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DeanFL
07-23-2018, 07:49 AM
How many are irritated with the continual "fan" yelling during and just after shots? Vote YES for me.
Seems to be escalating. Sure, part of the 'job' for the pros, but again IMO getting worse. Seems that many tour broadcasts now need to employ a delay or ready the audio bleep button. Perhaps a sign of the times $@%#!!, and adult beverages, and to yell out for their friends to ID them on TV. Oh, for the old times when "In the hole" was all we'd hear...
re Tiger, short video and yell during Open>
Tiger Woods wasn'''t happy after a fan shouted during his backswing (https://www.yahoo.com/sports/fan-noise-open-disrupts-tiger-woods-swing-angers-spectators-200110385.html)
rustyp
07-23-2018, 11:12 AM
Not me - these are professionals not primadonnas. Michael Jordan had to shoot foul shots at a clear glass backboard with thousands of fans waving towels and shouting. Why are golfers special ? One of the PGA favorite holes is the par 3 in Phoenix. I like the entertainment factor. The PGA better come up with something. Looks like Tiger is not going to be the goose that laid the golden egg anymore. Need the gimmick. Sure beats watching grass grow while those commentators say total nonsensical BS like that was a courageous shot, reminds us of Tiger in his prime.
graciegirl
07-23-2018, 11:22 AM
Not me - these are professionals not primadonnas. Michael Jordan had to shoot foul shots at a clear glass backboard with thousands of fans waving towels and shouting. Why are golfers special ? One of the PGA favorite holes is the par 3 in Phoenix. I like the entertainment factor. The PGA better come up with something. Looks like Tiger is not going to be the goose that laid the golden egg anymore. Need the gimmick. Sure beats watching grass grow while those commentators say total nonsensical BS like that was a courageous shot, reminds us of Tiger in his prime.
I am aggravated with the bad manners from the fans. Golf is a gentlemen's (and gentlewomen's sport)
tomwed
07-23-2018, 11:38 AM
Every year I ran 9 hole a teacher's golf tournament. It was not serious. Some players only played this one time a year. I discovered and used the "woof" handicapped system. A high handicapper would get to yell 5 woofs. A low handicapper 1. Participants could yell woof anytime they wanted, in you backswing, at impact, putting. The strange thing is that when you expect someone to yell woof and they don't it screws up your shot just as often. It was a fun loving group, lot's of beer, lot's of laughs.
ColdNoMore
07-23-2018, 11:54 AM
Every year I ran 9 hole a teacher's golf tournament. It was not serious. Some players only played this one time a year. I discovered and used the "woof" handicapped system. A high handicapper would get to yell 5 woofs. A low handicapper 1. Participants could yell woof anytime they wanted, in you backswing, at impact, putting. The strange thing is that when you expect someone to yell woof and they don't it screws up your shot just as often. It was a fun loving group, lot's of beer, lot's of laughs.
If it's a male only tournament, allowing two "gotcha's"...can also make things pretty interesting. :D
As for the fans yelling...yes it does get old.
As much as disliking the fan yelling in Tiger's backswing, I was ticked off watching the lady with the kid fussing in the stroller, right behind the player (forgot which one)..and wondered why she wasn't forced to move. :oops:
On the flip side and as a counter-argument, sometimes golfer's take the whole 'nothing but absolute silence' thing...too far.
In basketball, fans are allowed to yell/wave/disrupt free throw tries...which just makes the athlete have to concentrate even more. :shrug:
raynan
07-23-2018, 12:06 PM
It's not basketball, it's golf. If they would just enforce with the quiet signs like The Masters it can still be done.
Hearing the fans yell is very aggravating and makes it unpleasant to watch on TV. (Yes, I know there is a mute button but I like the commentary and stats.)
When it first started it could've been nipped in the bud so easy. Throw a couple of these goons out and people will get the message real quick.
ColdNoMore
07-23-2018, 12:13 PM
Golf fans have been and are...thrown out for yelling.
Then there's the Phoenix Open, of which very few players have been a baby about it and refused to enter...just because of the raucous crowds. :oops:
Fredman
07-23-2018, 06:12 PM
Fans yelling is getting out of control. Throw out the drunks.
photo1902
07-23-2018, 06:16 PM
Baba booeyyy!!!!!
rustyp
07-23-2018, 06:37 PM
Are the golf fans respectful when the PGA plays the national anthem before the start of a major ? NASCAR, Baseball, Football, Basketball, Hockey fans appear to be!
B-flat
07-23-2018, 06:45 PM
I am aggravated with the bad manners from the fans. Golf is a gentlemen's (and gentlewomen's sport)
Plus one! I echo the comments of another poster too, throw out the drunks!!
SFSkol
07-23-2018, 06:47 PM
...In basketball, fans are allowed to yell/wave/disrupt free throw tries...which just makes the athlete have to concentrate even more.
It takes no more concentration to ignore a crowd than one person. Just ask my spouse!
tophcfa
07-23-2018, 09:35 PM
I am aggravated with the bad manners from the fans. Golf is a gentlemen's (and gentlewomen's sport)
Agree, the fans should respect the etiquette of the game.
When I play golf, for some reason noise does not bother me at all. However, movement is another thing. I tend to see anything that moves, bugs flying by, shadows when the sun is low, someone walking, etc... and that messes up the swing big time. Obviously the noise bothers Tiger.
Two Bills
07-24-2018, 01:24 AM
When that incident occured, the shot he played, and where the ball finished, was one of his best!
DonH57
07-24-2018, 07:10 AM
Not me - these are professionals not primadonnas. Michael Jordan had to shoot foul shots at a clear glass backboard with thousands of fans waving towels and shouting. Why are golfers special ? One of the PGA favorite holes is the par 3 in Phoenix. I like the entertainment factor. The PGA better come up with something. Looks like Tiger is not going to be the goose that laid the golden egg anymore. Need the gimmick. Sure beats watching grass grow while those commentators say total nonsensical BS like that was a courageous shot, reminds us of Tiger in his prime.
I agree. BABA BOOEY !. HIT EM WITH THE HINE ! :bigbow::a040:
PennBF
07-24-2018, 07:41 AM
I served as a Marshall for many years at the Buick Open in Westchester County and also at the US Open when it was held at Wingfoot. The source of much of the shouting and bad behavior is the beer and liquor that is served in the hospitality tents and in the Club House to Club House ticket holders. One spectator was so loud and screaming that the well known pro player went over to him off the 18th tee and was going to hit him. We stopped him along with the other pro playing with him. It was the booze that was driving it. The 2 spectators involved were thrown off the course by the NY State Trooper.:ohdear:
photo1902
07-24-2018, 07:52 AM
I agree. BABA BOOEY !. HIT EM WITH THE HINE ! :bigbow::a040:
Love it!!!
tomwed
07-24-2018, 07:53 AM
I read that one of Earl's father son training sessions included Earl throwing balled up sox at Tiger while he was swinging. This helped Tiger to focus. I can't find the video but there is one out there of Tiger stopping a club moments be fore it makes impact so he can reload.
rustyp
07-24-2018, 01:08 PM
I served as a Marshall for many years at the Buick Open in Westchester County and also at the US Open when it was held at Wingfoot. The source of much of the shouting and bad behavior is the beer and liquor that is served in the hospitality tents and in the Club House to Club House ticket holders. One spectator was so loud and screaming that the well known pro player went over to him off the 18th tee and was going to hit him. We stopped him along with the other pro playing with him. It was the booze that was driving it. The 2 spectators involved were thrown off the course by the NY State Trooper.:ohdear:
Such a gentleman's game. Did this "pro" also throw his club after an errant shot that was surely the blame of an arrogant spectator ?
tomwed
07-24-2018, 01:25 PM
I served as a Marshall for many years at the Buick Open in Westchester County and also at the US Open when it was held at Wingfoot. The source of much of the shouting and bad behavior is the beer and liquor that is served in the hospitality tents and in the Club House to Club House ticket holders. One spectator was so loud and screaming that the well known pro player went over to him off the 18th tee and was going to hit him. We stopped him along with the other pro playing with him. It was the booze that was driving it. The 2 spectators involved were thrown off the course by the NY State Trooper.:ohdear:
They got off easy. In Philly, at Vet Stadium the officers don't take any **** and bring you to a judge located in Vet Stadium where you are tried and sentenced right then and there.
graciegirl
07-24-2018, 01:38 PM
Such a gentleman's game. Did this "pro" also throw his club after an errant shot that was surely the blame of an arrogant spectator ?
I still say pro golfers are among the best behaved professional athletes in todays world. I know we can cite many incidents of bad behavior, but overall when I think of golf I think of guys like Nicklaus.
PennBF
07-24-2018, 02:33 PM
To clarify the point I made regarding the Westchester Buick Tournament. It was Gregg Norman who was confronting the drunken spectator and it was Fred Couples who pitched in and told him to walk on which he did as Fred just ignored the idiot drunks as the cops took them away. It is the ability to drink booze with essentially no controls that screws up a lot of good tournaments. We miss Gregg:ohdear:
Bruiser1
07-24-2018, 03:30 PM
Ian Polter was talking on Feherity about an instance in Tampa where a rowdy fan was hollering mercilessly. Later the fan tweeted it was he that did it and gleefully took full credit for the fluffed shots. Polter tweeted back to him about it. It was later discovered this fan was a Golf Coach at a local college. When the school found out about it the coach was fired.In retrospect Polter admitted he wished he hadn't reponded .
rustyp
07-24-2018, 03:30 PM
To clarify the point I made regarding the Westchester Buick Tournament. It was Gregg Norman who was confronting the drunken spectator and it was Fred Couples who pitched in and told him to walk on which he did as Fred just ignored the idiot drunks as the cops took them away. It is the ability to drink booze with essentially no controls that screws up a lot of good tournaments. We miss Gregg:ohdear:
It appears Fred was the gentleperson.
rustyp
07-24-2018, 03:40 PM
I still say pro golfers are among the best behaved professional athletes in todays world. I know we can cite many incidents of bad behavior, but overall when I think of golf I think of guys like Nicklaus.
John Daly, Rory Sabatini, Steve Elkington, Dustin Johnson, and Tiger Woods also come to mind.
PennBF
07-24-2018, 07:13 PM
I was not going to send anymore notes on this subject but had to respond. It is unfair to the good and kind Pro Golfer's to put Tiger on the same list. Good to the fans were Jack Nickalus, Tom Watson,Ben Crenshaw,Fred Couples, Arnold Palmer, Chi Chi Rodriguez, Paynme Stewart. Tome Kite, Lee Trevino, Vijay Singh.Davis Love. and some I probably forgot. I could not put Ray Floydd,or Tiger Woods in the same category. Jack, Tom Watson, Arnold Palmer, Lee, etc etc. would wait for long times to make sure they signed all the autographs and talk to the children. :bigbow:
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