Re: Tiger quit a tourny?
Yeah, he would have looked like an idiot had he been wrong and ended up tied for the lead after play ended Monday...<br /><br />BUT, given the scores at the time, the quality of the players who had yet to finish their rounds, the fact that the two finishing hooles were par 5's, and the conditions the remaining players would face on Monday (good weather, soft greens from all of the rain), the risk/ reward ratio didn't seem to make his decision that risky to me. <br /><br />To quote Woods:<br /><br />"It was (a risk) but it wasn't either," Woods said as he prepared for the start of the NEC Invitational on Wednesday. <br /><br />"These are the best players in the world. Look who's on the board. <br /><br />"If you have guys who have never been there before, then it might have been a different story but each one of those guys had won a major championship up there on the board. <br /><br />"There were three guys ahead of me (Mickelson, Thomas Bjorn and Steve Elkington) , two guys tied (Vijay Singh and Davis Love III) and (Retief) Goosen at one with two par fives. <br /><br />"They're not coming back (to me)." <br /><br />Plus, take into account what he went home to. Ellen Nordgren[sp?] isn't exactly Rosanne.
