Tiger Woods has apologized for using the disrespectful word “spaz” in his Sunday post round interview at last week’s Masters.
Quoted from Tiger’s site:
Woods Meant No Disrespect to Anyone in Post-Masters Interview
Top-ranked Tiger Woods regrets his choice of words during a television interview immediately following the 70th Masters Tournament last Sunday at Augusta National Golf Club. When asked about his play, he replied, “I putted atrociously today. Once I got on the greens I was a spaz.â€
I think it’s very kind, thoughtful and gracious for Tiger to apologize. Now would someone please tell me exactly WHO IS TIGER APOLOGIZING TO? And if Tiger is apologizing for using the word spaz why isn’t he apologizing for all the f-bombs he drops during the round that the live microphones pick up?
My good pal Rich from EatGolf.com somehow found the Masters theme song on vynil. He did a post about it which has started one of the best blog comment threads ever. Check it out.
Just in case anyone isn’t sick of the driving distance discussion I’ve got a nugget for you.
I was watching the LPGA Tour on TV today and saw that the leader in driving distance, not Michelle Wie, was at 292.6 yards! I started comparing LPGA and PGA driving distances. I went back until I found the closest year between the two leaders. That took me back 10 years to 1996. Look at the comparisons of the top 5 from the LPGA 2006 and the PGA 1996.
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Driving Distance Comparison
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LPGA 2006
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PGA 1996
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| Karin Sjodin |
292.6
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John Daly |
288.8 |
| Brittany Lincicome |
283.1
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John Adams |
286.7 |
| Sophie Gustafson |
278.6
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Fred Couples |
285.8 |
| Brittany Lang |
274.3
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Davis Love III |
285.7 |
| Lorena Ochoa |
274.0
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Tim Herron |
283.5 |
What does this prove? Not necessarily anything.
2pm tee time here:
You may have noticed a post with a pretty face on it a couple of weeks back. That pretty face obviously wasn’t mine, it was that of Megen Heckeroth. Megan is an aspiring golf pro. She’s on the road to the LPGA Tour and playing an extensive schedule in the US and in Europe.
“Meg” has already played rounds of golf with the likes of Annika Sorenstam and Michelle Wie and gave me some nice insight on what it’s like to play a round with Annika. Very cool.
Here’s a quick profile:
* Winner of the 1997 Oregon State Junior Championship First Flight.
* Winner of the 1997 Oregon State High School Championship.
* Four-time winner of the Oregon State High School District Championship (1995-1998).
* Competed in the 2005 U.S. Women’s Open Championship.
* Member of the Ladies European Tour (LET) (2006).
And…Megan will be playing in the 2006 US Women’s Open!
Megan has a very well done and extensive web site with info about her, her schedule, swing videos, lessons, photo galleries and more. Check it out. Her site even tells you what’s in her iPod and what PDA she’s using. How cool is that?
Megan will be posting occasionally RIGHT HERE on HOG as a contributor so everyone give her a warm welcome. She’ll even be doing some Q&A. Megan’s schedule is very busy so there won’t be a specific schedule for her posts so you’ll just have to watch for them.
Photo credit: www.megangolf.com
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