The Popularity of Piling On

ESPN.com hack Jason Whitlock is the latest to lamely criticize Tiger Woods for leaving the PGA Championship at Baltusrol after the suspension of play on Sunday evening. As even Whitlock admits, Tiger was right. Sure it could have backfired on him, but who are any of us to quibble with any golf-related decision that Tiger makes? Tiger is many things, but it is fiction to call him a quitter.

Tiger obviously believed strongly that it was highly unlikely that the entire trio of Mickelson, Bjorn or Elkington would fall back to 2-under, such that he would become part of a playoff for the championship. Not only was he right about that, he was really right about that, as none of the trio fell back to 2-under. In addition, when play was suspended, Davis Love and Vinjay Singh were each at 2-under with two par-5's yet to play.

I realize that the intensity of deadlines and quotas looming over the heads of the media are likely quite burdensome today with the growth of the internet and 24-hour coverage, and that said deadlines and quotas force many a column to be published which thrusts a pseudo-controversial take about a non-story down readers' throats, but this is really getting out of hand.