Waiting for Tiger Woods

Are you anything like me, a golf fan who doesn’t watch the PGA anymore? Are you having that feeling of waiting for Tiger Woods to return? They are having the playoffs at this moment. I had to go to the PGA website to make sure they fellows are playing this weekend. Sure enough they are; they are at the end of the third day of the BMW at Cog Hill in Illinois; and Justin Rose is leading the tournament with the fabulous score of 13 under par. Would you believe the picture advertising the tournament features Tiger in his Sunday red? It was. Never mind he’s not playing because he didn’t qualify.

So another Sunday afternoon will come and go and I would not have watched a stroke of golf. It is not that I don’t like the fellows but there is no passion without the “Tig Man” as I like to call him. One would think that I am a friend of his. No but fans like me who got drawn into watching the game because he is on the tour; truly feel we know him. When the ‘scandal’ broke, I was one of the first to say “please what has he done that others do not do?” When he appeared so very chastened in front of the cameras, I almost wept. No one who has a personal misstep deserved to be treated as Tiger was in the media. The late night comics had their fun and the holier than thous dared to condemn him openly. All I have to say about that is ‘he who is without sin, cast the first stone.’

In scanning the PGA website it would appear that the crowds were indeed small. Although there were people in attendance, the gallery was no way as large as if Tiger Woods was out there playing for another championship. I know with college football on almost every sports station and some that are not exclusively dedicated to sports, the television audience was nothing to write home about either.

Personally, I am waiting for Tiger Woods to return before I watch golf again. From what I gleaned from the PGA web site it’ll be next year before that happens.


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