Naturally everyone is talking about the comment Sergio Garcia made towards Tiger Woods last night at a European Tour awards dinner. Sergio made a comment that he was going to invite Tiger over for dinner in a few weeks at the U.S. Open and serve him fried chicken. A rather funny joke that the twedia is not going to allow. The consummate professional that Tiger is responded on twitter with this.
The comment that was made wasn’t silly. It was wrong, hurtful and clearly inappropriate...
Now to be fair, I was entertained by the fact that Sergio was standing up to Tiger, even though he does not stand close to him on the golf course. Sergio could have said, "Ya, maybe we go to IHOP get a stack of flat cakes and a couple whores." That would have really be entertaining.
Tiger a guy known for being a "former" nymphomaniac with a dirty sense of humor decided to stick to Sergio and have the twitter pawns do his dirty work. Tiger is not offended by this comment. If I was Tiger, I would have responded by saying, "We should be careful because you might choke." or "Try not to take a siesta the next time you are in the lead." I think in 2013 that would have been funny, but unfortunately golf is historically a stuffy sport which prides itself on honesty and etiquette. It also is historically dominated by white guys. For a white guy to make a black joke about one of the handful of black guys on the PGA Tour... was never going to be good. Although if Ricky Rubio made this comment to Kobe Bryant, I do not think we would have seen such a reaction, nor do I think Kobe would have raked Rubio through the coals.
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