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Carl Nichols

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"Did you have the confidence to make that putt for 4, there?"
« on: March 18, 2012, 06:09:42 PM »
I usually think golfers are over-sensitive about questions they get asked by reporters, but I thought this question posed by Steve Sands to Ernie Els -- right after Els missed a four-footer to stay tied for the lead -- definitely crossed the line. What answer did Sands possibly think he was going to get? No?
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Tim Martin

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Re: "Did you have the confidence to make that putt for 4, there?"
« Reply #1 on: March 18, 2012, 06:12:24 PM »
The question was beyond douchey. ::) :o ::) :o He should have thrown Sands in THE SNAKE PIT!
« Last Edit: March 18, 2012, 06:16:19 PM by Tim Martin »
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John McCarthy

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Re: "Did you have the confidence to make that putt for 4, there?"
« Reply #2 on: March 18, 2012, 07:25:30 PM »
Amen. 
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JSlonis

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Re: "Did you have the confidence to make that putt for 4, there?"
« Reply #3 on: March 18, 2012, 11:40:58 PM »
Sands looked like he was channeling his inner Jim Gray. With questions like this, these media guys are lucky any player even stops to talk to them at all.
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astavrides

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Re: "Did you have the confidence to make that putt for 4, there?" New
« Reply #4 on: March 19, 2012, 12:07:06 AM »
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« Last Edit: August 27, 2012, 11:00:27 PM by astavrides »
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Howard Riefs

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Re: "Did you have the confidence to make that putt for 4, there?"
« Reply #5 on: March 19, 2012, 12:48:02 AM »
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Tim Martin

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Re: "Did you have the confidence to make that putt for 4, there?"
« Reply #6 on: March 19, 2012, 08:04:18 AM »
Els showed a fair amount of grace under fire. "F... off Steve would have been an appropriate answer to any of the questions.
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JESII

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Re: "Did you have the confidence to make that putt for 4, there?"
« Reply #7 on: March 19, 2012, 01:11:40 PM »
As soon as Sands asked his first crappy question, and the way he asked it, I jumped back to basketball. Didn't even see the second.
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Greg Tallman

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Re: "Did you have the confidence to make that putt for 4, there?"
« Reply #8 on: March 19, 2012, 01:25:30 PM »
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JESII

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Re: "Did you have the confidence to make that putt for 4, there?"
« Reply #9 on: March 19, 2012, 01:44:03 PM »
I don't know Brian, the way Sands worded the first question was so awkward and unclear that I don't think Ernie knew exactly what he meant initially...all this while trying to chew his own tongue off made it a little challenging.

I give Ernie a full pass for giving the interview and would only wish the networks that cover golf could find somebody that could ask the really tough questions well.
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Greg Tallman

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Re: "Did you have the confidence to make that putt for 4, there?"
« Reply #10 on: March 19, 2012, 01:49:46 PM »
Those in the real world are confronted with situations like this every day aren't they/we? Why do athletes get a pass?

Nobody here was thinking "wonder what was going through his head coming down the stretch/over the putt on the last"? Find that difficult to believe.

I think many are overreatcing simply because Ernie is seemingly a great guy.

The critique I would have of Sands is not the topic of the question but how pootly it was constructed. I thought journalists were taught to ask open ended questions. His was a yes or a no which may have been the cause for Ernie's reaction.  

Perhaps... "Ernie it's been a while since you were in that position. What was going through your mind on the final few holes and over the last putt?"

Or perhaps, Lorne has it dead on in his article.

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