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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 4233671, member: 1969"]
Some posts have disappeared from early yesterday - perhaps there was some violation or a technical glitch,

First off I am a fan of Tiger.   But I thought -125 for him to miss the cut was unfortunately great value.   Will cheer to be wrong, but I did bet on it.  Anybody that follows Tiger closely knows that he has always struggled on his first tournament back from a physical issue since 2011.    Now I know the Masters is by far the weakest cut in all the Majors (small field and many old 50+ year old geezers)

Cowtown had respectfully posted how he didn't understand how someone could like Tiger.   I did not have a chance to respond.  I will say that I was not a big fan of Tiger always, but always appreciated his greatness.   I would still tend to take for the other guy when he was challenged early on (be it Mike Weir, Grant Waite (2000 Cdn Open), Bob May, Sergio Garcia, Chris Dimarco)... unless of course it was Phil Mickelson.  Eventually I started to cheer for him to win in his dominance era (pre 2010)

The hype around him was his greatness and dominance, and he was marketed as such.   He was marketed as a greater than life athlete  He was never presented, nor did he present himself as a great guy.  He was a great athlete.    Other than his father crazily referring to him as the next Ghandi in or around 1996.

As opposed to Phil who was marketed as a great guy and created some sort of "gimmick" around this.   I always saw him as phony and was a big reason I did not like him.
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