"A tradition unlike any other...."

[oregonpackfan]

Remember that incredible commercial featuring Tiger Woods a few years ago? It's the one where he takes a golf ball bounces it off his 5 iron about 30 times and with one swing, hits the ball straight down the fairway.

Last summer, I talked with a guy from Nike who was working with the ad agency Wieden & Kennedy to do a commercial featuring Tiger Woods. They had spent many hours working on a script for the commercial.

When they were ready to begin, they saw Woods in the parking lot nonchalantly bouncing a golf ball off the head of one of his irons. They stood slack-jawed watching Woods do a variety of skilled bounces.

Finally, they asked him if they could set up their cameras on a nearby fairway. Woods agreed. The ad men and the Nike rep abandoned their scripted format and proceeded to film Woods bouncing the ball.

Tiger did the entire scene in just TWO takes! That become one of the most incredible displays of athletic eye-hand coordination I have ever seen on TV.

Here is a description of the ad company, which is based here in Portland:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wieden%2BKennedy

Here is the commercial I was writing about:



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Nike Golf TV Commercial featuring Tiger Woods Swing Portrait ...
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[Freak Out]

So I jump ship in Hong Kong and make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas. A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I’m a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald… striking. So, I’m on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one - big hitter, the Lama - long, into a ten-thousand foot crevasse, right at the base of this glacier. Do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga… gunga, gunga-galunga. So we finish the eighteenth and he’s gonna stiff me. And I say, “Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know.” And he says, “Oh, uh, there won’t be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness.” So I got that goin’ for me, which is nice.

You can always count on Mike.

[Iron Mike]

[HarveyWallbangers]

Fred Couples has always been my favorite.

Nothing against Tiger, but I don't like dynasties--unless it's my team doing it. I was into golf long before Tiger came around. I'm Old School.

I followed Lefty and Vijay around at the PGA Championship when it was here, and they both were cool guys. Vijay gets a bit of a bad rap. David Duval was actually a really nice guy. Too bad he's no longer relevant.

Fred, Jim Furyk, Jerry Kelly, Steve Stricker, or any other American (Tiger included) over the Europeans--except for Paddy Harrington. I've rooted for Stuart Appleby since seeing him win that tournament right after his wife died. Too bad he chokes on Sundays.

[BallHawk]

Wouldn't mind to see Ames win.

Not a Vijay fan, nor an Ernie Els fan.

[red]

SHUT THE FUCK UP TIRICO, AND SHOW THE GOLFING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

they've been live for 10 minutes and we've seen 3 shots

[Cheesehead Craig]

Golf on TV? Well isn't that just zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[Deputy Nutz]

Tiger is failing. He put too much pressure on himself with talk of the Grand Slam. He is taking it way to serious, he needs to relax, he might not get the chance

[BallHawk]

Tiger is failing. He put too much pressure on himself with talk of the Grand Slam. He is taking it way to serious, he needs to relax, he might not get the chance

The media is sad. I'm soon expecting Tirico to blow a foghorn during every other player's shot to give Tiger a boost.

[Deputy Nutz]

I enjoy how quiet and still everything is at Augusta.

[red]

I enjoy how quiet and still everything is at Augusta.

it allows for lots of nap time in the chair

golf has been on for almost 2 hours, and i've gotten almost an hour and a half of sleep

[FavreChild]

I love to root against Tiger. Will he make his run today??

Some rain predicted for Augusta. Maybe that's good - the azaleas need to be watered.

[red]

I love to root against Tiger. Will he make his run today??

Some rain predicted for Augusta. Maybe that's good - the azaleas need to be watered.

tiger really hasn't showed me anything yet to make me think he can make a run

[red]

well, looks like tiger is making a bit of a move

he needs to get to maybe 5 under i think today. then let the winds later wreak havoc on the leaders still out there

then he would have a chance

these guys need to be tearing it up right now

how's a tiger-phil sunday pairing sound?

[FavreChild]

You have to hand it to Immelman - he pretty much led the tourney from wire to wire. Quite impressive.

But I guess that makes for a boring tournament for most viewers. (Lack of drama.)