The Golf Blog: Should Golf Channel suspend Brandel Chamblee?
My intention was to note Tiger's rules infractions this year, but comparing that to cheating in grade school went too far.
— brandel chamblee (@chambleebrandel) October 23, 2013
The Golf Blog says: Well, now we know that Brandel Chamblee admits that his article for Golf.com went over the line in insinuating that Tiger Woods intentionally cheated. Chamblee brought up a grade-school incident involving how he himself was caught cheating, and used that incident as the introduction to his year-end grade (of F) for Tiger Woods.
Chamblee has admitted fault in his shoddy, poorly written article: “In comparing those incidents to my cheating episode in the fourth grade, I went too far. I said Tiger Woods was cavalier about the rules. I should have stopped right there. In comparing those incidents to my cheating episode in the fourth grade, I went too far. Cheating involves intent. I know what my intent was on that fourth-grade math test. But there’s no way I could know with 100 percent certainty what Tiger’s intent was in any of those situations. That was my mistake.”
It’s Chamblee who should receive an F for poor writing. The Golf Channel should consider a suspension of some sort for his inappropriate and admittedly wrong remarks. It would have been OK for Chamblee to question all of Tiger Woods’ rules controversies this past year. But even Chamblee realizes now that insinuating that Tiger was intentionally cheating was a cheap shot that was not based on any evidence. We like Chamblee’s outspokenness, but this time, he crossed the line. Ball is in Golf Channel’s court.
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