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T-Joh on the Cover of the Rolling Stone

Well, on the cover of Golf World anyway. The issue that arrived in the mail today is the issue covering Tiger Woods' surgery, and also includes the magazine's coverage of the recently completed U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links Championship. On the cover is Tiffany blurbage:

TIFFANY JOH
A lot better
than she thinks

The blurb refers to Tiffany's tendency to, ahem, "downplay" her abilities. You can read the article here.

The queen of self-deprecation was at it again, trying out new material at the 32nd U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links Championship. Tiffany Joh swears her game is never more than one swing away from ruin. ...

As often happens with Joh's tales of woe, there was a problem of truthiness to contend with: specifically all those red numbers beside the San Diego native's name on the leader board. An eagle and 36 birdies in 116 holes? The calligrapher can't get credit for all of them.

The article's author, Ryan Herrington, says more about the T-Joh in a blog post titled "Joh is more competitive than she lets on."

He concludes his Golf World article thusly:

Does Joh's pessimistic outlook inhibit her competitiveness? Some wonder how good Joh could be if she thought she was any good. Arguably, though, they are missing the point. No matter how low her expectations, Joh never stops trying to win. And isn't that the true sign of a champion?

He also passes on a haiku Tiff wrote that was included in the USGA media profile:

Haikus are easy
but sometimes they don't make sense
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"pessimistic" like a fox

Well – she’s got that “journalist” fooled. This Ryan Hetherington guy needs to learn the difference in self-depricating humor and humility, and pessimism.

The University of Georgia’s great football coach, Vince Dooley, was the same way. He would always say that his team would have to play their very best game to have any kind of chance against…the blind retired monks of podunk county. He would do interview after interview, swearing that the Dawgs were completely outmatched – no matter who they were playing.

The truly great ones don’t go around bragging about how wunnerful they are – they let their talent do the talking – and the second you underestimate them…you lose.

Did the article say that she wrote that haiku ? It’s been around for a very long time.

"this ball will fit in that fairway"

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