Van_Slyke_CF said:
michiganblkman said:
One reason they ohh and ahh is because he actually tries to win EVERY time. Thats what the sponsors love. His committment to excellence and giving his all everytime he tees it up. As a sponsor who wouldnt want that in golf. A player that almost NEVER misses the cut, consistent top 10 finishes, and HUGE number of wins. Great way to get your product on the TV.
Michigan: There`s some truth to what you say. He is quite a competitor, and there are some notable white golfers who need to get mentally tougher.
Just curious about your opinion on Tiger Woods and his physique, though. Do you think he is clean or is he using PEDs?
Also, when is that expected wave of black golfers going to inundate the PGA fairways? The MSM predicted it a decade ago. Is Tiger just not black enough with his Asian half to truly inspire young black kids to hit the links? What`s the problem, Michigan?
To answer your first question about PEDs.
As for Tiger, I am 95% sure he is clean. Why am I not 100% sure?
Lets look at the list of types that have used or have rumoured to have used HGH/PEDs recently.
1. Track and Field athletes- understandable
2. Weight lifters- understandable
3. Tour de France competitors- understandable
4. Baseball players- This sort of surprised me in the beginning.
5. Roger Clemens wife in preparation for a photo shoot. HGH- This one caught me TOTALLY off guard
6. Rumoured that other hollywood types and enteratainers have used HGH- Caught me off guard also.
With this comparison, thats why I have the 5% unsure factor. It seems like a lot of people are jumping on the HGH/PED bandwagon as of late.
In Tigers defense, I personally know several people that have transformed their looks just by diet and exercise alone.
A few of these people are listed on my MYSPACE page if you want to check them out. I country western dance with these people on a regular basis so i have seen their physical metamorphosis appear gradually.
Just so you can check them out,and you are more than welcomed too (same ID as this one), they are listed on my page as SUPERMAN, Robin Zamp, and ZACH.
These are some of the most disciplined people i know when it comes to diet and exercise regimen.
If they can do it on a limited budget, could Tiger do it with unlimited professional advice resources? I think yes.
To play devils advocate, could all three of my friends be deceiving me? Unfortunately the answer to that is yes also. I would like to think that scenario is unlikely because they are all good friend of mine.
This may or may not be off topic, but a few years back I was dating a woman, an M.D.
,that was giving botox parties for middle aged women out of her house weekly to make extra money on the side.
I felt really let down when she revealed this to me and we broke up soon after that.
In my mind Botox=HGH=PEDs,and in my opinion was she capable of ALL of this? Yes.
I only mentioned this as a testament that we can be fooled by even people that we think we are close too.
So my answer to the first question is I am 95% sure Tiger is clean, 5% unsure.
To answer your second question. "when is that expected wave of black golfers going to inundate the PGA fairways?"
My short is answer is "I dont know", but those types of answers are never fun to give in a discussion forum.
Here is my take on it. I live in Pontiac, Michigan, of the blackest areas in the Oakland Country area of Michigan.
I golf at Pontiac Municipal Golf Course, the local public course here on a semi regular basis and i rarely see younger black people out golfing.
I had and experience while at that golf course a few weeks back. while playing my round on a Sunday morning I ran into a white teenager that played
for one of the on of the local High Schools, Royal Oak HS. Royal Oak is a predominately white suburb of the greater detroit area.
He was out "scouting out the course" because his HS team has a match there the following day, Monday.
Smart of him to recon the course. whilst playing we were engaged in idle chatter when the subject of how is HS team was doing that year.
He went on to mention some of the schools they had on the schedule and what the team strengths of those schools were.
I am vaguely familiar with what schools in the area are "white" and which ones are "black".
When he mentioned the "black" schools, he basically said they werent a threat to win. Further confirmation that there is not much young black golfing talent in my area.
When I go out to the golf ranges, Carl's Golfland on telegraph road, I rarely see young blacks on the range hitting balls as well.
In contrast, I have a few friends that are involved in with local youth in other sports such as football, basketball, etc and those
programs are filled with black youth. So from where i live, in a area of a high concentration of blacks, i dont see where the interests in golf has really taken hold.
You brought up an interesting issue in your question "Is Tiger just not black enough with his Asian half to truly inspire young black kids to hit the links?", I have heard this from both blacks and whites and there maybe some truth to it. My take on it is, most youth dont see golf/tennis/soccer, to lump these sports together, as an exciting enough sport.
to get involved wholeheartedly. Freddy Adu didnt pull young black youth into soccer. The Williams sisters didnt pull black youth into tennis(or Arthur Ashe for that matter). The same is with Tiger, from my view, he didnt pull black youth into golf in the massive numbers as originally predicted.
