good dolphin wrote:
Golf Fight!
2) How is someone who grew up on a course playing a game every day that few could afford to play once in a while an outsider? It's difficult to call a person who spent his childhood in such a manner not part of the priveleged class...and at the same time deriding those who busted their butts carrying bags for years just so they could afford college.
3) Did Tiger graduate from Stanford?
4) Why would you consider him athletic? What other athletic feats has he performed?
2) When the game is/and has always been either cost prohibitive or restrictive, even though one may play quite a bit on public courses, (you) are an outsider. Again this mostly deals with economics, public perception and unfortunately still, race. The kid from Back of the Yards, Cal City, Berwyn or take your pick of working class neighborhoods is to some extent an outsider, just like Tiger was to some extent. Admittedly, once Tiger became a known prodigy, he became less of an outsider, but still on the outside looking in to some degree.
3) Don't know, but that he got in and as Hank Stram would say (would've said), that he matriculated down the field there to some degree, which is impressive in its own right (Ask Jim Harbaugh)
4) To hear about his training regimen, to observe both his power and endurance and to see his physical makeup, I think answers the main part of that question. As to other athletic feats he has performed, perhaps just as many as Tony Gwynn, Wade Boggs, Mark Aguirre, Bernie Kosar, Albert Pujols or about thousands other 'lights' on the athletic field who were known for greatness in a narrow selected area in their own respective sport. (And please none of the the Tony Gwynn was a Basketball player at SD State, that couldn't have been anymore difficult or athletically taxing than being a basketball player at Loyola today)