Arrogance is possibly the best way to describe the actions and attitude of the list of golfers penned in this article. He made his first mistake after winning a tournament early in his career, the WGC Cadillac Championship.
Tiger was at the top of his game at the time, but this did not stop Reed from claiming to be one of the top 5 players on tour. He went further to state that any future tournaments would end up with just him and Tiger fighting for the win.
Of late he has been involved in a few rule infringements or taking advantage and bending the rules to suit his purpose. Although Rory goes out of his way to support the Military Veterans, he has undone his reputation by some on and off-course actions. He famously walked to the next hole while Ben Crane was still lining up his putt on the green. I know it was calculated. I know he did it purposefully. And there were a lot of complaints about Kobe being selsh, not caring about anyone other than himself.
Even his coach said he was uncoachable. If your coach is saying it, you can rest assured the players are saying it. He wears on people. It was blood, right? Dropping the champ? The whole police interaction, that whole level of flouting authority, is just so far out-of-bounds for the expected behavior of a NASCAR driver.
He gets a very bad rap. The Phil fans suggested that it was best to ask Hatton the correct pronunciation rather than spend the next five hours getting it wrong. The rest suggested it was all-out mind games. The beauty of course was that Price kept his head down, went about his business and then, on the 16 th green, came very close to self-combusting when he holed that putt. No cameras, there were only four of us there, no mind games and no lingering eye contact, just one competitor saying good luck to another.
But there was no huffing and puffing, he was no doubt being paid a boatload of money to be there but he stuck around, spoke to everyone and, that night, attended the pre-tournament party and looked pleased to be there. On the Tuesday of one Open Championship he was asked about the pressures of winning in consecutive weeks having just landed the Scottish Open.
It was one of the cockiest things I had ever witnessed. It has been a common theme. Pierzynski, who lives to be hated. Phil Mickelson was No. But when you read the actual story you find … there was no reason there. There were a couple of anonymous reporters saying that he had no friends on Tour. And, I have found, that has been a constant theme. A lot of people I know despise Phil Mickelson.
But when I ask WHY they despise him, they tend to speak in vague generalities and blurry images. And, when I ask for examples, they might talk about one of his few public missteps like the time earlier this year he spoke out about taxes or his out-there hair or the walk he walks or offer a nebulous story about this one time he sort of said something kind of irritating.
In , he blew the U. Open at Winged Foot. It was really that simple. He came to the 18 th hole needing a par, and then after he hit a driver off a tent, his second shot hit a tree. His third splashed into a bunker. His double bogey lost the tournament. After it ended, Mickelson did what few have ever done. He went out in front of the fans and publicly apologized for playing the way he did. Then he went in front of the assembled media and emotionally apologized again. Now, how does the story make you feel?
Do you like the guy at the heart of it? Do you think him honest and forthright and all too human? Or do you find the whole thing kind of calculated? Mickelson has never won the U. Open, but he has finished second five times. In , at Pinehurst, he was simply beaten down the stretch by a whirlwind named Payne Stewart, who one-putted five of the last seven holes to beat Mickelson by a shot. In , at Shinnecock Hills, Mickelson beat himself. He led by a shot going into the 17 th , and the moment overwhelmed him.
He plunked the ball in the bunker, slashed out to 8 feet, missed the par putt and then missed the comeback bogey putt. In , back at Bethpage Black, Mickelson was deeply distracted because Amy had just been diagnosed with cancer.
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