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RUSH: To Chicago, Michael. Glad you called, sir. Great to have you with us. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Mr. Limbaugh. Love the show.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, first of all, go Donald Trump. But I wanted to ask you about Tiger Woods. Do you think that he\u2019ll ever get out of this debacle and break Jack Nicklaus\u2019 record —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh.<\/p>\n

CALLER: If not, who? Who will come closest to it? Maybe a McIlroy, maybe a Rickie Fowler, maybe a Jason Day, maybe Spieth, Jordan Spieth.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I think Spieth, if he can maintain his consistency. But 18 majors, we\u2019re finding out just how difficult that\u2019s going to be to break. At one time we thought Tiger was gonna blow past that and double it maybe, if not that, blow way past it. Now Tiger\u2019s four short, right? He\u2019s at 14?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Is that right? Got four to go. Yeah, it\u2019s a tough question. One thing I would say in answer, I don\u2019t think that Tiger is ever going to be become the dominant player he was in his twenties. I don\u2019t see that for a whole host of reasons, some psychological, but many of them physical. I mean, he\u2019s just had too many injuries, too many surgeries. His swing speed is gonna deteriorate now compared to the young guys. And swing speed and distance are crucial —<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — as the pro game is played. But could he improve and play much better than he has the past couple years? Yeah. I don\u2019t think he\u2019s ever gonna become the dominant player he was. I don\u2019t think he\u2019s ever going into sand traps and hitting 7 irons for 212 yards just to show the field he can do it and intimidate them. The days of Tiger intimidating the field are over, I think.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They all love him, by the way. I mean, he\u2019s very popular out there. They\u2019re not afraid of him anymore. They all want him to come back. Everybody on that tour wants Tiger Woods to come back because with him coming back comes back ratings and audience and money. They\u2019re all pulling for it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: The game, yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But there\u2019s always, in athletics, it\u2019s all about youth. Athletics is for the young. And it\u2019s one of those things, if somebody would have told me that my career is over when I\u2019m 35 to 40, I don\u2019t know how psychologically I would deal with that. Now, these guys know that starting out and they go into it, but they all think they\u2019re gonna be able to defy it. It\u2019s part of the makeup of who they are. They all think that it isn\u2019t gonna apply to them, and everybody, every athlete, has it hit them. <\/p>\n

The NFL, when a running back turns 30, if there has been just one serious injury, the odds of getting a big contract are way, way low. But there are other things with Tiger that have happened to him that may make it very difficult for him to get back to the indomitable attitude about himself that he had. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: One more thing about Tiger Woods and the game of golf. And I realize that a lot of people, most people don\u2019t play the game of golf. I think there\u2019s a number, 24 million is the universe of golfers, and I know this because the people in the retail golf club business, that\u2019s the number they use. They\u2019re always trying to grow that number. People that make golf clubs are at odds with the pooh-bahs that make the rules of golf. It\u2019s a real challenge. They need people to start the game and then stay with the game. And the way people watch the game on TV, they see these guys bombing it 300 yards, they want to know what that\u2019s like. <\/line><\/p>\n

Your average duffer would love to be able to do that. And it\u2019s my contention that club manufacturers could make a driver that would not be legal but that your average duffer who\u2019s gonna play once or twice a month could go out there and hit the ball a lot farther than he does now. But the grand pooh-bahs of golf will not permit that because of the sacred nature of the rules, all of which is understandable. <\/p>\n

But it\u2019s a conflict. I mean, the people in the retail business of golf need people joining clubs and playing the game. And it\u2019s a very, very hard game. This is my point about it, for those of you that don\u2019t play, never played it, the aspect of it that you\u2019ll never get is the mental. It\u2019s just you. There is nobody else to rely on. There\u2019s nobody to pick you up. There\u2019s nobody to give you a day off. It\u2019s just you, and it\u2019s just your head and whatever is going on in your head, and it doesn\u2019t take much to shatter confidence. <\/p>\n

It is such a tough game. It is so hard to play this game, particularly tournament golf, winning tournament golf is next to impossible. The guys that do it well make it look easy when you watch it on TV. But even beyond the physical challenges there are playing golf, it requires athletic ability. A golf swing is akin to a pitcher and how fast he can throw a fastball. You can\u2019t teach somebody to throw at 95 miles an hour. They\u2019re either born able to do it or they can\u2019t. You can\u2019t take somebody that can throw at 75 and teach them how to push off the rubber, how to lift weights, how to get it up to 95 miles. You just can\u2019t. <\/p>\n

Same thing with a swing speed of golf. You can either swing that club a hundred to 110 miles an hour or you can swing it 75 or 80. And if you can only swing it 75 or 80 you\u2019re never gonna hit it farther than 240, and that\u2019s only gonna be when you really flush it and connect with it. That\u2019s why they have different distance tees and so forth. <\/p>\n

But when you\u2019re talking about people like Tiger Woods and professionals, what goes on in their heads, the confidence, once that\u2019s gone, you can have all of the skills in the world and if you start doubting them, it\u2019s over. And that\u2019s the risk. The most amazing thing to me about those guys is their ability to triumph over adversity. The number of times that you play really, really well and win a tournament, look how few they are. <\/p>\n

Now, you can make a good living out there with sponsorships, but you still have to play really well, and it\u2019s really, really hard. And if something breaks down in your head, your confidence level gets blown up, and it can take nothing more, if you\u2019re playing bad, you get to the first tee and your shot goes right in the woods, it can ruin your round if you are not able to control your attitude, your confidence, your emotions. <\/line><\/p>\n

And when Tiger Woods owned the game of golf, the thing that amazed me most was not the physical. I mean, everybody was dazzled by that, as I was. But the performance pressure that he had going out every week dealing with the expectations that everybody had, he does everything he does in front of the TV audience and the galleries there were there, and they\u2019ve all done this. But when Tiger was at his peak, you remember all the talk, none better, this is incredible, guaranteed wins, however you remember it, it took incredible mental toughness, concentration, and the ability to deal with performance pressure, week after week, at least weeks in which you enter tournaments. <\/p>\n

Having played the game myself, I marvel at the people in this game who play it well. Tom Watson has played this game well. He\u2019s well into senior status now, and nearly won the British Open as a senior a few short years ago. That\u2019s rare though. A lot of people make fun of golf and pooh-pooh it, but just the mental toughness and focus that\u2019s required to excel at that game. It\u2019s more fun to just go out and hit the ball and maybe you tabulate your score or not, but you just try to have fun out there and enjoy the time you\u2019re out there and maybe hit the ball well three or four times, and end up going home happy. For those guys doing it for a living, it\u2019s an entirely different thing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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