Discussion for article #230310
OK I’ll bite. Why? Who cares?
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A lot of idiots care. If he is in a tournament, they will report his score even if he is 10 strokes off the lead. Golf fans and players are just fanatical about this jackass.
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I suggest a duel at dawn.
5-Irons at 10 paces.
No Mulligans.
jw1
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Cheap crypto journalism at it’s finest. And that includes you TPM for giving this embittered has been the press boost.
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This is called Tiger Woods getting his comeuppance.
I have no love for golf or for Woods, but Dan Jenkins?
Oh yeah, the sports fraternity just loves the old bastard and the way he can relate to them when it comes to dealing with cooze (nudge-nudge wink-wink).
Yeah, good old Dan, boy could he write about them sluts and make it real.
Jocksniffer and misogynist, you know the type.
If he couldn’t write as well as he does, he’d just be another creepy uncle.
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Would this not technically be at the least defamation of character? I’m not sure of exactly how the law is worded, but satire or not it seems to unfairly assassinate Woods’s (admittedly already spotty) reputation.
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Woods has every right to be upset. This also happened to Jazz great Sonny Rollins when The New Yorker ran a fake “In His Own Words” where Sonny purported to hate jazz and slur other Jazz greats. After the firestorm it created they later added a disclaimer. Too late. Should have never run it in the first place. Very low class stuff.
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People who like golf and like Tiger Woods for his golfing prowess. The game sucks without him.
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Embittered has been? Surely you jest. His sexual peccadilloes aside, Tiger Woods is the best and most exciting thing that has happened to golf in 100 years. If you don’t give a shit about golf, that’s good for you, but let us give the man his due and when he isn’t playing the game is as boring as it was before he got in the game.
Just look at the TV revenues since he hasn’t been playing
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“Comeuppance”? For cheating on his wife? I think he already got the comeuppance for that in the form of a nine-figure divorce settlement.
We all may be disappointed with his infidelity --like it was ever really any of our business-- but he didn’t do anything to the rest of us deserving of anything like payback. Maybe he doesn’t win every other tournament as he once seemed to, yet arguably he remains the single greatest golfer of his generation.
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I totally agree. Does he suffer for the rest of his life because his sex life and his cheating on his wife was made public? I think not. She’s forgiven him. They are both very involved parents and the past is the past.
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Hallelujah, I could’t agree more. I love how so many here are ready to cast a stone. Whatever he did was his and his wife’s business and it certainly doesn’t and shouldn’t take away from the fact that he is one of the best if not the best and most exciting golfer to play the game and his lack of presence in the game has caused revenues to suffer greatly. Because of Tiger, all golfers earn a lot more money than they ever did before.
Everyone should get off his ass. I will never understand why the media loves to destroy black athletes in particular
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Amen to that
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No it’s not. I don’t even know how you come to that conclusion.
I accidentally responded to you and meant it for someone else. I apologize
It’s just that I thought this was a political blog. If we’re discussing sports now I’d love some analysis of the crash and burn of the ATP world tour finals. IF we’re doing sports…
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Wow, Jacksass? So golf fans can’t be fanatical about Woods and golf, but the rest of you can be fanatics about NFL and Baseball players. I happen to be a fan of Woods because he is an excellent golfer but I am no fanatic. I would say 99% of golf fans don’t sit in front of the TV while he’s on and drink beer/whiskey and scream and act like fools like most other sports fanatics do. Just because you don’t like a sport, doesn’t mean those that do are fanatics. You are real adept at calling people names - like referring to people in California who voted for Barbara Boxer as idiots. What about you New Yorkers who voted for Mario Cuomoa, Alfonse DiMato, and the rest of the crooks,
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I’ve read Dan Jenkins’s stuff before. This sounds like his usual puerile attempt at humor, which may sound great in the empty locker of his mind but doesn’t look so hot on paper.
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