Tiger is gonna come out of hiding...

[ValuJet]

I saw Gloria Allred and her porn star "clent" on one of the news programs last night. Video footage was shown of them watching the Tiger statement in what appeared to be a radio station studio. Gloria was shown holding the poor thing's hand all through the footage.

Gloria, of course, was claiming her client was owed an apology...Tiger and the porn actress had confessed their "love' for one another, etc.

I thought to myself - this is beyond a circus sideshow. For whatever strides Gloria Allred has made over the years defending women, she totally blew it last night. Pun intended.

 

[RhodeIslandRed]

Tiger deserves this little merry-go-round, and the media should play it up for all it's worth. Just keep the kids out of it.
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[rizolltizide]

Perhaps, but I really don't care for the image of golf as a "gentlemen's game". The money involved has changed the sport - for the better....

I don't have a preferred image. It is what it is. A game played by men for piles of cash. No better or worse than any other game played by men for piles of cash.

So anything but a "gentlemen's game" will suffice.
:biggrin2:

 

[exiledNms]

My thoughts;
a) Been watching golf since Tiger was in diapers, or before. I enjoy watching these guys.
b) Tiger's a *great* golfer. And there's clear, unequivocal evidence that he's also quite the oaf, in multiple dimensions of that word.
c) I've pretty much always cheered for other golfers over & against Tiger.
d) Striking contrast: Phil taking a hiatus in the height of the season to be with his wife as she battles cancer....Tiger taking extended & repeated hiatuses from his marriage vows to be with the sweet young thing du jour. Night & Day...Honor? Nah, no need for that; he's Tiger, after all...
e) I never doubted that Tiger, like all of the rest of us, is a flawed human being. (I'd use the correct word "sinner" here, but that might offend someone...oops! )
f) It's already quite difficult to convey the idea of what marital commitment is to my college-age kids and to others. A hugely-visible crash like his makes it all the more difficult. And I quickly add, that Tiger's foibles are but the latest of many, sadly. There, but for grace, go I...
g) So now golf is to be (as others noted) reduced to the same level of excused punk-ery as the NBA & the NFL? That's a bummer...
h) I really hope he gets his stuff together & returns to the game, but more, I hope he spends the rest of his life focusing on rebuilding a severely damaged marriage & some severely damaged father-child relationships. If he never swings a golf club on TV again, he's still done a tremendous amount for the game. For that, I am grateful.
i) my own golf game creates *massive* suction, which is partly why I enjoy watching the guys on the PGA. "Oh, so that's what a short-iron shot should look like...and that's what a 2-putt is; I've always heard of those..." :biggrin2: :biggrin:
j) repeat of point e above for emphasis...

exiled

 

[NYBamaFan]

So anything but a "gentleman's game" will suffice.
:biggrin2:

No - my point was that it really never was a gentleman's game. Contrary to popular belief, golfers have always had the same problems as athletes in every other sport. There have always been drunks and cheaters. Golfers want to tell you that they are gentlemen because they don't cheat and because they are better sportsmen. Well, they are just like you and me. Some are great sports, and some are not. But the sport, overall, has never been worthy of the moniker "gentleman's game". And, now that money has been pumped into the sport, it is even less so. Not because the players are any worse, but because they are now bigger celebrities. For the first time, every action of the players can be seen on hi def in living rooms around the world. Things that before went unnoticed are now front page news...

JMO...

 

[Clubfitter]

Tiger deserves this little merry-go-round, and the media should play it up for all it's worth. Just keep the kids out of it.
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Agree. This is a cross Tiger will have to bear. I think it will take a couple of years before this is not news. 4 of 5 more major victories will help it to go away. If he comes back and is not the same golfer he once was he will forever be remembered as the Tiger after the affairs.

 

[TIDE-HSV]

No - my point was that it really never was a gentleman's game. Contrary to popular belief, golfers have always had the same problems as athletes in every other sport. There have always been drunks and cheaters. Golfers want to tell you that they are gentlemen because they don't cheat and because they are better sportsmen. Well, they are just like you and me. Some are great sports, and some are not. But the sport, overall, has never been worthy of the moniker "gentleman's game". And, now that money has been pumped into the sport, it is even less so. Not because the players are any worse, but because they are now bigger celebrities. For the first time, every action of the players can be seen on hi def in living rooms around the world. Things that before went unnoticed are now front page news...

JMO...

While I agree that "Gentleman's Game" is a misnomer, I do feel that golfers police themselves at a plateau higher than some other sports. There are just too many self-declared DQs for that not to be true. It reminded me, though, of a funny story by Greg Norman. He was playing in an invitational in Japan, paired with a Japanese golfer whose name escapes me at the moment. I do remember that he was unusually large for a Japanese and, when playing on our PGA tour, had a nickname starting with "Big." Anyway, on one hole, Greg looks across the fairway and Big___ was pounding the ground behind his ball with his fairway wood, improving his lie. Norman being Norman, he strode across the fairway and told the guy that he'd seen what he was doing and suggested that the right thing to do would be to DQ himself. The big guy just stared at him (his English was never too good). When that didn't work, Greg appealed to the officials to DQ him. They looked terribly embarrassed and basically told him that he couldn't turn in the guy for rule-breaking, not "Big ____." They refused to DQ him. American baseball players, playing in the Japanese league, have run into similar situations...

Edit: "Jumbo Ozaki"

 

[rizolltizide]

No - my point was that it really never was a gentleman's game. Contrary to popular belief, golfers have always had the same problems as athletes in every other sport. There have always been drunks and cheaters. Golfers want to tell you that they are gentlemen because they don't cheat and because they are better sportsmen. Well, they are just like you and me. Some are great sports, and some are not. But the sport, overall, has never been worthy of the moniker "gentleman's game". And, now that money has been pumped into the sport, it is even less so. Not because the players are any worse, but because they are now bigger celebrities. For the first time, every action of the players can be seen on hi def in living rooms around the world. Things that before went unnoticed are now front page news...

JMO...

When I play, it's a gentlemen's game. How's that?

 

[NYBamaFan]

When I play, it's a gentlemen's game. How's that?

Not sure. When I play, it's a drinking game... :biggrin:

 

[TIDE-HSV]

Well, now he's moving on to a clinic in Arizona, one which treats drug addiction as well...

 

[rizolltizide]

Well, now he's moving on to a clinic in Arizona, one which treats drug addiction as well...

I think Tigre is aiming to have people pity him as if he is the victim. And I really don't believe it's gonna work. At least not with me.