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And so it happens again .

Wie knew her place as a guest of the tour, and was nothing but gracious regarding the crowds. But her playing partner, Nick Dougherty, ripped into them (deservedly so, from how it sounds).

"I played like shit." -Greg Norman after the '96 Masters.


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that is a little strange (camera phones). All the PGA tour events i have been to one practically gets strip searched to for phones, pda's, beepers. I even saw a doctor on call not be able to bring his beeper into the tournement grounds. I guess the European Tour doesn't police the crowds like the PGA.

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that is a little strange (camera phones). All the PGA tour events i have been to one practically gets strip searched to for phones, pda's, beepers. I even saw a doctor on call not be able to bring his beeper into the tournement grounds. I guess the European Tour doesn't police the crowds like the PGA.

Same thing happened at the British Open on Sunday -- both Tiger and Sergio had to back off several times because of camera phone "clicks."

"I played like shit." -Greg Norman after the '96 Masters.


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Same thing happened at the British Open on Sunday -- both Tiger and Sergio had to back off several times because of camera phone "clicks."

...it's gotta be tough when a little girl behaves better than beats you in a round of golf..
As you would expect of a guest, Wie was not about to complain about a crowd which supported her till the end. Dougherty, though, labelled them "the worst I've witnessed anywhere in the world". This was no reaction to his poor play, because his game was at rock bottom long before he arrived in Crans. "I had thought that if Michelle beat me on one of the two days, she should have been happy. But my mum wouldn't have been happy at beating me today," he said. "I've missed nine cuts in a row and I can't do it at the moment. I don't recognise my own golf … I need a break." His main complaint about the spectators was that every second person seemed to be carrying a phone-come-camera, which was switched on rather than off. Again, he was appalled at the way they would walk to the next tee without waiting for the men to putt out. "It would be nice," Dougherty said, "if they had shown a little more respect to the men. After all, it is the men's tour."


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Beyond that it is amazing that people do not to learn their phones features. I asked a friend who lives half time in London and they confirmed that their camera phones can be set to take pictures without a click or flash just like most of the phones here. There may be some really low end or old phones you can't do this on, but for every one else?

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