Practicing today at Melbourne's Kingston Heath Golf Course, Tiger Woods wore a lime green shirt and an easy smile. He signed autographs and thanked the Australian fans for their kindness... and for their understanding of the game of golf.The man described by Chinese journalists as cold-blooded and grave had clearly shaken off the Shanghai blues. Today he warmly heaped praise on everything from the local population's appreciation of a good golf shot to the Kingston Heath bunkers.
A crowd of thousands was on hand when Mr. Woods arrived at the course several hours ago for his nine hole practice round, on a sweltering, early summer day. Later during a press conference he briefly addressed his less-than-stellar Sunday in Shanghai as, "...one of those things where you just go ahead and move on." Fortunately it looks like Tiger has done just that and the organizers of this tournament have amped up security and in an attempt to avoid the cellphone-camera madness that some say marred the Shanghai Champions they've instituted a course-wide ban on cellphones and cameras. Which we all know won't deter
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Upper photograph: William West/ Getty Images, Lower photograph:via Golf365 ✿
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I got this one at the Masters
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Glad to see Mr. Woods is in good spirits. I still think the camera thing can get a bit obnoxious--unless it's a golf blogger who knows exactly when, and when not, to steal an illegal photo. ;o)
ReplyDeleteAt the French Open last year I was surprised to see cameras and video camera were freely permitted and spectators very close to the players continually taking photos and video.
ReplyDeleteI imagine that'll soon be a thing of the past.
Didn't your friend Ryo have an incident with a photographer recently too? I agree with Lang it probably won't be long before the no camera/no cellphone rules go international.
ReplyDeleteGolfers once again prove to be spoiled prima donas.
ReplyDeleteTiger, like anyone else, can tend to get annoyed with the little things. I could honestly cure him of that after 1 month of playing at our golf club. We're across a highway from the municipal course, so on one side of our course, you can hear all of their announcements of who is on the tee, etc. You get over the annoyance pretty quickly... or you go stark raving mad. On the back side of the course they are building a new home addition, which would drive some people to drink. I can play no matter what occurs during my back-swing, lol. But then, I'm a below average golfer too. I thought perhaps Tiger had gotten over the prima donna stage of his life. Guess I was wrong. You never saw that among the great players of the past, but there weren't all the little electronics back then either....
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