Woods blasts Buick loutish behaviour

SLOWLY but surely, the Americans are beginning to realise if they continue to sell beer in large quantities at their golf tournaments and then allow it to be carried all over the course that they are headed for serious trouble.

They shouldn’t need reminding that it was this mistake that largely caused the crowd trouble at the 1999 Ryder Cup. There has been loutish behaviour in the past and the problem again reared its ugly head as Tiger Woods came down the stretch on his way to another victory in the Buick Open on Sunday evening.

Now, it could be argued that alcohol is freely available at most tournaments on the European Tour but by and large its consumption has been confined to the tented villages and kept away from main areas of competition. It behoves the Tour to ensure that remains the situation, otherwise they will be handed the kind of giant sized headache currently being suffered by their counterparts in the States.