Mondo Times Sports Poll Archive

This poll ran from June 23 to 29, 2008.

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"Tiger Woods is an idiot." True 361/24% False 1139/76%

Votes: 1500

Gwen Knapp, from the front-page article "A golfing genius takes a dumb step" published in the June 19, 2008 edition of the San Francisco Chronicle.

Knapp wrote: "Tiger Woods is an idiot. A mesmerizing, peerless, incandescent idiot.

"If he'd used his head at all, he would never have entered the U.S. Open last week with a double stress fracture and a torn ligament in his left leg. Woods marched 21 miles over the longest layout in Open history, playing five rounds and 24 hours of spellbinding golf, repeatedly wincing before he could plant a ritual smooch on the side of the coveted trophy Monday afternoon. Then, two days later, he had to kiss the rest of his season goodbye.

"He announced Wednesday that he would undergo his second knee surgery in less than three months. The first, to clear out damaged cartilage, appeared to be the cause of his many grimaces during the Open. But Woods was keeping secrets. The joint had far more serious damage, a torn anterior cruciate ligament, and rehabilitation exercises from the cartilage operation had damaged a bone in his lower leg.

"Under the circumstances, a wiser man would have traded that one Open trophy for a healthier leg and the chance to win a less strenuous major, the PGA, this summer. Or, if necessary, he would have given up both the Open and the entire summer for safer passage into next year's majors and the ever-scintillating possibility of golf's first single-season Grand Slam. The wise man would never have jeopardized his entire future to play a single event."

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