For those who missed it, yesterday during the Skins Game, which is an exhibition golf match, Tiger woods was hitting out of a sand trap on the 18th hole when some asshat took a picture as Tiger went into his backswing. The result was a none too pretty shot, Tiger getting pissed off and Tiger’s caddy grabbing the guys camera and tossing it into a lake.
Now here is my question:
Why the fuck don’t you just wear earplugs Tiger?!!??
That way you would never hear those annoying camera lenses opening and closing. You would still be able to hear the applause, and you could take them out to listen to your caddy.
I think it’s quite the reasonable idea.
Oh, and Tiger, your caddy is a bigger asshat then the asshat who took the picture. He’s lucky he didn’t get his ass arrested for destruction of private property.
Plus, it was a fucking exhibition golf match!!!
It doesn’t mean dick except for the fact that you get to line your pockets with yet more money that you will never ever spend.
I think Tiger and his caddy were absolutely justified in freaking out. Tiger needs the skins money to pay for his cars and houses and jewelry. He’s ceratinly not getting that kinda dough from the rest of the tour, or his Buick endorsments, or the Nike endorsments. :rolleyes:
I don’t like the prima-donna attitude on this little prick. He could be an inspiration to millions, what with cracking the race barrier and being hands-down the best golfer ever. But no, he has to bitch at the audience for making noise during his backswing (this isn’t the first time, after all). Guess what, Tiger: you’re a celebrity who works in the spotlight. Prepare for the odd twitch out of the gallery, you punk. If my good chips were as good as your misses I’d be thrilled with my game.
What I think is interesting is that the purpose of golf is to hit a little stationary ball with a thin stick. This is a task that apparently requires absolute and total silence. Meanwhile, baseball players use a slightly thicker stick to strike a ball traveling at upwards of 90 miles an hour, and they can do this in a gigantic stadium filled with drunken, boisterous, shouting fans, sometimes armed with hundreds of flashbulb camera.
Now, I’m neither a golfer nor a ballplayer, so maybe the situations aren’t as analogous as they seem. Either way, someone needs to tell Tiger to knock it off with all the whining and just play the fucking game.
I can one up that, even. In lacrosse, we catch a small ball traveling 50-90 mph with a small net at the end of a thin stick while running. We do this with crowd noise by (gasp!) concentrating on what we’re doing. This pretentious prick needs to, as mentioned, wear some friggin’ earplugs or learn to concentrate.
Cameras are generally Verboten at pro golf tournaments, except for the working press. Although at the less-than-useless Skins Game, Tiger and everybody else should lighten the fuck up.
Although other sports are played in noisy environments, I’d like to see Barry Bonds hit if the stadium is dead quiet, then, as the heater approaches, some dick makes a noise from about two feet behind his ear.
That being said, yeah the earplugs and a better attitude would be a **Great ** fucking idea.
You know, speaking of attitudes, John Daly is pretty famous for getting all out of whack at golf tournaments. But has he ever directed any of this anger towards fans? I’ve seen him throw clubs, throw fits, walk off the course, yell at rules officials, and his multiple failed marriages and alcohol problems are testiments to his poor temper, but I’ve read in several different places that he’s usually very nice to fans.
True, the person with the camera was 100% wrong. But this is just one more reason to hate Tiger Woods.
You know, this exact phrase was used in one of the Sniper’s letters to the Montgomery County Police Department. Now you’ve gone and frightened me. You weren’t INVOLVED in any way were you?
I recall reading about one PGA Tour player who trained in a rather unique way. At practice, his father would throw lit firecrackers at him during his backswing.
Similar to tennis, the normal atmosphere for golf is silence. An interruption of that silence is FAR more jarring than the din found in Baseball stadiums or other arenas where noise is the norm. To compare them is silly, if Tiger (or other golfers) played in a stadium where there was constant noise, they would have no difficulty whatsoever.
Why Tiger? Last time i checked, the person who steals your camera and throws it in the lake should be the person who buys you a new one. And that was the caddy. Admittedly, he was in Tiger Woods’s employment at the time, but unless Woods specifically ordered him to do what he did, the caddy should be the one buying a new camera.
That said, I still think Tiger Woods is acting more like a spoiled kid every year. If he ever combines his assholishness with a tendency to choke at the end of major tournaments, he’ll be in line to be the next Greg Norman.
If you’ve seen the news clip, or ever been to a PGA or other professional golf tournament, you’d know that Tiger doesn’t exactly have a monopoly on bitching at morons in the gallery for misbehaving during their swings. I once saw Freddie Couples have to be restrained while bitching at some shutter-happy mouthbreather. And this was during a minor tournament.
Tiger yelled something like “…not on my swing!” and glared for a few moments at the photog. End of story.
It’s the actions of Williams that deserve the “asshat” label so often thrown around. I’d be protecting a meal ticket of Tiger’s calibre too, but destroying someone’s personal property is not acceptible, and he should be fined or suspended by the PGA, in addition to being made to replace the camera.
Golfers are professional athletes. The fact that Tiger is excruciatingly wealthy, or that it was just an utterly meaningless skins game is beside the point. They perform for the benefit of the fans (who have a clue about golf etiquette) and use these events to maintain their skill levels. To quote the immortal Seinfeld, “How would you like it if I came to your place of work and heckled you?”
If you want to go to a sporting event and act like a moron, go watch an NFL, NBA or NHL game. If ya wanna take in some golf - follow the goddamn rules.
