Tiger Woods

I apologize for the length of this post. Personally, I don't really ever read long things other than books.

One of my friends, Lauren, recently advised me to write about Tiger Woods. I have a lot of different things to say about Tiger Woods. First, since this is a current issue, I’ll discuss how he ran into a fire hydrant. I came home on Friday November 27, 2009 and came in to my living room and noticed that my family was watching something or other on ESPN. I looked at the info bar at the bottom and saw something had happened to Tiger Woods. I continued reading and I came to know he had been in a crash, which peaked my interest because he is my favorite golfer and I’ll explain that later, for now the crash. So I asked my family what happened. They first asked how I knew (I baffled them) but eventually I found out that the story was Tiger crashed his car, his wife came out, saw what happened, went back into the house to get a golf club, smashed the back window and dragged him out. My dad had a different series of events… he said (in different words) there was an altercation in the abode so Tiger began to drive off in his automobile, his wife followed after him smashing the back window with his clubs which distracted him causing him to crash into a fire hydrant. I think my dad should be a detective. But seriously, celebrities get too much crap. So what if Tiger crashed into a fire hydrant. Are you trying to say you’ve never gotten into an argument with your wife that caused her to start swinging golf clubs at you while you were trying to drive away, so she didn’t seriously injure you, breaking the back window of your car which distracted you and caused you to crash into a fire hydrant? Has that never happened to you?

Just like I promised, I’ll tell you why I like Tiger Woods and I’m not a fair weather fan. While I was growing up, I watched a little golf here and there. I truly believe golf has the greatest difference in enjoyment between actually playing and watching on tv. It’s so much better on tv. The reason I began to watch it was my grandfather. I would say golf was one of his favorite sports. He created the Bobby Jones Open (in appreciation of the only golfer to get the grand slam, Robert Tyre Jones) which is a tournament for charity in which only golfers named “Bobby Jones” can play. He also watched golf (as previously stated). One of my grandpa’s favorite golfers was Tiger Woods, before he was good. I remember watching Tiger win his first Masters and becoming the youngest player to do so. Now, my grandpa was somewhat of a strict man, so I looked for any way I could for him to like me more. What Papa? Your favorite golfer is Tiger Woods? Me too! That’s so weird. I also happen to root for the same things my family roots for (I generally have a greater inclination to see people that I know enjoying themselves rather than random sports teams that I don’t know one person of). It’s weird how these things work out.