Tiger Woods of the United States, right, embraces his caddie Steve Williams after winning the British Open Golf Championship at the Royal Liverpool Golf Course in Hoylake, England Sunday July 23, 2006. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
Tiger was amazing today. It is such a gift to be able to watch this man play golf.
Tiger IS human!
Tiger seems like an awfully nice chap, and on the face of it this seems all very touching... but it's just a game, regardless of whether you're an amateur or a pro who can retire with all the income he made with product endorsements. If you feel this bad about a golf game while your father is dying and after he's dead and buried, you have to wonder A) why didn't you skip the golf tournaments to spend more time with your dad, even against his dad's wishes, and B) does the fellow has some emotional scars that his pop laid on him? Maybe Tiger's more obsessive about golf than anyone else on Earth, but I still find it hard to understand how a few mulligans could bring about a nervous breakdown with anybody. Otherwise, I'm glad I don't know much of anything about golf and pity the poor twits who think of it as a good form of leisure time relaxation.
Tiger should take a year off to live as a hermit in the Himalayas, meditate, sleep, and carve napkin rings. Only then can he hope to be the patron saint of golf players.