“I told him, ‘I can’t blow this kind of money without a return. When you make it, there has to be payback.’ ”
— Marc O’Hair, father of PGA Pro Sean O’Hair
Marc O’Hair is a man with huge image problem. More than the typical gung ho father who domineers a son, this father takes take things to the extreme. While successfully manufacturing his son into a PGA Tour prodigy, he demanded his son contribute 10 percent of his professional earnings for life.
Marc O’Hair, frazzled by the bad publicity he has received from numerous media outlets, wrote a rambling, 17-page manifesto detailing just why he really is a swell guy and not the Nazi he has been painted as.
Everyone is just being silly and mean-spirited in making this guy look bad. Obviously, there is a conspiracy. He stated he hates liberals and the left-wing media is out to get him because he is “right” and “conservative.”
Actually, he’s just a boob.
Reinventing the term “tough love,” Marc told Golf Digest that he made Sean run a mile for making bogeys or finishing over par at tournaments. The publication stated that Marc even claimed he made Sean run eight miles in 93-degree heat after shooting an 80.
In his manifesto, he’s now denying that he did any of that, stating instead that he made his son run miles to toughen him up and get him in top physical shape.
Personally, I think Marc’s real dream in life was to be a drill sergeant not a father. This lunatic is just the extreme version of the Little League parents who are all over their kids, dreaming of them making the The Bigs. Marc sounds like a man with a two-inch tool and no hopes and dreams of his own.
To repair his image, Marc now wants to convince us that he doesn’t want his son’s money and all he wants is to be loved and respected by his child. After all, according Marc, he and his wife are quite well-off. His wife makes six figures as a dermatologist’s assistant, we’re told. (I have never heard of a dermatologist’s assistant making any kind of money.)
And he claims the bloody noses his son got from being “lightly slapped” around are not his fault, but because Sean has a “very delicate nose that bleeds easily.” Of course, all of these incidents have been exaggerated by the media. As Marc stated, “Sean was sometimes lightly slapped across the face. To explain, ‘lightly slapped,’ the velocity of the slap was similar to what a woman used when slapped a man who insulted her back in the old days.”
I can’t believe someone married this guy in the first place.
Marc should try fading off into the sunset. The more he writes, the more he gabs, the worse he looks. After years of mistreating his son, he is now getting his own payback.
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I broke down and coached my son's soccer team last spring. I had two brothers who were athletically gifted, but had never played before (under 8 league). Their family, from the grandma right down to the little brother, constantly SCREAMED at these poor kids, berated them in front of God and everyone, and basically made it an awful experience for them. I nearly got to the point where I asked them to leave, but we live in a small town, and there would be hell to pay.