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Originally Posted by THAY3R
Bumped for ya Cnasty.
I understand the difficulty in forming testable hypotheses in these situations, but an unwillingness to speculate until after something happens speaks more to your subjectivity and being results oriented than anything else. You claim a better than average rusty -1 with only 1 bogey is blowing it while alluding to his mental fragility. Wichita essentially thinks a guy shooting 65 is proof Tiger can't win. Woody Woodersons, etc. Try to at least apply some rationality to your positions.
I think a testable hypothesis for mental toughness for a golfer would be scoring average from Thurs-Fri vs. the weekends in majors which are clearly highest pressure. Might need to be shots above/below field average for first two rounds vs. last two to really see as conditions tend to be quite variable in majors sometimes. We see no namers get close to the top all the time after Thurs-Fri and fade away on the weekend. The same happens to some extent in regular PGA events but not as much. Very few no-namers win majors while there are many each year who win PGA events.
My guess on Tiger's rating in this stat would be
1999-2008 -10/10
2009-2018 -2/10
I have all the relevent rounds just about for 2009-2018 already posted in the thread a page back and there is a wiki page with all of Tigers rounds in the majors year by year so should be easy to figure out.
Also to clarify I think Tiger absolutely can win. I think right now the only thing holding him back from doing exactly that is his mind. His swing and body look good. His short game looks good. What has been missing is the ability to execute on Sunday when it has really mattered. It is a small sample size so maybe he just ran bad. My point is that it is all a part of a bigger problem that he has clearly had since the hydrant. In higher pressure spots he has not performed well overall for a long time. That and there is clear evidence of mental issues (chipping and to a lesser extent his putting) a couple years back so there can be no doubt that this stuff is rattling around in his brain somewhere.
I think some of you guys forget Tiger is human. He has been through a terrible last 10 years with tons of negative media scrutiny. It would be very hard to go through that and not have a lot of mental scarring. This can manifest itself on the golf course in strange ways.
Last edited by WichitaDM; 03-20-2018 at 10:02 AM.