My favorite scene in Caddyshack is when Ted Knight as Judge Smails throws his putter 500 feet after losing a bet to Rodney Dangerfield’s consonant-challenged Al Czervik. The club ends up buried in some old lady’s cranium, who Smails assures, “it slipped.”
(”It slipped!”)
Last Saturday at the Australian Masters, a scenario played out that was very, very similar. After botching a drive, Tiger Woods clearly whipped his driver into the crowd in disgust.
(”It slipped!”)
Woods’ club missed a woman and a child by less than six feet and narrowly missed the heads of several men whose faces had previously been painted with ear-to-ear smiles before seeing a large titanium driver with a Nike logo on it speeding directly towards them.
The whole thing has basically been completely uncovered by the main American media. If the tantrum had happened here, you can bet that wouldn’t be the case. At least I’d like to think that. But since we do have the video, why hasn’t there been more coverage and comment about this? Here’s one stunningly hilarious take by Mike Walker of Golf.com.
Video of Tiger’s toss after the jump.
Oh…sorry. Wrong video. Tiger below.
So why does Tiger get a pass on something as egregious as willingly whipping a driver into a crowd?
I think we all know the answer. Some people don’t have play by society’s rules.
6:56 pm on November 16th, 2009
They shoulda kept the club, or broke it…or something.
7:04 pm on November 16th, 2009
racism only thing driving this non-story…
clearly slipped…
7:06 pm on November 16th, 2009
His outbursts are more frequent - turning bit by bit into an a-hole golfer?
7:31 pm on November 16th, 2009
non-story is why it not covered,
Kidding, right? WATCH THE VIDEO.
7:31 pm on November 16th, 2009
Ignatz,
He was that long ago.
7:33 pm on November 16th, 2009
Dear @non-story: I beg to differ. Eldrick gets treated with kids’ gloves BECAUSE he is half black - people are afraid of being called racist if they say a discouraging word about him - sort of like a Community Organizer turned Politician from Illinois. This isn’t the only incident. Eldrick has a bad case of Trucker/Sailor mouth - if a white superstar golfer swore that much it would be covered forever and people would be calling for companies to stop his endorsement deals.
7:33 pm on November 16th, 2009
Also, just so I’m on the record, I have nothing against Asians.
8:01 pm on November 16th, 2009
It is quite surprising that this has not been covered. I’d like to give the media the BOTD since this off season, but that seems quite generous.
And just so I’m on the record, I have something FOR Asians.
9:18 pm on November 16th, 2009
He’s had more than his fair share of blowups on the course. Most of the analysis I’ve heard attribute it to his “intensity”. If he wasn’t a cash cow for the PGA they would’ve sanctioned him by now.
10:18 pm on November 16th, 2009
eh, no one picked up the joke/sarcasm….
12:58 am on November 17th, 2009
Er, no, CandyMan, he likely gets treated with kid gloves because he’s a great golfer and brings huge amounts of revenue to events. If you could bring that revenue into your McDonalds while you work that fry machine, you could likely get away with the same sorts of things.
7:17 am on November 17th, 2009
what a total Biatch. Tiger gets his name honestly, he’s a complete jerk-off when things aren’t going his way.
10:26 am on November 17th, 2009
It’s my fault sir, I noticed that your grips were worn; I should’ve put some stick-um on there or something…it’s my fault.
Hmph…kids these days, what are you going to do?
12:15 pm on November 17th, 2009
I wonder if Tiger gave Stevie a Quater tip ? Like Smails did Danny for takiing the heat.
1:07 pm on November 17th, 2009
I don’t condone Bobby Knight’s antics when he’s thrown chairs but when Knight does it he has “anger management” issues, but when Tiger does it, he’s “intense.” Screw hypocrisy.
1:52 pm on November 17th, 2009
his wife is hot!
4:19 pm on November 17th, 2009
Fear of the ‘racism’ card? No. It is about the money, as usual. If anyone else (white, black, asian, alien from Mars) did this kind of crap they would be slapped so hard that their head would spin.
“Intense”? No. A-hole? Yes.
5:28 pm on November 17th, 2009
‘Nod his head to see if everyone is ok…’…what is that, nodding sign language or something…….. if he nodded his head (I don’t see it) then as far as my knowledge of nodding sign language is: he’s saying, YES I really enjoyed that, I wish I took some poor sap’s head off in the bargain! Now get out my way before I poke you with my putter..