mickelson of course. Shot 63 at the British Open, great with fans, total family man. He's a great role model.

 

 

great for Mickelson

These days you ought to be careful calling someone a "total family man"..unless your whole life is dedicated to monitoring the man

 

I know it hard for tiger fans to fathom guys like Jack and Phil are exactly what they appear to be and arent banging anything that moves and popping pills like skittles and almost killing some innocent person with their 100k car... ;)

 

Never know.

 

Right now, Jack might be like,

 

"It puts the lotion in the basket"

 

Or maybe he's got a demented painting of himself in his attic ; )

[ferrispgm]

Tiger is by no means perfect but lets not pretend that Jack and Phil are either....I've heard stories from people who met Jack without the cameras on and said he was very rude and arrogant and the same about Phil....not blaming them because it takes some arrogance to be as good as they are/were but let's not pretend they are just great people and Tiger sucks...On the flip side, I have heard nothing but great things about Furyk, Fowler, and McIlroy and they are very nice and genuine behind the scenes.

[Shilgy]

The problem with stories about how Tiger or Jack or Phil or anyone's being -let's just say rude to keep it clean- is that it can be an isolated incident in a long lifetime. Fine, you saw Tiger kick a puppy or Jack not sign for Grandma. That does not mean it was the norm or that the person is a despicable human being.

Obviously this rant does not apply to David Simms. Here's just a lousy, laying up, despicable loser. :)

[DON SVO]

The problem with stories about how Tiger or Jack or Phil or anyone's being -let's just say rude to keep it clean- is that it can be an isolated incident in a long lifetime. Fine, you saw Tiger kick a puppy or Jack not sign for Grandma. That does not mean it was the norm or that the person is a despicable human being.

Obviously this rant does not apply to David Simms. Here's just a lousy, laying up, despicable loser. :)

 

.. and he hates kids.

[gioguy21]

The problem with stories about how Tiger or Jack or Phil or anyone's being -let's just say rude to keep it clean- is that it can be an isolated incident in a long lifetime. Fine, you saw Tiger kick a puppy or Jack not sign for Grandma. That does not mean it was the norm or that the person is a despicable human being.

Obviously this rant does not apply to David Simms. Here's just a lousy, laying up, despicable loser. :)

 

.. and he hates kids.

and dogs.

[bscinstnct]

The problem with stories about how Tiger or Jack or Phil or anyone's being -let's just say rude to keep it clean- is that it can be an isolated incident in a long lifetime. Fine, you saw Tiger kick a puppy or Jack not sign for Grandma. That does not mean it was the norm or that the person is a despicable human being.

Obviously this rant does not apply to David Simms. Here's just a lousy, laying up, despicable loser. :)

 

.. and he hates kids.

and dogs.

 

 

 

Tiger killed Lassie.

[nbg352]

The problem with stories about how Tiger or Jack or Phil or anyone's being -let's just say rude to keep it clean- is that it can be an isolated incident in a long lifetime. Fine, you saw Tiger kick a puppy or Jack not sign for Grandma. That does not mean it was the norm or that the person is a despicable human being.

Obviously this rant does not apply to David Simms. Here's just a lousy, laying up, despicable loser. :)

 

.. and he hates kids.

and dogs.

 

 

 

Tiger killed Lassie.

Lassie? he...he killed LLLassie???

That's it!

Who could remain a fan after hearing that.......