Hyperbole:  • noun deliberate exaggeration, not meant to be taken literally.

 

Tiger Woods is hyperbole personified. I mean seriously he is simply ridiculous. Watching him play through the final round of the US Open today was somewhat painful. He’s got a sore knee from recent surgery and he was up and down all day starting out in the lead than losing it and taking it back and losing it again. Finally it comes down the the final hole. Tiger is one stroke back and needs an eagle to win or a birdie to tie. He hits off the tee right into a sandtrap (goodbye eagle). From the sandtrap on the left he hits into the rough on the right about 100 yeards short of the flag…at this point the birdie looks pretty much gone.

 

Woods hits from the rough to within 12 feet of the pin. Not bad. Still. The way he’s played today I expected not too much – maybe a near miss. Woods approaches the ball. Lines up his shot. Back stroke. Forward and strike. The ball roles…right to the hole…than at the last second it looks like it will miss and it catches the lip and swings in. Playoff tomorrow.

 

This guy is stupid good…way past everyone else. There is no way to measure how incredible Tiger Woods is when you factor in the complexity of golf and the fact that there is no team there propping you up on a bad day (not to mention rain, wind, turf issues etc). Golf quite simply is the hardest sport on the planet to be consistently good at…and yet Tiger is doing it (has done it for the past decade).

 

I put my vote in right now – Tiger could retire tomorrow and he is still in my mind the greatest athlete in modern recorded history. No one comes close – not Gretzky, not Jordan, no one.

 

Crazy amazing to watch him play.

 

Hyperbole walking around in a red shirt.