"He's either living testimony to the wonders of rehab or, alternatively, just the same old Tiger"
/Lawrence Donegan is amazed at Tiger's miraculous rehab recovery.
Read MoreWhen you come to think of it that is the secret of most of the great holes all over the world. They all have some kind of a twist. C.B. MACDONALD
"We've not indicated that we have inside knowledge"
/According to Doug Ferguson's notes column, the tour is prepping tournaments for Tiger's return, which we may find out about sooner than the Friday entry deadline.
Read More"Paranoia is raging already, and it's wearing thin among club residents."
/I don't usually feel too sorry for folks who choose to live in a gated community, but it's hard not to shed a wee tear for the folks of Isleworth when you read this from this note about Tiger's security detail from this week's Steve Elling authored Up And Down column.
Read MoreHank Arrives: Who Says Tiger Doesn't Take The Tavistock Cup Seriously?
/And who knew Hank Haney was part of the rehab process? Is that step 13 of the 12 Step Program? Bring in swing coach to tweak plane issue?
David Feherty Declares His Slightly Creepy Love For Tiger
/Talk about a bromance...Feherty's Golf Magazine column continues its downward spiral trajectory. But at least this month's kind of makes sense, unlike the last one.
Read More"Employees don't get to rat out employers as a general rule, with all due respect to our shamefully toothless whistle-blower laws, and especially not in a one-on-one relationship like that of golfer-caddie."
/You know I've been watching the Stevie Williams interview over and over again trying to figure out what's so comical about it and Ray Ratto makes a great point about it which I was unable to see: if Stevie is all hot and bothered with Tiger, and is claiming he would blown the whistle on Tiger's off course activity, how does Stevie keep his job? Oh that's right, he's full of it too and Tiger knows that. Shoot, maybe even likes that about him.
Read MoreOscar Producers Nix Tiger Jokes After Declaring Any Hint Of Humor Off Limits For 2010 Show
/Wow, that was a painful 4 hours. This might explain why. From the NY Post:
Read More"Seems like now, more than ever, it was a slap to Accenture."
/Slowly but surely the golf media realizes it was duped by Tiger Woods and Tim Finchem into believing that the timing of his statement reading was absolutely inflexible. From this week's SI Confidential:
Read More"If Woods is considering entering the Arnold Palmer Invitational before its deadline on Friday week then he should also be considering the flak he would receive. And he would be wise to line up a few more apologies."
/James Corrigan is the first to take a hard look at the question of how the Tiger Woods of a couple weeks ago could go from say he just didn't know when he'd return to golf and not ruling out this year, to being on the cusp of a return at Tavistock or Bay Hill or both.
Read More"So why did so much of the mainstream media so assiduously follow the tabloid lead on the Tiger Woods story?"
/That's the question raised by Paul Farhi for the American Journalism Review.
Read MoreStricker Commits To Bay Hill...Therefore Tiger Must Be Playing!?
/One joy in the otherwise messy Tiger saga will arrive in the form of watching mainstream news media and sports blogs attempt to cover golf. For example, there's today's hilarious SportsByBrooks.com post suggesting that a Tiger appearance at Bay Hill is looking more likely after Steve Stricker committed to the even for the first time in years. They even went to the trouble to make a snazzy graphic to commemorate this great moment in utterly comical dot-connecting.
Read More“We are not involved in any discussions to add to his sponsorship portfolio at this time."
/Alex Miceli reports that Irish bookmaker PaddyPower.com has proposed a deal to Tiger Woods' camp that would top out at $75 million over five years. Agent Mark Steinberg says it's not an option.
“We are not involved in any discussions to add to his sponsorship portfolio at this time,’’ Steinberg said in an e-mail response to Golfweek.
Can we really call it a portfolio at this point?
