British Open Golf Tournament

[Snoop]

You heard it here first:

Tiger Woods leads by three strokes after two rounds. Someone has made a huge bet yesterday (millions) that he will win the tournament. The bookmakers are on the line for a bundle.

My conspiracy theory is that Tiger will blow the tournament on purpose (there are two rounds left). If he loses, you can call it a coincidence - I'm rooting for him to win.

P.S. The final World Cup soccer match may have been fixed also.

Disclaimer - I'm bored, so humor me.

PPS - Anyone know the current odds on Snoop's mind (pictured in avatar) exploding and changing in the next several days?

[BeatLA]

are you crazy?????:craz: he is not throwing it away he wants to prove himself that he can win on a british couse besides st.andrews and he wants to come back from that horribile us open!!!!!!!

[Snoop]

Tiger leads by one stroke going into the final round. Last chance to bet against him. I wonder if they'll start testing for steroids in golf?

British Open Leaderboard
POS PLAYER SCORE BY ROUND
1 Tiger Woods 203 (-13) 67-65-71-0
T2 Sergio Garcia 204 (-12) 68-71-65-0
T2 Ernie Els 204 (-12) 68-65-71-0
T2 Chris DiMarco 204 (-12) 70-65-69-0
T5 Angel Cabrera 205 (-11) 71-68-66-0
T5 Jim Furyk 205 (-11) 68-71-66-0
7 Hideto Tanihara 206 (-10) 72-68-66-0
T8 Mark Calcavecchia 207 (-9) 71-68-68-0
T8 Adam Scott 207 (-9) 68-69-70-0
T10 Jerry Kelly 208 (-8) 72-67-69-0

[FruitandNut]

Hey, Snoop, is this dang heat getting to you? We all know that drugs, bribes and side betting are rife in sport; hell it even happens in cricket.

ps. We had a tropical type thunderstorm and downpour yesterday afternoon which gave a little respite and freshened up the gardens and countryside; but it is getting hot and dry again today (mid to high 80s). Another scorcher for the coming week is forecast.

[LonelyStranger]

Logically speaking, the striped one would require the appropriate risk/reward ratio in order to involve himself in such a high risk endeavor. His earning last year were 89mil of which app. 75mil were endorsements (he gets it if he never wins a dollar).

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So lets say he is a short range thinker and projects ony a 3 year career, and plans to dog it for those years and never win another dollar. At 75mil in endorsements for 3 years, that's 225mil he'd lose if caught. So who would place a single bet that would have put a casino at 225mil of exposure if Tiger Woods Wins? Consider that Tiger is always among the pre-tournament favorites to win a major so the odds youd get betting on Tiger to win would not yeild a large return. Thus there is no motive or incentive, ergo ... you are apparently drinking with John Daly as you post!

[Snoop]

I was wrong - Tiger Woods would never throw a tournament.

For your information, he only used his driver once throughout the four rounds on his way to a two stroke victory. Some happy Brit is a few million richer today.

[cat's meow]

Yep, he did it and is on the way to catching Jack N.

Our buddie Floyd wrapped up the Tour De France also, that was quite a come back and someone made some serious $ on that I am sure (was in 11th place and considered out of it a few days ago). And the guy did it with degenerative hip problem...a man a steel!

[phrique]

I was wrong - Tiger Woods would never throw a tournament.

For your information, he only used his driver once throughout the four rounds on his way to a two stroke victory. Some happy Brit is a few million richer today.

When you're playing golf on the surface of the moon the ball travels further and thus there's little need for the big club...especially for a guy with Tiger's strength.

Wait, they weren't playing on the moon? Sure as heck looked like it. :)

[Snoop]

When you're playing golf on the surface of the moon the ball travels further and thus there's little need for the big club...especially for a guy with Tiger's strength.

Wait, they weren't playing on the moon? Sure as heck looked like it. :)
Some of the bunkers could be considered craters:



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[phrique]

Those bunkers are awesome. There's a course near where I live that has bunkers like that, one of the few in the area thus designed, and it's awesome to play out of them (well, not awesome, but it adds a whole level of difficulty).