Word: tournaments
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...following afternoon, during NBC's telecast of the Chevron World Challenge, a golf tournament that raises money for Woods' foundation, it was: Tiger who? At the top of the program, NBC anchor Dan Hicks read a statement from Woods, who skipped the tournament, officially because of injuries sustained during his mysterious car crash. The statement thanked Woods' sponsors, and the infamous word transgressions was never uttered, not even once. The cameras then tailed the likes of Jim Furyk and Graeme McDowell around the course, the unacknowledged elephant squatting on every tee, blanketing every bunker shot. Awkward...
...sportscasters still owe us an honest minute or two to dissect the golf story of the year, if not the decade. Especially when the story is exploding, and you are stuck with the somewhat sad irony of the Woods saga's unfolding during the same week as his charity tournament. (See the top 10 scandals...
When Tiger Woods won his first Masters Tournament, Jack Nicklaus famously quoted Bobby Jones by saying that “he plays a game of which I am not familiar.” The aftermath of the recent Tiger Woods scandal has left Tiger in a situation extremely unfamiliar to him. What started out as a news story that covered Woods’s health when he got into a late-night car accident outside his home in Windermere, Fla., quickly turned into speculation about his family and personal life. While some of the details have been blurred surrounding...
After skipping out on the recent World Chevron Challenge, a tournament Woods was planning on hosting, Tiger has made it clear that he wants to remove himself from the spotlight until this boils down. This spotlight is indeed considerable—Tiger is far and away the highest-paid athlete in the world, with numerous endorsements like Nike and AT&T pushing him over $1 billion in career earnings. He not only is the face of the PGA Tour but also started the Tiger Woods Charitable Foundation and the Tiger Woods Learning Center. Tiger even...
...shrank from the spotlight even while courting it to augment his fortune. He shut out the press, cloistered his family in ritzy enclaves, abhorred distractions. This is a guy whose $20 million yacht is named Privacy. For years his interviews have been as scripted and predictable as his Sunday tournament garb, so aggressively bland that those of us who prefer our superstars a little grimy embraced his profane outbursts and predilection for hurling clubs on the course as a welcome dash of humanity. Fans may have loved Tiger, but they never really knew him. They simply knew they were backing...