Scotland on Sunday newspaper article on Tiger Woods

[DelB]

First up, I admit it - I'm no great fan of Tiger Woods as a person. In fact, I really don't care all that much for watching the game of golf - I prefer to play it, but I read this article today and thoroughly enjoyed it. I laughed out loud at number 18, for example.

Scotland on Sunday

Any thoughts or comments on the article?

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Absolute class. I wish someone would post that to his locker at Augusta. Much as I've already said I don't really care about his private life and that I'm only interested in what he does as a golfer, I'd love to see some of his replys to those questions

 

[birdieman]

Not sure about it. It's a summary of a lot of things we've all wondered about.

Eeeks of a typical British journalist trying their hardest to try and demean or chop down someone who is infinitely more sucessful than they are or ever will be. Reads like plain jealousy and a bit of a cheap shot. Seems like a British trait that we enjoy seeing successful people shamed and humiliated.

I like many grew tired of Tigers on course petulance and disdainful answers to press conference questions (both covered in the list) but I would like to think I could give Tiger another chance and hope he has realised some of his mistakes and will be more friendly off course and less moody on it when he returns.

Lets give the greatest player ever a bit of support now, he has suffered enough humiliation.

 

[Tommo21]

Class, are you having a giraffe. Apart from a couple of points it's total crap. I just cant see anyone having the guts to ask Tiger these questions.

A wee sample of how stupid this article is.

13. What will you say to your children when, a few years from now, they ask you what the hell you were thinking?

14. Before your recent press conference, had you ever before apologised for anything in your life?

15. Do you really know the first thing about course design? Or the second thing?

How stupid is the above......I hope this was not a John Huggan article.

 

[painterboy]

Not sure about it. It's a summary of a lot of things we've all wondered about.

Eeeks of a typical British journalist trying their hardest to try and demean or chop down someone who is infinitely more sucessful than they are or ever will be. Reads like plain jealousy and a bit of a cheap shot. Seems like a British trait that we enjoy seeing successful people shamed and humiliated.

I like many grew tired of Tigers on course petulance and disdainful answers to press conference questions (both covered in the list) but I would like to think I could give Tiger another chance and hope he has realised some of his mistakes and will be more friendly off course and less moody on it when he returns.

Lets give the greatest player ever a bit of support now, he has suffered enough humiliation.

Birdieman

In your first paragraph you are not sure.
In your second you seem to be.
Your third agrees that he has a problem regarding his on course antics, but wants to give him another chance.
Your fourth asks that we give him a bit of support because he is the greatest player (maybe, but not yet).

My question is, should someone extremely talented be given more consideration than say a journeyman(women) Pro?

 

[HRC99]

Fairly poor article taking pot shots at the easiest of targets. How about these questions for the journalist?

1: Is someone else's personal life any of our business?
2: Why should someone discuss intimate details of their marriage with complete strangers?
3: What business is it of yours how he discusses his life with his children?
4: Who appointed journalists moral custodians of humanity?
5: Have you never sworn nor spat on a golf course?
6: Honestly?

Sick to death of the whole thing. People have totally lost all sense of perspective about our right to know things. We would LIKE to know but have absolutely no RIGHT to know.

People went bananas at the press saying that they had hounded Princess Diana and were responsible for her death without even contemplating that their purchasing all those newspapers and magazines made them equally culpable.