"It's a joke," Russell Ward, a corporate lawyer from Michigan, said of the Mob's "utter disregard for us."
"It's like we're not even here," he added, straining for a view at the 9th green, where at least 100 Mobsters lingered near the gallery rope.
Talk to the Mob, of course, and you'll get a different take.
"They've been bitchin' and moanin' all day," Rex Brown, a photographer for Ai Wire, said as he awaited Woods's approach shot at No. 7. "It's just ridiculous."
"I'm trying to respect people, but I'm just doing my job," he said, a refrain you'll hear from many members of the Mob.
Doug Ferguson, the AP's golf writer and longtime Mobster, was on the course earlier this week when a fan yelled to an NBC cameraman setting up his equipment in front of the gallery: "Hey, I paid for my ticket!"
"I was thinking to myself, 'Yeah, and NBC paid like $25 million for theirs,' " Ferguson said.
"Sometimes I just don't understand it," he said. "If you're a knowledgeable fan, the last thing you should want to do is stand behind certain areas of the tee where you know the cameras are going to be."
Ferguson also said he's amazed by how awed the spectators look as the Mob strolls by. "To see a trail of however many photographers and 20 to 25 reporters, and then the security detail and officials," he said, "it's stunning to them."
And then there is the sarcastic commentary from the fans. Mark Stahl, a photographer for Icon Sports, said he hears the same old jokes whenever he's shooting Woods. "Usually about whether there's enough of us covering him," he said.
Today one fan unleashed this beauty as the Mob strolled by: "Christ, get a real job."
Insults and all, the Mob marches on, one Woods shot at a time. And if today's third round was any indication, the Mob is not the note-taking, photo-snapping, view-impeding monster some fans accuse it of being. Sometimes, despite what the gallery thinks, the fans are actually on the Mob's mind.
Brown, the photographer, said he occasionally even moves so the crowd can see.
"I've got 18 holes to get what I need," he said. "They've only got one."
