11/21/24
June 23, 2003
During the Buick Classic this weekend, after a fan encouraged one of his putts to "keep rolling," Vijay Singh confronted the heckler and asked event security to throw the guy out.
I'm a bit unclear on this. The guy yelled, "Keep rolling!" How does that have anything to do with Vijay's behavior at previous tournaments? He was bogarting his self-produced joints last year? As for the guy being thrown out — that's heckling? I'm tempted to hit the road and show Mr. Singh some grade-A, you'd-better-run-me-off-the-course, have-you-promised-your-wife-you'd-work-on-your-short-putz heckling. What a puss. Here's something even more frightening from farther down in the story. Sergio Garcia played 36 holes in the same day. Is that possible? Was there a time change? I'm guessing there were marshals with cattle prods shocking his ass every time he waggled more than five times.
posted by wfrazerjr at 09:21 PM on June 23, 2003
I'm with WFrazer... put me on the bus. Golf needs more quality heckling. Golf needs some good loud Cornell hockey fans :) With airhorns.
posted by Bernreuther at 11:14 PM on June 23, 2003
Singh didn't handle the situation well -- he could've showed a little backbone and ignored the fan. Of course, as he proved when he dodged the Colonial, Singh's a bit challenged in the vertebrae department these days.
posted by rcade at 07:43 AM on June 24, 2003
that sergio slam. heh.
posted by gspm at 08:01 AM on June 24, 2003
Singh went over to the man after he yelled the comment and asked why he said it... It's easy to pick on Singh since his Annika comments and "promised my wife" excuses, but it sounds like he handled a bad situation relatively well. Too many loudmouths want to focus attention on themselves rather than watch the game being played.