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U.S. Open @ Bethpage

Frayed Knot Jun 18 2009 08:28 AM

... and they're immediately hit by a rain delay.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 18 2009 08:44 AM

There's been so much rain this month there are mushrooms growing in our yard, for reals.

TransMonk Jun 18 2009 08:46 AM

Trippy, dude.

metirish Jun 18 2009 08:52 AM

My wife likes to mention how she would like to live in Ireland , I've reminded her this past few days that this is what it can be like . A day like today is quite common there. Meanwhile the forecast for the Open is brutal all four days.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 18 2009 09:02 AM

Sucks. Got the Met game Saturday afternoon and a Big BBQ Sunday.

Edgy DC Jun 18 2009 09:08 AM

And why shouldn't Metstock be rainy and muddy?

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jun 18 2009 09:32 AM

Just don't eat the brown pizza. (Seriously. The whole wheat dough is subpar.)

Farmer Ted Jun 19 2009 02:22 PM

TigerTV, I mean ESPN, following Mr. Woods shot-by-shot even as he's 10 strokes behind. Yup, no one else out there at Bethpage but Tiger.

metirish Jun 19 2009 02:41 PM

Do they even know who Graeme McDowell is?

metirish Jun 21 2009 01:14 PM

Haven't been following this at all but I just turned over a few minutes ago and they had tiger on the tee , no idea what hole it was but he was +1 , then they cut to Ricky Barnes at -9 ....seems pointless to me to be showing Tiger right there.

TheOldMole Jun 21 2009 03:11 PM

They've mostly been following the leaders. Tiger is always a story, and you're going to cover him, but they haven't been following him.

Edgy DC Jun 22 2009 10:47 AM

Woods had a very good three rounds after a disaster in the rain to start, and ended up sniffing the back end of the leadrboard. Is this an historical weakness. Has he played poorly in the rain in the past?

Farmer Ted Jun 22 2009 02:05 PM

Too bad about the heckling drunks. Yankee fans, obviously.

HahnSolo Jun 22 2009 02:23 PM

="Edgy DC":33cfkgc9] Is this an historical weakness. Has he played poorly in the rain in the past?[/quote:33cfkgc9] Don't know, but he has been plagued by poor opening rounds at majors before. Rockin' Doc Jun 22 2009 07:47 PM Tiger Woods is without question the best golfer in the world and a tremendous competitor that never gives up, but even he can't win every time out. ESPN and other media outlets often seem to forget that Tiger is human and can not win every week. When I first saw the ESPN highlights of todays final round I would have sworn that Woods had won. They showed more shots of Woods than they did of Glover, Mickelson, Duval, Barnes, and Fisher combined combined. Yet all of them finished ahead of Woods who finished tied for 6th place. Each of them represented a story equally as compelling as another Tiger victory would have. I know it is because of ratings that the media keeps showing Tiger no matter his position in relation to the lead, but it often gets ridiculous in my opinion. Frayed Knot Jun 22 2009 10:07 PM ="Edgy DC":2xxtgxmu]Woods had a very good three rounds after a disaster in the rain to start, and ended up sniffing the back end of the leadrboard. Is this an historical weakness. Has he played poorly in the rain in the past?[/quote:2xxtgxmu] Certainly not to where a pattern has been established. He had that disaster round 3 during horrid conditions that could only spell July in Scotland during a British Open about 5-6 years ago but that can happen to anyone. Generally he wins in all kinds of conditions and on all kinds of courses. What killed him this week was a horrible 4 hole stretch which he played in 4-over to close out round 1. As I've said before, that while, yes, the networks can over-do Tiger at times, but his track record mandates that they almost have to follow him until he's totally out of it and he rarely is. And what's more: unlike certain top pros who will mail it in once they see little chance of winning (there's not enough difference in the check for 10th place and 20th place to make the top dogs sweat out every stroke once they're already established, already rich, and making their money more off course than on) Tiger NEVER does and will scratch his way from 35th to 18th just for the pride of it and the off-chance that everyone ahead of him collapses. He wins as much (and probably more) from what he does at the end of a long and trying round on Thursday or Friday than from any heroics on Sundays and that makes it even tougher to take the cameras away from him while he's on the course.