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Running Tiger Woods thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!, Aug 13, 2014.

  1. JC

    JC Well-Known Member

    He did. I didn't think anybody bought it.
     
  2. Chef2

    Chef2 Well-Known Member

    • Tiger Woods 9-1
    • Dustin Johnson 10-1
    • Justin Thomas 10-1
    • Rory McIlroy 10-1
    • Justin Rose 12-1
    • Jordan Spieth 14-1
    • Phil Mickelson 16-1
    • Bubba Watson 16-1
    • Jason Day 16-1
    • Rickie Fowler 18-1
    • Jon Rahm 18-1
    • Sergio Garcia 25-1
    • Paul Casey 25-1
    • Hideki Matsuyama 30-1
    • Tommy Fleetwood 30-1
    • Marc Leishman 40-1
    • Alex Noren 40-1
    • Patrick Reed 40-1
    • Henrick Stenson 40-1
    • Matt Kuchar 50-1
    • Louis Oosthuizen 50-1
    • Adam Scott 60-1

    Tempted to take a run at Casey and Fowler.
    I do think Tiger wins it though.
     
  3. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    I'll scream if I hear one more quasi-pundit say "Tiger shouldn't be the favorite!" He's the betting favorite, and the reason why is because if bookies hung him Kuchar-like odds on him now, they'd end up with millions and millions of dollars in liability and then they'd lose their jobs if Tiger won. As it is now they've got millions in liability, which is why you can get some great numbers on the other guys.

    I'd put a sawbuck on Noren, Casey, Stenson and Scott. And a fiver on Cabrera at 300-1, as I saw him the other day at the South Point in Vegas.
     
  4. In addition to the new book out, which sounds like a lot of crap .. there's this from the Big Lead ...

     
  5. Alma

    Alma Well-Known Member

    What I've read of the new book is not a lot of crap. It may not be who Woods is now, but it's more or less who Woods was then.

    Thank goodness most of us grow up a little.
     
  6. It's written by two guys who never covered Woods and I don't think did a lot of interviews with people who were actually close to him.
    It sounds to me like the Kitty Kelley's of TW bios.
     
  7. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    Noren and Stenson at 40-1 are real overlays. I might be tempted to get behind Rahm and Fleetwood, too.
     
  8. Alma

    Alma Well-Known Member

    Yeah, I don't see that as a detriment. Quite the opposite.
     
  9. BitterYoungMatador2

    BitterYoungMatador2 Well-Known Member

    They interviewed over 200 people. Woods declined to be interviewed and locked down those closest to him and prevented them from being interviewed.
     
  10. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    Ditto. A lot of guys who "covered" Woods only knew him as the guy between the ropes and in the (canned) press conferences. And we all know that guy too. From what I have heard and read so far, this book appears to be darned good at peeling back the curtain on Tiger as a person.
     
  11. Alma

    Alma Well-Known Member

    Oh, I think they knew him the other way, too. Maybe the sex addict stuff - they weren't behind those ropes - but they knew he was a prick.

    They excused it because he could golf.

    I mean, what a thing to excuse being a rotten guy for. Golfing.
     
  12. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    And Tiger was putting food on all their tables. There's plenty of pack journalism in golf and no one was breaking outta that to tell Tiger's untold story. And no one is now. It takes someone like Keteyian, who doesn't need the royalties to stay afloat, to do this kind of book.
     
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