Tiger Woods may be back to playing golf and missing high fives with Steve Williams very soon.
Rumors are starting to float around that Tiger Woods will make his return to competitive golf in Arizona in two weeks at the Accenture Match Play Championship. This is where Tiger staged his comeback from knee surgery last year. Apparently he likes to make comebacks in Arizona at the match play.
Tiger has, according to some sources, been spending some time in a sex addiction clinic in Mississippi.
Why this is a good place for TW to come back, if he does
Many theorized that TW would return at the Masters, where security is tight, crowd control is the best, and privacy is easily attainable. But to come back at the Masters with no warm up would be a tough go for TW to have a chance at winning.
The match play though, is a good option too. The crowds aren’t as big because of the format, and there are chances that TW could have less exposure to the gallery in cases where matches end “x” number of holes early.
Presser?
If these rumors are true, will Tiger stage a presser away from the course to address the media and make any official statements regarding the state of TW? This is what Geoff Ogilvy (ironically, the winner of the match play event last year) suggests, in order to keep the media circus off the course as much as possible.
Tip o’ the hat to Tom Watson for his strong words about Tiger in Dubai this week
I’ll let the cat out of the bag. Tiger has to take ownership of what he has done. He must get his personal life in order. I think that’s what he’s trying to do. And when he comes back he has to show some humility to the public.
I would come out and I would do an interview with somebody and say, `You know what? I screwed up. And I admit it. I am going to try to change. I am trying to change. I want my wife and family back.
I feel that he has not carried the same stature that other great players that have come along like Jack (Nicklaus), Arnold (Palmer), Byron Nelson, the Hogans, in the sense that there was language and club throwing on the golf course.
You can grant that of a young person that has not been out here for a while. But I think he needs to clean up his act and show the respect for the game that other people before him have shown.
One thing is sure. If and when Tiger addresses any of this with the media, it will be a finely crafted set of words, generated carefully and precisely by his PR engine. Those words will be as bullet proof as possible as they know the media will dissect and criticize every syllable.
I’ve finished uploading all of my 2010 PGA Merchandise Show Photos. I’ve got shots from many booths, after hours, tear down and demo day. Below are a few samples.
Above: Tail Of The Tiger Golf Balls which have the first 12 Tiger Woods mistresses on them
Above: Demo Day… Taping up the hands during the world record attempt at most golf balls hit in 12 hours.
Above: Titleist booth (with hot chick walking through)
I haven’t typed anything in about 36 hours now. Why? Because my hands have just thawed. I couldn’t wait to get back home from Orlando to Salt Lake. I couldn’t wait to get back to 4200 feet above sea level, 12 degrees farther north in latitude than Orlando FLORIDA so I could WARM up. The big decompression day after my biggest and most exhausting PGA Show ever turned out to be nearly a complete train wreck, except for the fact that I got to spend it with two great pals.
I should have known when we couldn’t find a Starbucks within a 500 mile radius yesterday morning that it was going to be a rough day.
Orlando Golf Blogger and I had a rematch of the now world famous Guru vs Orlando Golf Blogger v1.0. This time we had a 3rd join us, John Duval from Into The Grain. John can play. In fact, I think he’s probably the lowest handicap golf blogger on our planet, and possibly several others.
The setting, Falcon’s Fire GC in Orlando
Thanks to our pals at Falcon’s Fire for playing host to this year’s battle. Unfortunately for us it was so cold and windy we were battling hypothermia, rather than battling the golf course. The winds were high and the temps down. After blading three irons on the range, numbing my hands, then hitting two low worm-burners left with my driver, I was ready for play after a two month golf hybernation… Right.
Time for some excuses
Until yesterday I hadn’t played golf for almost two months. That is like John Daly going 6 minutes without cracking a beer, Obama going 34 seconds with saying the word “change” and Tiger going three hours without picking up a busty waitress at Perkins… Oh, did I just go down that road? My apologies.
On the first hole I hit the fairway with my driver and I was 100% fairways hit for the decade. That’s as good as it was ever going to get. That stat would soon vanish, as would many of my shiny Srixons and Bridgestones in my bag. My confidence as well as my cash faded away as well, as I flamed out in the frozen wind blown tundra of Orlando.
I didn’t manage even one solid iron shot. It could be because my hands were frozen, or that I hadn’t played golf in weeks, or that I’d just worked my ass (or lack of one, since someone told me at the show that I didn’t have one) off for days at the PGA Show. It could just be because I’m a hack.
Whining aside…
OGB and Into The Grain are fun cats and I hope to play many holes of golf with them in the future. I gladly handed my hard earned cash to Dave (OGB) for his triumphant victory, and like a good sport congratulated him on his victory while watching him celebrate. The taste of defeat is bitter, but a character builder for sure.
16th hole fireworks
Because we were so cold and our scores were all blowing up, John and Dave decided to have some fun on the 16h. Could John, a right handed player, beat the left handed Dave with his own clubs on a hole? The video below contains the answer. Be sure to watch for the incredible green side bunker shot.
Tiger Woods may be back to playing golf and missing high fives with Steve Williams very soon.
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