Saturday, July 23, 2011

This Sums It Up About Tiger Woods

I am an underdog type of guy so I really cared for Tiger Woods playing golf and if bet, I would bet the field against him.
When he crashed his SUV 18 months ago, I didn't cheer but felt sorry for him-just a little but felt more sorry for his wife and especially his kids.
Now, Tiger Woods is just acting like a total jackass. The final straw for me was when he fired his caddy of 12 years Steve Williams who stuck by Woods no matter what.
Rick Reilly has the perfect article about Tiger Woods and how he can through this mess that Tiger created:
The waning champion, Tiger Woods, seems to see the world as his personal doormat.
From the way he treated his marriage -- stomp -- to the way he treats golf etiquette -- stomp -- to the way he stiffs car valets and bellhops -- who? -- Woods seems bent on winding up with so few friends they'll be able to hold his funeral in a fitting room. And now comes the way he's treated his friend, groomsman and caddie, Stevie Williams.
Nobody has been more loyal to Woods than Williams.
When throngs of fans and media blocked the way, he was a one-man flying wedge for Woods.
When clicking happened on backswings, he tossed cameras into ponds for Woods.
When the parade of porn stars and pancake princesses came pouring out of Tiger's past, he went stone mute for Woods.
And how does Woods pay him back?
By reportedly not paying him a dime during this two-year knee-rebuilding, swing-rebuilding, Buddha-embracing hiatus.
By not telling him that he wasn't going to play in this year's U.S. Open -- Williams didn't find out about it until he landed in Portland from New Zealand.
And now, by firing him, apparently for taking Adam Scott's bag a couple of times to tide himself over.
Irony there. Williams took a bullet for Woods for nearly two years and then winds up being shot by Woods himself.
"I've basically wasted the last two years of my life," a pissed-off Williams told Mediaworks.
But Williams you don't have to worry about. The one who needs an extreme makeover now is Tiger Woods.
http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/6790119/rick-reilly-tiger-woods-new-world
I don't think Wood will beat Jack Nicklaus's record of Major victories even though he only needs to win 4 more Majors to tie Jack.
Woods is old by athletic standards and that is how Tiger Woods his tournaments. He was stronger and faster than rest of the field but not anymore. Now, he has to win with by having the perfect touch with his woods, putters and irons and Tiger doesn't have that. He had brawn but now he really needs the touch of a Palmer.
So, read Reilly's column, it's a good read and hopefully Woods will read it as well.

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