VOLUME 1, NUMBER 35
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Web Street Golf Daily Pulse
VOLUME 1, NUMBER 35
Thursday February 18, 2010
ANY IDEA WHO SAID THIS? “Tiger Woods is a world-class control freak, and in his re-entry into public life — which has showered him with wealth and opportunities and trappings that we can only imagine — he is picking up right where he left off. He controls all.”
ARE YOU GAME? The home of golf is offering its biggest ever golf giveaway in 2010 with the Drive It Home promotion. It includes over 250 tee times available throughout Scotland, the chance to play golf with Scotland’s Ryder Cup legend Sam Torrance, win a trip to the Open Championship in its 150th anniversary year, and play the illustrious St Andrews Old Course. From February 15- 28 2010, golfers can register on http://www.driveithome2010.com/ to win their free golf times, where they could see themselves and three of their friends playing on one of over 50 of Scotland’s top courses.
DON’T SHOOT THE MESSENGER: While the Winter Olympics are being staged in Vancouver, golf’s turn edges quietly closer to the platform. Meanwhile, the owner of the Washington Capital’s NHL franchise offers some interesting insights that golf may want to take notice of.
“The NHL has provided more than $ 2 BILLION of committed contracts in terms of players to the Olympics. The Capitals have provided in our six players more than $200 million worth of talent as well, I believe. And in payment back we received two free tickets to each game, per team. Seems like a fair exchange huh?
“And we aren’t allowed to do any press work on site or media streaming in any way or use the Olympic logos or see our players or park at the arena and on and on. I bet I am violating some rules in blogging about the Olympics, as I am not paying a penny to do so. I didn’t ask for permission or credentials either.
“I love the Olympics but we don’t have a fair exchange of value that is for sure. As far as I can tell the Olympic Committee is more important than governments, leagues, police forces, individual teams, athletes and even religions. They rule! They are in total control. The floggings will continue until morale improves around here!” READ MORE>>>
NOTES: Sam Saunders, grandson of Arnold Palmer, has received the eighth and final sponsor exemption for the 2010 Waste Management Phoenix Open.
WEB GEMS:
WHAT WILL HE SAY? While the world waits to hear from Tiger Woods for the first time, there are a few that expect to hear their name called when he does speak. The lawyer for one of the women with whom Woods is alleged to have had an affair, said she wanted the golfer to apologize to directly to Veronica Siwik-Daniels, better known as Joslyn James. Allred said that Siwik-Daniels, star of "Porn Star Brides," gave up a career in the adult film industry at Woods' request. "Veronica has made tremendous sacrifices for him," Allred said in a statement to ABC News.com. "She gave up the porn business at his request and went into hiding when the scandal broke in order to protect him, but to date he has not contacted her to apologize." READ MORE>>>
WHAT WILL BE THE STRATEGY? The entire statement is supposed to take about 5-7 minutes — or, if you do the math, about 30 seconds per alleged mistress. That leaves two possibilities for Tiger Woods’ first public appearance since his world exploded: 1. He plans on talking really, really fast.
He still has no idea how to deal with the mess he created.
He is expected to apologize again and “begin the process of making amends,” his agent Mark Steinberg said. He is handling this in a typical Tiger way, which is to say on his terms. There will be one pool camera in the room, and to make the entire experience complete, he should have caddie Stevie Williams put his hand over the lens and push it to the ground. READ MORE>>>
PLENTY TO TRY AND WIN OVER: It is good to see nothing has changed with Tiger Woods, at least when it comes to his handlers trying to control his image. READ MORE>>>
TIMING IS EVERYTHING: “If you think for ONE second that the timing of this appearance isn’t connected to the fact that The Accenture World Match Play Championship is going on this week I have some ocean front land in Nebraska I’d like to sell you. Tiger is one of the world’s most vindictive people, someone who can hold a grudge with the best of them.” READ MORE>>>
WHAT ARE YOU THINKING! Ernie Els said Woods is being selfish with the timing of his first public appearance. READ MORE>>>
STAND BY YOUR MAN: For those who wonder whether Elin Nordegren will show up Friday at her husband’s highly orchestrated televised apology, RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned she will be a no-show. READ MORE>>>
CAN’T WAIT: A radio station reportedly got a leaked copy of the statement Tiger Woods will deliver tomorrow -- a statement, which says, "things have not worked out" between Elin Nordegren and him. TMZ was the first to report, surprise, surprise, yet it isn’t buying the accuracy of it. READ MORE
COLLATERAL DAMAGE: Tiger has done things greater than most mortals and even other astounding athletes and his counselors appear to be testing a notion that he can play by different rules. He can't. Just because he took golf away from the plaid pants and martini crowd and turned it into a disciplined endeavor doesn't mean he's going to get a pass on his behavior.
The first question to be asked, however, is about journalism. What kind of wire service goes to a "news conference" where no questions are allowed? Are they present simply to write about Tiger's facial expressions and how much he sweats? There probably aren't many reporters at Bloomberg, Reuters, or the Associated Press that want to attend this event and be ridiculed for sitting silently and playing by Tiger's rules. READ MORE>>>
WINNERS AND LOSERS, DAY TWO: Here are the results of the second day matches at the Accenture. READ MORE>>>
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ANSWER: Michael Bamberger, Senior Writer, Sports Illustrated in his piece titled: ONE WAY CONVERSATION
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Last Updated (Thursday, 18 February 2010 16:04)
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