Do we believe what we hear about Tiger Woods' dad Earl condemning Richard Williams, father of tennis players Venus and Serena. Earl's outburst could well get him into the crazy dads' club - if he is not already a member.

Fond of referring to his son as The Chosen One, Earl has said: "I've never met him (Richard Williams) and I don't want to meet him. I don't think much of the way he's handling his daughters. All you have to do is listen to them. You can hear the girlish attitude and the girlish conduct."

The former army man clearly likes to see some discipline in offspring, which is why he had Tiger swinging a club from the time he walked and now has him charming global corporations.

When Tiger the prodigy was showboating for Bob Hope, Williams was trying to figure a way of taking his family out of the Los Angeles ghetto of Compton. No surprise then that Richard's eccentricity is not exactly the army man's cup of tea even if the two sisters have redefined tennis in the way Tiger has golf.