'You defied the odds every time:' Tiger
Woods breaks down in tears as he is inducted
into the World Golf Hall of Fame by his
14-year-old daughter Sam
Associated Press & Daily Mail (UK),
by
Staff
&
Melissa Koenig
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
3/10/2022 3:37:24 AM
Legendary golfer Tiger Woods broke down in tears as he was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame on Wednesday, after being introduced by his 14-year-old daughter Sam. Woods, 46, didn't touch on any of his 82 victories on the PGA Tour or his 15 majors, or the eight surgeries he has endured along the way. Instead, he spoke of his parents taking out a second mortgage that allowed him to play the junior circuit in California, choking up when he mentioned his late father who told him he would have to earn everything he wanted.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
PostAway 3/10/2022 5:18:35 AM (No. 1095503)
Tiger is aptly nicknamed. He has a warrior’s heart and the focus and resolve of an apex predator. When his father died his carefully crafted life began to crack. When he and his wife separated and his personal weaknesses became public something in him shattered. It had to. His early successes were partly, even largely, based on his belief in himself as superhuman. His fall from grace revealed his weaknesses and the icy-cool, aloof golfing automaton became a suffering and broken child before the world and he would never be the same. However, it is good to see children who love him enough to attend his induction and to say words of admiration and praise for him. Maybe he now knows the true worth of his professional devotion.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Highlander 3/10/2022 5:36:36 AM (No. 1095517)
He belongs there. For all his faults, his weaknesses against temptation, he is still the GOAT in the golf world. If he did not get sidetracked by these too-easily-available females, who knows where he’d be now.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
SweetPea3 3/10/2022 5:49:23 AM (No. 1095519)
Those too-easily-available females didn't hold a gun to his head. He lone controls his zipper and ( same old story) let his little head rule him.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Highlander 3/10/2022 6:12:24 AM (No. 1095528)
You have to understand how Tiger was brought up before entering the adult world. He gained incredible wealth at such a young age. With that wealth and fame, he had no more resistance to sex-as-candy than we would.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 3/10/2022 6:18:13 AM (No. 1095531)
She’s a cutie!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Flyball Dogs 3/10/2022 6:38:31 AM (No. 1095539)
His own story in his own words was fascinating. And as much hurt as those early years of discrimination, he didn’t dwell on it. He just resolved to “earn” his successes.
He has persevered to be quite the GOAT, man, and father.
Congratulations. Well done.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Toby Ten Bears 3/10/2022 6:39:41 AM (No. 1095540)
Drunk?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
NancyD 3/10/2022 7:06:37 AM (No. 1095555)
Tiger was a child when we came up the ranks and a 20yr old when he hit the pros. The success, money and fame were over the top. Everybody was claiming him in their corner and demonized by some blacks by simply claiming the existence of his mother who is Asian. He lived under a microscope with the idiots in sports media never getting enough. He fell a few times and the media couldn't wait to report it and who really knows what happened as we all KNOW the media exaggerates everything and yes even lies. Who hasn't made mistakes in life?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Hazymac 3/10/2022 7:08:29 AM (No. 1095556)
Tiger is unquestionably the greatest player of the last generation. No one else is even close to him in overall accomplishments. In the history of the sport, only Jack Nicklaus is on Tiger's level. Tiger has well earned his place in the Hall of Fame. What a player.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Skinnydip 3/10/2022 8:40:26 AM (No. 1095618)
I am a huge Tiger Woods fan, but I wish he would take driving lessons.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Strike3 3/10/2022 8:43:21 AM (No. 1095624)
Extreme Black Privilege at work here. Two caring parents and enough wealth to get him started on golf lessons while he was a child. He became adept at putting a ball into a hole in the ground. Call me not impressed with his contritutions to humanity.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
CivilServant 3/10/2022 8:48:00 AM (No. 1095626)
TW had half of every round played by the Sports press, which also covered his adultery. If I read every day how In was gonna get crushed by TW; golf being a mental game, i’d be hard pressed to play my best. The Tour allowed him to get away with things that made Golf great; ie: staring down his opponents while in their line, cursing etc… and let’s not ever forget the Masters BS….along with the Phoenix open BS with the football team moving the “movable obstruction(golf rules are predicated upon 4 people, not using the crowd to move a 1,000 stone).
No respect earned, none given.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
CivilServant 3/10/2022 8:49:09 AM (No. 1095627)
2nd post apologies….
Discrimination? BS!!! You were on Carson at 3 years old and ever after you were a media darling!!!
Pure B.S.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
pensom2 3/10/2022 8:54:05 AM (No. 1095632)
After having his weaknesses exposed so publicly, it would be easy for Tiger to retreat from the world, go into hibernation and hide in seclusion the rest of his life. He hasn't done that. After his fall from grace, Tiger has been fighting back the best he can, despite falling back for a time on alcohol and/or physician-prescribed substances, which appears to have led to his terrible car crash. He seems to be in a better place for now, and is still on the comeback trail. Fame brings enormous burdens to champions who stumble, including negative, even hateful, judgments from every quarter.
Leave the judging to God. I wish Tiger the best.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 3/10/2022 9:11:20 AM (No. 1095647)
If this horndog "deserves" to be in some Golf HoF then Pete Rose deserves to be in the Baseball HoF. Once the morality barrier goes down anything goes.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
garyhope 3/10/2022 9:12:31 AM (No. 1095648)
Oh Boo effing Hoo.
A good golfer in one of the world's most boring sports,(Is it really a "sport"?) ....but SO WHAT?
Who cares,....Not me,....pas moi.
See ya later,...much, much later,......maybe never!
Adios kitty cat.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 3/10/2022 9:14:14 AM (No. 1095650)
Oh, and let's not forget his Steroid ways as well. He got mighty big really fast through a "fitness coach," which means... steroids.
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I enjoyed watching Tiger Woods on the golf course very much. What I didn't love was the emotional damage his own father inflicted upon him. Had him so laser focused on golf he forgot about the rest of Tiger's life and how a Dad needed to mentor that for his son.
So of course Tiger has no clue when it comes to relationships and how to keep one intact. Women were the debbil in his father's opinion and would ruin Tiger and his game. Well what would his dad say now, after all the personal problems Tiger has suffered? Would he himself take the blame for his son's problems? I doubt it.
Having said all this, I am more than happy that Tiger made the HoF and he truly deserves his place there. He is an outstanding golfer, and a great role model for younger generations.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
lakerman1 3/10/2022 9:36:44 AM (No. 1095678)
#13 is correct! Tiger Woods was a celebrity at age 3! I remember when he was on Johnny Carson, and I doubt if I could remember many of Carson's guests. Celebrities don't get turned away.
I also want Tiger to name three of those golf courses, or two, or one, where he was not allowed to go into the club house. Sports reporters should demand that of him. Perhaps his father lied to him. Despite all of that, he was a great golfer.
Who knows what kind of personal life he would have led, had he not married the Swedish gold digger.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Shells 3/10/2022 9:39:52 AM (No. 1095680)
I can report from personal experience that both his kids are polite, kind and respectful.
And he seems to really get that that accomplishment is actually more important than anything he’s done on the golf course.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 3/10/2022 9:45:38 AM (No. 1095688)
I am thrilled that he gets these awards but I am very tired of the discrimination aspect being brought up all of the time. Heck, there were places I couldn't get into because I didn't have the money. Isn't that discrimination on some level?
Yet, I refuse to focus on that stuff. I lived within my means and I am still doing it today. Very rewarding. . .
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
TurtleDove 3/10/2022 10:40:19 AM (No. 1095768)
''If you don't go out there and put in the work, you don't go out and put in the effort, one, you're not going to get the results,' Woods said. ...
'But two, and more importantly, you don't deserve it. You need to earn it."
His father taught him how to succeed professionally, apparently not so much personally.
120 women?? Amazing, knowing how he treated their mother his daughter still idolizes him...
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
formerNYer 3/10/2022 10:42:59 AM (No. 1095776)
Tiger is arguably the greatest golfer of all time (He and Jack are head a shoulders above everyone else.)
And every time I here from some fool say that golf isn't a sport they inevitably suck at golf. The hand eye coordination to play golf is IMO the 2nd hardest thing in sport. The hardest being able to hit a major league pitcher. I watched Tiger in person 3 times - 2 were practice rounds where he was talkative, warm and friendly to the crowd. The other time was a tournament round (3rd) and he was all business.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Venturer 3/10/2022 10:45:08 AM (No. 1095778)
Tiger belongs in the Golf Hall of fame and Pete Rose belongs in the baseball Hall of Fame.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
DVC 3/10/2022 11:33:59 AM (No. 1095827)
Apparently a great golf player, but also very much benefited from black privilege.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 3/10/2022 12:32:04 PM (No. 1095886)
I don’t care about Tiger Woods! Jack is the GOAT! Always has been and always will be!
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Who cares ?
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
starboard 3/10/2022 2:26:22 PM (No. 1096000)
Tiger made Golf Great Again for the younger generations who now appear on the leader board. He inspired them all to compete worldwide.
Tiger's Master's Victory in 2019 was a great comeback to a game that where only one person wins. Golf is a game of comebacks and Tiger Proved he was still a champion. Though his personal life was not perfect, there's no dispute he is truly a GOAT on the links ... that he absolutely shares with Jack.
I expect to see him win a tournament or two again.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
CivilServant 3/10/2022 7:11:01 PM (No. 1096276)
In regards to his contribution to the game of golf, I see it every time I’m on the course and get to hear the…..more appropriate for a basketball game, or hockey-roars of WHOOOOHOOOOOOOF@CKING A BABY I DONE SMASHED THAT MOPHEAUX!!!!!!
And again, if the Tour was equitable, they would have had him move out of the line of sight, stop cursing, and give a damn interview once in a while.
Ask the sportswriter who lost his job because he dared question the King’s ethics vis-a-vis wimmens….
And HE pursued Parnevik’s nanny, SHE did not chase him. She shot him down repeatedly.
I also give HER the credit for the kids. Tough to Daddy when sugar is just tossing itself at ya.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
garyhope 3/11/2022 2:43:33 PM (No. 1097064)
"Tiger"?
I don't think so. More like an alley Tom cat on the prowl for more females in heat.
A useless, promiscuous sexist predator and woman abuser.
Adios "Tiger" Good riddance.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
garyhope 3/11/2022 3:22:57 PM (No. 1097093)
#2 Highlander,.......
"sidetracked by these too-easily-available females,"?
Are you nuts? What a disgusting comment.
Right,.....blame it on the women,..not the promiscuous golfer with "lust" in his pants and heart and while he was married.
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