LET’S TURN TIGER WOODS INTO AN NFL THUG

julian — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:21:04 +0000

Apart from John Daly over the last ten years never being able to come to grips with his alcoholism, pretty well every touring professional is the epitome of a good sportsman but moreover a gentleman, just as was the case when Bobby Jones, Walter Hagen, Gene Sarazen and Tommy Armour graced the courses eighty odd years. At the end every seventy two hole tournament, the first to greet the winner is a gorgeous looking wife running onto the eighteenth hand in hand with two or three immaculately dressed and impeccably mannered children. It harks back to another era, when there was such a thing as a happy and united family unit. Compare golf to any other sport. To me the difference is the acceptance of bad behavior from so many of the players and the debauched private lives they lead, ruining it for the ones who can and want to compare themselves to the likes of a Tiger.

Tiger Woods is one of the classiest champions to ever don a golf glove. From day one his impact upon the game has been hugely positive. Like the grand champion of business, Bill Gates, Tiger has done a magnificent job for charity as well as the game. Only Arnold Palmer has his measure when it comes to a golfer who has handed back far more than he has ever taken. Jack Nicklaus may still hold the record for the number of majors won, but as a champion all rounder he does not hold a candle to either Tiger or Arnold.

Thanksgiving in the Woods household must have taken a small turn for the worse in the early hours of Friday morning and obviously Tiger had to make a quick exit. Too quick in fact! The poor blighter was in such a hurry to make himself scarce, he spun his Cadillac SUV out of control outside his home. Now the media is descending upon him like a pack of wolves ready to twist this story into a deal to read like the recently retired footballer, married with four kids, who was recently shot dead by his twenty-year-old tart on the side in the apartment he “sort of” shared with her!

Tiger’s statement says it all, when he said he took full responsibility for what happened and unlike Jesus Christ, he does not walk on water. Yes, he is human and not made in the perfect image of God. Tiger has spoken and that should be the end of the story. Apart from a tree losing some bark, Tiger’s SUV a write off and Tiger suffering from a few scratches, Tiger’s middle of the night escapade only awoke and maybe annoyed a couple of neighbors. It does not warrant a Congressional Inquiry and what took place inside his home that led to his quick exit is of no-one else’s (and that includes the police) concern apart from Tiger and his wife.

What the world’s media is extracting from this tiny incident is sensationalism that can show the world what a bad tempered, wide beating, wife cheating hypocrite Tiger Woods is. Why? It is all about the likes of dirtbags led by Rupert Murdoch determined to bring everything down to the lowest common denominator. Tiger Woods in his short thirty three years has become the world’s most recognized sportsmen for all the right reasons; he is the greatest golf champion of all time and he has also led an exemplary life off the course. This is nothing but a little hiccup in the scheme of things and if the media were fair, Tiger should be given any benefit of the so-called doubt. The world needs more Tiger Woods. He exemplifies all that is good about how great men, blessed with talent, should be. Why drag him down to the level of all those lowlifes playing baseball, football and basketball?

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LET’S TURN TIGER WOODS INTO AN NFL THUG