This Is How Lame Golfers Are

So I am in awe of how gymnasts can block out their surroundings while literally risking their lives for their sport. Especially the ladies, who sometimes have music going in the background for someone else's floor exercise, and lots of other distracting stuff too. This video is a good example of the mayhem that goes on in the arena while the ladies are on the balance beam. The balance beam is so scary to watch, imo. It's all scary, but the balance beam routines actually make me hold my breath.

Then there's this from the world of golf:

Woods: Shutter snap at No. 9 halted momentum ESPN.com news services

Updated: March 27, 2008, 3:45 PM ET

Tiger Woods Explains His Actions at DoralTiger Woods is growing more frustrated with photographers snapping pictures of him during his swing.

In an interview on "ESPN First Take" on Wednesday, Woods addressed an incident at last week's WGC-CA Championship at Doral, Fla., when he reacted to the click of a camera in his backswing with an obscenity-laced threat.

Woods' intense competitive streak is well-known, and he's also been known to curse when his results don't meet his high expectations. But on Sunday, in a threat punctuated with profanity, he threatened bodily harm to the next photographer who snaps during his swing.

"It's been frustrating because that's what been happening lately," Woods told "ESPN First Take." "It's one of the things that comes with playing in the last group, one of the distractions we have to deal with."

What's more, Woods said, the distractions have affected his play. "Each time it's happened, well three out of four times, I made bogey," Woods said. "At the time I needed to make birdie, I flinched on it. [The photographer] got me in transition on my downswing.

"You have no idea what's been said on the golf course all the time, in any sport really," Woods added. "It was the heat of the moment. That one shot took the momentum that I had built on No. 8."

Um, hello Tiger Woods. Check these out.

In fact, I'm going to bring some of these for the Hamrick guys if I ever go golfing again (haven't been in a while). They have the same problem Tiger does. Golfers need to take a lesson from lady gymnasts! They do block out crying babies in the middle of the night really well though ;-)