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Originally Posted by flip
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Dion, I know millions of people play golf but how many NHLers are named Davis Love III. Most golfers come from money already, same with Tennis. It is a rather elite sport end of story.
I know lots of other people play it, but it is one of those sports that rich people tend to be good at because they are the ones who can play it.
Malkolm14: I completely agree with the first part of your statement about Tigers domination, but I think that is why it is less impressive, he's so good that playing injured just levels the playing field a bit.
Jiri: as to the type of injury, again I think that golf is probably last or close to it on the scale of physically demanding sports. Was Tigers feat great? Sure. But not #1 story of the year. Maybe top ten but that is iffy to me.
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I don't think you're putting the knee into proper perspective with regards to a golf swing.
A golfer playing with a torn ACL in his pivot knee is like a quarterback playing with a torn ligament in his throwing shoulder. Even moreso in Tiger's case, since his particular swing has been well documented as to the strain it puts on his knee (even before he tore his ACL).
Edit: In fact, in proper perspective... To do what Tiger did in the US open would actually be like a quarterback not just playing with a torn throwing-arm shoulder ligament, but actually playing all season long and then winning the Super Bowl with that same injury. I'm sorry, but it just doesn't happen.
Don't forget, Tiger tore his ACL 10 months prior to the US Open. He played in 12 tournaments, winning 9 of them, before winning the US Open in 91 holes.
So... For complete perspective, that's like Brett Favre tearing a ligament in his throwing shoulder in the 3rd game of the season... but playing all 12 remaining games, winning 9 of them, making the playoffs and then winning the Super Bowel in sudden death OT... all with his throwing shoulder flopping around in its socket. I'm pretty sure that would make a few headlines somewhere.
Edit: Don't get me wrong, I'm definitely conceding that the potential for getting hit in a football game completely outranks anything a golfer goes through. So, obviously if a QB actually did that, it would be an insane story... but for this example I'm just talking about the dynamics of a QB's throwing shoulder versus a golfer's pivot knee.
hmmm dont dog out baseball players, i know plenty of people who played in college hurt. Our pitcher threw in our conference tourney with a broken glove hand. I played half a season with a bad shoulder, that i later found was 3 tears in my labrum ( no NOT Labia.... but i was for sure thats what the doc said when he first told me 
)..... Baseball Players are very tough, you might not see it in the MLB bc those guys are paid millions and every lil injury puts them on the sidelines mostly because of the trainers and team officials not wanting their investment to be wasted because they rushed a guy back from a sore shoulder or back , or hand
