Tiger Woods voted Associated Press' Top Athlete of the Decade
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[quote=Associated Press]Tiger Woods was selected Wednesday as Athlete of the Decade by U.S. sports editors, a result that reflects 10 years of greatness on the golf course rather than three weeks of headlines about a shocking sex scandal.
Woods received 56 of the 142 votes cast by Associated Press member newspaper editors since last month. More than half of the ballots were returned after the Nov. 27 car accident outside his Florida home that set off sensational tales of infidelity.
Just like so many of his victories, it wasn't much of a contest.
Lance Armstrong, a cancer survivor who won the Tour de France six times this decade, finished second with 33 votes. He was followed by Swiss tennis great Roger Federer, who won more Grand Slam singles titles than any other man, with 25 votes.
Record-setting Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps came in fourth with 13 votes, followed by New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady (6) and Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt (4). Five other athletes received one vote apiece.
Woods won 64 times around the world this decade, including 12 majors, and hoisted a trophy on every continent golf is played. He lost only one time with the lead going into the final round. His 56 PGA Tour victories were more than anyone except four of golf's greatest players won in their careers.
Woods, who has not been seen since the accident and has issued only three statements on his website, was not made available to comment about the award.
Few other athletes have changed their sport quite like Woods. His influence has been so powerful that TV ratings soared whenever he played, even more when he has been in contention. Prize money has quadrupled since he joined the PGA Tour because of his broad appeal.
A new image emerged quickly in the days following his middle-of-the-night accident, when he ran his car over a fire hydrant and into a tree. He became the butt of late-night TV jokes, eventually confessed that he "let my family down" with "transgressions" and lost a major sponsorship from Accenture.
Even so, U.S. editors found his work on the golf course over the last 10 years without much of a blemish. Woods took an early lead in balloting, and continued to receive roughly the same percentage of votes throughout the process.
"Despite the tsunami of negative publicity that will likely tarnish his image, there's no denying that Woods' on-the-course accomplishments set a new standard of dominance within his sport while making golf more accessible to the masses," wrote Stu Whitney, sports editor of the Sioux Falls (South Dakota) Argus Leader.
"The only proof needed are the television ratings when Tiger plays in a golf tournament, compared to those events when others have to carry the load."
Woods tumbled from the pinnacle of his sport in just about three weeks. The 10 years that preceded that fall, however, represented perhaps the greatest decade in golf history.
He won the career Grand Slam three times over, including one U.S. Open by a record 15 shots at Pebble Beach and another U.S. Open on a bad leg in a playoff at Torrey Pines. He twice won the British Open at St. Andrews, the home of golf, by a combined 13 shots.
Woods won 56 times on the PGA Tour this decade, a rate of 30% that is unprecedented in golf. Nine of those victories were by at least eight shots. He was No. 1 in the world ranking for all but 32 weeks in the decade, that when he was revamping his swing.
He did his best work in the biggest events.
Along with his 12 majors this decade — he has 14 overall, four short of the record held by Jack Nicklaus— Woods was runner-up in six other majors. He won 14 times out of 27 appearances in the World Golf Championships.
Woods finished the decade with $81,547,410 in earnings from his PGA Tour events, an average of $482,529 per tournament.[/quote]
Personally I think regardless of the scandal over the past few weeks, he is most definitely one of the greatest athletes of the decade, he brought so much attention to Golf, and it's a shame the sport will have to suffer the repercussions.
What is this fuss about Tiger Woods? Does he really deserve so much news?
No doubt, he's a great athlete. He needs to learn how to keep a commitment though. This country is going down hill with all these failing marriages. It's time to bring Christianity back into schools.
[QUOTE=johanz;18991148]What is this fuss about Tiger Woods? Does he really deserve so much news?[/QUOTE]
Frankly, no, which is why I enjoyed seeing him labeled the top athlete. At the same time, regardless of whether it should have happened, the media explosion ruined him and made the sport look bad.
I'm glad to see people aren't basing their ratings on all this drama being churned out about him (I wouldn't be surprised if it's all fake)
[QUOTE=JDK721;18991163]No doubt, he's a great athlete. He needs to learn how to keep a commitment though. This country is going down hill with all these failing marriages. It's time to bring Christianity back into schools.[/QUOTE]
Incoming trollstorm.
[QUOTE=JDK721;18991163]No doubt, he's a great athlete. He needs to learn how to keep a commitment though. This country is going down hill with all these failing marriages. It's time to bring Christianity back into schools.[/QUOTE]
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He was going to be top spouse until recently.
[QUOTE=JDK721;18991163]No doubt, he's a great athlete. He needs to learn how to keep a commitment though. This country is going down hill with all these failing marriages. It's time to bring Christianity back into schools.[/QUOTE]
Yes, we should stone those who commit adultery. [sp]Only applies to women.[/sp]
In other news:
Tiger Woods voted for highest number of secret affairs.
[QUOTE=JDK721;18991163]No doubt, he's a great athlete. He needs to learn how to keep a commitment though. This country is going down hill with all these failing marriages. It's time to bring Christianity back into schools.[/QUOTE]
Oh I see what you did there.
[i]"Athlete"[/i] :v:
That's a bit silly.
yeah more like best athlete in the bed this decade
still can't top wilt chamberlain though
Well, he did a lot of great things for golf, and he made mistakes, don't we all? The poor guy is torn to pieces over this, the media needs to shove off and let him fix it on his own without a camera up his ass all the time.
I would rate top idiot because of him filling up three holes off court without his wife.
I hope that when Tiger makes his comeback to golf, he rolls up in a golf cart with a "If this golf cart is rocking don't bother knocking" bumpersticker.
He plays golf, there's so much fucking downtime no wonder he turned to women.
[quote]Tiger Woods was selected Wednesday as Athlete of the Decade by U.S. sports editors, a result that reflects 10 years of greatness on the golf course rather than three weeks of headlines about a shocking sex scandal.[/quote]
Yeah right. More like people voting him in because of the attention on the news, combined with the fact that this guy is a fucking pimp. Seriously, ten ladies and a pornstar? God this guy is [i]definitely[/i] deserving of an golf award because of his promiscuity.
On the other hand, banging ten chicks at once does deserve an athlete's award of it's own. Guy has some balls.
Did Tiger Woods really do anything? As far as I know he got into a little car accident and all of a sudden BAM, he apparently slept with 8 women.
[QUOTE=JDK721;18991163]No doubt, he's a great athlete. He needs to learn how to keep a commitment though. This country is going down hill with all these failing marriages. It's time to bring Christianity back into schools.[/QUOTE]
How about something that might actually suit our purposes better? Like Confucianism? Or maybe Stoic Philosophy? There is a lot of better ideologies/philosophies/religions that teach morality without preventing the proverbial "biting of the apple" and giving us idiotic ideas such as living in willful ignorance will make our lives happier. No. It's going to make everything worse in the long run.
i was one of tiger wood's girlfriends XD
LEAVE TIGER ALONE. *sob*
Rightfully so. His personal dealings aside, he is without doubt the most influential athlete of the last decade. The man singlehandedly dominated the game of Golf for years, and his name will continue resurfacing for decades more.
[QUOTE=JDK721;18991163]No doubt, he's a great athlete. He needs to learn how to keep a commitment though. This country is going down hill with all these failing marriages. It's time to bring Christianity back into schools.[/QUOTE]
I can't tell if you're a troll, an idiot or serious.
How about you be all three OK?
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