{"id":10116,"date":"2014-11-18T22:50:23","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T03:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/?p=10116"},"modified":"2014-11-22T03:18:01","modified_gmt":"2014-11-22T08:18:01","slug":"the-great-tiger-woods-responds-to-the-grudge-fueled-piece-of-character-assassination-attack-that-was-filled-with-totally-fabricated-information-and-distributed-by-the-golf-digest-through-their-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/?p=10116","title":{"rendered":"THE GREAT TIGER WOODS RESPONDS TO THE “grudge-fueled piece of character assassination” ATTACK THAT WAS FILLED WITH TOTALLY FABRICATED INFORMATION AND DISTRIBUTED BY THE GOLF DIGEST THROUGH THEIR SO-CALLED NUMBER 1 MOST SENIOR WRITER, DAN JENKINS, A POOR EXAMPLE OF A JOURNALIST!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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THE GOLF DIGEST IS A PRETTY PITIFUL ORGANIZATION TO HAVE DISTRIBUTED THIS TYPE OF GARBAGE THAT HAS ATTEMPTED TO SMEAR TIGER WOODS, AND IT’S A POOR EXAMPLE\u00a0 OF CHARACTER, AND ALSO AN IRRESPONSIBLE PRESENTATION LIES BY A SO CALLED LITERARY REPRESENTATIVE OF THE GOLF WORLD. BUT, WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE LOSERS THAT ARE BEHIND THE THIS TYPE OF PRINT, IT’S NOT TOO SURPRISING THAT THE GOLF DIGEST WOULD INSULT THE INTELLIGENCE OF THE GOLFING SOCIETY IN IT’S TOTALITY, TO INCLUDE ALL OF THE FOLLOWERS THAT THIS “PIECE OF WORK”, “SO-CALLED REPORTER” LIED TOO!! <\/strong><\/p>\n

NOW, TO THE ACTUAL RESPONSE FROM THE GREATEST!!!!,\u00a0 COURTESY OF THE PLAYERS TRIBUNE, AND IT READS:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Did you read Dan Jenkins\u2019 interview with me in the latest Golf Digest<\/em>? I hope not. Because it wasn\u2019t me. It was some jerk he created to pretend he was talking to me. That\u2019s right, Jenkins faked an interview, which fails as parody, and is really more like a grudge-fueled piece of character assassination.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Journalistically and ethically, can you sink any lower?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"TG_Side_Standard\"I like to think I have a good sense of humor, and that I\u2019m more than willing to laugh at myself. In this game, you have to. I\u2019ve been playing golf for a long time, 20 years on the PGA Tour. I\u2019ve given lots of interviews to journalists in all that time, more than I could count, and some have been good and some not so much. All athletes know that we will be under scrutiny from the media. But this concocted article was below the belt. Good-natured satire is one thing, but no fair-minded writer would put someone in the position of having to publicly deny that he mistreats his friends, takes pleasure in firing people, and stiffs on tips\u2014and a lot of other slurs, too. Some lowlights if you haven\u2019t seen the fake story:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Dan: \u201cWhy haven\u2019t you fired Steiny, by the way? You\u2019ve fired everybody else \u2026\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tiger: \u201cI\u2019ll probably get around to it. I like to fire people \u2026\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dan: \u201cIn many cases, tips are a part of their salary.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tiger: \u201cSo let \u2018em go find a better job.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dan: \u201cMarko (O\u2019Meara) was your best friend in golf at one time.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tiger: \u201cI\u2019m sorry. I can\u2019t place him. Did he play the tour?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Golf Digest<\/em> even hired an actor to pose as me in photos. \u00a0<\/em>The truth is, Jenkins has no idea how I think or feel about any of the things he claims to know about, which is why he had to make things up. Frustration or resentment because I have not been more available to him should not give him a license for an underhanded attack on me as an athlete, as a professional and as a person. I guess Golf Digest\u2019<\/em>s editors believe this is a good way to sell more magazines. I\u2019ll bet their readers don\u2019t think so. Funny they didn\u2019t think this poorly of me when I worked with the magazine. I have to say I was surprised when I saw this piece came from Jenkins, who is one of the most distinguished golf writers out there.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fortunately, invented fiction like this is not at all what I hear on tour from the fans. It\u2019s not the type of feedback I get from them, especially when I\u2019ve been hurt or going through a tough stretch. Fans\u2019 encouragement is what really matters to me. I know it\u2019s coming from a good place, and that it\u2019s sincere, not cynical.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Whether it\u2019s misreported information or opinions I think are way off base, I let plenty of things slide. But this time I can\u2019t do that. The sheer nastiness of this attack, the photos and how it put false words in my mouth just had to be confronted.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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My representatives and I asked Golf Digest<\/em> for an explanation, some reason for what I think is journalistically wrong and a pretty cheap shot. Digest<\/em> responded by saying it was Dan\u2019s humor, and they didn\u2019t think it was unfair or they wouldn\u2019t have run it. Those aren\u2019t great answers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here, is the letter we sent. Read it, and the original piece if you have to, and decide for yourself what\u2019s fair.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

~ Tiger<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is the first in a series of columns\u00a0we\u2019re calling<\/i>\u00a0\u201cStraight Up.\u201d It\u2019s\u00a0a place where athletes can offer\u00a0<\/i>their<\/i>\u00a0side on something that has been written or said about them.<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Tiger Woods<\/a> \/ Guest Contributor<\/strong><\/div>\n
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November 12, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dear Mr. Townsend,<\/strong><\/p>\n

As the agency for Tiger Woods, we have a very serious inquiry about a piece that appears in the December issue of Golf Digest.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The story completely fabricates an interview between writer Dan Jenkins and Mr. Woods. \u00a0What we would like to know is how this was approved by editors and whether you, as the publisher, will stand behind this as in any way\u00a0journalistically\u00a0responsible? What standards and tenets were used for the story and accompanying artwork?\u00a0It is not enough to claim that Mr. Jenkins is an \u201copinion writer\u201d or that this is mere \u201cparody\u201d when under that guise Mr. Jenkins makes a litany of disparagements that are either baseless or demonstrably untrue. \u00a0Mr. Jenkins has long held a personal\u00a0hostility for Mr. Woods, a fact that is common knowledge in golf journalism. \u00a0Knowing that, editors ought to be holding him to a firmer standard of responsible reporting, grounded in fact. \u00a0Instead, they have allowed him to\u00a0realize his vendetta, concocting situations that arise out of his own grudges and frustrations. \u00a0 There\u2019s a word for writers that stoop to this underhanded technique: Fabulist.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We would also like you to account for the following:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jenkins\u00a0implies in the piece he was declined for an interview with Tiger. \u00a0But no such request was made, at least not recently. Shouldn’t he have done that before making up an interview?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Digest staged an impersonating actor for photographs next to a Cadillac SUV, apparently to mislead readers. Is that sort of deception acceptable in Conde Nast publications?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jenkins puts\u00a0words\u00a0in our client\u2019s mouth saying variously, that he has contempt for tipping, enjoys firing employees, is unable to make business decisions,\u00a0isn\u2019t smart,\u00a0disregards his friends, and is personally dishonest. \u00a0But these things aren\u2019t jokes, they are\u00a0character\u00a0slanders and ones for which Jenkins has no basis whatsoever. \u00a0If there is some tangible way that Jenkins believes any of these things, then he ought to have the integrity to state it outright.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Would this story have\u00a0even been considered\u00a0if Tiger was still associated with Golf Digest?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Has any other person in golf been subjected to this treatment in your magazines? We can\u2019t recall any piece remotely like this. We certainly can\u2019t imagine any of the golfers that are frequent contributors to the magazine being attacked like this.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We are requesting a formal response to these questions on how journalistically or ethically this piece is acceptable, and we are also asking for a written apology. \u00a0We hope you\u2019ll agree\u00a0that\u00a0what\u00a0credibility the magazine\u00a0still has\u00a0requires it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mark Steinberg, Partner Excel Sports Management<\/strong><\/p>\n

Glenn Greenspan Vice President, Communications ETW Corporation<\/strong><\/p>\n

PICTURES ARE FROM THE PLAYERS TRIBUNE BY WHO EVER TOOK THEM. AND THIS OPINION IS OF THE FOLLOWERS OF PEOPLE WHO LOVE AND ADMIRE ALL OF THE THINGS THAT TIGER WOODS HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO GOLF SINCE HIS INITIAL ENTRY INTO THE PRO SPORT!!!<\/p>\n

THE MYBOYSAY SPORTS BLOG AND THE MYBOYSAY NATION OF GOLF ENTHUSIASTS ARE PROUD TO BE ONE OF THE SEVERAL ENTITIES TO SUPPORT THE TIGER WOODS PRESENCE IN THE WORLD OF GOLF, AND ALL THAT IT HAS BROUGHT AS A\u00a0 FINANCIAL ENABLER FOR ALL OF THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE GOLFERS, GOING FORWARD. JUST ASK AROUND ABOUT THE MONEY THAT THE GOLF INDUSTRY HAS\u00a0 APPRECIATED FROM SINCE TIGER WOODS ENTRY INTO THE PRO TOUR!!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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