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Ah yes, he's back. Elling was a lost man this week, but alas he is back at the alter where he is most comfortable, worshiping and doling out the rhetoric. The people who wouldn't attend an event without Woods aren't fans of golf or golfers. They are spoon fed idiots who follow whatever the media tells them to follow. They are nincompoops who would watch a monkey hump a football if the talking heads told them they should. Real fans of the game could give a damn whether Tiger is in the field or not. It's the game and the event they follow. No golfer, including Woods is bigger than the game. The PGA Tour was here before Tiger, and will do just fine when he's gone, despite the political meanderings of the press. Robert Duval said it best in "The Natural", when he opined "They come and they go Hobbs, they come and they go. But it's people like me that make the game interesting and make them or break them." The reality is that most true fans of golf can barely stand to watch any televised event that includes Woods, unless the volume is turned down. Some of us thoroughly enjoy watching the events without Woods. Personally, I will not watch any televised event in which Woods is contending because the broadcasts are so slanted, it's no longer about the golf, but about Tiger. The press bemoaned the end of the world when Jordan left the NBA, but the last time I looked, the league was still playing games, and people were still watching. Sportswriters just simply get over themselves and their politics, and get back to just reporting the sports news instead of shaping, spinning, and painting the social aspects.
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