Tiger Woods tweets response to Sergio Garcia’s “fried chicken” remark
During this year’s Players Championship, golfers Tiger Woods and Sergio Garcia got into a war or words over an incident that the latter found inappropriate during the two’s pairing. Sergio went on to implode at the famous island green on Sunday while Tiger closed out his 4th victory of the year.
The spat seemed to be over but Garcia went “there” last night when he harkened back to Fuzzy Zoeller’s 1997 maligned Masters comment about fried chicken with his own “joke” about the African-American stereotype. A reporter asked in jest if Garcia would be having Woods over for dinner during an upcoming tournament and he said:
“We’ll have him round every night. We will serve fried chicken.”
This statement hit the news wire fast and Garcia responded with one of those I’m sorry but I’m not really sorry issued statement apologies:
“I apologize for any offense that may have been caused by my comment on stage during the European Tour Players’ Awards dinner. I answered a question that was clearly made towards me as a joke with a silly remark, but in no way was the comment meant in a racist manner.”
Woods didn’t find the comment to be “silly” and made his feelings about what Garcia said known via his Twitter account.
The comment that was made wasn’t silly. It was wrong, hurtful and clearly inappropriate…
— Tiger Woods (@TigerWoods) May 22, 2013
Woods went on to write that “I’m confident that there is real regret that the remark was made,” and “The Players ended nearly two weeks ago and it’s long past time to move on and talk about golf.”
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