Tiger doesn't even consider himself black his largest ancestry is Asian so I go with that. Easier than trying to describe Cablinasian
Tiger Woods is Asian. Except this week. He's black. Y'all can have him. We'll go ahead and take that little Chinese kid.
He is multiracial. It doesn't matter percentages. Tiger can identify with black folders (which he has mainly) or Asian. As a parent of biracial children who look very "white", but are "black" or biracial classified in school...I know more about his than you. I'm sure "the one drop rule" is the rule you judge "blackness" by when it suits your bigotry.
Very little Asian in Tiger and a whole lot of black... n i Kno bout 15 p*rn stars who can attest to this.
i see a bunch racist comments whenever they show a picture of him and Lindsey Vonn together. So maybe Tiger doesnt consider himself black, but the majority of America does
PGA players do know the ball drop rules, Tiger just made a bone headed mistake. I think he was so angry about the bad break he got by striking the flag stick, that he just wasn't thinking clearly. However, there were a couple of things somewhat unusual about the shot and the way the water hazard was marked. There are two different ways a water hazard can be marked, either as a regular water hazard or as a lateral water hazard. Regular water hazards are marked with a yellow line, and lateral water hazards are marked with a red line. Most of the time water hazards are marked as lateral water hazards. In this case the water hazard was marked as a regular water hazard. If the water hazard had been marked as it normally is, as a lateral hazard, then Tiger would have been allowed to drop his ball two club lengths from where it entered the water, which would have been just a few feet away from the putting surface. But because this was a regular water hazard, Tiger had to drop his ball on the fairway side of the pond. If it had been marked a lateral water, he would have dropped the ball on the green side of the pond and I'm certain no mistake would have been made. Also, another thing that complicated the matter is that the ball bounced off the pin and entered the water in a completely different direction from where the shot was struck. If the ball after striking the pin had come directly back toward Tiger in a straight line then Tiger would not have received any Penalty. Tiger, in the heat of the moment, mistakenly dropped his ball on a line from where the ball crossed the water in flight instead of dropping on a line from where it actually entered the water. So, there were a couple of things that were unusual about this incident that I believe contributed to Tiger making his mistake. But, that is no excuse, because Tiger knows all these rules. PGA players know these rules very well. I think Tiger let his temper get the best of him and he wasn't thinking clearly. And what I want to know is what was his caddie doing? I notice that Tiger doesn't talk as much with his new caddie as he did with his old caddie. I wonder if his old caddie would have prevented him from making the error? Anyway, it was all very interesting. I don't think for one second that Tiger was trying to cheat, he just made a stupid mistake.
His comments in the press conference implied he was unaware of the drop rule: "Tiger described to reporters the drop he’d taken and his reasoning for doing so (he thought he had the right to drop behind the divot, so long as he kept the point between him and the pin)." http://www.newyorker.com/online/blo...04/tiger-woods-masters-great-drop-debate.html
I read the article and I think the writer is misinterpreting what Tiger said. Tiger dropped the ball behind the divot because he was looking at the point at which the ball flew over the hazard and was keeping that point between where he dropped the ball and the pin. If the ball was flying straight, then his drop point, the divot, the point the ball flew over the hazard, and the pin would all be on the same line. This is a very common drop when the ball goes into the hazard on the fly. His entire problem was that he was thinking the entry point was when the ball first flew over the hazard, and not after it bounced off the pin. I find it impossible to believe that any pro golfer that has played as long as he has didn't know these rules. This is one of the most common rules that is used in golf. It's so common that Tiger didn't even ask for a rules official for any assistance. In my opinion Tiger got angry and just wasn't thinking. Thanks for posting the link. I'll be interested to see if Tiger makes any additional comments to clarify exactly what he was thinking when he made the drop.
Another Q/A: Q. Did you think you could go back? Did you get mixed up with what you could do there with that drop? TIGER WOODS: You know, I wasn't even really thinking. I was still a little ticked at what happened, and I was just trying to figure, okay, I need to take some yardage off this shot, and that's all I was thinking about was trying to make sure I took some yardage off of it, and evidently, it was pretty obvious, I didn't drop in the right spot.
As I watched it on TV I really wasn't focusing on his drop. I just assumed he would drop it properly and didn't think anything of it at the time. I think I and most everyone else thought he had dropped the ball as close as possible to his previous spot. On a side note, my father is a PGA member and has played the tour in the past. I asked him if it was possible that Tiger didn't know the drop rule, and he said he thought it would be almost impossible for Tiger not to know that rule since they use it so often. I appreciate you providing the quote above, as it appears Tiger was indeed upset about the ball going into the water and wasn't thinking clearly at the time, just I suspected. What a bad break for Tiger. If the ball doesn't strike the pin, Tiger could have possibly made a four on that hole. As it turned out he made a six and then got a two stroke penalty. So in the end the ball striking the pin may have cost him four strokes. Tiger missed the playoff by four strokes. Interesting turn of events and a very entertaining tournament.
Yep. It just goes to show you how golf is a game of inches. Had he missed the pin it was quite possible he would have birdied that hole (certainly a par at worst). All things remaining the same, he would probably been in the final pairing on Sunday. Anytime I hit the pin - I am happy.
