Tuesday
Jan242012
Tiger's Abu Dhabi Presser
I sat through this so you don't have to...
:45 First sightlines mention.
8:10: Donegan asks, "Does payment of appearance fees ever influence your scheduling?" Follows up with something about cutting his price ?
11:50 in is the first Hank-book question.
14:00 He's asked about a cricket test match...
18:40 First "traj's" reference.
20:30 Second Hank-book question, first really short and snippy answer.
21:25 First really cranky answer to a Hank-book question.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 08:16 AM
Reader Comments (48)
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Too bad the copyright holder is Bobby L. Jones instead of Bobby T. Jones, Jr.
As for Donegan, he is a comedian with that "Woods would do well to develop a sense of self awareness" comment in his recent column.
Can't we just move on? (or at least ask what he thinks of Diaz's involvement?)
Maybe this season he'll sit down with Feherty and lay it all out on the table...... NOT!!
He brings it all on himself, it's hard to believe nobody has told him get some instruction on how to deal with the media.
The Fourth Estate will keep asking Tiger about the book until well after it has been released. When the press doesn't get an answer, they will just keep asking the question over and over and over again. That's what they do. It is in their DNA.
Tiger appears to think that by treating the questions with disdain, the questions will stop.
Sean Foley said that through neuroplasticity, old people can learn new things. I think Tiger needs another dose of neuroplasticity with respect to media relations.
Why are golf reporters all of a sudden all jazzed up about appearance fees?
What a defensive pussy.
Truthfully, he is filled with pain.
As far as what he want keep to himself, maybe that something is his personal life. Is that too much to ask for? Hank Haney is huckster. If the year was 1860, he would be riding around in a horse drawn buggy trying to sell a "wonder all, cure all" tonic. I find the fact that he took notes the entire time he was helping Tiger to be disengenious and void of character.
look here's the answer to the question, Tiger is hurt Hank wrote the book because he sees it as a breach of trust, which he's said, multiple times. I'm not sure what more people want as answer
What question do you want answered that you don't think he's answered? That's my point.
Dude has learned nothing, absolutely nothing. He deserves the bitterness he's living with.
Come to think of it, Steve Williams is also disingenuous and void of character.
This is sort of a Tiger Woods thing.
As for "hucksterism" -- it's nonsense. Haney has written other instructional books, as have many others (some a lot less qualified as teachers). He's a golf coach. He writes about it. His previous books doubtless instanced other name players in certain situations -- they help the amateur visualise what he's talking about. Get over it. And as for Woods' disappointment: I wonder what Mackenzie or Ross or Tillinghast would think of E. Tiger Woods setting himself up as a golf clourse "designer." THAT's hucksterism -- in Tiger and quite a few other player "designers."
Tiger is the only player people will watch in the game of golf. No one cares about Luke Donald. No one cares about Geoff Ogilvy. The only player people want to watch is Tiger Woods.
But he is bad for the game. Becuase he spit on a green? Because that publicity whore Hank Haney is writing a book?
There seems to be a bias around here for golf journalists. These press conferences are BS, who cares? Tiger does not care what journos think about him. Does. Not. Care.
My my, are you the preacher from Footloose? I love the selctive outrage about morality! Tiger is, of course, the only egomaniac to play the game. And by "cheater" I assume you mean in the bedroom and not on the course, right? And he is the only Tour player to "fornicate"....ever. The only one. All those years and Tiger is the only fornicator. And, my gosh, there has never been a golf reporter who has "fornicated". Unthinkable.
Get over yourself.