July 24, 2006
Tiger snaps at fans taking photographs
British Open champion Tiger Woods complained about the amateur photographers he and playing partner Sergio Garcia had to contend with during Sunday’s final round, reports MSNBC.
"We had it at every hole,” Woods said after a closing 67 gave him a two-shot victory over Chris DiMarco and the 11th major of his career. “We had never seen anything like it before. It wasn’t the professional photographers, it was the gallery. They had cameras or camera phones.”
Woods said he and Garcia, who finished with a disappointing 1-over 73, were constantly distracted.
“The cameras kept going off while we were over the shot or preparing to hit the shot, or even hitting the shot they were going off,” said Woods, who also won the British Open at St Andrews in 2000 and 2005."
Its not the first time Tiger Woods or other golf tournaments have been plagues by cameraphones. cf related articles:
-- Woods Experiences Golfing in China: Click, Ring, Take a Swing - Golf and golf etiquette is so new in China, and the sport's fans are so crazy about Tiger Woods, that the The HSBC Champions Tournament in Shangai was quite a scene.
-- Golf Rules leave fans pining for phones - At a golf tournament, silence is not only golden, it is mandatory.
-- Call for Cameraphone ban on Golf Tournaments - Officials at this year's US Masters introduced airport-style metal detectors and bag scanners at the main entrance to Augusta and confiscated all mobile phones and cameras.
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