Lame reaction to slur is golf's shameNo comment. No comment. No comment. For a global sport at a global event in the midst of a global controversy, professional golf had depressingly little to say for itself in the immediate aftermath of Steve Williams's racial slur against his former employer Tiger Woods.
"That black arsehole,'' was the term used by the New Zealander at an awards ceremony in Shanghai in front of 200 or so players, caddies, sponsors and officials. No lip reading necessary and little need for interpretation, although - believe it or not - Williams retains a small cadre of loyalists who have always claimed to see beyond his boorish public persona and into the soul of a better man. He is blunt, apparently. He is honest, a breath of fresh air in a stuffy world. The apologists were at it again on Saturday, albeit with a little less enthusiasm than has been their wont over the years.
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