Sunday at the PGA Championship.
Jim Furyk on the tee, down by 2 to Jason Dufner.
And then, THIS...
It's not the camera he's staring at.
It's about three or four jokers who decided to take the 16th hole at the PGA Championship on Sunday and make a complete jackass out of it.
Oh, and he's not the only one pissed off at the "fans" of the TGA Tour.
Yes, I said TGA, not PGA -- because this is yet another symptom of what happens when you basically make golf into Tiger's World.
Ian Poulter got into a Twitter rant about the very same subject today, and you can see the results in this Deadspin article.
This shit needs to stop, and it needed to stop about 15 years ago when Tiger first came into the PGA and brought the hardcore Sports Fan Syndrome junkies with him.
In my personal estimation, there are three parts to this.
1) I truly believe we are starting to see, little by little, the fans openly trying to determine the outcome of/disrupt sporting events, to make them (not the sport, league, or players) the star of the show -- even if, for the most part, any discussion on their involvement would be insulting of their interference.
Anyone care to revisit THIS joker from the Arena Football League, as one great example?
Or THIS joker who would trade a year of his freedom for 1,000 retweets on Twitter and interfere with the 2013 baseball All-Star Game?
Or THIS idiot from the 2013 State of Origin that all-but-decided the traditional three-match Australian rugby series through his continued streaking onto the field? (Second half of same post.)
Part of this, as has been seen directly many times in golf tournaments, is this whole "Get my ass on YouTube, I'm going to be a star!" idiocy.
Part of this comes directly from the diagnoses of Sports Fan Syndrome Howard Cosell made many, many years ago:
"6. The fan is sacred, even as sports are. He pays the freight, thus he is an entitled being. The media people tell him this every day. Therefore, once within the arena, his emotions whetted by the Sports Syndrome, the fan adopts what John Stewart Mill found to be the classic confusion in the American thought process, the confusion between Liberty and License—a natural and probable consequence of which is fan violence. "
2) Tiger Woods. The absolute revolution of everything in American golf around Tiger Woods, his corporate image, and basically to make the fans into hardcore Nike/TW syncophants. This garbage DID NOT START until Corporate Gaaaaaaaaahd came on to the scene. We have the likes of The Worldwide Leader to thank for that one.
3) The complete lack of respect for ANYTHING out there today.
Do these motherfuckers know what a golf ball is, much less where the Hell they are?
People work their entire LIVES for the opportunity Furyk got, and we've got 3 or so idiots deciding they want to crap all over it.
I pity the day the Corporate Gaaaaaaaaahd is ever relevant in another major in the final four or so holes.
First thing they need to do is ban these motherfuckers from the course.
Second thing they need to do, with all the officials and technology involved in major tournaments, is some kind of defense against these idiots who are trying to disrupt play by yelling at impact (and missing).
But this shit has to stop.
EDIT 10 PM PDT 8/11/13: Yahoo's golf blog has a whole cornucopia of PGA Championship Gallery bullshit.
Video highlights include verbal hooliganism against Tiger Woods, as well as Keegan Bradley, and Jason Dufner, by some idiot who would've preferred letting the Wookiee win.
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