Golf's prince of darkness?

It seems to me that celebrities are the same as the rest of us... some are inherently nice and others are inherently nasty.

I've always thought that one's true character is reflected in the way one treats people of lesser means and status. Pleases, thank yous and the like are pretty easy to do and cost nothing.

While I really like everything I hear/read about Jordan Spieth being well grounded and he certainly seems quite well put together in interviews, I hope that success doesn't go to his head like it seems to have with Bubba and Tiger. There are enough jerks in the world, we don't need any more.
 
Jordan is so grounded and also appears to have been educated in facing life in the public. I imagine he will stay the course. But for popularity of the game ironically a consistent pairing of "good" vs "evil" always creates more interest.
I read the article and it actually reminded me of the total opposite that has occurred with Arnold Palmer. People realizing later how rude they were by being a bit too excited to see and interact with him. They always commented on how patient and accommodating he was. Even to this day from what I have read, he has kept every correspondence from anyone who has written him and has returned an autographed request.


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Bestwifeever said:
He is obviously really good at what he does and the article is a little mean-spirited and gossipy to me in that none of his unlikeable attributes affect anyone (and his caddy is still his caddy so his being upset with him couldn't have bothered him that much).
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+1, I felt that the article was a bit of a hatchet job.
 
Perhaps there is a subliminal inferiority complex associated with having an odd name that makes people act like jerks. J. Diddy might be another example.
 
Big_Hitter said:
Bubba won
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It's like Rickie Fowler winning after a media report of being overrated. If Bubba was reading EA.org like he should, he must be feeling vindictive right about now. :D

For the record, I watched LPGA for equally thrilling finish. Hate to see Lewis keep falling short (she has 1/2 dozen 2nd & 3rd place finishes this year without a win) which she did it again this weekend.
 
pb4uski said:
Sort of like how he trash talked a spectator yesterday. I admire his skill, but not his personality.
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That was where the fan told him to hit a 4 iron?


Fans aren't supposed to interact with the players anyway.
 
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I think when your job is hitting a little white ball around a big field in search of a little hole 72 times, while trying to avoid trees, sand and water, it is bound to make you a little grumpy. Tennis has fewer grumps. And Pro Sports have the whole spectrum of personalities.
 
Big_Hitter said:
Fans aren't supposed to interact with the players anyway.
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Definitely off topic, but I was at a Stars games some years ago, I believe again the Blackhawks. Some overly-inebriated fellow on the first row was talking trash to the Hawks players, all the while bouncing off the glass, puffing his chest. I remember thinking how "bad" he was behind that glass, apparently unaware that those guys make a living hitting each other with hockey sticks... :LOL:
 
Yes sir, Bubba pulled one out. Saw a pull hook on Saturday that could have just as easily hit a house two blocks over but the ball bounced off a tree and into a trap. When the golf Gods are smiling, life is good, even for an asshat like Watson.
 
Big_Hitter said:
That was where the fan told him to hit a 4 iron?


Fans aren't supposed to interact with the players anyway.
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Ya, Golf isnt the place for the idiot fans to engage with the players. Though Its not something that has never happened before. Arnie's fans in Pittsburg at a US Open, I believe, were holding big signs next to sand traps displaying "hit it here Jack" and yelling "miss it" and "Fat Jack".


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Every pro tournament I've been to has rules and stipulations printed on back of the gallery pass. One of them is not interacting with the players during the course of a round. That begins on the practice tee and ends when the player exits the scoring tent.
 
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I was standing near Bubba at the Masters this year and he was waiting for the other golfer in his pairing to hit. (Bubba's drive was 30 yards further). The other golfer took a rather large divot with his swing. Bubba walked over, picked up the divot and walked it back to the caddie. Thought that was pretty nice etiquette.
 
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DW was telling me about that this morning.


Sad, being a lefty I always root for left-handed players.
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Im a lefty, I am a sports gambler, and I root for Mickelson! He hasn't done anything wrong in the Feds eyes yet that I have read. Sports betting laws are ridiculous and hypocritical anyways. I thought Chris Christie was going to get the flood gates open, but it doesn't appear its going to happen soon.


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I root for Phil too.


I'm just sad that it appears he may have a gambling problem. Hopefully he doesn't.
 
Big_Hitter said:
I root for Phil too.


I'm just sad that it appears he may have a gambling problem. Hopefully he doesn't.
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It is hard for me to grasp the numbers, but with a net worth approaching 300 million 3 million gambling stash is a drop in the bucket. I have had more than one percent of my net worth out on bets all the time and didn't expose me to any undue stress. There is always a fine line, but generally if you are a sports bettor you got to have enough on it "to feed the competitive juices" but not enough to hurt you. I have to budget for mine each year to keep me in line, but Im sure he doesn't have to. :)


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I'd bet (pun intended) that his book is way higher than $3M.
 
Im with you. I am more curious in what his biggest bet has been, not that he is gambling. Its hard to tell just from written information whether that was money being laundered to square losses, or being fed into an upfront escrow account. The adrenalin can be intense though, I know. I blew a chance to go hang out with a current NBA star in his own Vegas strip rented penthouse suite to bet games with them (friend of a friend thing) because I couldn't stand to leave the sportsbook with all my games going on! I still regret that. But I didn't until I actually got home to reflect. :)


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The problem is not so much gambling on sports, but the possibility that games can be manipulated, something a sports gambler should be against...
 
HFWR said:
The problem is not so much gambling on sports, but the possibility that games can be manipulated, something a sports gambler should be against...
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Which actually is a reason the gambling industry proposes legalizing it more. The Books are a good source of info to pass on any "irregular betting". But unfortunately for me game betting manipulation would be of little harm to me. I just a 50/50 (right/wrong)more or less guy. Those odds wouldn't change for me if they were being manipulated. :)


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