Posted on 09/20/2006 7:51:00 PM PDT by blam
Woods vents fury at fake photos as crowd turn on Americans
Lawrence Donegan at the K Club
Thursday September 21, 2006
The Guardian (UK)
So much for hands across the ocean. Two days before a ball is struck in earnest at the 2006 Ryder Cup the atmosphere around the K Club turned a little angry yesterday after Tiger Woods took the unusual step of publicly condemning an Irish magazine for publishing fake photographs purporting to show his wife, Elin, naked. "Some things are unacceptable," the world No1 said amid reports he was ready to take legal action against the Dublin-based magazine, Dubliner.
If Woods was offended by events in the run-up to tomorrow's opening day of the biennial contest between the US and Europe, he was not alone. A couple of hours later he and his team-mates were booed by the vast galleries who had turned up in appalling weather to watch the teams practising and were treated instead to a nine-hole session from the American players said by their captain Tom Lehman to be a "fun thing to do when the weather is bad". That was one way of describing it. Another way would be to say it was a chaotic and half-hearted exercise which resembled the kind of self-indulgent knockabout dreamed up after one too many gins and tonics in the bar at the country club.
With their caddies and a phalanx of PGA of America flunkies looking on from the middle of the fairways, all 12 players took it in turns to hit shots into the greens from 100 yards. They didn't hit drives off the tees, barely bothered to hole putts although they did perform a circus act at the 7th where they tried to skim balls across the water to the green.
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Typical Eurotrash crap. Ignore it boys and kick their butts.
Why? ...because Tiger and his teammates had the nerve to speak out against their island's fabricated, baseless, and tasteless tabloid stories about their wives?
I read about these pictures. It wasn't his wife being plastered all over the internet for porn pics. I don't blame him for getting 'teed' off for this one. (I'm glad it wasn't his wife. I can't see him marrying a porn star.)
If he were French, perhaps he'd have asked a few German members of the crowd to have a go with his wife on the green...?
Unbiased journalism--a Euroweenie tradition!
How civil of the cheeky English fairies at the Guardian.
Tiger is a class act. If he's pissed its for a reason. This should be more than a golf tournament!
I'm no Tiger genuflector but he's absolutely right to defend his wife from that sort of attack. If she wasn't Mrs. Tiger Woods, they wouldn't publish such crap and the only reason they do it is try to throw golf's best player off his game.
It's very unsportsmanlike. If I were Woods, I would threaten to boycott any future golf events in Ireland.
I truly believe that Europe is fast on its way to becoming our biggest enemy... more than China or Russia. The differences in our values are becoming a chasm.
"Why? ...because Tiger and his teammates had the nerve to speak out against their island's fabricated, baseless, and tasteless tabloid stories about their wives?"
No, because it is the fashion to bash Americans for Iraq, Bush, etc. From what I hear, you don't admit to being American while having a brew in the UK or Ireland these days.
So the Euros can't seem to understand why Tiger Woods might be annoyed about some mag printed fabricated photos of a naked woman and saying they're pics of his wife?
Holy Cow, they really have gone round the bend.
It's unusual to condemn the publication of photographs which purport to show one's wife, naked?? I would have said it was unusual for any self-respecting publication to stoop to such a thing. Tiger's reaction is altogether correct and proper.
The world has gone crazy and Europe is leading the headlong rush to lunacy.
Concentrate on that.
Why? ...because Tiger and his teammates had the nerve to speak out against their island's fabricated, baseless, and tasteless tabloid stories about their wives?
No, the boos were because folks had paid big money and waited 2 hours in the pouring rain and high wind to see them play practice rounds, which didn't happen.
It's time for Americans to start punching some folks in the face.
I sure hope so. Tiger's Ryder Cup record is 7-11-2.
I can bet they won't have the guts to print a drawing of Mo-ham-head.
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