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12/03/09
I love golf because it's the great equalizer.
It's just you and your meagre (or prodigious) talent against The Course.
You don't have to be young or wealthy (although that doesn't hurt), or tall or particularly athletic. You don't have have to have four limbs or two eyes. You can be very thin or very, very fat. Or anywhere in between
You can play golf whilst dosing on your meds or with a beer buzz or totally baked (recommended on a sunny summer day).
You can be a woman, a black man, a person of geighness (or all three), an athiest, a Muslim or a Jew.
You can also be a complete douchenozzle/twatwaffle.
Everyone gets to play if they want to.
But the #1 reason I love golf is that, every once in a while, I'll hit a shot* that I know cannot be hit any better by anyone. Not even Tiger.
Don't be a H8R Hamilton!
*I am not a very talented golfer, and that makes it so much better.
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But you may have a point. He's been playing the game since he was, what, three? So maybe this was his "fox in the henhouse" scenario. But still..didn't the guy go to Stanford? Are they THAT dumb there, social skills or not?
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I've never particularly liked Tiger Woods, but he's super-wealthy, super-talented, super-famous and a very nice looking man. And he travels a lot. It's not surprising.
Nor is it surprising that his wife may have gotten extremely upset, especially when it became public.
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Yeah he went to Stanford, but there are some very smart people that have no common sense. I think with the childhood he had he didn't know too much about being sneaky either. Let's face it, he wasn't the kind of kid who told his folks he was staying over at a friends house only to go party all night. If you think about it you probably know some smart people that you'd be able to get over on. Book smart doesn't equal street smart.
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I imagine his wife reacted the way most wives would if they caught their husband having multiple affairs, as she should have. She's pretty fiery, breaking out the windows with a golf club. While watching this unfold I couldn't help but think "Oh shit" for Tiger.
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But anyway, his problem...I've got my own.
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Wait until it comes out that he was banging Capt. Sully's wife.
PR DISASTER!
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Don't go into the woods with Billy Bob Thornton?
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Great movie.
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I say Tiger should apologize, do an "Aw shucks" appearance on late night, and blaze out on the golf course, reminding everyone what he does (ahem) best. Not sure how any of this scandal will really hurt him, aside from his nuked family life, unless he grows a vicious porn ‘stache and ropes about thirteen gold chains over that red Nike shirt and pulls those Dockers down below his rib cage for once.
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[www.telegraph.co.uk]
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Sure, he wouldn't have a stadium full of people wearing wifebeaters. But the first missed putt will be "a lack of concentration from the scrutiny." It invites cameras on him and keeps the story in the news.
Real advice? Wait for some other famous person to fuck around. Better yet, pay off your PR agency so one of their other clients suddenly decides to "put their story out there." THEN go play golf.
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I assume that golf people are simply wealthier versions of the sanctimonious purples who write about baseball. After all, isn't Reilly already on this garbage? If this assumption is flawed, mea culpa.
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The general consensus is that Tiger should miss 4 maybe even 5 tournaments until people are begging him to come back. TV golf ratings depend on Tiger. He's the one in control.
The fans will think that: "Oh, wow...he took some time off to get his marriage on the right track."
So my advice is: don't talk and don't play (at least for awhile).