Watching the Masters right now. Normally I don't like watching golf on TV but it's a major and it's 30 degrees outside. Anyway, every time Tiger swings the club, somebody from the gallery would scream "in the hole!" Okay, I know he's great but it'd be like someone screaming "homerun" at every pitch, which, I'm sure has better odds than a hole-in-one. When did these drunks start to get tickets to major golf tournaments anyway? I'd be embarrassed if I did that. Thoughts?

 

I don't know the answer to your question, but I will be sure to scream it every time Tiger hits a shot at the PGA Championship when it's at Southern Hills this summer. I'm not into golf, but we have a really nice course here in town that seems to host either the PGA Championship or the US Open every 6-7 years or so and I decided to buy a ticket and go this year. Should be hot, but I will find the energy to scream for you.

 

Maybe the drunks got confused with CaddyShack and Happy Gilmore - one word for the drunk - JACKASS

 

It's been going on for a while, pretty much around the same time golf got "cool" and more mainstream. It's funny, at some tournaments its the norm and tolerated, like the Phoeni...er FBR Open. I grew up going to that tournament and in the last 5-8 years it really took a turn for the worse. The newspapers refer to it as a giant frat party with some golf in the middle, and its not too far off. Now back when I was a frat boy, I loved the whole thing. Guess I'm just getting old and cranky at the age of 26.

I think the people reason scream it (and its not just for Eldrick, even though he does seem to bring it out in people) is as Americans we love the big play. The Grand Slam. The three pointer as time expires. The Hail Mary. Problem is that's not really the way it works in golf. In golf the winner is the one who kind of hangs on, doesn't make many mistakes, and in short plays some boring golf. As a society we don't like that (admittedly I'm in there as well, same reason I can't watch soccer and can only barely tolerate hockey) and have to integrate it.

Someone screamed it today at Tiger and one of the commentators remarked how that isn't tolerated at venerable old Augusta National. It'd be interesting to know if the guy that did scream it got tossed and banned. The boys down in Georgia run that tournament with an iron fist (only in the last few years was the front nine allowed to be shown on television), it'll be interesting to see how/if they handle this latest epidemic.

 

He's probably being broraped and everytime the bro plunges him he's yelling, "in the hole"

 

I remember that Pheonix Open where he holed it on a par three and the whole gallery went crazy.

Why didn't they allow the front nine to be shown on TV?

 

I don't know if you yelled while the players are playing you'll be allowed to remain on the course.

 

No no, most yell right after the shot. Sometimes people would take pictures during the shot and that really gets Tiger pissed!

 

drinking and spectator sports go hand in hand. been that way for a while. i think its okay to yell, just not while they are playing. personally, i love yelling out "GET THERE" when tiger tees off. i have only seen him once live, and daaaamn he is good. watching him practice just makes me want to stop playing golf all together, knowing i will never be even remotely close to as good as him. i saw him chip like 12 balls from 20 feet out. all the shots were within 2 feet of the hole. it was more impressive than watching him smash the ball off the tee when he was younger. sigh, i really need to work on my chipping.