Foley: Lay Off My Man Tiger!

Sean Foley is fed up, mad as hell, and not going to take it anymore. At least, as much as a super nice Canadian can get angry. Asked at the end of a Sirius/XM Fairways of Life interview with Matt Adams about Woods after 20 minutes of general golf talk, the instructor came to his pupil's defense. Randall Mell reports:

“I know everyone has a job to do, and I get it,” Foley said. “But if it is about the game of golf, Tiger Woods is an extremely important part of the game, and I think everyone understands that. It has just gotten to the point where the tearing down of Tiger as a person and a golfer has become just too much. I think it is just out of hand.

“I realize it is 2012, and we have dotcoms, and you have to write five articles a day, and you run out of things to write about, but we should be in a position where we are trying to help and lift up and support a player like Tiger Woods, instead of tearing him down, because everyone in the golf industry is better off because of his existence.

“That is basically one thing I want to get out. Tiger is a wonderful person, and he is a good dude, and he lives a complex life. I think things have got to slow down, it has got to stop, the daily referendums and the criticism.”

Duly noted. And that won't happen as long as he's kicking clubs.