BMW Championship

rleidle · #1 09-06-2007, 01:04 PM

Currently watching the BMW championships at work. Anyone else doing the same? Looks like Tiger is having a good round so far.

FireStorm · #2 09-06-2007, 01:24 PM

I'm following it on PGAtour.com, don't have enough chance to watch it. Some dismal bottom-end scores out there. Tiger doing well thusfar.

As I type this, Oberholser, who was #29 coming in, has withdrawn. Granted, we don't have reasoning yet, but seemingly another instance of a player whose ranking is close to a cutoff not caring enough to stick around.

shemp · #3 09-06-2007, 02:10 PM

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Seems to me there is an entirely different way to frame this: another instance of a player who knows his own body and game well enough to know that he needs to rest now to have a chance to advance.

If you look at the guys who play every week on tour, you'll quickly note their rate at making cuts and the lack of top 10s.

tuq · #4 09-06-2007, 03:20 PM

This Golf Channel coverage is delayed and it took me awhile to figure out why. It's not the weather, but apparently because the points leaders teed off this morning they decided to show them. Makes sense but argh, wish I wasn't spoiled about the results.

BigSoonerFan · #5 09-06-2007, 07:42 PM

What did Phil shoot?

BigSoonerFan · #6 09-06-2007, 07:43 PM

Just kidding! :-)

pokergrader · #7 09-08-2007, 07:47 PM

This looks like the final round will be good. Too bad it is an NFL sunday.

tuq · #8 09-08-2007, 08:37 PM

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This is why I'll gladly watch it at home. Just got done watching it delayed since I golfed today. They're saying that Stricker may have more support than Tiger - is this really possible? I thought that Tiger had more backing than Phil last week and he's as close as it gets in that department. I still think the casual fan that comes out to watch Tiger pulls for him no matter who the other guy is.

I tend to root for the underdog, thus against Tiger, but this Stricker story is so remarkable I will be rooting that much harder. Super nice guy + completely lost his game for a few years + improbable comeback = Cinderella story. And I like those.

BigSoonerFan · #9 09-08-2007, 08:58 PM

I was just watching my DVR of the third round as well and I thought I heard them say Phil made 52 out of 52 five-footers (and in) last week? Is that right? All I can say is Wow.

swede554 · #10 09-08-2007, 09:34 PM

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I was just watching my DVR of the third round as well and I thought I heard them say Phil made 52 out of 52 five-footers (and in) last week? Is that right? All I can say is Wow.

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It's impressive but that number inlcudes every single <1 ft or less tap-in. A better measurement would be how many putts he made in the 3ft-5ft range if they could do that for example.