"Sporting a new "rough-looking" goatee that made him look suspiciously like Evil Cartman."

They sure know how to stage an event at Augusta (which makes this Monday incident one of the more disturbing I've ever read, especially since it happened in some form with the club's blessing).

Tiger's press conference was no different in the staging department. A few readers noticed some of the special touches, starting with Tiger's pink-striped shirt to appeal to the ladies, but most of the emailers I heard from were struck by Tiger's choreographed entrance.

As Michael Bamberger noted:

Woods did, making a semi-grand entrance, right through the reporters, as if he were at his own wedding or something. (Typically for his press conferences, he just slips in through a side door

Lorne Rubenstein wrote:

It was two minutes before the telling hour of 2 p.m. EDT when Tiger Woods would tell all, some, or little. A cameraman took position along the path Woods was about to walk to his microphone. Two Augusta National Golf Club members, including Ron Townsend, the club’s first black member, flanked him. The cameraman was poised to take the money shot.

So amazingly, shock of all shocks, the feed camera was there to capture the moment, along with Woods shaking hands with the members in attendance and acknowledging his "friends" in the room (who had been sitting for 45 minutes and who had to pass through a checkpoint).

The only person who spoiled the meticulous staging? Tiger himself. As the Gothamist notes, the goatee did not conjure up the best image. Well, unless you're a fan of South Park.

Comments

[sir real]

Tiger...look'n more like a low-life thug by the minute. Take a look at those pictures folks. With the continued lying and non-answers...the press should just send this guy straight to the showers to clean up. Don't ask one question! That will send the message...if you keep up the phony crap..we're not interested. Golf channel talking heads= boob city ...worthless pandering drivel !!!! He's a flat out liar and fraud and he's getting a free pass. Hootie and the great white washed ought to be ashamed of themselves...Bobby Jones, Clifford & Co. would be aghast at this pathetic dog and pony show.

[longtimegolffan]

The "look" was calculated to match the photo snapped at Mississippi rehab. He's still conning us.

[Ted]

That South Park episode with the goatees was making fun of a Star Trek episode with the same sort of alternate universe where evil Kirk and evil Spock wore goatees.