US Open 2008 - Torrey Pines

[Flacolaco]

Rocco goes to the beach.

[alexamenos]

if rocco wins, we've watched a nice little story....

if Tiger wins, we've witnessed a piece of golf history....

go tiger.

[jthig32]

Agree with Alex. Tiger winning the US Open over 91+ holes with a bum knee after the layoff would be historic.

[jthig32]

That should be it. Ballgame.

[Flacolaco]

Poor dude...went toe to toe with tiger for 91 holes...ah well. I bet his paycheck is sweet.

[GermanDunk]

What happened to Rocco? Was he out of bounds ?

[jthig32]

No he just hit it up against the grand stand. It was a free drop.

[jthig32]

Originally Posted by Flacolaco

Poor dude...went toe to toe with tiger for 91 holes...ah well. I bet his paycheck is sweet.

It's got to be the biggest payday of his life by a wide, wide margin.

[alexamenos]

by my reckoning, Nicklaus had 11 majors when he finished the US Open at the age of 32.

Tiger has 14....just 4 from matching Nicklaus.......

[GermanDunk]

OK, i (s)witched between soccer (yawn) and golf. I should have stayed with golf.

[dude1394]

Dang it.

[jthig32]

Originally Posted by alexamenos

by my reckoning, Nicklaus had 11 majors when he finished the US Open at the age of 32.

Tiger has 14....just 4 from matching Nicklaus.......

They just showed the graphic. Jack didn't win his 15th until he was 38. I'd be any amount of money imagineable that Tiger has 19 by the time he's 38.

[alexamenos]

Originally Posted by jthig32

They just showed the graphic. Jack didn't win his 15th until he was 38. I'd be any amount of money imagineable that Tiger has 19 by the time he's 38.

you bet....the only question on tiger is how his knee is going to hold up.... if it doesn't give him many more problems you gotta figure he's going to win at least one a year for the next 5 or six or years....

[Caseman]

I wish Tiger hit that last birdie to end it. I feel bad for Rocco missing that putt. Anyway, go Tiger!

[rabbitproof]

Automatic. Systematic.

[nikeball]

Originally Posted by jthig32

It's got to be the biggest payday of his life by a wide, wide margin.

Not just $....he jumped like 110+ in the rankings...and now the casual fan knows who Rocco Mediate is.

[Usually Lurkin]

That was very cool. It's not too often that golf is exciting as it was for the last few days.

[DirkFTW]

The Tiger Effect
by Craig Labovitz

Internet Providers usually spend their time worrying about threats from
hackers, link failures, and router configuration errors. Yesterday,
though, many of them were worried about Tigers…

Starting around 9 am Pacific and peaking at 1:30 pm yesterday, many
ISPs noticed an unusual increase in traffic. At first, a few security
engineers worried they were under some type of new DDoS attack. But the flood
of traffic did not appear directed at any individual customer — the gigabits of anomaly
traffic surged to almost all customers from multi-national banks to the bakery down the
street and home DSL / Cable users. For several ISPs, traffic into their network grew
by 15-25%. In one provider, inbound traffic nearly doubled.

It turns out that the U.S. Open played at Torrey Pines yesterday
generated one of the larger Internet-wide flash crowds this
year. Traffic dipped and peaked corresponding to Tiger’s initial
misses and subsequent spectacular comeback as millions
of office bound fans tuned in to the live NBC and ESPN coverage.

The below graph shows data from 70 ISPs around the world sharing data
with Arbor’s Internet Traffic Observatory (we talked about this
project at the last NANOG). The orange filled area in the graph
represents the aggregate gigabits per second of Internet traffic to
TCP port 1935 (Flash Media) player into these 70 providers. The
accompanying chart helpfully provides a brief timeline of the
U.S. Open action.

Internet Traffic Due to the Tiger Effect

The Tiger Timeline

Although Tiger’s fame may be worldwide, the Internet flash-crowd
traffic was predominantly associated with North America providers. The
largest increases in traffic were seen out of Akamai and Limelight CDN
providers and their upstreams. For the most part, the Internet
infrastructure handled the increased traffic without a problem (though
some Observatory data shows traffic drops from a handful of ISPs to
the CDNs during peak periods of the U.S. Open).

Credit goes to Jason McEachin (one of Arbor’s Consulting Engineers) who
first observed the “Tiger Effect”.

http://asert.arbornetworks.com/2008/...-tiger-effect/
LOL

[ty]

Originally Posted by alexamenos

you bet....the only question on tiger is how his knee is going to hold up.... if it doesn't give him many more problems you gotta figure he's going to win at least one a year for the next 5 or six or years....

And then dominate the Seniors' after that ;P

[jthig32]

Originally Posted by ty

And then dominate the Seniors' after that ;P

I doubt he moves to the champions tour full time until he's about 60.