Tiger Is In Real Trouble

[BeFree]

Just imagine what the other pros are thinking. If the press starts following other pros around there will be a lot of new stories coming out and the pro tour is gonna take a hit.

The other pros on the tour are so mad at Tiger right now. The kind of attention that will be focused on the players is gonna be intense and you can bet they will have to lay low for a long time. Forget the partying, Tiger has just about ruined that.

Good thing the tour is layed up for the winter, eh?

[Skittles]

1. who gives a fuck about a bunch of rich golfers?

certainly not me

[OhioChick]

2. Nor do i n/t

[mitchum]

4. But they are role models! To middle-aged white guys

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

17. Yep, no one ever looked up to Tiger.

[mitchum]

25. I work with "minority youth" and I have never ever heard one say...

"I want to be like Tiger" or now "Man, Tiger let me down"
Now, Shaq, Jordan, L'il Wayne, and TI are different stories...

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

27. Those 300 inner city kids here that joined First Tee over the last couple of years all seemed to.

[Shell Beau]

50. Well I have heard many of kids say they wanted to be like Tiger.

And why not??? At least until now.

[Auggie]

10. Not all of them are rich

[Skittles]

28. alright - who gives a fuck about a bunch of golfers?

better?

[Auggie]

38. They're no different than any other athlete

[ProfessorGAC]

70. I Play The Game

Apparently i'm not personna non grata, and nothing i say matters.

Come on, Skittles. You're better than that.
GAC

[proud patriot]

11. Merry Christmas Skittles

:loveya:

[seabeyond]

15. *gasp*. you said the.....

mc word

is that allowed on du?

[proud patriot]

59. ROFLMAO

:rofl:

[DemoTex]

20. What Skittles said!

110%

[medeak]

34. I do!!!!

Love VJ Singh's "swing" wink wink!

[Forkboy]

66. I care what ball they use.

:P

[islandmkl]

3. yeah...he is either in real trouble, and all the pro golfers will have to rein in their 'activities'

...or not


but, definitely one of the two...

[medeak]

5. had home fronting on Phoenix Open

there were more groupies following certain unnamed golfers than rock stars have.

[crim son]

6. There's a suggestion that African Americans who rise to prominence

are good role models for underprivileged youth. Tiger, you aren't helping.

[paulsby]

16. tiger does not claim to be african american

he claims cablinasian

[malaise]

39. +1

He has never wanted to be identified as African American

[Shell Beau]

53. I never thought of it like that. He wanted to identify with all of his roots..

He didn't want to deny any of it. He may "appear" to be African American, but he isn't. He is a mutt like most of us are.

[Liberal_in_LA]

31. His life is his own.

[Shell Beau]

7. Not a single one of the other golfers is nearly as high profile as Tiger.

No one cares as much about any of them as they do Tiger. They are probably hoping this affects his game.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

26. I doubt anyone will be intimidated by him after Elin beat his ass.

[Shell Beau]

29. If that is what happened. And I can only guess that his fellow golfers

would understand.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

30. Doesn't matter if that's what happened that is how it will be perceived.

[Shell Beau]

I don't know any man that would look down on another man

for getting his ass beat by a pissed off, cheated on wife.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

36. I didn't say they would look down at him. I said they would less intimidated by him.

[Shell Beau]

48. I doubt it. Unless this impacts his golf skills, they will still be

fully intimidated by him and rightly so. He just kicks ass on the course most days. No matter what the personal life is.

[timeforpeace]

8. No they're not.

[Forkboy]

9. You said "layed".

[HysteryDiagnosis]

12. He should have been concentrating on getting a hole in one

rather than the other way around.

[Happyhippychick]

13. He had a lot of reckless, whorish behavior. I'm amazed it went so long without discovery.

[Gabi Hayes]

14. Tiger's one of the VERY few pro golfers who isn't a completely right wing, hyper-religious ahole

on that basis alone, I support him, even though he's quite the skunkster when it comes to his night work

and you can be sure that the other golfers know upon which side their bread is Tiger-buttered

he's the only reason the PGA tour is doing the TV business it does

my guess is the numbers will be bigger than ever, once he starts playing again

remember what happened to Letterman's numbers after his little shenanigans were uneartherd?

??

[LisaM]

19. Well, Tiger had a chance to speak up about women members at Augusta

when he chose not to do so, I lost a lot of respect for him. I am not saying he should have or could have done it the first few times he played there. But after he'd won it a couple of times, he certainly had the stature to try and effect change. I didn't like at the time that he acted as if he was above it all - now, I'm beginning to question his attitude towards women.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

24. He could have done it at any time. He was the most heralded athlete in the world as an amateur.

[Captain Hilts]

74. My thoughts exactly. nt

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

21. That's why Gatorade is dropping him.

[Gabi Hayes]

40. just wait until this all shakes out. he's 'too big to fail', perhaps

as I said originally, I'm not defending his crazed behavior.

I'm talking how the PGA works, and he's their golden goose, and you can be sure they're going ape trying to limit the damage to their money machine

this is in reply to the other demurring posts, with all of whose posts I agree in substance

[RKP5637]

32. +1, n/t

[Ruby the Liberal]

41. I don't know his politics, but he is a Buddhist.

:hi:

[Gabi Hayes]

43. he's BLASIAN!

did you hear about that?

poor tiger

[Ruby the Liberal]

65. Nein. What is a blasian?

[Captain Hilts]

75. I sure did read about that!

[Captain Hilts]

73. He doesn't give a shit about playing in clubs that don't admit women. nt

[Swede]

18. This will add strokes to his game.

:shrug:

[seabeyond]

22. for every woman ...???

:shrug:

[county worker]

23. I don't care.

He can boink whom ever he wants as long as it is legal and I won't care.

[RKP5637]

33. +1, n/t

[BeFree]

35. Same here

But the tour pros are a bunch of millionaires and they ain't gonna like this.

[medeak]

37. Jon and Kate what their names have to be soo happy n/t

[kestrel91316]

42. I was doing well at ignoring the whole Tiger Woods/Angry Wife With Golf Club kerfuffle

until this AM when KFI Fascist Talk Radio started talking about the whole laundry list of his girlfriends, and their names and occupations and the particulars of his "arrangements" with each of them. I didn't think ANYBODY could scandalize me anymore. I was wrong.

Sigh. And he seemed like such a nice young man........

[Gabi Hayes]

44. Rush Limbaugh, too, as part of a racist tirade starting out with how

Obama is bad black people

hear about that?

''got two more stories in the stack today about how black unemployment is through the roof. Black unemployment is terrible. The black frame of mind is terrible, they're depressed, they're down -- Obama's not doing anything for 'em. How is that hoax and change workin' for ya? They're all livid. I mean, they thought there were gonna be an exact 180-degree economic reversal and it's done nothing but get bad for everybody, but they're especially upset about it because they look at him as one of them, and now they feel abandoned. And I'm sure Tiger Woods' choice of females not helping 'em out with their attitudes there either.''

http://www.examiner.com/x-22698-Celebrity-Politics-Examiner~y2009m12d9-Rush-Limbaugh-Tiger-Woods-white-mistresses-make-black-people-more-livid-at-Obama

[Gabi Hayes]

45. Joy Behar is doing a segment on this, coming up. CNN Headline channel

[951-Riverside]

46. Sex and golf go hand in hand

These clubs routinely hire escorts and strippers for their ...clients and because many golf courses are expensive, large and "exclusive" law enforcement either look the other way or completely ignore it because they don't have the resources to properly infiltrate these clubs.

[Onceuponalife]

51. I guess they need to get their workouts in bed

They're sure not getting any kind of a workout on the golf course with caddies doing all their heavy lifting.

[Kievan Rus]

47. Minus 1,000. Tiger's just fine. The 50 million without insurance are the ones in trouble.

Tiger's not in trouble at all. He's still richer than entire countries in Africa are. He's just fine.

[madinmaryland]

49. Hey MODS! Would you stop dumping this GD stuff into the Sports Forum!

Thanks!

[tonysam]

52. I guess indoor sports counts as belonging to the Sports forum. n/t

[Onceuponalife]

54. Why not? It's sports related.

Besides, this way some of you Sports forum regulars might find out there are other people here at DU besides Fork, Tru and upton*

[Shell Beau]

56. So is every other Tiger thread that is in GD I guess.

Except they remain there. I call bullshit.

[madinmaryland]

61. Heh! Nice post, Barry Bonds!

:D

[Shell Beau]

55. I guess GD got tired of the Tiger threads. I hate how shit is moved around

as if it isn't important enough. Plenty of Tiger threads remain in GD, yet this was moved to the lounge. If you wanted this in the lounge, you would've posted it in the lounge. Almost as bad as the effin rec/unrec feature.

[BeFree]

58. Might just be me?

I do have some opposition, here.

[madinmaryland]

60. ..

Welcome to the Sports Forum!

[BeFree]

62. It's a real pisser

I had almost a 1,000 views before getting flagged and penalized!!

Try to beat that......

[Forkboy]

67. I got banned after 400 posts here.

I win!!!!! ;)

BTW, I really did get banned. Skinner likes fellatio though, so here I am!

Nobody alert on this please....

[BeFree]

68. I got you beat

No, no sex stuff, damnit! No puns!!

I've almost been banned 400 times!!

[madinmaryland]

72. Nice post, Walt Starr!

ALERTING!!!

[Shell Beau]

63. Maybe. I guess if enough people alert and gripe about a topic, it is moved.

Such bullshit if you ask me. I mean, a totally different group of people post in the sports forum. If you wanted their opinions or wanted to converse with them, then you would have posted your topic here. You will get such different responses in the sports forum. And GD is called general discussion. If Tiger Woods isn't general discussion, especially these days, then what is?????

[BeFree]

64. I'd say it's in your headline

I didn't even know we had a sports forum!!

Ever see the September 11, forum? A totally different sort there, fer sure.

[BeFree]

57. Heh

[bluedigger]

69. Actually, it may be a huge problem.

If the family values crowd decides to take him down, it could be a major distraction on the tour. Protesters at events will not be welcomed, particularly by his fellow tour members that have to play in his foursomes. The game is about focus and concentration, after all. I mean, these people freak about camera shutters clicking.

(Or tensomes or whatever. I couldn't help myself.:rofl: )

[Ganja Ninja]

71. All he has to do is win one major and all of this will be left behind him.

Sure it's tabloid trash right now but that won't last. The next question will be how has it affected his golf game? If he goes out and wins the masters (or any other tournament) this spring then the story will turn and it will be all about Tiger's big comeback.

[fishnfla]

76. yes