Everyone has an opinion of Tiger Woods these days. And everyone is entitled to one. Say whatever you want around the water cooler at the office, at a bar, in your living room. I'm sure people around the country and the world run the gamut between complete and total Tiger apologists to others who think he's the scum of the earth.
Billy Payne is somewhere in the middle. But instead of keeping his opinion in the office or at the bar, Payne made his very public when the Augusta National chairman addressed the media on Wednesday before the start of the Masters.
"It is not simply the degree of his conduct that is so egregious here. It is the fact that he disappointed all of us, and more importantly, our kids and our grandkids," Payne told reporters. "Our hero did not live up to the expectations of the role model we saw for our children."
Of course, it always comes back to the children. Won't someone please think of the children. Give me a break.
It was not Payne's place to make comments like these, and if I were Tiger, I'd be more than a little annoyed that this self-righteous snob in a green jacket got on his high horse and talked about my life.
If Payne wants to opine that Woods sullied the good name of the Masters with his recent "transgressions," fine. He'd be wrong, but that's a statement his position would allow him to make. Payne isn't Tiger's dad, and he has no right to spout off on what he's done off the golf course.
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I could not agree with you more. Billy Payne needs to think about what he's saying. He commented that the Masters can stand on it's own, and is it's own tradition.
That might be true, but the world wouldn't be watching if the lead story was No. 2 player Steve Stricker or Ernie Els, the only player to win twice this season.
Before they open their big mouths, the powers that be at Augusta National should be thankful that Tiger Woods is putting plenty of food on their table this week.
Additionally, I don't remember this much hoopla or a public tongue-lashing when John Daly was playing in the Masters in 2006.
If Tiger wins, I hope he takes the green jacket and tosses it into Rae's Creek.
Furthermore, why all these gripes about the new Nike commercial? I've heard it's "in bad taste."
Why? Because his father is dead? He's still his father, the man who molded him. I actually thought it was kind of clever.
I think people need to stoping worrying other people's lives, when half the time, they can't keep up with their own.
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