Yep - he's done

Going to be so much more epic when he breaks the record when he's 54 years old. Can't wait to bump this in 2030 and taunt Clark mercilessly.

SO SAD!

I had predicted that he'd win two more majors and get up to 100 total PGA victories. Both are extremely doubtful now.

Still GOAT, ldo.

I just hate how narrative loving writers can draw a line from the infidelity to the career decline. (and how maybe that's even true). I got a lot of joy out of watching Tiger, and it's sad that so much of the story is about him being a crap person. Just wish I could hide in the sand a bit more when it comes to thinking about him.

FTR I had predicted two more majors. From the little reading that I've done, Tiger has a similar back problem to mine. I have never been a Tiger fan, but I'd never wish a problem like that on any golfer. As I've discovered, there is really no "fix" and it is far more likely to get worse than better.

I'm sure Tiger has access to better medical advice and treatment than I do, but I think, at best, he'll have some brief periods of being able to swing as he wants. Most of the time every swing will be a chore.

I think last year proved that it's the injuries more so than some mysterious mental edge being gone because he got caught banging waitresses. It was probably variance that he didn't win 1 major last year with how well he played over the course of the year. But he's probably a big dog to win one this year, sadly. He's been a total mess even when supposedly intact so far.

It's obviously the injuries, but it seems hard to fully disentangle the initial one from all the other bull****. Much much more in a narrative bad sports writing sense, but who knows what happens with injury/rehab/etc if that's all he focuses on.

It's not even true, though. He was player of the year last year, so it's clear that the infidelity wasn't the end of Tiger.

The reason for my belief that he won't even get to 16 majors is that it seems like his injuries are probably more chronic than originally believed. Once he heals from the current injury, he'll probably have a few PGA win, maybe even a major. But this injury so close to his other injuries may mean that he'll only have months at a time in good health, before he has to battle injuries.

Is player of the year at meaningful metric in golf? I have no idea how it's figured out, but for a sport with opt in participation seems like one that could easily be really goofy (not that I disagree with your broader point, I didn't know that and I've kinda stopped following golf because I was way more of one of those Tiger driven fans than I thought).

Considering Tiger plays less events than anyone and still was POY, I don't think the number of tournaments he played is a concern. It's not women's tennis

He was player of the year because he won 5 tournaments. No one else won more than 2. He won $8.5 M, over $2.2 M more than second place, and was second in scoring. He pretty clearly had the best year of anyone in 2013.

Since player of the year is determined solely by wins, money list, and scoring average, one could, in theory, win player of the year despite playing in very few events. Tiger nearly proved that true in 2008, when he only entered 6 events. Yet he won 4 of them and finished 2nd in money. I'm not sure how they handle the scoring average in such an extreme case, but it was rendered moot when Harrington won 2 majors that year and major get a huge scoring bonus.

Yeah it's a good metric. It means during that year, out of all the players, he was the best.

I kinda wanted to see him pass Jack just because the old crusty idiots who think golf was harder back when Jack played are the worst. Jack was not better than Tiger. But the total majors thing is all they had left to cling to.

But yeah he's near 40 and has back problems. It's probably not happening. He needs Phil Mickelson's career from here just to get to 19. lol @ that.

He did choke in all the majors tho

wait, so what hasn't Tiger done except exactly 'win major championships' that caused you to stop following golf?

because he's been prettay damn good.

That's pretty much it. When Tiger wasn't competitive majors golf slipped out of my viewing patterns and I haven't really been paying attention in recent years. I knew he was playing better, but didn't realize how much, apparently. (some of that is that I just have different TV watching patterns and probably the time I would have spent on golf has been used for video games.)

I am a bad golf fan, or not one.

Rank 2013
1 Tiger Woods 11.69
2 Adam Scott 9.60
3 Henrik Stenson 9.16
4 Justin Rose 7.16
5 Phil Mickelson 7.06
6 Rory McIlroy 6.50
7 Matt Kuchar 6.15
8 Steve Stricker 5.72
9 Zach Johnson 5.45
10 Sergio García 5.31

He was pretty good last year, Dids. And did you not watch The Masters? He probably wins that if he doesn't hit that stupid flagstick then blatantly cheat.

most likely just this

He needs Mickelson's career with Fred Couples' back? Definitely not happening. Even if he gets healthy now, is he ever going to trust his swing as completely as he did in, say, 2000 or 2006?

The reason he hasn't gotten to 16 isn't because of a physical injury, it's because he's a total headcase. His streak of not breaking 70 on the weekend in majors dates back at least two years and is not a coincidence. He shoves a lot of short putts that don't seem to bother him when the venue is Bay Hill or Firestone. Hips don't lie, and neither do yips.

Tiger's physical maladies are just the icing on the cake and may prove a useful red herring to deflect from his mental problems. It's happened to a lot of great players before him - probably most of them. Not Jack though obv.

Lol and the derpage starts

Tuq right

Yeah sorry for trotting out irrefutable facts like that. Your tears are delicious though om nom nom nom nom.

Probably the most irrefutable instance of him being a headcase was when he hit that flagstick at Augusta last year. What a headcase! Why hit the flag? Talk about making a costly mental mistake.

If only tiger didn't hit the flagstick. In the third round. Oh what could have been