{"id":1754,"date":"2011-09-22T11:21:26","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T17:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tombedell.com\/?p=1754"},"modified":"2012-01-11T20:31:39","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T02:31:39","slug":"playing-with-tiger-woods-thanks-but-ill-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tombedell\/golf\/1754\/playing-with-tiger-woods-thanks-but-ill-pass","title":{"rendered":"Playing With Tiger Woods: Thanks, But I\u2019ll Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/tombedell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2011\/09\/Tiger.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1755\" src=\"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/tombedell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2011\/09\/Tiger.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Here at The A Position we\u2019re given a topic to address (or not) each month for The A List feature, and the September challenge was to expose the holes in golf\u2019s bucket list.\u00a0 We even enlisted the guest services of PGA Tour player Duffy Waldorf, who said playing in the Masters isn\u2019t all it\u2019s cracked up be.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theoutwardnine.com\/golf\/golf\/courses-and-travel\/976\/the-a-list-exposing-the-holes-in-golfs-bucket-list\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to see what golf shibboleths Duffy and my colleagues decided needed toppling. My contribution follows, with the only further thought that I wouldn\u2019t mind teeing it up with Duffy, either.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">***<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHi, Tom, it\u2019s Mark Steinberg. I have a slot open for you to play a round with Tiger Woods and wonder if you can make it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Okay, Tiger\u2019s agent isn\u2019t going to be calling me any time soon, but you know what, Steiny? The answer is no thanks, anyway, because I\u2019m certain there\u2019d be precious little in the way of authentic invitation behind such an offer, yet a storehouse of calculation.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve played with Ernie Els, David Duval, Loren Roberts, Matt Gogel, 2005 U.S. Women\u2019s Open champion Birdie Kim and other pros. And, in what remains my greatest thrill in golf, I lucked into a full 18 at Bay Hill with Arnold Palmer, and tipped beers with him in the locker room, too. So I\u2019ve had my share of rubbing shoulders.<\/p>\n<p>But do I want to play with the greatest golfer of them all? Sure, if Nicklaus calls, I\u2019m ready.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/tombedell\/golf\/golf\/1730\/golf-in-the-flesh\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to see a review of &#8220;The Swinger&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/tombedell\/golf\/golf\/personalities\/89\/love-that-tiger\/\" target=\"_blank\">and here<\/a> for a piece about Tiger during the scandal.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here at The A Position we\u2019re given a topic to address (or not) each month for The A List feature,&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tombedell\/golf\/1754\/playing-with-tiger-woods-thanks-but-ill-pass\" title=\"ReadPlaying With Tiger Woods: Thanks, But I\u2019ll Pass\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":1755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[670,9,18],"tags":[112230,788,2255,53,112233,112234,66,5848,158,1288,410,5103,989,112218],"class_list":["post-1754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rummaging-around-in-the-bag","category-golf","category-lifestyle","tag-duffy-waldorf","tag-ernie-els","tag-david-duval","tag-tiger-woods","tag-loren-roberts","tag-matt-gogel","tag-masters","tag-birdie-kim","tag-jack-nicklaus","tag-the-a-position","tag-arnold-palmer","tag-u-s-women-s-open","tag-the-a-list","tag-mark-steinberg"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tombedell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2011\/09\/Tiger.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tombedell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tombedell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tombedell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tombedell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tombedell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1754"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tombedell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1757,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tombedell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/revisions\/1757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tombedell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tombedell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tombedell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tombedell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}