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Mr. Peabody Founding Member

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islstl said: ↑

Well my initial prediction did indicate his knee would be just too much of a problem for him to win.

Now I am putting that up against his perfect 13-0 record in majors in which he has been tied or has the lead after 3 rounds.

I'm putting my money on 14-0.

Willis Reed (broken leg), Kirk Gibson (no knees), Michael Jordan (flu game) come to mind.
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If his knee wasn't hurt, I'd say he will easily win it tomorrow. Unless he was faking it, it looks bad. It should only be worse tomorrow.

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Mr. Peabody, Jun 14, 2008

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islstl said: ↑

Well my initial prediction did indicate his knee would be just too much of a problem for him to win.

Now I am putting that up against his perfect 13-0 record in majors in which he has been tied or has the lead after 3 rounds.

I'm putting my money on 14-0.

Willis Reed (broken leg), Kirk Gibson (no knees), Michael Jordan (flu game) come to mind.
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You are right. Sunday we will see golf's version of the "Flu Game".

BTW: Lefty had a "qball316 moment" with that 9! I actually felt relieved to see that actually happens to pros.

qball316, Jun 14, 2008

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Im also not so confident he will win. Even though he did not score well on the front he left a lot of shots out there with less pain, and under the same conditions I think he could win. If it is like on the back nine where he is literally hitting a slice to hit the fairway I am going to go with Westwood. Westwood has a great shot no matte how Tiger comes out. As awesome as the back nine was tonight there is no way Tiger is going to steal that many tomorrow no matter what his knee is like.

TigerBait3, Jun 15, 2008

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Im also not so confident he will win. Even though he did not score well on the front he left a lot of shots out there with less pain, and under the same conditions I think he could win. If it is like on the back nine where he is literally hitting a slice to hit the fairway I am going to go with Westwood. Westwood has a great shot no matte how Tiger comes out. As awesome as the back nine was tonight there is no way Tiger is going to steal that many tomorrow no matter what his knee is like.
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Westwood will fold like a cheap suit. Watch out for Ogilvie and Rocco. Tiger has to be the choice, though. He refuses to lose.

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For the next idiot that yells "Get in the hole" on a 220 yard 4 iron shot, I wish the players caddie would take the LW out of the bag, walk outside the ropes, clear the spectators, take a full swing, and hit the phucker right, square in the scrotum. o:
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American golf fans are not known for their brilliance. Whenever a golfer tees off they start screaming how great a shot it was, even before the darn ball lands. All they care about is how far it was hit. They don't seem to care where the ball ends up. It can land in a lake, and if it was hit over 300 yards, it was a great shot.

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If his knee was not bothering him, Tiger would win the Open in a walk. It is amazing that even with the knee he begins the last round in the lead. It is hard to conceive how he can win the tournament with his bad knee. I even wonder if he can finish the round, since it seems to be getting worse. I just hope he does not do any permanent damage to it. You have to assume he has had a long talk with his doctor about this.

Bengal Buddy, Jun 15, 2008

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I wouldnt be surprised to see Tiger take the rest of the summer off after this tournament. Its not worth risking permanent injury. I bet that knee was swollen like a balloon last night and I bet he has an army of therapists working on him up until tee off today.

DRC, Jun 15, 2008

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please. like tiger's knee is going to be an issue. he will block it out before every shot and win the open. unfortunately these late tee times will have this round ending about the time LSU baseball does. tivo time i suppose. will be impossible to not see the scores on espn during the game also so trying to avoid that is out.
i dont believe mr westwood is going away quietly just yet plus you gotta love rocco's attitude.

Ninety jaw-dropping minutes later, Mediate was playing reporter in the interview area as Woods was stepping off the podium after trying to explain his impossibly dramatic charge to take the 54-hole lead at 3-under-par. Mediate spoke for the entire human race:

"Mr. Woods, Mr. Woods! Right here! Are you COMPLETELY OUT OF YOUR MIND?"

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Tiger Woods grimaces as he climbs out of a bunker on the fourth hole. Woods clearly played Saturday in pain, showing hints of trouble with his surgically repaired left knee at several points during the round.
Woods laughed and the two slapped hands. On Sunday, Woods will leave Mediate among the mortals on the way to his 14th major title, and Rocco won't feel bad. He knows brilliance when it blows past him.

The greatest part of Tiger Woods is the fact that he couldn't spell surrender if you stuck a dictionary in front of him and opened it to that page. He never gives up. While faint-hearted fellows like Phil Mickelson were collapsing Saturday at the first sign of adversity, a wounded Tiger regrouped to deliver the greatest six holes of his absurdly accomplished career.

Golf gets no better than this. Hell, sport gets no better.

This was Jordan scoring 38 with the flu. This was Kirk Gibson hobbling around the bases after going deep to win Game 1 of the 1988 World Series. This was Willis Reed limping into Game 7 of the 1970 NBA Finals.

Except Reed only played the first couple of minutes before leaving the stage to his galvanized teammates, and Gibbie's moment only took one swing. Tiger went more than four hours and 70 swings on that bad wheel without giving in.

In fact, he dug in and produced a succession of hero shots that rank among the most memorable of his life. He carded two eagles and a chip-in birdie in six holes, in an event that traditionally surrenders red numbers as often as Bill Belichick smiles.

"The stuff he does," Mediate said, "it's unreal."

He began bending reality at that concession tent. Woods finally found a spot to drop, a good 30 feet away from the tent to give himself clearance around the television tower standing between him and the green. He grabbed a 5-iron, dug his spikes into the hardpan and blew everyone's mind.

As the ball sizzled through the San Diego air and landed on the green 200 yards away, a fat guy in an orange shirt and a Kappa Alpha Psi hat stuck two fists in the air and bellowed, "Hell yeah! Hell yeah! Hell yeah, boy!"

Someone else yelled, "That was a bad-ass shot, Tiger!"

From there, Woods said he was hoping to "maybe somehow steal a 4 out of there."

Three? That was out of the question.

From the back of the 13th green, Woods faced your routine, 66-foot, breaking bomb of a putt for eagle. When he hit it, the speed looked good. As it tracked toward the hole, the line looked good. As caddy Steve Williams started backpedaling with a fist in the air, you knew the putt was good.

Woods pumped both fists and yelled, as jacked as you'll ever see him. But the crowd explosion drowned out whatever was coming out of his mouth. It was the closest golf has ever come to sounding like fourth-and-goal at LSU's Tiger Stadium on a Saturday night.

Suddenly Woods had returned to red numbers at 1-under-par. And just as suddenly he backpedaled by bogeying the 14th hole after another dreadfully errant tee shot.

Woods persevered through 15 and 16, parring both. Then at 17, he drove himself back to the brink of disaster, coming way out of his swing and pushing the ball way right as pain etched itself on his face.

As Woods gimped up the fairway, he looked more frail than at any point in his bulletproof career. Forget hitting it with any authority; just walking to his ball was a chore.

But he sucked it up and smacked a 7-iron left of the green in the heavy rough, roughly 30 feet from the pin. Woods grabbed his wedge, stepped in, flipped the ball up into the air, watched it take one hop and then abruptly disappear into the cup.

As slow-motion as that famous chip on the 16th hole at Augusta in 2005, when the ball dropped into the cup on its final rotation, this was the opposite. It was gone from view before anyone knew it.

Woods just laughed. So did Williams as the crowd erupted again. He got lucky and knew it. An inch in either direction and that ball scampers well clear of the cup.

"I hit it too hard, came out hot," Woods said. "And one hop and it went in. I mean, realistically, I should have probably had about an eight-footer coming back down the hill, but got away with one there."

Better to be lucky than good, as they say. But on the next hole, Woods went back to being good. Insanely good.

Standing at the par-5 18th tee, a fan said, "You're inspiring, Tiger." But the evening's inspiration needed a fitting climax, and Woods delivered as only he can.

He drilled his drive into the middle of the fairway, then sculpted a remarkably soft 5-wood onto the green. It came to rest about 40 feet from the hole and on top of a ridge.

The 18th at Torrey Pines had played the easiest of any hole, and Woods has owned par 5s his entire career. But he'd blown two opportunities by parring this one Thursday and Friday. This time, with a massive gallery surrounding the green and watching from the balconies of the adjacent Torrey Pines Lodge, Woods zapped a charged crowd with one more lightning bolt.

It took about eight seconds for the putt to track perfectly toward its inevitable destination at the bottom of the cup. While bedlam rained down one more time, the response to this eagle from the artist was a simple fist raised chest-high.

He might have been too worn out and too sore for anything more.

"It's all spontaneous," Woods said. "On 13 I went nuts and on 18 it was just like, 'sweet.'

"That's it. I can't tell you what's coming."

I can tell you what's coming Sunday, if the knee is willing to go one more round: Woods holding the U.S. Open trophy after winning his 14th major.

And if the knee isn't willing, I expect Tiger Woods to do it anyway.
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ESPN - As others faltered, Woods held it together to take Open lead - Columnist

tirk, Jun 15, 2008

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Sooner or later the streak is going to end. The question is will it be today?

There are a couple of reasons to think it will. It has to end at some point and the knee.

There are a couple of reasons to think it won't. Tiger is unlike any other athlete I've ever seen and there are only a couple of players close enough to keep him from winning.

I suspsect Tiger's going to have to shoot 71 or better to win. And he's going to have to do it from tee to green because he's used up his allottment of made bombs.

COTiger, Jun 15, 2008

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I suspect Tiger's going to have to shoot 71 or better to win. And he's going to have to do it from tee to green because he's used up his allottment of made bombs.
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Tiger said it himself: "17 pars and one birdie".

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