Sorry Eldrick, These Are The REAL Comeback Stories

[jog49]

The way these prima donna golfers were choking coming down the stretch at The Masters, it's a wonder Happy Gilmore didn't come out of the clubhouse and win another one.

[ZERO25]

I'm fully aware of the talent and expertise that goes into hitting a little white ball into a hole in the ground. The big difference is the obscene amount of money involved in comparison to the mortal danger. Woody (pun intended) misses a putt putt he sulks and goes to the clubhouse and belts down a shot or two so as to drown his sorrow's, a guy like Robert Ballou puts a wheel wrong runnin' the cush at Eldora and he can end up in a hallow for a couple of months, or worse. He does it all for a few thousand dollars. Which takes the larger testicular dimensions and the most impressive? I think we all know the answer.

I have to add that Robin may have overlooked a huge comeback story. I'm 25 years a friend of Jack Hewitt, thus I'm guilty of bias. But, Jack came very, very close to dying at Eldora in 1993 in a wingless sprint car crash. It took him nearly a year to fully recover, but recover he did. He went on to win several more sprint and Silver Crown division events and qualify for the 1998 Indy 500. He also executed what many believe to be the greatest feat ever accomplished in a racecar on dirt. He won the A-mains of all 4 divisions at the 1998 Eldora 4 Crown Nationals. A feat approached only by Kyle Larson who won the 3 USAC division A-mains in one night back in 2011. If that ain't a huge comeback story I don't know what is.

While I concede Tiger may not have the biggest balls, but I betcha his are the WHITEST and HARDEST!....pun intended

They're pretty fast too, one of his balls after a drive, was clocked at 176 mph! I thought the only time a black guys balls were that fast was when they are being chased by the po po!

[CIRF]

While I concede Tiger may not have the biggest balls, but I betcha his are the WHITEST and HARDEST!....pun intended

They're pretty fast too, one of his balls after a drive, was clocked at 176 mph! I thought the only time a black guys balls were that fast was when they are being chased by the po po!

Poor Eldrick has problems with trees getting in the way when being pursued! LOL!

[Clayton_Wetter]

I've never been a fan of Tiger Woods. Sorry!!!!!

[Stefan2k4]

How about Steve Torrence for a real comeback story.

https://youtu.be/fB7Kw8pwrL0

https://youtu.be/hLcXxhAni-o

Cancer, a heart attack, a terrifying crash at Dallas in 2017, and then having the championship narrowly slip away in the final race. Then coming back in 2018, to win the championship, by winning every single race in the countdown, like no one has ever done before. That's got to be one of the greatest comeback stories in motorsports!

[Barbecueboy]

I'm fully aware of the talent and expertise that goes into hitting a little white ball into a hole in the ground. The big difference is the obscene amount of money involved in comparison to the mortal danger. Woody (pun intended) misses a putt putt he sulks and goes to the clubhouse and belts down a shot or two so as to drown his sorrow's, a guy like Robert Ballou puts a wheel wrong runnin' the cush at Eldora and he can end up in a hallow for a couple of months, or worse. He does it all for a few thousand dollars. Which takes the larger testicular dimensions and the most impressive? I think we all know the answer.

I have to add that Robin may have overlooked a huge comeback story. I'm 25 years a friend of Jack Hewitt, thus I'm guilty of bias. But, Jack came very, very close to dying at Eldora in 1993 in a wingless sprint car crash. It took him nearly a year to fully recover, but recover he did. He went on to win several more sprint and Silver Crown division events and qualify for the 1998 Indy 500. He also executed what many believe to be the greatest feat ever accomplished in a racecar on dirt. He won the A-mains of all 4 divisions at the 1998 Eldora 4 Crown Nationals. A feat approached only by Kyle Larson who won the 3 USAC division A-mains in one night back in 2011. If that ain't a huge comeback story I don't know what is.

Man if danger itself predicated itself into the pay scale more our soldiers and police would be very wealthy.....unfortunately as you know it ain't that way,the advertisers pay the salary of those folks that win the " Daytona 500s " of golf.

I'm buying what your saying 100%, but to hit that little white ball a little less than everyone else in a major set up against major caliber competition isn't chopped liver.

Tiger or not....that golf sheet is hard to play and master man.....I've tried and got respectably close.

[Barbecueboy]

The way these prima donna golfers were choking coming down the stretch at The Masters, it's a wonder Happy Gilmore didn't come out of the clubhouse and win another one.

Laughing out loud.......all I can think about now is that tiger is in his happy place.

[Barbecueboy]

Poor Eldrick has problems with trees getting in the way when being pursued! LOL!

Wha wha wha happin waz.....

[CIRF]

Man if danger itself predicated itself into the pay scale more our soldiers and police would be very wealthy.....unfortunately as you know it ain't that way,the advertisers pay the salary of those folks that win the " Daytona 500s " of golf.

I'm buying what your saying 100%, but to hit that little white ball a little less than everyone else in a major set up against major caliber competition isn't chopped liver.

Tiger or not....that golf sheet is hard to play and master man.....I've tried and got respectably close.

BBQB, pay grade is not what's at issue, at least not on my end. As far as the money being bandied around to these golfing "athletes" it's immaterial to me. Although I fully understand the major portion of the demographic golf broadcasts are directed towards are upper middle class on up to ultra fat cat fiscal and social status. Their brand loyalty is far more monetarily important to the sponsors and advertisers than mine is to say........Mean Green cleaning fluid, which sponsors the Hoffman #69 USAC sprint car. Thus, the huge monetary disparity. I personally compare the money won by professional golfers to that paid to professional bowlers. I understand that successful pro bowlers do not nail the jack that successful pro golfers do. Where the similarity comes in is both activities appeal to a wider cross section of people due to the fact that anyone can do it and large numbers of non professionals participate as a pass time thus the advertising potential.

My main point is the skill and concentration required is much, much higher runnin' the cush in a wingless, full house 410 sprinter at Eldora goin' 3 wide at buck twenty five with your life on the line than to hit a little white ball, chase after it, and then hit again 'till it goes in a hole in the ground. That's a fact, no matter the pay scale.

What Eldrick (I'm not a fan of the nickname "Tiger" since Eldrick is in no way an example of a human form of a tiger) did makes for a warm and fuzzy storyline but can't realistically be compared to the examples RM makes. No way no how.

[Barbecueboy]

Got it.....

[ZERO25]

Got it.....

Me too.....but we both know, golf is wayyyy more precise than driving a racecar, but obviously not as dangerous! (unless your wife is chasing after your cheating as@ with a golf club)

[CIRF]

Me too.....but we both know, golf is wayyyy more precise than driving a racecar, but obviously not as dangerous! (unless your wife is chasing after your cheating as@ with a golf club)

ZERO, my bride and I are pretty good friends with a guy that raced for a living his entire adult life 'till retirement. In fact this friend holds some fairly substantial auto racing related records to this day. He also has done some golfing in his day.

This friend is where I get my information regarding the analogy of the precision required in both "sports" since I have no experience in one of the two. Well. To be precise, both are not sports, one is a game or activity, if you will, and the other is one of only 3 true "sports" according to the wisdom of the late Ernest Hemingway. Just for the record those 3 true sports are bull fighting, mountaineering and motor racing.

Since our friend was involved strictly in oval track racing that genre' is the source of his frame of reference. He said a snap, millisecond decision must be made multiple times a lap with no time to fully process the situation. Even more when in heavy racing traffic. It's pure instinct, experience and God given talent. A golf shot can be pondered for a period of time and from more than one angle with the advise of a second party and everyone within earshot had better be quiet or risk immediate ejection! LOL!

I have absolutely no choice but to take my friends' word on it since he actually excelled in one and participated fairly regularly in the other.

Here is a quote from an engineering professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, better known as MIT, which is the preeminent engineering and engineering research institute in the world. I'll take his word, too!

"Motor racing is dancing with 30 bulls on a 3000 foot cliff made of unforgiving stone at 320 feet per second. One mistake, and you join Dancing With The Stars and live on only in the pages of history and the thousands of minds of those that love to watch their favorite sport."

[ZERO25]

ZERO, my bride and I are pretty good friends with a guy that raced for a living his entire adult life 'till retirement. In fact this friend holds some fairly substantial auto racing related records to this day. He also has done some golfing in his day.

This friend is where I get my information regarding the analogy of the precision required in both "sports" since I have no experience in one of the two. Well. To be precise, both are not sports, one is a game or activity, if you will, and the other is one of only 3 true "sports" according to the wisdom of the late Ernest Hemingway. Just for the record those 3 true sports are bull fighting, mountaineering and motor racing.

Since our friend was involved strictly in oval track racing that genre' is the source of his frame of reference. He said a snap, millisecond decision must be made multiple times a lap with no time to fully process the situation. Even more when in heavy racing traffic. It's pure instinct, experience and God given talent. A golf shot can be pondered for a period of time and from more than one angle with the advise of a second party and everyone within earshot had better be quiet or risk immediate ejection! LOL!

I have absolutely no choice but to take my friends' word on it since he actually excelled in one and participated fairly regularly in the other.

Here is a quote from an engineering professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, better known as MIT, which is the preeminent engineering and engineering research institute in the world. I'll take his word, too!

Not true at all concerning precision. Many years ago, it was written about in a golf magazine. It was proven through physics, that being only 1/4 inch mis-alignment of the clubhead at impact, resulted in the shot being 40 yds off, down the fairway! Now that's, precision!

[CIRF]

Not true at all concerning precision. Many years ago, it was written about in a golf magazine. It was proven through physics, that being only 1/4 inch mis-alignment of the clubhead at impact, resulted in the shot being 40 yds off, down the fairway! Now that's, precision!

Golf Magazine?! Now there's a publication that surely would have qualified personnel and objectively attained data to disprove what a guy says that has done both in a relatively competitive environment. Come on ZERO ol' buddy. Ya' gotta' do better than that.

I posed the question to the driver in question very recently. We actually had a phone conversation since this thread was created and he'd also read the Robin Miller article. While making small talk I asked point blank and the driver I speak of got a bit of a chuckle out of the comparison!

I've yet to have seen a professional golfer that I honestly believe would strap their ass into a full house 410 wingless sprinter and back it in at joint like Terre Haute! Least of all Eldrick. Most would need a change of diaper! LOL! But I've golfed with a couple of drivers that given a degree of dedication and time to perfect their game would be pretty dam good golfers. Not pro quality, but pretty dam good, nonetheless.

[ZERO25]

Golf Magazine?! Now there's a publication that surely would have qualified personnel and objectively attained data to disprove what a guy says that has done both in a relatively competitive environment. Come on ZERO ol' buddy. Ya' gotta' do better than that.

I posed the question to the driver in question very recently. We actually had a phone conversation since this thread was created and he'd also read the Robin Miller article. While making small talk I asked point blank and the driver I speak of got a bit of a chuckle out of the comparison!

I've yet to have seen a professional golfer that I honestly believe would strap their ass into a full house 410 wingless sprinter and back it in at joint like Terre Haute! Least of all Eldrick. Most would need a change of diaper! LOL! But I've golfed with a couple of drivers that given a degree of dedication and time to perfect their game would be pretty dam good golfers. Not pro quality, but pretty dam good, nonetheless.

I'll betcha this! I can teach someone to drive a dirt car and be competitive a lot sooner than teaching someone to golf and be competitive! And with Tigers skill set and hate to lose mentality, his learning curve would be a lot shorter than most!

If you think golf is less precise......go drive a vehicle and turn the steering wheel a 1/4 inch, then go hit a golf ball and turn the golf club a 1/4 inch, and see which one gives better results!And as a comparison, a pro golfers clubhead is moving at 120mph plus!