Question for the Day…
August 27, 2008
The LPGA is requiring its players to speak English by the end of the 2009 season. Of the 121 international players from 26 countries on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour 45 of the women on the Tour are South Korean. It appears the policy-mandat is aimed directly at them. Tour officials said it will suspend players who can’t pass an English oral exam after two years on tour.
Is this fair?
What’d I Write About Tiger Woods?
April 15, 2008
Tiger Woods had arthroscopic surgery on his left knee Tuesday. He will miss about four weeks.
Yes, I wrote that Woods blew the Masters; played poorly, and perhaps was afraid to take chances in his fourth round. As it turned out, I was wrong - totally wrong.
Before the Masters Woods intimated that, unlike other years, he was not arriving early at Augusta to practice because there were so few changes to the course. It seems now that he did not arrive early because he did not want to chance exacerbating a left knee injury that would require surgery two days after the tournament ended.
Masters Thoughts: Tiger Was Tiger Once Again
April 14, 2008
Watching Tiger Woods play his final round of the 2008 Masters I have to admit that maybe I’m wrong. See, I continue to believe that Woods’ failure to win when trailing after 54 holes in a major (0-16 when trailing by six shots or less) is a fluke statistic. But Sunday, after watching him blow opportunity after opportunity to make the shots that would allow him to post a 68 and sit in the clubhouse and wait for those ahead of him to succumb to the pressure of bettering that score, I am now convinced that there is something missing in Tiger’s makeup.
Spotes Notes, 1.24-25.08: Kelly Tilghman’s Apology; Something New-Old from MLB’s Steroid Frontier; Dirty, Dirty Seymour; Tilghman Speaks - from the 18th at the Buick; Knoblauch Disappears; Jo-Wilfred, Jo-Wilfred (more to come)
January 25, 2008
Tilghman’s apology
Kelly Tilghman issued this new apology:
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Houston, We Have a Problem: Kelly Tilghman, Golfweek and More
January 23, 2008
Get’chya popcorn ready….
When did this begin, January 6? The day is about to turn to a new one, which makes, “soon,” January 23. And after 17 days nothing is remotely close to resolved, close to being understood, close to being divulged about the Kelly Tilghman incident.
Many people considered the image of a noose - on the cover of Golfweek magazine - far “worse” an offense than Tilghman’s horrific boiler room joke about how young PGA golfers can deal with Tiger Woods:
“Lynch him in a back alley.”
Other people pooh-poohed the noose as a flaccid attempt at sensationalism and concentrated their attentions mainly on Tilghman’s words.
Kelly Tilghman: In Plain View, My Response to Comments (through the first 16) - Tiger Woods is a Victim?
January 17, 2008
(Beneath this article are my responses to various comments posted to date…..)
Kelly Tilghman: In Plain View
By now we know the words - in reference to how young golfers should attempt to stop Tiger Woods - that came from Kelly Tilghman’s mouth.
“Lynch him in a back alley.”
Most of us also know that Tiger Woods called the incident a “non-issue.” His response, through his agent, Leigh Steinberg was this:
“It is a complete non-issue. Kelly and Tiger are friends. It might have been a poor choice of words, but there was absolutely no ill intent whatsoever.”
We cannot speculate as to whether or not that is his true feeling. What some people do not know is that on his first day of kindergarten Woods was grabbed and tied to a tree by a gaggle of sixth-graders who then spray painted “nigger” on him and then proceeded to throw rocks at the five-year old boy. We do not know if Tiger Woods recalls that moment each morning when he peers at his reflection in the mirror.
