Tiger has been down lately. He only won a handful of tournaments in 2004, and frankly the golf world has been humanizing him. For the past 5-6 years when people talked about Tiger they always assumed he was unstoppable on the golf course. The commentators talked him up like he was a golf god… But then he did the unthinkable. He stopped winning.
Long story short, people were reminded the other day just how amazing Tiger can be. While shooting the latest Nike commercial he was supposed to fire a ball close to a camera… Apparently to show a ball flying close by, maybe as a swoosh moment. He reports, “The director told me to fired he ball 4 inches about the camera. And the first time I missed, it went about 10 feet above it.” Keep in mind, he’s trying to hit a screaming runner of a shot with a high iron and the lens is about 100 yards away. For most of us, this would mean that the director and his crew would be there all day just waiting for a lucky shot. Well, not with Tiger. On his second shot, Tiger blasted it right into the cameras lens… Exactly what he was aiming for.
As a mere mortal, I do try shots like this. Sure, I’m not trying to get the ball to fit threw a 4 inch window 100 yards down range… But I’m pretty good about punching the ball through wider windows closer to me. (I’m reminded of a shot I hit in the year-ending scramble with the golf team when I snuck the ball through a 4 foot window 40 feet ahead of me and landed the ball just off the right green 215 yards away… It was a 1 in 20 shot though and I knew it!) Tiger seemed to think this was a cool feat, but not anything special.
He closed his post shot remarks with, “I hope insurance will cover the lens.” It seems that his new bride must already have a handle on his purse strings! He’ll clear more than $20 million this year and he wants to make a claim on a $10,000 lens? Newlyweds!
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