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Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)Helen Reddy
(998 posts)golf balls. Silly.
Headlines that sell ink. Things that make you go hmmm.
Go Tiger! I'll be rooting for you later today.
Logical
(22,457 posts)City Lights
(25,171 posts)demwing
(16,916 posts)after such scumbaggery?
Logical
(22,457 posts)840high
(17,196 posts)Logical
(22,457 posts)malaise
(267,823 posts)He was unfaithful to his wife like half of the political and social elite.
How does he differ from Clinton, Gingrich, Sanford, Kennedy et al?
At least he doesn't rip off tax payers and sell out to lobbyists.
Logical
(22,457 posts)a politician who had 12 mistresses that went public. I have not heard of one.
malaise
(267,823 posts)and it's none of my business.
I watch his golf not his private life.
Logical
(22,457 posts)malaise
(267,823 posts)tarheelsunc
(2,117 posts)He has had at least 4 other accusers in addition to those 2. Isn't even the second time enough to say it was more than just a mistake?
BTW, I still think Clinton was a great President, because this does not relate to his job performance. Likewise, I still think Tiger is a great golfer (because he is)... but I won't be rooting for him ever again.
Logical
(22,457 posts)TheMadMonk
(6,187 posts)...all the womanising dirt that surfaced after his death.
Albert Einstein. Ghandi. more... http://www.cracked.com/article_18559_6-famous-geniuses-you-didnt-know-were-perverts_p2.html
Then there's what seems like half of Hollywood, and the music industry, where domestic violence and infidelity are the bloody norm and quickly forgiven.
Tiger's crime is less that he cheated, than he cheated on a WHITE woman while BLACK.
Logical
(22,457 posts)monmouth3
(3,871 posts)malaise
(267,823 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,154 posts)If it's just his golf that you watch (as you say above), isn't it all the same, as long as someone plays some good golf to win?
malaise
(267,823 posts)Sorry
muriel_volestrangler
(101,154 posts)Helen Reddy
(998 posts)I hold in high moral esteem.
I can separate his personal life from his golf prowess. Being a golfer for many years, he is magic on the golf course. His skills are to be admired, on-the-golf-course.
Logical
(22,457 posts)trumad
(41,692 posts)It's one ball.
bluedigger
(17,077 posts)tarheelsunc
(2,117 posts)rdking647
(5,113 posts)from what i read he should have been kicked out of the tourney but money talks and that would have cost to much in ad revenue.
but i really dont care,personally i dont believe in paying green fees to drink beer when i can do it in a bar much cheaper
but the cover is hysterical
Iggo
(47,489 posts)That kinda stinks.
tarheelsunc
(2,117 posts)tarheelsunc
(2,117 posts)The violation was reported before he signed his scorecard, so it's a 2 stroke penalty. It would have been a DQ had it been reported after he already signed an incorrect card.
Yo_Mama
(8,303 posts)Yes, the rules violation was reported before he signed. The committee looked at video and wasn't sure that he dropped in the wrong place, so they didn't inform him of a rules violation so that he could change his score before he signed.
After Tiger finished his round, he talked to the press and told them that he took an illegal drop, but it was blindingly clear that he didn't know that what he did was a rules violation. So now the rules committee had to change their decision, which up until very recently, would have meant a disqualification.
But the Harrington rule was adopted, which allowed the Masters Rule Committee to retroactively declare the penalty without disqualifying him. Here's an explanation:
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1603336-how-golfs-new-rules-saved-tiger-woods-from-disqualification-at-the-masters
Any controversy there is rests on the very embarrassing fact that Tiger didn't know the rules himself. Is that "reasonable"? That's why some golfers are saying he should have withdrawn anyway.
Also it is embarrassing because Tiger may have been doing this since he started his pro career. He really didn't know the rule and he didn't knowingly sign a false scorecard.
tarheelsunc
(2,117 posts)The card he signed is incorrect, but since the report was actually made to the rules committee before he signed it, then it's a 2 stroke penalty. Had the report been made at a later time, he would have been
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/2013/04/14/golfweek-jeff-rude-tiger-woods-2-shot-penalty/2081451/
It's pretty dumb, but so was penalizing the 14-year old Guan Tianlang for slow play, so who really knows?
If the violation is reported (by a TV viewer or whomever) before the player signs his scorecard, the penalty is two strokes.
If it is reported right after the player signs his card (for an incorrect score), the player would be disqualified.
If it is reported after the player puts on the green jacket in Butler Cabin, the player is the Masters champion.
Yo_Mama
(8,303 posts)What matters under the new rule is whether the player knew or could reasonably have known that he signed an incorrect card, not when the violation was reported.
Yo_Mama
(8,303 posts)The Harrington rule change meant that he wouldn't be kicked out.
The proof that it was a genuine error is that he himself told reporters about violating the rules. He signed the card in good faith, and earlier the rules committee had looked at video of the drop and decided not to call a penalty, because they weren't sure. Given that reality, there was no way the rules committee was going to disqualify him once he gave the interview proving they were wrong.
What's shocking about this is that a pro golfer doesn't know the rules on drops, but the truth is that he didn't.
The Masters tournament is a private affair and they don't like interference. They actually dumped sponsorships one year to make a point. This was not about money.
Kolesar
(31,182 posts)My nightmare is being laid up and having some other clown with the remote pick a ghastly program like professional golf that I have to endure.
LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)Not bad.
cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)Nobody has ever referred to infidelity in terms of what one does with ones' balls so it's an epic humor-fail.
The fact that the incident involved *a* ball makes the fail mega-epic.
The New York post is for the RW mentality, and thus aimed at a child's level.
edbermac
(15,919 posts)They gave us this gem a few years ago. Nothing but a RW tabloid rag.
malaise
(267,823 posts)I don't plan to forget that cartoon