Austin Adult Entertainment: Players moved by Woods’ contrition
Luke Donald was also struck by how genuine Woods appeared. “I think it was a sincere apology,” he said prior to playing his fellow Englishman Oliver Wilson. “Obviously, he made it very clear that he wants the media to leave his family alone, which I kind of agree with. It seems like he is getting the care and the help that he needs and, hopefully, he’ll be back on tour whenever he’s better.”
There is a strong evangelical element on the PGA Tour and it was inevitable that forgiveness would play a big role in the reaction. Ben Crane spoke for many of the game’s Bible set when urging the public and media to show mercy. “One of the first things that came to my mind is one of my favourite stories in the Bible,” he said. “It’s about a woman who has sinned and been a prostitute and everyone brings her before Jesus and says, ‘Shouldn’t we stone her? Shouldn’t we kill her?’ Jesus says, ‘Absolutely stone her. But you without sin be the one to cast the first stone’.
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