Why Tiger Woods Chose Ponte Vedra: The Gate

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Published: February 20, 2010

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Where can a PGA Tour player find refuge from the cares of the outside world?  Where can he have some measure of protection if needing or wanting to speak his piece, without being hassled?  Where can he rustle up television cameras and a satellite uplink to send his message out to the world and find a secure place to deliver the message? 

 

More importantly, where can a guy like Tiger Woods do all these things and KNOW that no unauthorized person will be allowed to disrupt him?  PGA Tour HQ,  that’s where, because the offices, golf courses, TPC Sawgrass clubhouse and more are about a half mile down the road and one left turn beyond The Gate. 

 

The Players Club side of Sawgrass is like many similar communities all over the US and probably the world.  You need a sticker, a pass, a tee time, a luncheon engagement, PGA Tour employee decal, a yard to mow, a pool to clean or a mother may I from a property owner to get beyond The Gate.   

 

For those reasons, Tiger Woods’ mea culpa took place in Ponte Vedra Beach. It was not quite at headquarters, but a drive and a wedge beyond the headquarters buildings. 

 

As reported, the clubhouse is also about a mile away from the Sawgrass Marriott where reporters could have watched the television feed, had they wanted too. I know these distances are accurate because twice a week, I walk from my house almost to The Gate and back, a distance of about three miles.

Not just me, of course.  I’m out there with other walkers,  runners, dog walkers, people on bicycles, and occasionally kids on skateboards.  It’s two miles from my house to the mailbox in the shopping center across from the Marriott entrance. 

I don’t walk that distance.  I drive it, the epitome of laziness. I might ride a bike, but I&...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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