O.T.Where will Tiger finsh in this open

[Greg Tallman]

His basic short game continues to be subpar. That to be seems to be his biggest shortfall.....

His bunker play is putrid. It is as though he is terrified to even try to hit the correct shot... chunk and hope doesn't work very often, maybe 20% of the time as Tiger is finding out.

[Randy Thompson]

So any thoughts what he will shoot today....has he lost confiedence, will he continue to miss the short putts and strugle for par, will he be all over the course and give us an exhibition of his remarkable recovery capability and make parīs and a few bogies or will we see his old potential and shoot 66 or 67 and give the front runner a scare and come close? The course was set up for him to shoot 66 yesterday and I have a feeling it will be similarly set up today but what Tiger we will see. I ask because I have no freaking idea!

[Randy Thompson]

Course seems to playing a lot easier...somebody could easily shout 65 today and normally, you would think it would be Tiger but who knows, it will definetly surprize me though if he comes out hot and makes a move.

[Ken Moum]

Randy: me neither!  He's hitting it good enough that I see 74 as a top end, and he's got enough holes in his game that I don't see anothing under 68 in the cards, either.  That makes him... The typical, pretty damn good, likely to win on any given week, Tour player.  In other words, totally unpredictable.

Well, he's on pace to shoot 90 after only five holes, so there's that.

K

[Randy Thompson]

Randy: me neither!  He's hitting it good enough that I see 74 as a top end, and he's got enough holes in his game that I don't see anothing under 68 in the cards, either.  That makes him... The typical, pretty damn good, likely to win on any given week, Tour player.  In other words, totally unpredictable.

Well, he's on pace to shoot 90 after only five holes, so there's that.

K

At least there not making us watch it, stroke by stroke, disaster by disaster. New percentages hot off the press, 0% of winning and 0% of finishing in the top five! 50-50 chance of inventing a sicknesss or injury and not finishing! Ok its out now...I am a fair weather fan!

[archie_struthers]

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He fooled me too on Thursday and Friday , as he hit it so good and in all the right spots.   It's hard to keep,hitting that block cut and hold Nicklaus , Trevino and Hogan all released the club and hit it left to right. Pretty hard to not release it occasionally , particularly under pressure.    Tiger has such great talent that he was doing it under the crucible.   However his putter let him down in the end, as it seems destined to do these days.

[Phil McDade]

On my two cards I have:

Donald
Dufner
Z. Johnson
Kuchar
Mahan
McIlroy
Mickelson
Rose
Westwood
Woods

Furyk
Garcia
D. Johnson
Kuchar
McIlroy
Mickelson
Oosthuizen
Strticker
Westwood
Woods

Lot of big names there, Bogey -- not exactly Fleck, Simpson and Janzen. Olympic usually produces odd winners at the Open. What about someone like D.A. Points? Not long, but pretty accurate, and decent at hitting greens. If the set-up and conditions produces a winning score in line with past US Opens there (around par, maybe a stroke or two under), I'd go with a plodder.

Plodder! Simpson ranks 101st on Tour in driving distance, 125th in driving accuracy, and 15th in GIRs.