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Tiger Woods won’t be holding a golf club until 2009!
0 Comments Published August 14th, 2008 in Golf News, Tiger Woods.
Tiger Woods won't be holding a golf club until 2009!
It looks like Tiger Woods won’t be holding a golf club until 2009 folks. Well, that’s what I expected after all those surgeries but the real bad news is for the PGA Tour sponsors.
With absence of Tiger Woods, TV ratings have dropped over 50% over last year. That won’t be a big problem for most folks but for people who are sponsoring the tournaments, they are really losing 50% of their ad revenue.
What’s amazing is that a single human being can effect the TV ratings, especially when you consider the other 200 top players in the world.
Yes, most people would like to watch #1 golfer in the world, not #2 or #3.
As for waiting, I am also really tired of watching golf tournaments without Tiger.
My typical thought process when watching a major these days, “If Tiger was playing, he’s probably going to be 3 better than the field, of course leading the tournament”.
I am sure Padraig Harrington will have plenty to worry about when Tiger comes back. In the meanwhile, he’s free to take all the freebie tournaments as he can.
“As far as swinging a club, that’s not going to happen until next year,” Woods wrote in a blog on tigerwoods.com. “I just don’t have a choice. We simply don’t know what type of swelling there would be or if there would be any residual effects the next day once you start wheeling and dealing on the knee.
Without Woods, the Nielsen ratings for the last two majors were dramatically lower, despite consecutive inspiring victories by Padraig Harrington.
The PGA Championship on CBS had a final-round overnight rating of 3.0, a drop of 55% from last year when Woods won. And the final round of the British Open on ABC had an overnight rating of 3.5, a decrease of 14.6% from last year.
If the Ryder Cup on NBC can’t deliver big numbers, without Woods, it doesn’t bode well for the upcoming FedEx Cup series, in which Woods won $10 million last year.
One thing I realized though, “Tiger Woods is golf, golf is Tiger Woods“. Without Tiger, there would be no $10 Million in prizes, we might still have boring PGA Tour pros fighting for $1 Million.
At least for the time being that Tiger Woods is breathing, we will get to be part of golf where purses are worth 10 times more than what they should be.
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Tiger Woods Swing Plane Secret Revealed Part II
0 Comments Published July 5th, 2008 in A+Featured Swing Tips, Swing Secrets, Swing Tips, Tiger Woods, Tiger Woods Swing, swing analysis.
Remember I revealed the secret of Tiger Woods swing plane secret little bit ago?
Well, here’s another photoshopped image of Tiger Woods’ backswing plane.
If you can imagine the plane formed by the red-circles I drew, you will quickly notice that Tiger is actually on an “inside-out” plane.
What can you learn from this?
Try swinging the club more inside to out. Backswing is always better suited for slightly inside-out planes than the other way around.
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Video of Tiger Woods as a Junior Golfer
0 Comments Published June 24th, 2008 in Golf News, Golf Video, Tiger Woods.Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode
Here’s a very interesting video of Tiger’s junior golfing life between 1 and 20. Lol, you can take some tips on how to get your daughter/son to become a great golfing legend.
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Tiger Woods and Rocco Mediate Ties for Lead at U.S. Open!
1 Comment Published June 15th, 2008 in Golf News, Golf Predictions, Tiger Woods.Wow, what a great finish by Tiger to hole an 8 footer to tie with Rocco Mediate and force an 18-hole playoff.
I didn’t know Rocco would finish up at the top but he sure did and I must say it’s more luck than his skills.
Tomorrow will be another exciting match to watch as Tiger beats Rocco. I wouldn’t even give Rocco a second chance for a one-on-one dual with Tiger.
On the side note, I hit the ball great today, here’s today’s swing keys:
1. Setup to the target parallel. I can’t believe how many times I start aligning myself to the right of target and get into lots of unnecessary swing flaws. Setup is probably the first thing before even trying to mess with your swing.
2. Feel the cocking of wrists after takeaway.
3. Really feel the lower body and upper body working together on the downswing, holding the lag and extending all the way after impact.
4. Feel like doing a 2-handed basketball pass while holding the lag. It almost feels like you are flinging your wrists about 50 yards right of the target.
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Tiger Shoots 30 on the Back Nine and tied for Second at U.S. Open
0 Comments Published June 13th, 2008 in Davis Love III, Golf News, Golf Predictions, Stuart Appleby, Tiger Woods.Well, I spent the whole day watching Tiger and Phil battle it out. Tiger did well on the back nine by shooting a nice 30.
What’s my predictions for tomorrow?
Well, I think it will be about the same with Tiger and Stuart staying on the leaderboard while everyone else drops off the top.
I think time has proven over and over that you need game to stay on top, not just for the first 2 days.
Expect players like David Love III to climb more on top and players like Rocco Mediate fall to mediocracy. (No pun intended Rocco, but you ain’t got the stuff to go all four days.)
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