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Golfers: Tiger Woods is no longer #1 (YAY!)

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Baron Aloha

A Shining Example
Vijay Singh finally surpassed Tiger in the rankings after winning the Deutsche Bank Championship. Tiger held the top spot for 264 weeks. I for one, am elated by this news. I've been waiting for it to happen for a while actually. I never liked Tiger. He always struck me as kind of arrogant and his behavior on the green was really childish (basically throwing temper tantrums every time something didn't go his way). Singh is just a really great player. A consumate professional. I had a brief encounter with him years ago at the Kemper Open and he was just such a great guy... at least that's how he came off to me. Hopefully he will now receive the recognition he deserves. I don't expect him to reach Tiger's level of fame because Tiger is more marketable but it would be nice.

EA Sports: Vijay Singh Golf 2006?
 
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DMczaf

Member
"I hope she misses the cut. Why? Because she doesn't belong out here. If I'm drawn with her, which I won't be, I won't play"

Vijay Singh on Annika Sorenstam

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What a great guy!
 
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DJ_Tet

Banned
DMczaf said:
"I hope she misses the cut. Why? Because she doesn't belong out here. If I'm drawn with her, which I won't be, I won't play"

Vijay Singh on Annika Sorenstam

SINGH_V.jpg


What a great guy!
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Don't forget about the multiple DUI's :D
 
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Baron Aloha

A Shining Example
DMczaf said:
"I hope she misses the cut. Why? Because she doesn't belong out here. If I'm drawn with her, which I won't be, I won't play"

Vijay Singh on Annika Sorenstam

SINGH_V.jpg


What a great guy!
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Want to know why he said that? People are playing in these tours to make a living. When she plays in a mens tour that basically means that she bumps a guy out. Why is that a problem? Because there are men's tours and women's tours. Why should she get to double dip and compete in both? Not only that, but she didn't even earn the right to compete. She got a sponser's exemption. If she wanted to play she should have qualified like everyone else.
 
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AstroLad

Hail to the KING baby
JC10001 said:
Want to know why he said that? People are playing in these tours to make a living. When she plays in a mens tour that basically means that she bumps a guy out. Why is that a problem? Because there are men's tours and women's tours. Why should she get to double dip and compete in both? Not only that, but she didn't earn the right to compete. She got a sponser's exemption. If she wanted to play she should have qualified like everyone else.
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Uh, Annika played from the same tees as the men.
Annika will play from the same tees as the male players and will likely have about a 20- to 30-yard disadvantage on the non-par-3 holes.
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http://www.hookedongolf.com/john/02-14-03.html
http://www.golfdigest.com/newsandtour/index.ssf?/newsandtour/20030212sorenstam.html
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/news/story/0,6260,422879,00.html
http://www.therant.info/archive/000944.html

Besides, Vijay is a cheater.
 
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DJ_Tet

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JC10001 said:
Want to know why he said that? People are playing in these tours to make a living. When she plays in a mens tour that basically means that she bumps a guy out. Why is that a problem? Because there are men's tours and women's tours. Why should she get to double dip and compete in both? Not only that, but she didn't earn the right to compete. She got a sponser's exemption. If she wanted to play she should have qualified like everyone else.
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I agree with you on everything except for one. She got a sponsor's exemption as you mentioned. She didn't take anyone's job that week, of course if she made the cut it's theoretically possible that she could have. One person almost never can have an affect on the cut line however, only if there is say one person at 1 over and he gets in/gets bounced. I don't know that the cut line has ever rested on one person though, it's hard to explain.

What's easy though is that with the sponser's exemption she didn't take a spot from anyone. Sponsers want to make money, anything that can draw attention to a tournament allows for more money for everyone, so potentially she gave more exposure to players in that tourney.

That said, she should keep her ass on the LPGA at least until she can play from the men's tees. Michelle Wie anyone? :D
 
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Mike Works

Member
Vijay Singh is a dick, fuck him. Tiger is cocky and arrogant on the field at times, but he's earned that right.

Personally, I'd love to see the ghost of Stuart Payne crash a ghost plane into both of them.
 
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AstroLad

Hail to the KING baby
Bog said:
Did you even read that paragraph?
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I did; he edited it, and then I edited mine to include the quote from hookedongolf, thus quoting the new edited not-wrong (well, factually at least) version. Nice try, though, Mr. Super-Perceptive. Please Play Again.

On a related note, is there anything funnier on GA than someone coming in with a cute little one-liner and being totally fucking wrong?
 
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Matlock

Banned
AstroLad said:
On a related note, is there anything funnier on GA than someone coming in with a cute little one-liner and being totally fucking wrong?
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Yeah, some guy that goes from normal to cocky asswipe in .5 seconds.
 
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Shinobi

Member
JC10001 said:
Singh is just a really great player. A consumate professional.
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:lol :lol :lol Ah, can't wait till Bish hits this thread...

I like Tiger and Vijay myself. I was hoping Tiger could stay on top for another year or two, but Vijay's been without question the best player the last couple years and deserves the #1 ranking. Either way, it's just another coloured man for the rest of the whitewashed tour to chase. :lol
 
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MASB

Member
I'm glad Vijay got the #1 ranking. It's obvious Tiger hasn't been the best golfer on tour for at least the past two years. I wonder how far back they keep the statistics that apply to the rankings for Tiger to have stayed number one during his long 'drought'. I can't remember the last time Tiger won a tournament, let alone a major.
 
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Ned Flanders

Banned
Vijay is a machine. It was like a kidney punch on 17 when Tiger's second shot was closer to the pin than Vijays, but Vijay instead of just playing for par drilled the long birdie put and Tiger missed his. Tiger had a shot to be down only one stroke going into 18 but Vijay put the screws to his ass, and Tiger couldn't put under pressure (he had admittedly been a smidge left or right on the greens all day).

To Woods' credit, he went down like a man, and was completely gracious. He was not the least bit ashamed; in fact he was (rightfully) proud of his accomplishment and the great run he had. It's also great for the Americans that he's playing so well coming into the Ryder Cup..
 
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Luscious LeftFoot

Member
MASB said:
I'm glad Vijay got the #1 ranking. It's obvious Tiger hasn't been the best golfer on tour for at least the past two years. I wonder how far back they keep the statistics that apply to the rankings for Tiger to have stayed number one during his long 'drought'. I can't remember the last time Tiger won a tournament, let alone a major.
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Stats for the ranking go back 2 years based off wins and strength of the field... or something like that.

Woods' has won once this year, he had 5 or 6 wins last year.
 
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Incognito

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Matlock said:
Yeah, some guy that goes from normal to cocky asswipe in .5 seconds.
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when did matlock turn into GA's moral forum patrolman?

"that's highly unlikely of you, that attitude there sir.. quips are beneath you."

do you at least get some cool gear like screech did when he was the hall monitor?
 
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bishoptl

Banstick Emeritus
Shinobi said:
:lol :lol :lol Ah, can't wait till Bish hits this thread...

I like Tiger and Vijay myself. I was hoping Tiger could stay on top for another year or two, but Vijay's been without question the best player the last couple years and deserves the #1 ranking. Either way, it's just another coloured man for the rest of the whitewashed tour to chase. :lol
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You know, I was about to write this 2 page dissertation on the PGA Tour and the whole sponsors' exemption nonsense, but then my pizza arrived.

Pizza > golf.
 
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Shinobi

Member
Ned Flanders said:
To Woods' credit, he went down like a man, and was completely gracious. He was not the least bit ashamed; in fact he was (rightfully) proud of his accomplishment and the great run he had. It's also great for the Americans that he's playing so well coming into the Ryder Cup..
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Agreed...of course we must both be wrong since he's all cocky and arrogant and stuff.



bishoptl said:
You know, I was about to write this 2 page dissertation on the PGA Tour and the whole sponsors' exemption nonsense, but then my pizza arrived.

Pizza > golf.
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:lol I just wanted you to touch on the Vijay score card scandal again. :lol

BTW, fuck pizza...
 
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AstroLad

Hail to the KING baby
Matlock said:
Yeah, some guy that goes from normal to cocky asswipe in .5 seconds.
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Really, what's funny about that? Annoying? Maybe. Frustrating? Probably. Funny? Not really; at least not nearly as funny as the hypothetical situation I described.

:p
 
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DJ_Tet

Banned
bishoptl said:
You know, I was about to write this 2 page dissertation on the PGA Tour and the whole sponsors' exemption nonsense, but then my pizza arrived.

Pizza > golf.
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What's wrong with a sponsor's exemption? Without sponsors, there's no golf. Without sponsors, there's no sports (see hockey ;) )
 
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Matlock

Banned
Shinobi said:
BTW, fuck pizza...
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:lol

I'm going to get a pizza and a root beer float to spite you, Shinobi!

AstroLad said:
Really, what's funny about that? Annoying? Maybe. Frustrating? Probably. Funny? Not really; at least not nearly as funny as the hypothetical situation I described.

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I think you know what I was getting at. ;)
 
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AstroLad

Hail to the KING baby
Matlock said:
:lol

I'm going to get a pizza and a root beer float to spite you, Shinobi!




I think you know what I was getting at. ;)
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Not really, but maybe that's because it's 1:30 am here and I'm on seemingly my thousandth page of Corporations reading tonight. There is a kind of risk-reward that goes into being a smartass though, and I really do find it pretty amusing when the risk side wins out. :p
 
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DJ_Tet

Banned
This Vijay appreciation thread has turned out even better than I anticipated :D


Let's don't forget he's a drunk who drives!
 
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