By Bob Smiley
Together with his profession at a standstill and his golfing video game a trifling shadow of its former mediocrity, television author and ESPN.com contributor Bob Smiley determined the time had come to show to the single one who could possibly support: Tiger Woods. So, in January 2008, Smiley got down to stick with the game's maximum participant from the gallery for each gap of a complete season. Smiley tailed Tiger from the seashore cliffs of San Diego to the deserts of Dubai, in the course of the hallowed gates of Augusta nationwide, and directly to arguably the best U.S. Open of all time, at Torrey Pines—where, in a mythical duel with charismatic journeyman Rocco Mediate, Woods gained his fourteenth significant . . . on one leg. instructed from the point of view of a real golfing fan, stick to the Roar is a once-in-a-lifetime experience in the course of the such a lot wonderful and encouraging season in Tiger Woods' celebrated profession.
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Rashid flips on his lights as blown sand starts to pile up on the highway. ” I ask. “Shmal,” Rashid says. A shmal is the rarest of Dubai weather—a winter sandstorm. Twenty minutes outside town, Rashid makes a right at a sign for the Dubai Sports Complex. We follow the road until it comes to an end at an outdoor race track where, even in this weather, a fleet of Porsches is zipping around corners. ” Rashid turns and says with a smile. ” “No, golf course,” I say. Like I did the night before with Mahmut, I show him my best golf swing.
I’ve also never seen him actually write anything down. He just tromps along inside the ropes, occasionally using his collapsible metal monopod seat to time and again nab the best seat in golf. I’ll admit it, I’m jealous. 11:10 AM • Matt Kuchar has experience playing around Tiger’s gallery, just not like this. While Tiger is busy nearly holing his approach into number 5, up on number 2 Kuchar has just blown his approach long and left, a bad miss that hits the cart path and then careens an extra twenty yards down the hill and right into the middle of Tiger’s throng.
Leaving the family for the Buick was easy. This one’s tough. Hillary inadvertently lightens the mood at the curb when she tells me to make sure I drink a lot of water and walk around a lot during the flight so I don’t have a stroke. ” I ask before giving her a hug. I lean in and kiss my daughter, Katie, who is still too young to know how far away I’m really going, and then do the same to my son, Danny. As I wheel my bag away, I turn back one last time, and through the tinted glass I can make out his little hand, waving good-bye.