Tiger Woods: Cannot Compete Physically with Younger Golfers

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00:03 - I hear that Woods goes through more prep

00:07 on a table than an NFL player.

00:10 Like he literally is for two hours before he plays,

00:15 getting massages and getting stretched

00:18 and cranking his hips and his back

00:21 and his legs and his ankle.

00:23 And then he goes from there to the range

00:26 and has to do another litany of exercises

00:30 just to be able to go to the first tee.

00:33 Now I said to you before in the break,

00:35 if you can't get out of your car

00:38 and grab your bag, pay for your round

00:40 and go to the first tee and start swinging, it's over.

00:44 I mean, it's simple.

00:45 Like do you think Rory McIlroy can't legitimately,

00:49 if he wanted to, get out of the car?

00:51 I know they don't do this 'cause they always warm up

00:53 and go to the range and do all this stuff.

00:55 But I know he could get out of his car

00:57 and if he was late, traffic jam, final round on Sunday,

01:01 he could get right out of his car

01:02 and go to the first tee and start swinging

01:04 and hit the ball 325 yards.

01:06 Tiger Woods has to go through an amazing cascade

01:11 of exercises and stretching just to play.

01:14 And that's just all you need to know, but he's finished.

01:18 He just can't do it anymore.

01:19 And everyone's fascination with him is aside,

01:23 we all know how great he is and how great he was.

01:25 And that's what he is, he's was.

01:28 - And I think that that's the expectation

01:31 that people have to have when a weekend like this

01:34 comes around and look, you're only gonna get,

01:36 and this is if he's completely healthy

01:39 and not having ankle surgeries and doing this and doing that.

01:42 If he's completely healthy, you're only getting them five,

01:47 maybe six times in the whole year.

01:50 He's always gonna play this, Masters, PGA, US Open

01:54 and the British, and that's if he can even make it to July,

01:58 if he plays in that one.

01:59 So I think when people see him playing,

02:02 I think you going in, you know, he's not there to win.

02:05 Now people still run to the window

02:07 and bet him at 150 to one and 175 to one.

02:10 And he's the most tickets every time he plays.

02:13 - And they lose their money.

02:15 - And they lose their money.

02:16 And the sports books love that.

02:17 They love when Tiger plays

02:18 because everybody goes to the window

02:21 and starts firing away on Tiger Woods.

02:23 I mean, look at all these numbers he's got this week.

02:25 I mean, he's 125 to one.

02:27 I mean, look at these numbers, top five, top 10, top 20,

02:30 make the cut.

02:32 I think if you want to play anything with him today,

02:34 which we did, we had a couple of things just for today,

02:37 Thursday, I don't want any part of him

02:39 dragging his leg around on Saturday or Sunday.

02:41 I don't want anything to do with it.

02:42 You just don't, but we love the nostalgia.

02:45 We love watching him play.

02:47 And he will always be there, like you said,

02:49 as an ambassador of this game.

02:50 I told you he's going to play the Masters

02:52 until they won't let him go to the tee box anymore,

02:54 like these other old guys do.

02:56 He'll keep showing up at Augusta every spring

02:58 until they force him to hit that ceremonial first tee shot,

03:03 like Gary Player does now and like Jack does.

03:05 He's going to do the regular tournament

03:08 as long as he possibly can.

03:08 - He's going to be Fred Couples.

03:10 I mean, Freddie is my boy.

03:13 I'm friends with Fred and he shows up every year

03:16 at the Masters and plays great until Sunday, right?

03:20 Like he can't win it and neither can Tiger.

03:23 It's over.

03:24 It's over.

03:24 It's a young man's game.

03:26 That's it.

03:27 It's a young man's game.

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