Even Tiger Woods cannot disagree with his organization's rules.
Tuesday, 11. August 2009, 16:46:30
The PGA has fined Tiger Woods for disagreeing with it's policy. Nothing more. He won a tournament, and the final playoff was timed, so the golfers could not take their time to line up shots.
Tiger merely said he wished the tournament had been played out in a manner that was more fair to the two players. In fact, the other player was the one who suffered the most from the ruling. (He had much more difficult lies to consider, needing more time.) To me, Tiger was expressing the ultimate in sportsmanship, giving his opponent the benefit of believing he was better than how he was forced to play.
Such are organizations now days. The slightest disagreement, and even their star player gets his knuckles rapped. Where has lively discussion and tolerance for differing views gone?
While it isn't Christian, the PGA's action is just a symbol of all that is wrong with most organizations, IMO, including Christian and animal ones. No good comes from completely silencing the slightest critique, imo. If it is done in a positive way, such as Woods did, it doesn't hurt anyone. And it has the potential to help the organization become better.
Sad, too sad.
Donna
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601079&sid=aoqgO2Gk04a8
Tiger merely said he wished the tournament had been played out in a manner that was more fair to the two players. In fact, the other player was the one who suffered the most from the ruling. (He had much more difficult lies to consider, needing more time.) To me, Tiger was expressing the ultimate in sportsmanship, giving his opponent the benefit of believing he was better than how he was forced to play.
Such are organizations now days. The slightest disagreement, and even their star player gets his knuckles rapped. Where has lively discussion and tolerance for differing views gone?
While it isn't Christian, the PGA's action is just a symbol of all that is wrong with most organizations, IMO, including Christian and animal ones. No good comes from completely silencing the slightest critique, imo. If it is done in a positive way, such as Woods did, it doesn't hurt anyone. And it has the potential to help the organization become better.
Sad, too sad.
Donna
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601079&sid=aoqgO2Gk04a8
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