no, he actually signed for me...
i spent a few days at the us open...
see, the thing is, no one actually goes for tiger...everyone just
talks about how tough he is...
but on tuesday, he signed after practicing several holes. wednesday
and thursday, he signed after he was done.
now, i'm not saying that he signed good things...he skipped photos and
golf balls (has NEVER SIGNED golf balls since he went pro)...i can't
truly say what he was going after and what he wasn't. but i wouldn't
doubt to say that he didn't sign like 5-600 items in the days i went
though...but it was mostly programs and flags. i saw someone get a
scorecard from the club signed. i know i tried to get single signed
flags and he blew by those, but the flags that i had other golfers on,
he went right to.
he basically walked and signed too...it's not like he stopped and
signed for the crowd...he just grabbed what he felt like grabbing and
signed. on tuesday, after practicing on the putting green, he did sign
for the crowd.
when i helpd co write the "10 best/worst sports signers" for autograph
collector magazine, the guy who originally wrote the first draft
wanted tiger woods on the top 10..but it's not like he doesn't sign,
it's just that the dealers (most of them anyway) invest in stupid
things to get signed by tiger, see that he won't sign them and get
upset that they wasted their money...
but if you have programs, hats, flags (not all the time though), he
signs...he's not easy, you have to be kind of pushy and you have to
have a thick skin...but he signs those things.
meanwhile, phil mickelson signs everything except golf balls...and if
he notices you working the crowd (like he did me), he'll ask you to
cool it for a while, but after the round entirely, he'll try to take
care of you...and he'll only do one master's flag for you, and he
eyeballs you on that one. but he didn't even care that i busted out 2
16x20's on him in less than 10 minutes (and the 16x20's were the only
reason i went to the open as i printed them like a few years ago and
HATE to waste money if i can avoid it).
have fun, i don't really put my collecting stories on here just
because some stupid lurker will just call me some sort of liar...
but i'm out for autographs everyday...and if you want to read my
autograph collecting stories, i do blog a lot of them on my myspace
page. if you want to read them, here you go:
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.ListAll&friendID=243537584
or, just look me up, my name (url) is http://www.myspace.com/hollywoodstuffsdotcom..
on some sad news, my best friend in high school, and the one who got
me started collecting autographs seriously when we were kids, killed
himself last week, my dad just called me with the news today...so i'm
pretty sad.
have fun,
mike