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The Zulewski report
By Tom Zulewski August 11, 2009 |
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Tiger Woods got a little testy with the PGA rules and the PGA came down on him and hammered on him in the wallet calling him out for the slow play for questioning the timing on Sunday. The PGA should have let him play it out they're duking it out for the lead. Nobody else was behind them you’re in the final group. Let them duke it out. As one of the Yankee beat writers said to John Sterling on Yankees radio the other night with that 13 inning game with the Red Sox and Yankees and the deadlines flew right out the window in that game why not in this golf game on Sunday? I was just a little surprised about the fines against Tiger not extremely freaked but it proves that stars are not immuned to following the rules. I can completely appreciate Tiger's frustration too, 100% completely and hated to watch his playing partner basically he had the lead by a shot when they got 16th hole. A couple bogie lead and he's three back and he's absolutely completely dead. The PGA will be a little more careful the next time this happens again. Beginning of the round, maybe before they hit the turn perhaps when it becomes an issue where players are backlogged behind. Or there is a lot of space out in front. Come on, PGA rules is 15 minutes to a hole. The way it looked they counted 40 seconds until you get to the ball and address it that you got to hit it. That's pushing it a little. Tiger handled the fine situation good he was not fined but it's the old classic adage you don't want the officials to decide an event and this is a clear case of the officials deciding the event. Padraig Harrington was a complete mess at that 16th hole. He wasn't the same and fell back into a tie and even to a tie for second and cost him even more than not being able to hold the tournament trophy. The collapse of that spinning of that final three holes that says something that wasn't a case of bad shot making that was a case of the officials getting in their ear and saying "hurry up and get it done" and Tiger hurried up and it was all over. It's a rhythm, the game of golf is a rhythm and when your being called out to shoot at a faster speed then your accustomed to then there is something wrong with that picture. Crabtree missing practice number 19: The deal with Michael Crabtree who was picked ninth by the Niners and Darrius Heyward-Bey was picked ahead of him by the Raiders and Crabtree wants Heyward-Bey money. Excuse me the Raiders did not draft you, the 49ers did and they were in a certain point and a certain position where they could pay you. Your not going to alter the market big guy no matter how your mouth piece agent tries, give it up, let it go let it go, sign, get your butt out on the field. 49ers quarterbacks Sean Hill and Alex Smith will need a target and the only way Crabtree is going to make an impact by the way is if he signs and gets his butt to camp. Other than that the only thing he's done is what he did in college right now. Right now for his NFL career he hasn't done much and this threat of sitting out the entire year is not going to help and getting back into the draft again is not going to help the marketability. If Crabtree gets drafted he's going to go further down the pile and he's going to make less money. It is a losing composition. Shut up, get over it, get it done, and get playing. Tom Zulewski files the report each week for Sportstalk Radio |
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