Even more reason for me to watch. I despise him.
I'm just curious as to why, is it because he dared to behave so much like all the athletes, showing one face to the public and another in private? Would it be different if he was a basketball or football player instead, because lying and infidelity is expected from them? I think it's okay for us to dislike anyone, hell were only human, but I have say I find the Tiger hate a little amusing.
It's not "hate" in my case. I'm just sick of hearing about him. I am particularly sick of hearing the fawning and slobbering of the sports commentariat over Tiger every time he manages to sink an 8-foot putt for birdie. It is tiresome and unfair to the many fine golfers on the tour.
I used to joke that I was related to Tiger Woods because my mom’s maiden name was Woods.
Jack and Arnie both had chipees on the tour. Period. I don’t get the Tiger hate either.
He’s a prodigy. The things he’s been able to do in the short time he’s had to do it are historic. There was a time where he was so dominant, every tournament he was in was a battle for second.
The hate extends to the ‘Tiger’ slam too. He was, at the same period of time, defending champ of all four majors. Not sure if Hogan pulled that off, but that’s pretty impressive.
I watched an Auzzie win his first this weekend in the Texas Open, and got a feel for what it took to win just one. He’s won 79, and 14 majors.
Ben Hogan came back from a MAJOR auto accident and won majors before they were called majors. Arnie and Jack are legends, as is Gary Player, and even Lee Trevino (Fred Couples before there was a Fred Couples).
Tiger doesn’t have the personality of Chi Chi Rodriguez, but he’s a great champion.
Oh, and every PGA player, Champion’s Tour Player, and LPGA Player has benefitted for the market his dominance created in the 1990’s. The purses are unbelievable now.
Because nobody here has every made bad decisions before. Anyway, Tiger (and Phil) are pretty terrific.
Oh, and Phil (and his wife) weren’t exactly as pure as the driven snow either. Doesn’t mean he isn’t a great champion and scary good.
I remember when VJ Singh took all that crap for telling it like it was when Annika Sorenstam was going to do a ‘Billie Jean King’ with the PGA tour. He warned everyone that doing such a thing wasn’t going to serve anybody, least of all Sorenstam.
It did serve one positive thing: It showed that even a LPGA golfer so dominant that they are going to build a wing for her on the LPGA Hall of Fame for couldn’t hold a candle to even the weakest guys on the PGA tour.
What these PGA guys do in a three day tournament to win that thing is incredible, and more so because they make it look easy. It’s ballet, with sunlight, fairways, azaleas, and gorgeous water features. It’s better because there’s no script, and no understudies, and no subjectivity.
And everybody, anybody, who can rent a set of clubs can feel what its like by connecting on one decent drive down a fairway on any muni, on any Saturday. You can connect to it by sinking any put outside 8 feet that has a break, no matter how old you get.
If baseball is the most human of games, wherein anyone who fails at the plate 2/3rds of the time is an all-star, then golf is the game that is perhaps the least. It’s played on your honor, without umpires for the most part, and requires superhuman standards of self-control just to be ‘Par’.
I love golf, even though what I perpetrate can’t be justified as golf by any objective measurement. They worst guys in the panel in Golf Magazine testing new drivers have a 23 handicap. I was offended they couldn’t find a few guys who were doing well to break 100, which would be a ‘red polo shirt’ event for me.
So, if Babe Ruth is still the gold standard in baseball, a man with Tiger’s flaws will probably stand up pretty well when he’s long past.
After all, the President back in Ruth’s day didn’t have his batting average, which is why he made so much more than the President.
14 majors and 79 wins. A Master’s, at 21, won by a margin of 12 strokes. 12 strokes. At Augusta, the place where Greg Norman led by 5 on Sunday and lost by 2.
Sorry, I don’t understand the Tiger haters either.
I must be a real jerk I still like tiger his infidelity was his bidness
Woods has always been an arrogant creep that screams and hollers and cusses on the golf course if things are not going his way. He has no class whatsover and this was before he started having all the injuries. All the whoring around with porno stars probably gave him syphilis that has settled into his bones. I watch golf when’s not in the field. Can’t stand him and the idol worship surrounding this character.
Off-course behavior is only part of it. The man's on-course behavior hasn't always been great either.
The whole issue with his drops at the Masters and Players championships last doesn't help him, his on-course language at times has been very coarse including an alleged swearing incident at the 2011 British Open, club-kicking at the Masters and spitting on greens in Dubai which earned him a fine from the European Tour.
And then there was the 2000 US Open, where Woods unleashed a string of profanity after hitting his tee ball on the 72nd hole into the ocean at Pebble Beach -- when he was leading by 15 strokes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw83P2zkfbE (warning: very bad language, NSFW)
No, it's not difficult to dislike Tiger Woods. In the slightest.