[cracker518]

Greatest golfer ever? Sure

Most dominate athlete in his given sport? OK

Greatest athlete? Totally rediculous.

You cant be the greatest athlete in the world if your "sport" is barely athletic. It would be like naming a bowler the greatest athlete.... You cant be the greatest athlete if 9-10 D-1 college athletes can outrun, outjump, outlift, outeverything which is athletic you. Thats all.

[JSN]

yeah, i can live with golf being classified as a sport, but a golfer is not an athlete. an athlete is someone who performs feats of athleticism, which means running and jumping esp.

[Toqui]

That's what happens when every single guy that has some money plays golf.
Successful sport writers, anchors, reporters and ESPN executives, they all play golf. So the god of golf is considered the greatest thing on Earth. I think is disgusting that High School football players can beat Tiger in anything that requires athleticism and this guy is the "greatest athlete". While there are ironmen swimming two miles, biking more than 100 and running more than 20. While there are decathlon guys with numbers beyond impressive, gymnastics doing things almost humanly impossible, this guy is considered better than all? PFFFFFFF

[JSN]

lol not that i don't enjoy playing golf once in awhile, but the average rec goler is such a middle class loser. most of them are failing social climbers who think golf = polo.

[Toqui]

"Woods has escaped golf's gravitational pull and moved into a planetary system that includes your one-namers (Pele, Babe, Jack), your initialers (MJ), your nicknamers (The Great One, The Greatest), your oldies (Jim Thorpe, Willie Mays, Joe Louis), your Olympians (Mark Spitz, Carl Lewis), your netters (Martina Navratilova, Pete Sampras), your others (Lance Armstrong). I know I'm forgetting someone, but it doesn't matter. Woods is better."

What a load of bullshit. This is what happens when you play too much golf on Sundays. You become delusional.
I think that anyone that works in sports should be kept from playing golf, or they will be writing this type of crap.
In terms of accomplishments, Gary Kasparov is even better than Woods. Is he the best athlete ever instead?

[Mithra]

When your competition is a bunch of 40+ fat white men...you are not a great athlete

Put Tiger in any other sport and see if he would do well...the guy would be a mediocre high school football/basketball/soccer player...

On the other hand, take a LT and he would probably be able to play good in every sport as well as excelling at his chosen sport

[Toqui]

For real. All this Woods mania in the media is due to the fact that people in it play golf. Nothing more. The Celtics beat the Lakers and the next day the number 1 news wasn't the championship of one of the three main American sports and the news of one of the most important teams winning. No, the number 1 news was the revelation that Woods had been injured to win a championship. Nope, the news wasn't Woods winning, but the fact he had won injured a couple of days before. That news was more important than the Celtics winning.
That's only because the buffoons that play golf cummed in their pants at the sight of gay ass Woods playing and forgot to inform the country about the real number 1 news.

People in sports media should be kept from playing golf because it affects their reasoning.

[Toqui]

Tiger Woods is not even the most accomplished guy in the US TODAY.
Michael Phelps > Tiger Woods.

[warmma76]

Not as bad as Eli Manning being on the Best NFL players list.

[Tiger Uppercut]

he's awesome, but i agree 100% that there's no way to consider a golfer as the greatest athlete. There's like NO athletism involved in golf. Dudes drive carts from hole to hole