"Hangout" With Tiger Via Google+

[jamo]

http://web.tigerwoods.com/news/article/2012052332085540/news/ Anyone seem this? Seems sort of along the lines of the Q&A; he did before Quail Hollow but a bit more interaction.

[Zwick]

if anyone wants to watch it. I think it's a cool idea.

[Motley01]

WOW this is LIVE! I just realized it, pretty cool.

[bplewis24]

I wish I would have known about this ahead of time.  I would have liked to have participated, especially considering I dropped Facebook for G+ a month ago.

Brandon

[mvmac]

Seems like there may be a little controversy over the timing of Tiger's hangout and the Prez Cup Captain's picks

Quote:

For nearly 15 minutes, the two events coincided – a confluence of old media standard and new media strategy, staring each other down from 10 paces with pistols drawn.

Throughout his professional career, Woods has often separated himself from the masses with his on-course performance. In this particular instance, he was separated by distance and content, a voluntary isolation that could serve as a career-long metaphor.

It wasn’t that the timing of his “hangout” was especially wrong; it was just … awkward.

Even Finchem, never one to heap criticism upon the Tour’s biggest moneymaker, was left stretching to explain how the overlap of the two public performances made sense.

“We’d like for our top, star players to coordinate things with what’s going on,” the commissioner said privately afterward. “I don’t know to what extent it was a problem, though.”

Perhaps muddying that image was the fact that the Tour’s own website and Twitter feed were promoting the conflicting events, allowing interested observers an opportunity to choose between the two mediums.

[bplewis24]

If there is any controversy they should consider how much effort and coordination must have gone into this.  Contrary to the way it was advertised, it was actually bigger than just Tiger.  They had other collegiate/professional athletes involved along with Roger Maltby, etc.  It was actually a pretty nice event and they should consider doing more of these.  Obviously if they do, they should coordinate them so they don't conflict with other PGA sponsored/sanctioned events.

Brandon