"It seems it's payback time for the golf media."

Greg Connors analyzes the media's relationship with Tiger since his return and comes away feeling that the gloves are off. Warning, yours truly is quoted.

And last weekend, when Woods withdrew from Sunday's fourth round of The Players Championship, saying he had a neck injury, some critics sharpened their knives. Chamblee asked if Woods' devotion to weightlifting made him more injury-prone. Mike Celizic of NBCSports.com blasted Tiger for quitting and wrote, "His life is a toxic waste dump."

It seems it's payback time for the golf media. Woods' karma account was way overdrawn.
"Every single journalist has a story about how they were rebuffed by Tiger," Chamblee said. "[Mark] Steinberg gave enough people the Heisman [Trophy stiff-arm]. For the most part, [journalists] don't really bring up the infidelity. What they bring up was the way he treated people.

"There's a backlash from the media. It's a kind of revenge for the way that they were treated by Tiger and his camp for so long."