Re: Byron Nelson and 11 victories in a row

"multi" <multi@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Tue, 5 Sep 2006 16:46:10 -0400, "\"R&B\""
<noneofyourbusiness@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Consider: It's one thing to keep a streak going while you're on a roll.
Momentum counts for something, I would think. But to take a long break
for
the off-season while every other pro is retooling his swing and gearing up
to knock you off your pedestal come January, and then to pick right up
where
you left off when the new season begins -- with no real momentum to carry
you into the new year -- is, I think, just as impressive, if not more so.

That would make more sense if there were only two or three people in
the PGA, and Tiger played them every week. If he were on his game, it
would be easy to keep beating them week after week, and their best
chance to improve would be over the winter break.

But if you're playing against a pool of maybe 400 guys who are capable
of winning, then there is bound to be someone new getting hot each
week --- Ben Curtis this week, JB Holmes next week, Geoff Ogilvy the
week after. Guys who mostly play in the southern hemisphere may be
retooling their swings during our summer. There's no worldwide off
season, and each victory takes a little more out of him. I'd say it's
much harder to win them all in one season, and to win three in three
weeks, as he just did, is really something.


Oh, believe me, I agree with you. As someone on ABC said, usually when
someone wins on TOUR, they'll miss the cut (or, I think he was implying,
they rarely "contend" two weeks in a row). Tiger gets on these rolls and he
just doesn't stop winning...seemingly until he just runs out of gas.

I'm not arguing that one kind of streak is necessarily more impressive than
the other. I'm not smart enough to know. But I think your argument about
there being no worldwide off season in golf helps prove my point -- that a
streak across two US seasons is no LESS impressive than one that continues
within a given season.

But again, both are very impressive...maybe for different reasons.

Randy


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