Tiger Woods learns another lesson about todays media

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Recently Tiger Woods got a first hand taste of how the new media can affect us all. During the 2013 Maters Tiger was playing on the 15^th hole at the famed Augusta course. After hitting a shot that bounced to far on the green and landed in the water, tiger was then forced to take a drop, where is where the player drops the ball at the place of their last show and takes a stroke penalty. Tiger took the drop and continued the round of golf. Later that day it was reported that a viewer at home noticed that Tiger had broken a rule while they were watching the events unfold live on their TV, and called in to report it. What the viewer noticed was that Tiger had actually dropped the ball a few feet back of where his first shot was. The PGA rules committee reviewed this accusation and Tiger was then questioned on the event. Tiger then admitted that he did strategically drop the ball a few feet back for strategic reasons so that he would lessen the chance of the ball going to far and hitting the water again. After reviewing these events Tiger was then assessed a two stroke penalty, which cost him big money since he ended the masters 4 strokes back from the winner Adam Scott.

            The lesson that is learned here is not only should you not cheat, but no matter how far someone is from the event taking place, as long as there is a camera present, then anyone watching has the ability to participate and can affect the outcome. I’m that as media advances, cases like this will be seen again.