I’ve never understood the fascination with Tiger Woods, which in a way makes the sudden media frenzy more understandable.
He has always seemed like a golf-playing automaton, making near-perfect shot after near-perfect shot and taking no joy from it whatsoever. Even his rapid-fire fist pumps after another electrifyingly clutch shot seem, well, forced. Maybe a better word is programmed. As a child, maybe he didn’t get ice cream after dinner unless he did fist pumps for 30 minutes.
The emotion is palpable in this clutch-shot fist pump.
I’ve always had the impression that he golfs in a vacuum. He doesn’t get fired up by the crowds. He doesn’t play for his fans. He plays only to make the best shot possible, every time. An admirable goal, sure. But when you are a professional entertainer — and that’s all sports are, entertainment — skill draws respect. To get awe, even fear, you gotta have pizzazz.
Athletes are just like rock stars, and every once in a while you want them to stop and smash their guitars on stage. But if athletes are rock stars, then golfers are folk singers. Rock stars shoot heroin; folk singers just smoke their weed and chill, man.
That’s why I could never figure out why Tiger got such attention. He wins, he wins all the time, but there appears to be nothing else to say about him. John Daly is a more interesting person, and he ranks 215th in earnings on the PGA Tour this year. But if I say ”John Daly,” if you’ve been following sports at all over the last 20 years, you know more about his life and his demons than you do about Tiger Woods.
So I can see how the media has created this circus right now around Tiger Woods. Finally! A scandal! We can break through the glass that surrounds his life. I’m not interested in the details of it, but I can see why the tabloids are gonna have a ball with it.
P.S. ESPN still gives 10 times more coverage to the annual “Will Brett Favre retire or not?” epic. I guess their priorites are in place. Either that, or Favre owns stock.
He has always reminded me of someone that had such a rigid childhood that heaven forbid that someone would find something bad about them. Kinda sad really. I know one other person like that and they do everything right but they are pretty boring people to be around. No its not you O-fers…..lol
Now that I look at the picture maybe he’s trying to get that trucker to honk his horn.. Ha Ha!!!
Lawley once told me that if it smells bad it probably tastes that way too. For those of you looking to find an identity. People will notice you if you wear two different socks, Thanks Johnny(Lunceford).
I think your right about Tiger in one sense. He is the best golfer but, he still eats his lunch out of a paper bag just like everyone else. He needs to be more creative and entertaining like me and eat your lunch out of a Power Ranger lunch box. One thing you can’t pretend is to be funny. With that said here’s a little reminder. It’s not really giving if you give away the animal crackers with missing heads and feet…