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Tom Watson Says Tiger Woods Needs to Stop Swearing and Throwing Clubs in Public - Video 1/29/10
Freedom's Lighthouse ^ | January 29, 2010 | Brian

Posted on 01/29/2010 2:10:41 PM PST by Federalist Patriot

Here is video of a news interview that golfing legend Tom Watson did where he was asked to comment on Tiger Woods and the controversy swirling around him.

Watson is asked about Woods, and said he thinks he will "probably be back sometime this year after he gets his personal life in order." Watson offered some frank and mature advice to Tiger Woods about his on and off the course behavior:

It's bad for our game. It's something he needs to get control of and a handle on and make some amends and show some humility to the public when he comes back.
Watson was then asked what advice he would give Woods when he comes back:
"His swearing and his club throwing, that should end. That's not part of what we want to project as far as the professional golf tour is concerned."
Amen to Tom Watson. . . . (VIDEO)

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TOPICS: Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: pga; sports; tigerwoods; tomwatson; tour
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To: Federalist Patriot

Okay, it strikes me that cussing and throwing clubs are the least of our young friend’s problems.


21 posted on 01/29/2010 2:33:48 PM PST by RichInOC (Tiger doesn't NEED the little blue miracle...but it helps.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

I saw a video of Tiger as a very young child with his Dad on a Tv program showing how he could put the ball.

I think he was only three, and I remember thinking, I bet he grows up to hate the game.

It becomes a job, instead of a hobby.


22 posted on 01/29/2010 2:34:38 PM PST by I still care (A Republic - if you can keep it. - Ben Franklin)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Are you any good at skeet shooting? I find it hard to be consistent. Did you take lessons or anything?


23 posted on 01/29/2010 2:34:39 PM PST by DariusBane (Even the Rocks shall cry out "Hobamma to the Highest")
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To: wolf24

Bring back Fuzzy Zeller


24 posted on 01/29/2010 2:34:55 PM PST by shadeaud ("If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten." -- George Carlin)
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To: fishtank

Lighten up Francis...

Whoo Hoo! Two movie references for the price of one!

25 posted on 01/29/2010 2:38:43 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim (Live jubtabulously!)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Ok found it. He wasn’t putting, but he was even younger than I thought - only 2. He was on the Mike Douglas show.

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/59134/tiger_woods_at_2_years_old/


27 posted on 01/29/2010 2:38:49 PM PST by I still care (A Republic - if you can keep it. - Ben Franklin)
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To: kempo

28 posted on 01/29/2010 2:39:56 PM PST by diverteach (D.C. has become Jonestown)
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To: Federalist Patriot
Not to highjack your thread, FP, but notice Michelle never throws anything. She hugs!


29 posted on 01/29/2010 2:41:32 PM PST by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

LOL! Hijacking is fine here!


30 posted on 01/29/2010 2:46:41 PM PST by Federalist Patriot
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To: DariusBane

Sent you a FReepmail.


31 posted on 01/29/2010 2:47:09 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim (Live jubtabulously!)
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To: Talisker
What the heck are you talking about? Tiger would explode on the course sometimes when missed a shot. No professional golfer has ever been allowed to get away with the type of behavior that Woods displayed routinely on the tour. No one.

If you we're away of this, then it wouldn't really be a surprise to discover that he few (are there any?) professional golfers who back him at all.

Call it jealousy if you like. But Tiger Woods is the furthest thing from a gentleman golf has ever seen. Fortunately for him, he got to play the race card to expunge all his on the golf course aberrant behavior, and it never hurt him one bit.

Too bad for him that the tabloid press didn't operate under the self imposed journalistic black out rules that the sports/news media did. Sex trumps race.

32 posted on 01/29/2010 2:50:24 PM PST by Diplomat
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To: wolf24
Tom Watson is an elitist snob.
He’s the same guy who criticized Bill Murray for dancing in a bunker at a pro-am.
Watson can blow it out his elitist ass.

Really? What's this I found on your profile?

Simple people talk about people.
Mediocre people talk about events.
Superior people talk about ideas.
- Freeper meadsjn

33 posted on 01/29/2010 3:00:47 PM PST by Timmy
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To: OldDeckHand

‘Roid Rage.


34 posted on 01/29/2010 3:03:27 PM PST by Skenderbej (No muhammadan practices his religion peacefully.)
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To: RichInOC

They are just symptoms of his problems. IMO.


35 posted on 01/29/2010 3:07:05 PM PST by Skenderbej (No muhammadan practices his religion peacefully.)
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To: camerongood210
Tiger and others may have been the ones responsible for golf’s surge in popularity, but without those other men the sport would be a sliver of what it is today.

LOL! And without today's crop of golfers, golf would be non existant.

Golf is now too passe' and too entrenched in the days of old. today's players are more intense with more $$$ on the line thanks to Tiger Woods as echoed by John Daly.......

Its time the PGA starts adding some excitement to the game like the PBA has done. Specifically, more fan contribution and enough of this stupid "hush, hush, shhhhhhhhhhhhhh" crap.

If these guys can't hit a straight drive or sink a 3 ft. putt without perfect quiet, then they don't belong in golf!

When is the last time you ever heard a basketball stadium go totally quiet when there was 1 second left on the clock and the visiting team at the foul line needing 1 basket to either tie the score or go ahead and the entire stadium not only yelling and screaming, but the crowd behind the backboard waving pom-poms or whatever is available in order to distract the free throw shooter? That's pressure!

Golf was initially a game of elitists and has done very little to change that image........

Times have changed and it's time golf changed along with it...........

I want to see emotion from the players, I want to see club throwing, I want to see humanity out of these guys, not emotionless robots who move from ball position to ball position and occasionally tip their sponsor's cap to the crowd.......

36 posted on 01/29/2010 3:11:10 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (I want a hoochie-mama for Christmas, only a hoochie-mama will do............)
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To: Diplomat
Call it jealousy if you like. But Tiger Woods is the furthest thing from a gentleman golf has ever seen.

Good! Because "Gentleman golf" is an archaic term still used by the club elitists but is now a thing of the past and well it should be...I have never once encountered a "Gentleman" on the golf course......

37 posted on 01/29/2010 3:18:17 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (I want a hoochie-mama for Christmas, only a hoochie-mama will do............)
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To: Diplomat
But Tiger Woods is the furthest thing from a gentleman golf has ever seen. Fortunately for him, he got to play the race card to expunge all his on the golf course aberrant behavior, and it never hurt him one bit. Too bad for him that the tabloid press didn't operate under the self imposed journalistic black out rules that the sports/news media did. Sex trumps race.

You nailed it. Woods might win a lot of golf games, but he's an extremely crude person. But then that is what the audience wants in sports figures today, the low life.

38 posted on 01/29/2010 3:21:12 PM PST by stripes1776 ("That if gold rust, what shall iron do?" --Chaucer)
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To: wolf24

Slow down, man, Watson is wrong but “elitist snob” he is not. Some of the old guys have “old ideas” just like you will when your old, doesn’t make him an “elitist snob”.....! Just saying.


39 posted on 01/29/2010 3:21:51 PM PST by ronnieb
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To: Hot Tabasco

I see, my guess is you don’t play golf,or barely play it. The rules of golf are there for reasons other than this stereotype which lives in your head, they are there to enable people to get through a round without hurting themselves or others. Nothing worse than playing with some jerk that throws his clubs and screams when he misses a shot. It isn’t about decorum, its about keeping the fun in the game. Same kinds of rules in Baseball, football and soccer, wether you rawar of it or not.


40 posted on 01/29/2010 3:29:14 PM PST by ronnieb
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