Rosie: Tiger Needs AAA Rehab Assignment

Tim Rosaforte suggested on Golf Channel's excellent post game coverage last week from Atlanta (amazing what they can do when not ensconced in Orlando or the basement of Augusta Country Club) that Tiger needs to get in those "reps" at Pawtucket. Or in golf's case, Las Vegas.

And now he puts it in writing for Golf World Monday: Tiger needs to play, and both for his game and image, needs to turn up in some unfamiliar places better known as the Fall Finish.

Tigerista's will also not want to miss Jaime Diaz and Bill Fields talking to Sam Weinman about the state of Tiger's game.

Update on 2011-08-15 22:47 by Geoff

**** Steve Elkington Tweeted his expectation of this happening.

2011 PGA Photo Caption Fun: Stevie-Steiney Edition!

That would be the super-looper with his back to us, and the super-agent facing WSB Atlanta Zach Klein's camera. Klein Tweeted the image from Atlanta Athletic Club Tuesday.

I wonder what they are saying?

Update on 2011-08-09 21:38 by Geoff

**Naturally, I host a caption contest and the comment thread decides not to work!

I've submitted a ticket to Squarespace, thanks for your patience.

Stevie Vows To Stop Talking About Tiger; Admits Rage Spilled "Over The Top"

After sleeping on his post round WGC Bridgestone comments, former Tiger looper Steve Williams tells Robert Lusetich that he was a "bit over the top" and that he had "a lot of anger" and "it all came out."

There was also this pledge which ought to last about two days:

“I said what I said but I’m not going to say any more about Tiger,” he said.

Well, until the book, right?

Cameron Morfit thinks Stevie has already said enough. And while I think he gives Williams a little too much credit, the point is sound: the Williams rage over his firing for "disloyalty" speaks to a sadder story: Tiger hasn't changed a bit.

He's saying Woods is unchanged, and after all the swing changes, portfolio damage, apologies and promises to become a better man, that's the biggest disappointment of all.

This seems like a good place to admit I don't know Woods, I never have, and I probably never will. Behind closed doors he might have changed. But it doesn't look like it from here, and not from where Williams sits, either.

Pat Perez Should Handle Tiger's Damage Control

He wants to find the young man he shunned coming off the 18th yesterday, can you help him?

Meanwhile, taking analysis of the Tiger-Stevie spat fallout further, Robert Lusetich suggests that the bigger problem with Tiger's caddy firing and the subsequent manspat is that this is one more negative Tiger did not need on his plate.

The acrimony is sure to spill over into the coming week, when both men will be at the year’s final major, the PGA Championship in Atlanta.

Obviously, it’s the last thing Woods needs to deal with as he tries to salvage something of a year that’s shaping as a second straight lost season. But, like the adulterous behavior that devastated his life, this is something he brought upon himself.

If he felt, as some within his camp maintain, that he and Williams were no longer on the same page, then he needed to sit down and explain his feelings. Williams deserved that after 12 years. And he might even have agreed.

But to fire him summarily because he decided to caddie for Scott while Woods was recovering from injuries to his left leg was only going to make a very public enemy out of a friend and supporter.