In light of Tiger pulling out after a 6 over front 9 yesterday, it made me remember and resurrect this thread.
Love reading the posts of the "oh so certain, no way Tiger can fail" acolytes.
I especially enjoy reading the posts of maurice and Asterix.
I will still even admit anything can happen and he may yet come back to former glory. The point was to maybe hear those people who refused to acknowledge that it was even a reasonable possibility, recant their statements.
I might even take 10:1 odds from Asterix now.
Shack, what exactly do you want me to recant? I stated items that were FACTS in November 2009 (before the "incident")
I had four posts on this thread.
1. "Tiger is the greatest golfer ever". I still beleive that to be the case given depth of competition in his era, and peak performance. If I thought he was the greatest golfer ever with 14 majors, obviously my opinion is not based on total majors. So I can't recant that opinion - I can see how someone thinks Jack is the best.
2. "Tiger will win at least one major in 2010" - That was a well supported prediction. He had been historically dominant on all four of the courses that were in the major rotation in 2010 and was dominant in 2008 and 2009 winning 11 of 24 events. This would be like my saying I made a bad play throwing all in with pocket aces.
3. "Tiger is not slowing down". I constructed reasonable factual analysis showing Tiger was not slowing down in 2008 and 2009 and thought using majors was too small a sample size to make such assessment. He won 11 of 24 events in that period. He held on to the world number one ranking for most of 2010, despite being a non factor for most of 2010. That gives you quite the indication of how successful and dominant Tiger was in 2008 and 2009. Why would I recant something that was factually correct at the time I said it. He was not slowing down.
4. "Questor is a Douche who picks on grammar when he knows he can't argue the merits of another post". Not going to recant that. I then walked away from the thread as I said I would.
After these posts, you made the brilliant commentary that he is going to slow down at some point. Bravo, Shack. Of course he is going to slow down at "Some point" - pretty easy comment to make with no time frame attached. Of course my argument was that his performance was not slowing down in 2008 and 2009. Two totally unrelated concepts.
So I have nothing to recant for any of the comments I made in this thread. Sorry.