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Ian Mullins
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Joined: Feb 2008
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Despite all the media frenzy of the last few months.....it suddenly occurred to me this morning that maybe this isn't such a bad thing for golf as a whole?
Clearly, the worlds media has now condemned Woods for his behaviour and given that this has probably given the sport, more column inches of editorial than it would normally have received in 5 years, on the front pages as well as back.......is it such a bad thing for the game?
I do wonder whether he has brought into question 'The spirit of the game' with his overall demeanour and attitude on the course.....
But there is an old addage "There no such thing as bad publicity!"
I wondered what everyone else thought?
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David Allchorne
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HERTS
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Joined: Sep 2008
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Whatever you think about Tiger he has an aura about him that enhances any tournament that he plays in. Not really sure in the long run that the extra publicity makes a lot of difference to golf in general.Will more people take the game up? probably not All I do know is that I have had more enjoyment in a few hours this morning than in the whole of the last five weeks watching that overpaid, overrated bunch of pampered primadonnas out in South Africa
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Joined: Mar 2010
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Dave's got it spot on, tiger's midemeanors won't draw any new people to golf (communities like TSG are more likely to get people into the game) and definitely watching the £5m per year prima donnas giving there all to get a draw with the likes of America and Algeria and then firing on all cylinders to scrape a win against the smallest country in the comp was a great acheivement and made for a fantastic sporting event :( Give me the British Open every time (even in the rain)
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Joined: Mar 2010
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I would agree that Tiger's behaviour has surprised and irritated many golfers (irrespective of his personal problems the spitting, swearing, taking chunks out of the tee with his driver when smashing a drive out of bounds and ignoring fans requests for autographs - even the kids is appalling and not good for the game) but we may not like him but we all still want to watch him - he's on at 2:20 today...
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