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To Streak or Not to Streak? That is a Good Question

It’s time to call Bud Selig, the esteemed commissioner of Baseball, and see if he’ll do us golf fans a favor and let us borrow the asterisk that resided for so many years next to Roger Maris’ home run record. Bud, we need the star-shaped symbol to place next to Tiger Woods record of 7 wins in a row that the PGA is trying to foist on us as a threat to the late Byron Nelson’s amazing streak, THE STREAK, of 11 in a row.  Or even, to a lesser extent, Ben Hogan’s 6 in a row that we’re supposed to believe Eldrick eclipsed last weekend at the Buick at Torry Pines.   First of all, both Lord Byron’s and The Hawk’s streaks took place in one calendar year … even Tiger himself, a good friend and admirer of Mr. Nelson, reminded us that he’s lost once in Europe and twice in Asia since the bogus streak tally began back in 2006. And this has led to a subtle, and perhaps not terribly well noticed change in the way his recent string of victories is being labeled – as a streak of consecutive PGA tournament wins. And, to make things even worse, rumor has it that Tiger, in Dubai for untold millions of appearance dollars, might not even be in the field for the Nissan Open. And, if he loses in Dubai and doesn’t tee it up at Riviera … is the streak still intact?  I’m sure the PGA would want us to believe so – and Tiger himself isn’t doing anything to change that perception … for faking a fallacy and dishonoring a legend, the PGA has earned this week’s unplayable lie – Tim, take a penalty stroke, with a well deserved asterisk next to it, and play on!

Posted on Sunday, February 4, 2007 at 06:23PM by Registered CommenterSusan in | Comments1 Comment | References127 References

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