Golf announcer Johnny Miller didn’t let us down today on NBC’s telecast of the Riviera. Miller has a reputation as the most outspoken and sometimes prickly of the high profile golf analysts, and he certainly let Tiger Woods have it today.
(”Long row to hoe”: wasn’t that the problem?)
“He (Tiger Woods) has a long row to hoe to fix this thing. … He’s damaged the game of golf. It’s been hurtful. He’s lost a lot of respect and his integrity is pretty shattered right now. And more importantly he’s injured his marriage and his family.
“He’ll come back strongly because he’s got so much talent, so much game but he’ll have to go through a lot of media blitz. He’s become almost bigger than golf, Entertainment Tonight, People Magazine type of thing.
“He’s going to have to face the music and show he has done anything he can to repair his marriage and have some genuine sorrow in his voice and feeling from the heart to show he can change and make his life better.”
Expected nothing less from Miller, who is the best golf analyst in the business. Not because he’s always right, but because he’s so opinionated.
My other favorite golf TV guy is Gary McCord, who might wanna tip off Miller to Tom Watson’s enthusiasm for uninvited opinions.
6:40 pm on February 6th, 2010
Tiger brings untold riches to the PGA Tour. Now he has ‘damaged’ the Game. Sometimes the stupidity that comes out of TV Pundits is really is appalling.
Hey Tiger you don’t owe these guys anything. You have brought Billions to the PGA Tour, Players, and TV. Johnny Miller and the rest can go pound sand.
Whtvr
6:43 pm on February 6th, 2010
“a long row to hoe ”
Las Vegas Blvd.?
7:47 pm on February 6th, 2010
Respect and reputation should be more important to a man than money, especially a man with more than enough money. What are they going to write on his tombstone? ‘Here lies Eldrick Woods, lousy husband, a liar and a cheat, but he played great golf and made a billion dollars’. Probably not what Tiger is going for. Miller is right. Tiger can be a better person. Keep covering this story Brooks.
8:23 pm on February 6th, 2010
That’s the name of his latest consort, an Asian beauth…Ho Long Ro
8:28 pm on February 6th, 2010
A long row to hoe? That’s nothing to worry about. The problem is the the long row of hoes.
8:50 pm on February 6th, 2010
Watching golf tournament in Dubai today and just wondered.
Didn’t Tiger have one of his mistresses with him in Dubai. Isn’t sex out of marriage and Adultery punishable by death in Dubai?? Will he go back and take a chance??
8:53 pm on February 6th, 2010
Watching golf from Dubai and wondered? Isn’t sex out of marriage and Adultery punishable by death in Dubai and the Middle East?? Will Tiger go back and take a chance?? He had one of his misstresses with him over there I believe?