The greatest player in golf, surely. But why doesn't anyone mention what The Machine doesn't get about the game: course conduct. Tiger is not a gentleman superstar. He is the greatest player who ever lived, of course, but there's something about Tiger's teething behavior--and ecstatic triumphalism--that I don't think is particularly good for the game, or in keeping with its character. When Tiger holed out the putt on 18 Sunday you could see he was elated. He screamed and pumped his fists and let out a resounding "FUCK YEAH," which any twelve year old could clearly see. I don't remember Nicklaus or Palmer ever dropping the F-bomb on the 18th hole--maybe Craig "The Walrus" Stadler. And Tiger does it all the time. On Sunday, on what may have been hole 14 or 15, he lagged a put just a few inches short and dropped his putter on the putting surface--again, a small thing, but a serious breach of etiquette which probably made the greens keeper’s eye twitch. It's also in the way he pouts about EVERYTHING that doesn't go his way--throws his clubs around two or three times a round--and generally just acts like a pampered, spoiled, ass. There's always been talk about how Tiger doesn't associate with other golfers, doesn't attend dinners, shies away from it all--and for a lot of people who are only engaged by Tiger because they identify with his transgressive political symbolism they think that's just great. But it's hardly what golf is all about. Or maybe it is now?
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