[dr_who_2]

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.

[USMMA_83]

Of course it's a game. Everything is a game. Climbing the corporate ladder, being first in the spelling bee, being class valedictorian, getting a scholarship to Harvard, marrying the woman of your dreams, etc. It's all a game. But, we still cry...when we look back at the events that seemed inconsequential...but infact shaped you to win or lose. It's all Maya my friend...but we still cry...

[Archie Bunker on steroids]

Another asterisk on a major as Tiger looks more and more like Barry Bonds everyday.

[Pistolshot]

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.

Fortunately for the rest of us we don't have to share your ignorant view of losing a loved one, teacher, and best friend. Which all of these things Tiger's father was to him. It's not the game he was crying about, it's the fact his guide in life is missing from that moment and all too quickly.

[maine-iac7]

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.

geeze dr_wHo_2 - you need a chill pill. A big one.

Nice of to trash Tiger too - you must be a dr of psychiatry? - they do like to tear everything apart in tiny pieces - leaving nothing but a pile of rubble. Make you feel bigger?

Anyway, It appears you're half right: You "don't know much of anything..."

[nathanbedford]

I don't know much of anything about golf

That confession was utterly superfluous after you had exposed as to this assertion:

I still find it hard to understand how a few mulligans could bring about a nervous breakdown with anybody

Not even Clinton gets mulligens in The Open.

The release of emotion is entirely human under the circumstances. The game is diabolically disigned to test the character more than the physical ability of the contestants, especially at these levels.

Tiger Woods, like Nicklaus, demonstrates at every opportunity, both on and off the links, that he is a human of admirable character. Without possesing that character, which he believes is a legacy from his father, he could not suceed at the game. Without the game, he would not have tempered his character.

[bruinbirdman]

"Maybe Tiger's more obsessive about golf than anyone else on Earth"

Nope, that honor goes to Vijay Sing (sunup to sundown on the driving range) who will be forever trying to overcome the "cheater" tag put on him by the Asian Tour.

yitbos

[EQAndyBuzz]

"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."

Really doesn't have much to do with golf as much as it has to do with the relationship Tiger and his dad had.

Earl Woods taught Tiger about golf and life. About compassion and humanitarianism. And yes, about competition and winning. His father was with him every step of the way.

This win was a gift. You don't have to be golfer to understand it.

[bcsco]

From a poor twit, thank you veddy veddy much. Oops! I've gotta run. My tee time is coming up shortly.

[MikefromOhio]

Tiger DID skip tournaments to be with his father.