I'm tired of Tiger Woods

Considering I’m such an avid golfer (not a good golfer), I’m often asked why I’m not a strong supporter of Tiger Woods. Since this past weekend was “Masters Tournament” weekend, this may be an appropriate time to explain myself.

Tiger Woods is without question the best and most outstanding professional golfer of this era, however, he’s not the only professional golfer. I watch the tournaments in order to observe all the golfers and I have a special affinity for seeing some of the senior golfers that were popular when I was younger and that are still good enough to make the “cut”. As an example, all former winners of the “Masters” are invited to play each year. This year twelve golfers whom I consider seniors were invited to play and of that twelve, seven made the “cut . On Thursday, while watching the play, I only saw one or two of those twelve seniors once, yet I saw Tiger all day long. It seemed that the announcers were following Tiger, and occasionally they would show the leaders as it changed hands. Tiger shot 73 on the first day, but was on the camera all day even though there were several golfers ahead of him. The second day, he teed off early in the morning and was almost done by the time the TV was on, but we did get to see him finish his round even though he was still several strokes off the lead.

The third day seven of the so-called seniors had made the “cut”, but I never got to see hardly any of them on TV. And since Tiger got his game going, he was what we mostly saw, and at the end of the day he was tied for the lead. Sunday, the fourth day, he was in the lead twosome, although he quickly fell out of the tie for the lead position and drifted back in the pack and then the lead changed hands four or five times. Sometimes the TV station runs a “runner” across the bottom of the screen to let you know what the other players shoot, but that never happened Saturday or Sunday. The problem is that Tiger is the “darling” of the TV people. It’s not necessarily his fault but he doesn’t discourage the TV announcers. I thank god he didn’t win or the TV people and the sports announcers and sports writers wouldn’t let up on how Tiger would be going after the “Grand Slam” till the next major tournament. Tiger’s good! No question about it, but some of the other golfers are also good, including Zach Johnson as Tiger found out.