Tiger has toooooo many shots--Sorry guys

[ForkaB]

If you are watching a horse race do you want to watch the horses with a chance of winning, or do you want the TV cameras to spend precious time on the two plugs battling for 16th place on their way to the glue factory?

Sorry Rich, I couldn't buy that horse race comparison. Not too many horse races with 50 horses running around a beautifully sculpted race track.

JJ


Funny you should say that, as I had in mind the English Grand National, run on the Saturday of the Masters, a steeplechase with 41 starters, two laps around the track, all sorts of trouble in between (21 finishers), trainwrecks at the end (leader throws his jockey off the horse at the last hurdle after colliding with another horse that had already thrown his jockey and was just running around the course for fun).  Now, they did show us replays of all the falls, but they spent the great majority of the race following the leaders, as they should have.

As far as I'm concerned if you want more ass shots of the non-contenders, get someone to video the practice rounds for you.  If you want to watch the toonamint, follow the leaders--they are what it's all about.  IVHMO, of course.

PS--the Grand National has such a following in the UK that Chuck and Cammie had to move their wedding forward a half an hour to ensure BBC coverage!

[Jim Johnson]

Rich,

A steeplechase actually crossed my mind after I posted that note. Wow, I had no idea that the Grand National was so big! I assume that Cammie couldn't get an entry into the big race, though...with the wedding and all?

Out of curiosity, how many minutes does it take to run that race (usually)?

All in all, just disappointed in the way CBS did the telecast of the last 9 holes, that's all. I just think it would have been nice to see a few more actual shots, not just guys standing around or walking. It's an incredible course, as some of our posters have seen in person, and it would have been great to have seen more of the course on tv, other than when the 2 big guys came rolling through. I just can't seem to win the lottery on those practice round tickets.

The guys that finished next in line behind Tiger and Chris D. (Goosen, Pampling, Hensby, Singh, and even Ryan Moore) were shown just once each on the back 9, and I think those were all on tape, not "live"...Pampling, Singh, and Moore were shown on the 18th green holing out.

Just my 2 cents.

JJ  

[Doug Wright]

Did anyone hear Lanny say that Tiger would be lucky to get his chip on #16 within DeMarco's ball? I am almost positive I heard him say that. It seems like Lanny was VERY quiet for several minutes after Tiger chipped in. It is hard to talk while eating crow!

David, yes that's exactly what he said. It was a very difficult shot but what he said was dumb--someone else had holed from there or nearly so earlier in the day, and of course DLIII holed out from over there a couple years ago too.

Anymore I usually turn the sound off watching golf because of the drivel spewed by the "learned" commentators, but left it on for The Masters so I could hear that great Masters song 1000 times plus of course the hushed tones of the commentators and polite applause of the patrons... I think they turned Lanny's mike off after Tiger holed that shot.