He won the PGA at southern hills.
BEFORE THAT he played in the US OPEN at Southern Hills. LOST BIG TIME.
Adjusted his game for the PGA.
Maxwells, father and son, designed courses that had to be played, managed, and seduced into birdies.
Go to Dornick Hills in Ardmore OK. It was the Maxwell family farm built in 1914.
The father and son understood the game and how it should be played.
Tiger understands Tiger and very little else.
Nice try though.
Good lord. He finished 12th in the US Open there. That’s not losing “big time.”
While Maxwell may have been a very good course designer, he’s not in a league with Mackenzie (another shot-maker’s designer), and Tiger had some pretty good success at Augusta. Maxwell even worked with Mackenzie on several designs. So the notion that Tiger can’t play his courses is completely irrational.
Further, you only bolstered my argument by pointing out that Tiger adjusted his game to win the PGA at SH.
Tiger didn’t play at Colonial because it didn’t fit his schedule, not because he couldn’t win there. It simply wasn’t important to him to have a win there. There was also an incident his first year there that may or may not have poisoned him against Colonial.
And you think he didn’t “play, manage and seduce“ birdies out of places like Hoylake and St. Andrews, which were barely 7,000 yards and he rarely hit driver?