Tiger Woods And The Medal Of Freedom: He's More Than Worthy - Dog Leg News

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Tom Edrington

Tom Edrington spent the first 10 years of his misguided youth as a sports writer for the Tampa Tribune. His career brought him face to face with many of sports greatest stars -- Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Muhammad Ali, Don Shula, countless Hall of Fame NFL stars, more PGA Tour players than he can count. In 1980 he was honored by the Golf Writers Association of America for writing the best news story that year, his coverage of Jack Nicklaus' U.S. Open victory at Baltusrol. Today, 36 years later, golf is still a great part of his life, thanks to competitive playing days and the wonderful people he has met on this fabulous journey.

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    baxter cepeda

    Outstanding explanation of how Tigers charitable work alone have earned his this honor. His business practices alone. His major record alone. His wins on the pga tour alone. Worldwide wins. The 97 win for the ages. The Torrey putt where it’s exactly what we expected. And of course the resilience from this years Masters. Each and every one on its own is worthy of this honor. Tiger has made his mistakes but this man should get 5 of these things …and he is so far from done.

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      Tom Edrington

      Baxter, what a journey, the mug shot, sleeping on the side of the highway in Jupiter, battle with pain killers (it only takes about 5 days to hit dependency, they wrote me prescriptions for three different pain killers prior to my knee replacement surgery in January, I didn’t fill any of them)….he hit rock-bottom and bounced back and that makes anyone appreciate things in a different perspective, this version of Tiger is more down-to-earth, a bit more humble and knows that his kids are old enough to read things written about him….he shows up at their sports functions around Jupiter……this version of Tiger Woods is way more likeable….

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    RM

    Agree totally. He’s taken some raps and done some things that have caused some folks to dislike him. Fine. But let’s also give credit where credit is due. Well said, Tom.

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      Tom Edrington

      Thanks RM, I had a guy who used to be an artist at The Tampa Tribune badmouth Tiger, basically because he hangs around with DT from time to time but no one said anything when he’d play golf with Obama…yes, the foundation is doing amazing work with children, a much better after-school activity than the First Tee.

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