Where does this come from? If he's at 17 or 18, he's likely to keep playing until he's 60.

He's said for a long time now that he's got no interest in playing at that age.

And even if he did, he would still have to meet the rigid qualifying standards for every major except The Masters.

And since the oldest major winner is 48, I'm not really sure what you're expecting.

Yes, Tiger Woods, by all accounts one of the most competitive people on the planet, is just going to "ride off into the sunset" when he's no longer the very best. Right. You can count the athletes who retired on top of their game on one hand. It just doesn't happen.

I think he has a solid chance to be consistently competitive at 50. More importantly however: could TW at 50 win the NCAA golf tourney?

ETA: the fact that the oldest major winner to date was 48 is just about completely irrelevant to me when it comes to Tiger. The guy is a freak.

classic that nitBO lurks non-golf forum golf threads just waiting to pounce, even ditches the signature to be a cool kid in SE

He would absolutely roflstomp.

He gets into every major aside from the US Open through age 60.

Plus all kinds of sponsor exemptions and past-champion exemptions.

Yep, my bad. No excuses. Horrible basic error. He'll have to be exempt for our Open and the WGC events.

While I understand the ultra-competitive Jordan types, all I'm going by is what he's said in the past. He wants to do other things with his life besides golf.

And I'm not sure you understand the stress his swing puts on his body. The spirit will be willing at an advanced age, but the flesh will be weak. And there are certain important parts of his body that have been weak since his teens. He doesn't swing anything like Singh or Couples, and that will matter a lot in ten years.

Hey, I'm not saying it couldn't happen. But I'm trying to point out the technical and personal reasons working against him that the casual golf fan might not be aware of.

If BO posted like this in the golf forum the world would be a better place. Good, fair posts BO

If he doesn't change more towards an Ernie Els type game, I don't give his back/knees five more years. The torsion created by his swing cannot last into his 40's. He had a great run though.

I'm sure you're an expert in such matters...

I understand the force that Tiger creates with his swing and I realize he's already had injury issues because of it. But let's be honest here: golf is not a terribly demanding sport physically (at least as it pertains to injury). He's not gonna just blow out his knee suddenly on one play and be done. It's more repetitive stress injuries that Tiger will have to worry about. But he should be able to anticipate and mitigate those risks to some extent, of course with the help of all the doctors, therapists, and swing coaches $1 billion and a will to compete can buy.

yes, yes I am

Observing him through the years, I find it hard to believe Tiger wouldn't revamp his swing again if he feels like his body won't hold up under the current swing. I think swing stress isn't going to be as big an issue as people seem to think.

Since it seems like 50 is the new 40, and given that Jack won a green jacket at 46 and recorded another top 10 at fifty-eight, I think Tiger's chances are still really good to pick up 5 more (4 if you're BO).

Man, the '98 Masters was the absolute nuts. Jack was so ****ing close to shipping.

Also, re: Watson at Turnberry, no comment about how it proves or disproves Tiger's ability to compete at 50+ but god ****ing dammit did it suck that he didn't win. He just uber-nutted that approach to 18 and got an unlucky firm bounce, at which point the moment got to him and he choked.

Will he be able to handle his ex becoming richer than him if the eventual new marriage and divorce go her way?

how much did she even get from tiger? tiger still got to be a favorite to be richer than this guy.

is that Jim Furyk?

Too much hair.

Watson at Turnberry was the 2nd most disappointed that I've ever been about the outcome of a sporting event in my life. Second only to 2009 Nebraska-Texas. If the golf gods truly did exist, Watson's pures that putt center of the cup, rather than making probably the weakest wipe of a putt that he ever made in his entire career. The world was robbed of the greatest sports story of all time, literally, that day.

That guy is a billionaire

I was making the turn on the third day of a county amateur (way out of it) and snap withdrew when I saw Watson was still up with 8 to play, probably the most into a non-world series/super bowl I've ever been, was soooooooooo crushed afterwards

bump for dat #1 spot. where u at rory u little euro this aint no rivalry we've had the game on lock for 15+ yrs and it will stay that way for another 15

to be richer. tiger's equity is at least 2-3billion. going to have like 10 golf courses under his name probably