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Originally Posted by GolfSavage
I just don't understand those who doubted his sincerity when he grimaced a few times. What in his past actions has ever led anyone to question his sincerity about such things?
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Well why not question his sincerity in saying he was good and then thinking he was injured because he grimaced?
I've had fairly painful hip and abdomen injuries playing hockey. Upon return in both I grimaced upon being involved in contact or a pivot (in the case of the hip) because I knew how much it had hurt, but it didn't hurt hardly at all. Almost like I was anticipating more pain than was there. Especially the abdomen injury after I took a check that sent me flying. I grimaced and thought in my head and aloud words that I cannot repeat, then I hit the ground and pushed myself up slowly and realized I was healed, it didn't really hurt, it was more of the shock. Was I being dishonest? Was I lying to my teammates? No, I hadn't done something for a while that I used to do a lot and I anticipated more pain than I actually got.
We don't know Tiger at all, we have no idea how honest he is. We know he's a heckuva golfer who has a foundation. He would grimace on a shot here, then one there, and then on he 72nd he celebrated like crazy and the knee appeared to be absolutely fine. He'd hit crazy shots where he didn't wince, then he'd hit one where he did. It's not a stretch at all for someone to question the severity of the injury that he took extra time to come back form (before the news that hit Wednesday). Now it doesn't make sense, it's obvious he wasn't embellishing because it was a lot more serious than he was letting on.
Before that news it was plausible and far from a stretch, but Tiger Nation gets pretty uppity when you question their boy. Any other player and the Goose gets off easy with these comments, even if he should've kept him to himself as a Tour pro.