Everybody loves Tiger Woods, but not everyone's quite sure how to react when they see him. Right now, Tiger's over in Shanghai, playing in the HSBC Champions tournament. It's his first visit to China in many years, and as expected, he's drawing rock star-level crowds with every stroke he takes.

Problem is, many in those crowds don't quite know how to behave on the golf course. Eight years ago during Woods' first visit, fans in stiletto heels gouged craters in greens as they chased Woods all over the course. These days, the gallery is a bit less destructive, but no less problematic to golfers, clicking their cameras at Tiger's every move.

Traditionally, photographers don't snap pictures during golfers' backswing; the sudden sound can disrupt the swing, and a swing that's a millimeter off can send the ball flying in unexpected directions. During Tiger's first tee shot on Thursday morning, at least one photographer didn't get the memo:

"The guy in the grandstand basically did a photo sequence. I flinched on it and hit it straight to the right," Tiger said.

Problems continued throughout the round, as Tiger and playing partner Ross Fisher had to deal with a sea of moving faces and constant shutter sounds. Woods finished the round three shots behind leader Nick Watney, while Fisher was five shots back.

Right here, it's worth pointing out something important to those who would make the predictable "why do golfers have to have silence when baseball players can hit curveballs in noisy stadiums?" argument. It's not the noise that's the issue; it's the sudden change in volume. Pro golfers will tell you that they can focus just as easily in silence as they can in noise -- provided the sound remains consistent.

And it's not just true for golfers -- if college basketball fans could ever get their acts together to work in unison, they could totally disrupt opposing free throw shooters by screaming their heads off, then going stone-silent just before the player released the ball.

That said, Tiger and his caddy, Stevie Williams can indeed be divas about this. Williams has quite the rep for being a camera ninja; at the 2002 Skins game, he rolled a fan's camera into a lake, and during the 2004 U.S. Open, he kicked the camera of a professional photographer. Did he get in trouble for his vigilante photographic justice? What do you think?

Don't expect to see any of that kind of behavior this weekend, though. Tiger, Stevie and the rest of the PGA are trying to make a good impression on Asia, and going all John Daly on some poor guy for snapping a shot at the wrong time probably won't get the kind of press that the golf world would like.

After all, these folks just want their own little piece of Tiger. If they wanted to disrupt him, they'd use an air horn. Hypothetically speaking.

Camera-shy Tiger blocks out shattering shutters in Shanghai [Reuters via Yahoo! Sports]

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