You're confusing me, just let me put the ball in the hole

I think Monty put it best

Tiger's 61 was almost as good as Phil's 60 earlier this year.

No I'm seriously wondering what your point is. What should he have said?

So you are asking why the most dominant sports figure and arguably the mentally strongest athlete of all time doesn't conduct himself like every other athlete in an interview?

Maybe that is how his mind works?(altho I'm with LOK and don't really understand the weirdness of his answers, especially because he always answers questions like that and has probably said these answers verbatim more than 5 times before)

Maybe it's the mentality that has been ingrained in to him and has created what we've had the pleasure to watch over the last 20 years.

GOAT gonna GOAT

Saying he's the GOAT over and over again doesn't change anything. He's insecure. Face it or eat sand like your compatriots.

Insecure about what?

Now you've hit $64M question. He has no reason to be, but yet, he is.

My question wasn't why, it was what...

You generally have to be insecure about SOMETHING and it's usually for a REASON.

I'm just wondering what you see from your armchair doctor.

If I knew the answer I'd have $64M champ.

Let's talk about tomorrow/Sun. What do you think are the odds that he ships this tourney from this point?

100% obv

Good to see you haven't lost your objectivity.

Tiger's a mega dork, even Barkley said it.

Again I'll ask, how does stating two facts (that he's been here before and that he hit a lot of good iron shots) make him insecure?

Internet Psychologist ITT.

His % with this lead at this course is probably in the low to mid 90's. There's always the chance that he falters and someone else gets to -14 or -15 by tourney's end, but it's very unlikely.

This is really adding to the discussion a ton, and improving the forum. Let's spend hours discussing an armchair psychologist assessment of someone's emotions by using a vague term, then failing to provide anything to back the assertion up.

TGC going full Randy Marsh with their coverage, unsurprisingly

Uh, no. I think you need to find another word to describe his character flaw that you think he has. He is immature, but not insecure.

Its Tiger's course and will win huge. The thing is he can only win on his regular tracks that he feels comfortable. This is one of them. Heck crappy season for Tiger 5 wins no Majors

Best part of this week is Brandel has been downgraded to covering the women's BO while the wind makes a mess of that perfect head of hair

He could be insecure about the Major situation. He's put himself in spots to win and the mentally strong Tiger would have had 2 or 3 of those tournaments wrapped up by the start of the back 9 on the Sunday. Even the biggest Tiger fans must see there is an issue when it comes to closing these out? He knows the game is there because he is producing the goods when it comes to these types of tournaments. It must be frustrating not being able to reproduce that for 4 rounds in the 4 biggest tournaments of the year.

Tiger has been winning regular golf tournaments for a while now (post meltdown). Until he wins that elusive major (post meltdown) then questions will be asked and rightfully so. He set the bar to begin with.

There is so much terrible analysis itt it's pretty funny. Tiger haters are the nut low of sports fans.

I mean Luke Donald was winning regular golf tournaments and not performing in Majors and was receiving a bit of guff from golf fans even though he was the #1 ranked player in the world. Although Tiger has had better showings in the Majors why should he get a pass? It's a legitimate question. If you could drop the whole "hater" thing and actually respond to the question then we might have a decent discussion about it.