Golf
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I've just read a quick article on the rise and fall of Jordan Spieth. I feel like golf is full of these. A guy emerges who looks like the new the guy, and then they slide away. Spieth almost won back to back masters. Won a US open. Won the British Open. And that win was his last tournament win. 2017. He's now 92nd in the world. Dropped off the face of a cliff.
How many other guys have done the same? David Duval is the first one that always springs to mind. Was the main challenger to peak Tiger, won a British Open. And then disappeared. They were 1 and 2 for like a year and a half. Tiger is still #44. Duval is #1847
Even a guy like McIlroy was the anointed one (remember when he moved to Nike and shit?) he's still #6 in the world, but hasn't won a Major since 2015.
Stories like this are why i find Tiger Woods even more remarkable. Think how many next big things have come and gone in the period between his first Major in 97, and his last in frikken 2019!
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@mariner4life although I never saw Duvall as a genuine threat, but agree with everything else you said.
DJ is probably one who has maintained his level for a decent period.
Assume you seen this?
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@taniwharugby said in Golf:
@mariner4life although I never saw Duvall as a genuine threat, but agree with everything else you said.
DJ is probably one who has maintained his level for a decent period.
Assume you seen this?
That looks a bit suss to me. MJ has super steady earnings despite a 30m salary hit in 1994/5? Tiger looks like he made $70-100m for 20yrs but is somehow only estimated to be worth $800m ? Likewise Floyd, looks like he should be worth 1bn+ on that graphic?
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@mariner4life said in Golf:
Tiger looks like he made $70-100m for 20yrs but is somehow only estimated to be worth $800m
when you have to give away half your shit...
Good point
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@voodoo its on the internet, if you can't trust that shit, what can you trust?
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@taniwharugby said in Golf:
@voodoo its on the internet, if you can't trust that shit, what can you trust?
Ali popping up at about 5th in 2007 was interesting. He was about 65 and already chronically ill. Anyone know who paid him so much as an athlete about then?
Is there another Ali that I don't know about?
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@taniwharugby said in Golf:
@voodoo its on the internet, if you can't trust that shit, what can you trust?
Ali popping up at about 5th in 2007 was interesting. He was about 65 and already chronically ill. Anyone know who paid him so much as an athlete about then?
Is there another Ali that I don't know about?
Movie rights?
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@taniwharugby said in Golf:
@voodoo its on the internet, if you can't trust that shit, what can you trust?
Ali popping up at about 5th in 2007 was interesting. He was about 65 and already chronically ill. Anyone know who paid him so much as an athlete about then?
Is there another Ali that I don't know about?
Movie rights?
Good idea, but none of the Ali movies were at that time. "Ali" itself was 2001 with Will Smith., then nothing until 2009 and after.
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@taniwharugby said in Golf:
@voodoo its on the internet, if you can't trust that shit, what can you trust?
Ali popping up at about 5th in 2007 was interesting. He was about 65 and already chronically ill. Anyone know who paid him so much as an athlete about then?
Is there another Ali that I don't know about?
Google says he sold most of his image rights in 2006
The retired heavyweight fighter originally known as Cassius Clay will receive $50m (£28m) from the New York firm CKX, in return for an 80% stake in his licensing company, Goat - an acronym derived from his self-chosen soubriquet, the Greatest Of All Time. He and his fourth wife, Lonnie Ali, will retain control of the remaining 20%. -
@mariner4life said in Golf:
I've just read a quick article on the rise and fall of Jordan Spieth. I feel like golf is full of these. A guy emerges who looks like the new the guy, and then they slide away. Spieth almost won back to back masters. Won a US open. Won the British Open. And that win was his last tournament win. 2017. He's now 92nd in the world. Dropped off the face of a cliff.
https://www.pgatour.com/competition/2021/at-t-pebble-beach-pro-am/leaderboard.html
Looks like Jordan read that same article and it's got him mighty angry!!
Fuck you, Cliff!
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7 under
5 under
ParI'll reserve judgement
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@mariner4life I see David Duval in the field getting cut with a +7, but still better than John Daly (and Mickelson).
Two stroke lead for Spieth with a round to play.
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@Chris-B
Berger wins it -18 after 72.
Unless Spieth aces the par 5 18th, but comms don't seem to be entertaining that idea for some strange reason. -
@delicatessen Just turned it on to catch Spieth playing the 18th.
I'm a consistent slicer, but a hook into that sea would pretty much be compulsive!!!
Jordan ends up 3rd equal, which isn't quite the next big thing, but not a car crash.
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Tiger Woods in surgery after car crash, say LA County Sheriff's Department
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/golf/56172067
Tiger Woods is in surgery after suffering "multiple leg injuries" in a car crash in Los Angeles, California.
The LA County Sheriff's Department said that it "responded to a single-vehicle rollover" accident in which the "vehicle sustained major damage".
American Woods, 45, had to be "extricated from the wreck" by firefighters and paramedics.
Woods' agent Mark Steinberg said: "He is currently in surgery and we thank you for your privacy and support."
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Patrick Reed courting controversy again...
