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Tiger Woods Courts Controversy, but Brilliance Radiates

Aug 11, 2009 – 11:20 PM
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Jay Mariotti

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Tiger WoodsTiger? Is that you? The man who avoids controversy like Kate avoids Jon, the man who is apolitical and non-confrontational and quite possibly the dullest megastar in the history of sports, is abandoning his equilibrium to criticize the PGA Tour? All because an official decided that Woods and Padraig Harrington were dawdling too long Sunday -- 17 minutes behind, to be exact -- and put a clock on them for the last three holes at Firestone?

Of all times to walk on the wild side and boogie down, this is odd. What I took from Woods' 70th career title is that he was typically unbothered by the edict, issued by European Tour chief referee John Paramor. After he and Harrington were told of the slow-play violation on the tee at No. 16, Woods responded with one of the epic shots of this or any other golf season, a 178-yard rainbow with an 8-iron that crept to within inches of the hole. While he was fashioning a birdie, Harrington was hurrying because of the clock issue and choking away a rare chance to outduel Woods, hitting a shot over the green and then plunking a flop shot into the water.
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