Ces't la vie.....
The Masters is just a game. Woods, or the event, is not the issue to me at all, which is where I am different here. To me, this is a celebration of bureaucratic exercise over common sense and liberty. A free society MUST HAVE RULES - but it is not free unless the RULES ARE MINIMAL and only enforced such that they speak to the essence of the activity. Any rule that is beyond the essence of the activity is by definition bureaucratic control of ones life. Thses faux conservatives on FR who suddenly love "the rules are the rules" are ignoring how this will, or can, be applied to their life. Forget golf for just a moment...golf is merely the medium for this very critical discussion.
The scorecard signing ritual was at one time the very essence of golf, a sport played in lonely confines and one that required the utmost honor. It is no longer that at all. The signing is now just a ritual. And if golf wants to keep it in the sport to honor the tradition, that is great, but it is way beyond needing a total DQ for a mistake on this. To me, this has nothing to do with Woods, or even golf. This is about the slip sliding of our culture, even among conservatives, into an acceptance of rules for rules sake. Rules for rules sake is merely another term for tyranny. This is just like giving up your 3.2 ounce shampoo bottle at the airport - a rule that accomplishes nothing except giving a non participant power over a participant....and that is rarely a good thing in any walk of life.