Tiger's most impressive golf accomplishment ?

[BlackDiamondPar5]

Surviving....  Too soon? 🤔

 

 

[Pent08]

Winning your first 4 majors by a combined 36 strokes is pretty ridiculous. 

[Greg_B]

7 hours ago, Frankensteins Monster said:

World #1

 

Sure he was, a long time ago. Currently #212 and the arrow is pointing straight down.

[Greg_B]

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Edited August 10, 2021 by Greg_B

[bscinstnct]

9 minutes ago, Greg_B said:

 

Sure he was, a long time ago. Currently #212 and the arrow is pointing straight down.

 

How is that one of his “most impressive accomplishments”?

 

🤣

[manku]

Winning, or being in contention seemingly every week, for an entire decade while having dozens of side chicks in every port.

 

And keeping the public and his wife in the total dark.

 

That can't be easy!

[isaacbm]

Although I agree that some of the things already written are more impressive than what I’m going to say, but I’m still shocked of this to this day… 

Tigers rookie year.

there was just so much hype. He was going to change everything. He was paid 40 million by Nike and 20 million  by Titleist.

guys like Curtis strange were saying things like “let’s not get ahead of ourselves he has to qualify for the tour still.”

  There was just so much talk! 
so much unbelievable pressure on a 20 year old kid!

and then he delivers!

makes a hole in One his first professional tournament.

then he somehow has 2 wins , two seconds, and 3 3rds in an 8 week stretch! 
AS A 20 YEAR OLD!!!!

 

I was a young pro myself at the time and quite honestly, he was so far beyond my reality I didn’t know what to do with it. Watching him that first year felt like somebody was holding me down while somebody else was kicking me in the gut for hours at a time. 

[Soloman1]

This is such a great interview of Tiger being schooled on the facts of life and on the tour by Curtis Strange.

 

Hahaha!

 

 

 

 

[bscinstnct]

3 minutes ago, Soloman1 said:

This is such a great interview of Tiger being schooled on the facts of life and on the tour by Curtis Strange.

 

Hahaha!

 

 

 

 

Strange is laughing in Tigers face

 

🤣

[bladehunter]

Watching the 2000 open now.  That has to be in the mix.  He’s like a Ro-but.  ( yes. I said robut). 
 

as a side note. How on earth is the video footage of that tournament such horrible quality ???  The greatest exhibition of golf ever on earth , and it looks like old Tom filmed it with a borrowed camera from Getty in  the 1860s. Either that or a cell phone from 2000.  It’s really bad.  Go to YouTube if you don’t recall.  NBC deserves to be disbanded for this failure.   

[Titleist_PT23]

14 hours ago, bladehunter said:

Watching the 2000 open now.  That has to be in the mix.  He’s like a Ro-but.  ( yes. I said robut). 
 

as a side note. How on earth is the video footage of that tournament such horrible quality ???  The greatest exhibition of golf ever on earth , and it looks like old Tom filmed it with a borrowed camera from Getty in  the 1860s. Either that or a cell phone from 2000.  It’s really bad.  Go to YouTube if you don’t recall.  NBC deserves to be disbanded for this failure.   

Round 2 Saturday morning, 18th tee audio coverage was good.

[King_Slender]

I've always thought the cut streak, but has anyone done any analysis on what is included in that.  Is it only events with a cut, or did no-cut events count as well (e.g. WGC events).  If so, curious if in any of those events Tiger was below what would have been a cut line.

[Christosterone]

Paul Goydos put it best imho

 

“…we sometimes look at not winning as failure, and that’s just not the case. We live in the era of Tiger Woods, who makes winning look ridiculously easy. The more I think about it, the more I feel Tiger Woods is the most underrated player on this tour. You guys have no concept of what he accomplishes on a weekly basis when he plays. It’s ridiculous how good he plays. He makes it look so easy that when somebody else like Kenny Perry, who’s won 14 times, doesn’t get close something’s wrong. That’s just normal. Palmer at The Open, the Olympic Club made a mess of the back nine. It happens to people. It just doesn’t happen to Tiger.”

[me05501]

He basically set a torch to the modern record books. It's hard to choose just one accomplishment to rule them all. 

 

Winning four consecutive majors is huge, especially when you consider the year-long barrage of pressure and speculation that went along with it. 

 

The consecutive cuts streak is amazing and will never be beaten. 

 

Winning at Pebble by 12 strokes or whatever it was...winning at Torrey on a bum leg...winning that last Masters when everyone counted him out. Just amazing. 

[me05501]

On 8/10/2021 at 6:34 PM, Soloman1 said:

This is such a great interview of Tiger being schooled on the facts of life and on the tour by Curtis Strange.

 

Hahaha!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Most of us are probably old enough to remember professional golf before Tiger. I'd watch, sure, I played the game and wanted to see how the best players handled themselves on the course.

 

The pre-Tiger era was one where someone as anodyne as Curtis Strange or Jeff Maggert could be considered a "star" on the tour. It was a totally different world. It was much more about fairways and greens and making putts, especially until Daly came along. Daly gave the world a little taste of the feast that Tiger's game delivered. 

 

[ckay]

His amateur championship feat to me is the most impressive.  That dominance had to have embedded his confidence that he will become the best player in the world.

[TiScape]

120 affairs in 5 years! Oh, golf accomplishment… 

 
Calm down. I kid, I kid. 😊

[PorkChopExpress]

Can’t believe anything tops his 3 jr & 3 US Ams

 

thats 6 major championships before even turning pro  

 

[munichop]

Of all the things mentioned that are beyond belief the more I think about the question I think what impresses me the most is how many times he changed his swing and managed to stay the best player for so long. Think about that awhile. Most of the all time greats never changed their swings. He did it more than once and either stayed or regained his scoring prowess. 
I agree on the 6 straight ams. Six years in a row beating the best on 6 different courses in match play! Crazy good.

[TiScape]

28 minutes ago, munichop said:

Of all the things mentioned that are beyond belief the more I think about the question I think what impresses me the most is how many times he changed his swing and managed to stay the best player for so long. Think about that awhile. Most of the all time greats never changed their swings. He did it more than once and either stayed or regained his scoring prowess. 
I agree on the 6 straight ams. Six years in a row beating the best on 6 different courses in match play! Crazy good.

No doubt on all accounts. He was truly on a different level. Why he’s arguably the greatest golfer ever. 

[Naptime]

Having a WRX discussion thread almost as long as the one about Rickie Fowler's demise. 🤣

 

More seriously, tournament sponsors prepare differently if Tiger is in the field.  Double the catering and the potties.  More security  Open the other parking lots.  Charter more shuttle buses.  I don't think any other single player has that effect these days.  Not sure that even Jack had that kind of juice.

Edited August 14, 2021 by Naptime

[Naptime]

On 8/12/2021 at 5:04 PM, PorkChopExpress said:

Can’t believe anything tops his 3 jr & 3 US Ams

 

thats 6 major championships before even turning pro  

 

 

And that gives him more majors than Jack.  Jack still leads the subcategory of professional majors. 😀

Edited August 14, 2021 by Naptime

[Fairway14]

18 hours ago, munichop said:

Of all the things mentioned that are beyond belief the more I think about the question I think what impresses me the most is how many times he changed his swing and managed to stay the best player for so long.

Mostly the "swing changes" came from aging and , or, changes to his physique. I first watched Tiger play when he was 14, saw him again from ages 16-17, as a pro at age 21, at age 23,24 after he had added significant muscle weight, at age 30 when aging had begun to limit his flexibility, and for the past 15 years as the aging process continued and injuries further limited his flexibility.

[Circaflex]

Has to be the cuts made streak, that is just unbelievable. 

[Spicoli]

After all he went through, winning East Lake and the following Masters are the stand out moments.

[puttingmatt]

On 8/10/2021 at 9:10 AM, BlackDiamondPar5 said:

Surviving....  Too soon? 🤔

 

 

Exactly, he should hire a chauffer.

His driving  is too costly.

[bscinstnct]

17 hours ago, Spicoli said:

After all he went through, winning East Lake and the following Masters are the stand out moments.

 

And this is a marvel that no matter how much some despise TW, they cannot question his character or strength in what was entailed in those two wins. 
 

For the 10 previous years, TWs physical problems were the primary factor in not winning a major for a decade. But let’s remember,

 

TW win 6 times in 2009. No majors and, beaten for the first time when holding the lead in a major. 
 

He won 3 times in 2012 and 5 times in 2013. No majors. And many would argue, it wasn’t the physical limitations, TW had lost his mental edge. He couldn’t close on the biggest stages anymore.

 

 

So to come back another 6 years later, body broken and glued back together, off the heels on seeming drug addiction,

 

And work harder than ever, get up at 430am, gym, golf, rehab. Day after day. Go on the road week after week.

 

And rise to # 5 in the world against a group of guys half his age. Some saying the strongest and deepest generation of golfers ever. 
 

And beat them  at the TC and then again all of them at the Masters. Yeah, that could be included in his greatest accomplishments for sure. 

Edited August 15, 2021 by bscinstnct

[Fairway14]

On 8/14/2021 at 9:55 AM, Circaflex said:

Has to be the cuts made streak, that is just unbelievable. 

 

I agree and am pleased to see that the majority of votes cast are for "cut streak", an accomplishment which has received relatively little attention from the golf media.

[KennyP]

On 8/12/2021 at 9:19 PM, ckay said:

His amateur championship feat to me is the most impressive.  That dominance had to have embedded his confidence that he will become the best player in the world.

 

And to do it wearing a Panama hat too. 

[MUNIGRIT]

Pick up the Perkins waitress with Elin accross the table is pretty slick.