<p>Great tournament, but the gushing over Phil Mickelson and his wife Amy was over the top.</p>
<p>I personally have seen Phil act like a complete snot, when things weren’t being done exactly as he wanted them done.</p>
<p>Amy is not the first woman ever to have breast cancer. I feel for her and her family and I hope the family trip to Hawaii helps bring them together, but give me a break. They talked about it incessantly. Maybe a little more attention to the scourge of breast cancer in general would have been better to bring attention to the fight.</p>
<p>I thought that they were just so eager to have some one that they had hyped win that they couldn’t figure out what to say. Tiger wasn’t in the hunt and it was pretty clear that Mickelson wasn’t either. Who were these guys at the top of the leader board? I wish they would do their homework and be able to call the match really well whoever is leading. I hate that they seem to think that all we care about is watching Tiger win – I want to see good golf.</p>
<p>But I think Johnny Miller hates Tiger, don’t you? Every time he talked about Tiger there was an undercurrent of “But he’s not so great…”. At one point I even heard him bring up Tiger when discussing someone else - in a derogatory way. </p>
<p>They were gushing over Phil, though (I didn’t watch this morning but saw some of yesterday). I think lololu’s right - they want one of their “big names” to win.</p>
<p>I was pulling for Weaver, the amateur who’s a junior at Virginia Tech.</p>
<p>Yeah I think he does hate Tiger, but I can’t tell why. Maybe jealousy. Tiger may not be my favorite golfing personality ( I always go for the underdog goofball - Jean Van de Velde is my golfing hero), but he is great golfer.</p>
<p>I said the same thing about Phil and the talk about his wife’s breast cancer. I speak as someone who has had breast cancer. Big deal. His wife has breast cancer. My husband went to work everyday, didn’t have the luxury of staying home with me for days on end.</p>
<p>I too am a survivor. And since we don’t know anything about Amy Mickelson’s cancer I think that it is both wise and empathetic not to speculate on its severity, her need for assistance and companionship, and the needs of her family. And…as you know…it is a big deal.</p>
<p>They tried to increase their TV ratings by exploiting someone’s dire medical condition. They did so using a wealthy person who, unlike most people, is well able to afford the best medical treatment to boot! Most shameful. </p>
<p>For me and many other viewers, the whole drama over this was not even viewed. Using my DVR allowed me to compress my viewing to just watching the golf shots. I could skip meaningless shots by Tiger, etc. I focused on two young golfers that were making history (Glover and Barnes) and a golfer that had killed the demons and found his game (Duvall). Instead of spending all Father’s day in front of the tube, I was alble to compress it all to about an hour and half. Monday’s round was watched the same way. The hardest part is having the discipline not to go online or listen to the radio before watching.</p>