There is only one thing that Tiger Woods owes the public, and that is great golf on the golf course. Instead alot of us want an explaination into what Woods was doing at two in the morning leaving his house. People are throwing around rumors of an alleged affair, that his wife clunked him on the head with a golf club, and people are demanding answer’s. The only person who needs to demand an answer in this situation is Woods’ wife and that’s it.
The American public loves to see their top celebrities and athletes in scandals. For what reason? We have turned into a he said-she said culture that is driven with rumors. There used to be a time when the general public waited until all the facts were given before the majority made their feelings known. Now once someone does something unusual everyone jumps to conclusion. Here’s an idea how about waiting to see all the facts before judging what a person is doing, rather than go off of rumors. For one your credibility will stay intact, and two you could save yourself from saying something that’s not true and regretting it later, and being an embarrassed pompous enter expletive here.
I read elsewhere that Woods built an aura of publicity and of public relations himself with the endorsements that he has made. The equation that writer wrote about is only half the equation that it takes to make the kind of aura few athletes have. The other half is us the fans. We have to buy the products of endorsement by that certain athlete in order for Woods and the company whether it be Gatorade, Wheaties, Nike…etc., to benefit from the endorsement deal. However that comes from what he does on the course, not behind closed doors. Tiger owes the public great golf, and nothing else.
The Masters finally delivered the best golf in quite a while. Yes last year’s U.S. Open was good between Tiger and Rocco, but there was so much more on Sunday in Augusta.
Phil and Tiger starting the day 7 shots off, and then playing some of the best golf they can play for 16 holes, then they ran out of gas on the last two. However, the two’s play up until that point was astounding, you could tell both were trying to make a big shot to get some momentum going, you saw the ‘I cannot believe that I missed that eagle putt!’ They made it interesting nonetheless.
Then there was poor Kenny Perry, who held a two shot lead with two holes to play. Chad Campbell had made a good comeback to get to within two, but he had to sit and watch Perry play 17 and 18, along with Angel Cabrera. Then, Perry bogied both holes, and Cabrera pared both to force a three way playoff with Campbell.
After the tee shots on the first sudden death hole, it appeared as if Cabrera’s chance had gone away as he knocked into the trees, but he was able to recover and score par, as did Perry, but Campbell missed his par putt and walked away with a tie for second place.
Then Cabrera and Perry went to the second sudden death hole where Cabrera two putted to win the Green Jacket.
Folks are going to remember Kenny Perry’s flop, two ahead with two to play and then to give both shots back was unbelievable. I’m extremely happy for Angel Cabrera though, because he received no attention from anyone besides the Golf Channel heading into Sunday tied with Perry for the lead. Instead we heard from the “big shots” in sports coverage about how big a win for Perry it would be and it was his to lose. No one mentioned Cabrera, and his win will be overlooked more to Perry’s faulter rather than Cabrera hanging tough and shooting 3-under over the last six holes to get a chance. And then to win when it seemed as if his chance was over with his first tee shot in the sudden death playoff.
We should remember the 2009 Masters as one of the greatest tournaments of our generation.