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Originally Posted by Peanut
 It's a rare Sunday when Tiger is winning a tournament and "just playing par". If he's leading, then yeah I guess he can just play par and see if anyone can catch him, but I'm not sure he really does that? If he's coming from behind to try and take the lead, he definitely doesn't just play conservative and wait for the field to choke.
If you're referring to the Major tournaments where the guys are shooting over par on the final day, well, those courses are set-up to be so insanely, ridiculously hard that (in my opinion) posting an even-par round on Sunday has got to be basically equivalent to at least 5-6 under on a "regular" PGA course. Wasn't it the last US Open that the players were saying a 10-handicapper would've done well to break 100 on that course? |
I'm referring to when he has met any of the other names in a big tourney and the result has been anything but they choke. Els=choke, Mickelson=choke, Garcia=choke. Tiger has the great mental game and just does what he needs to do to win. There is nothing wrong with that and nor does it diminish his wins.
Just that Nicklaus had to drop a birdie on the 18th more often than not to beat a charging Watson, Trevino, Player, Palmer etc. Not cruise as his playing partner shot a closing day 79.