Will Tiger Woods withdraw from the Masters?
 

He certainly should, but will he...

Why would he?

No, cheating on the golf course is no different than cheating on your wife. It's just how he lives his life.

I can just picture the conversation when Lindsay Vonn calls her mum and dad and says:
"hi I just got a new boyfriend". Mum and Dad reply who? She tells them .....
Silence. Then "that's nice dear". A father's worst nightmare. There are worse I suppose....:eek:

I haven't been watching, what happened?

I don't have all the details, but apparently he was banging some porn star and got caught, so his wife took a gold club to his SUV while he was driving away and he ended up crashing into a tree or something.

OK, I did get that part. Did something happen at the Masters in the last few days?

Winners never cheat. Cheaters never win.

That is really old news. I am surprised he is playing as well as he is. I hope Freddie C wins. ABT = anybody but Tiger. :)

Get real. He paid the price, very publicly, for his mistakes and is trying to move on. You guys should too.

His drop on 15 yesterday was not a legal drop. He knew it, and admitted so after the round.

Tiger Woods hit with 2-stroke penalty at the Masters for illegal drop, no DQ


The game of golf is the last bastion of chivalry in modern day. Golf history is full of guys (and gals) calling penalties on themselves whether anyone else knew of the violation. Tiger signed an inaccurate scorecard but the rules committe is offering him a weak out on it. He shouldn't take it. His off course reputation is already shot, but he has a chance here to enhance is on course legacy.
If you don't follow golf, it's hard to grasp the implications here.

Can someone explain it for a Non golfer? Like in bowling terms:)

The only way to fathom a violation of this sort and relate it to bowling is to say he put a piece of rubber in the gutter, rolled a gutter ball, and the ball bounced back onto the lane and knocked down pins. He cheated, plain and simple.

I've had to no card over simple math, I was 12, but I knew I screwed up when I double checked the card, but it was already signed. I would have been DQ'd.

Thanks for the press release. But what determines an illegal drop?

Lame, lame, lame. The guy is toast.

Cheating on a wife is one thing. Cheating on the Holy Game of Golf... unforgivable!

What he said. Geez glad you guys are so friggin' perfect. :rolleyes:

In this case, it's Rule 26-1 a. And he has admitted to violating the rule.

Another thing, Tiger's still there because if they disqualified him the weekend gate ($$$) would plummet. The PGA and Augusta want that money badly so he stays. He may have offered to withdraw but the suits ($$$) said no. We'll learn more as the weekend unfolds. Golf may be "the last bastion of chivalry" but that comes second to the huge amount of money at stake. It is a very lucrative business first, then it's chivalrous, etc. after that.

why did he fudge the drop? Was there an advantage in one spot over the other?
If he was trying to cheat, why would he bust himself?