Tiger

[toonarmy]

Good man.

We'll never agree about Brookline it seems, but hey-ho.

Desire is great, but for me Brookline, like Kiawah, was not desire, it was just plain ugly baiting of the crowds and cheating by some of the crowds. No place for it in any sport, certainly not our noble game.

It would be nice to be able to blame it all on the women, but as everything they do is apparently because/in praise of God, perhaps we have to blame the beardy cloud-sitter?

 

[birdieman]

Attractive clones though!

 

[bunkered]

Birdieman, was it at brookline when payne stewart said something about the crowd when he was playing monty.

 

[birdieman]

divot, payne stewart was a true gentleman, can't remember the details but he did make an appeal I think for the crowd to lay off Monty.

 

[medwayjon]

divot, payne stewart was a true gentleman, can't remember the details but he did make an appeal I think for the crowd to lay off Monty.

Here here, a true gent, a credit to himself and to the game of golf as a whole.

 

[madandra]

And Mr Stewart told Monty to pick his marker up when Monty was 4 feet away needing the putt to halve the match.

Payne Stewart is one of my heros in golf.

 

[DarthFader]

And Mr Stewart told Monty to pick his marker up when Monty was 4 feet away needing the putt to halve the match.

Payne Stewart is one of my heros in golf.

Payne was one of golfs real gentlemen and a true sportsman,he is sadly missed.

 

[toonarmy]

Aye, everything every golfer (USA or otherwise) should aspire to.

Well, maybe not sartorially...

It always seems to be the better ones that get taken from us.

 

[birdieman]

Few remember he came second behind Lyle at Sandwich way back in 1985 Open - a great shotmaker, didn't try to overpower a course like todays guys.
I saw him play in the Scottish Open at Gleneagles in 1989, didn't win but he was the star player, no doubt, think he won the PGA that year.

 

[Nico]

How did this get on to Brookline!!!
TW, best ever when before has the World's greatest sportsman been a Golfer!

Back to the good old USA, I had a close personal friend who's best mate is really senior in a certain organisation which is central to the competition.

Let me tell you that the subsequent book only scratched the surface!!!

Things werent much better the next time we went there either.

 

[viscount17]

The incident on the green was the trivial end of Brookline.

The serious stuff was the fuelling of the crowd as a policy in order to intimidate. It was not until the last day that the US team tried to back pedal although even then mainly because the tactic wasn't working (Payne Stewart had one loud mouth thrown out) but all too late. The worst of the crowd incidents occurred later in Monty's round.

This is the side of it that is and will remain inexcusable.

 

[rgs]

Brookline was out of order-lets hope we never see this type of behaviour again.

Kiawah Island was another example of crass american behaviour. My brother was at Kiawah and he felt intimitated as a spectator.

This post started in praise of Tiger and his recent victory-We are witnessing the greatest golfer in history and we should be thankful.