As a kid I loved watching the artistry of failure mastered by Greg Norman. The human frailty he brought to golf was so much more compelling than the game itself. Those early morning Masters disasters punctuated my youth like commandments from some hursuit and stinking mountain-top hermit.
But he’s going to have to move over today. There’s a new fallen golfing icon bringing human foible to us poor struggling plebs. From this:
To this:
Balding, fat, drunk and arrested. Unreal. From the BBC:
Golf star Tiger Woods was arrested on a drink-driving charge in Florida early on Monday morning, police say.
Police recorded the arrest at 07:18 local time (11:18 GMT). The golfer was released a few hours later, records from Palm Beach County police show.
He was arrested in the town of Jupiter at around 03:00 local time, media reports say. He has not made any comment.
The police record lists the charge as Driving Under the Influence (DUI).
It specifies an unlawful blood alcohol level and says that he was released on his “own recognizance”, meaning he promised in writing to co-operate with future legal proceedings.
The 41-year-old golfer has been recovering from recent back surgery and last blogged about his health on 24 May.
He wrote that the surgery had relieved terrible pain and that he hadn’t “felt this good in years”.
He said the outlook for a return to competitive golf was “positive” but that he was not in a “hurry”.
Except to get home from the bar!
The New Tiger is so much more believable than the old. So much more admirable than that teflon kid, media-savvy, branded and air-brushed almost out of existence.
Nobody could have played golf like that without making some bargain with the devil! And here it is in black and white.
Love your work, Tiger.
