Love Has Run - In With Heckling Fans

AP via NYTimes.com ^ | 7/7/02

[hole_n_one]

``They're not supposed to yell at the players. They're not supposed to give players advice, and they're not supposed to tell players what to do and interfere in their game.''

DL III, the way you've been playing, you might do well to listen to them.

[DoctorMichael]

Just remember.............GOLF is FLOG, spelled backwards.

[Rebelbase]

Happy Gilmore would kick the heckler's butts.

[hole_n_one]

Love fell apart on the last 3 holes, and, just like the loser he is.......he attempts to deflect the blame for his shortcomings upon someone else.

Western Open

[rabidralph]

Yes, a good flogging would shut them up.

[proxy_user]

What? DL III has been playing very well lately, since recovering from his neck injury. Second at Hartford, second today, shooting five under in the final round. Nearly every drive was right down the middle and long. I don't see much I would change in a game like that.

[Guillermo]

Loser?

How many majors have YOU won? How many tourneys have YOU won? What are your tour career earnings?

How do you like it when people yell at you as you're about to strike a ball? I guess it's OK if you're a Pro.

I think you're jealous, loser. Punk.

[Constitution Day]

I was truly hoping it was Courtney Love.
I think she's a nasty, opportunistic, loudmouthed trollop of the first order.

[michaelt]

The story you've linked to has Love not blaming the fans for his finish.

[KSCITYBOY]

Dear Mr. One - I have to say over the past 5 years the manners of people on the golf course has been in a downward spiral.. First you get yahoos out there yelling at the top of their lungs when they make or miss a putt - or they come out of nowhere on a cart right in front of you just as your ready to tee off or like tonight I was behind a group (who really sucked) they drove their golf cart right across the tee box to go to a dubbed shot. So either really stupid and rude jerkoffs have started playing golf or the terminally stupid have started mating at a ever increasing rate and the world will soon be over run by them. The world may be doomed!

[JonH]

Through Sunday, Davis Love III has won $1,457,000 thus far in 2002 (and he was out for several weeks with an injury).

May be he should retire.

[BradyLS]

How does Tiger Woods deal with it? Baseball players at the plate, basketball players at the freethrow line, and football players attempting a field goal seem to deal with it OK.

But if it's that big a problem, it sounds like the PGA and the courses they play on need to develop and enforce rules about fan conduct.

[Archie Bunker on steroids]

Love fell apart on the last 3 holes, and, just like the loser he is.......he attempts to deflect the blame for his shortcomings upon someone else.

Love is a choker! At least he doesn't need steroids like Tiger "Steroid Freak" Woods to win golf tournaments.

Maybe he should consider it.

[BradyLS]

The answer is obvious: greens fees, club dues, and entry fees to watch need to go up. If the problem persists, well....

[hole_n_one]

You're talking to the same person that thinks Michael Jordan is a loser.

Perhaps our difference lies in each of our definitions of the word loser.

[Archie Bunker on steroids]

DLIII is playing awesome. He seems to have a nice 2-4 month stretch every year. During that stretch he usually pulls off one tournament. More often then not, however, he comes up short(like Mickelson)when the pressure is on. Yes, Hoch last year & Jerry Kelly this year were on fire. Love was going neck & neck until a costly bogey down the stretch. Great ones avoid that. Love has probably won 12 times on tour, but he has the talent to win 30.

[RightOnGOP]

``I sound like my mom, but it's lack of respect for other people and for what they do.''

Love is exactly correct. This quote sums up much of what is wrong with our world today. Kids need manners, manners breed respect, and respect allows humanity to coexist.

Bravo to him for saying it. I wish more players/spectators would shun those who are misbehaving into shutting their big mouths.

[Guillermo]

Any rational person, when discussing whether Michael Jordan is a loser or not, would be talking about his exploits on the court.

The same goes for any sportsman, for that matter.

[hoppity]

Tiger deals with it the way all of the other Tour players do-- he tells them where to go. Didn't you see him back off his shot at the Open when a photographer shot him right before he pulled the trigger? Turned around and yelled, "come on!" Other professional sports have a constant noise level to which players become accustomed.

In golf, the majority of the time is quiet, because most fans of golf are well-mannered. When a knucklehead blurts out something stupid, it can screw you up.