"When he returned to golf at the 2010 Masters, Tiger Woods broke par all four rounds. He has not done that at any tournament since then."

From Doug Ferguson's AP notes column. Oddly, I have to marvel more at the notion that he broke par all four rounds in his first event back. It really was an amazing performance.

Tiger: "I felt tightness in my left Achilles"

Jimmy Roberts of NBC gets a statement through Tiger spokesman Glenn Greenspan, saying "I felt tightness in my left Achilles" and "in the past I would have continued playing." Tiger said he would be "evaluated sometime early next week."

Update on 2012-03-12 00:04 by Geoff

**Steve Elling with more details on how it went down. I'm noticing that Tiger did not stop by the fitness trailer, which I thought was mandatory after a WD due to injury, not to mention odd to not want to seek immediate treatment. But maybe not?

Woods, 36, changed his golf spikes at the turn for reasons that remain unclear, then began flexing his left knee and limping visibly after hitting his second shot on the 10th hole into the water, which viewers of the European feed noticed immediately. 

After a bogey on the 10th, he dropped to T27. He parred the 11th hole from a greenside bunker, then teed off on the 12th with a driver and crushed a shot 321 yards down the middle of the fairway.

Speaking of 3-2-1, nobody knew the withdrawalcountdown had started. He was 3 over for the day at the time and well off the pace at 6 under overall when he jumped into a golf cart and was taken straight to his black Mercedes sedan in a nearby car park. He drove off with caddie Joe LaCava, moments after a paramedic team from the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue team cruised up to see if he required treatment.

Chaos Ensues As Tiger's Media Enemies List Expands In High Profile Fashion!

Here I had Miceli on the second tier behind the Feinstein/Elling/(and now) Diaz level of people who handler Glenn Greenspan will give the hilarious evil eye to. But now, well, I just don't know what to do with the lovable Golfweek and Golf Channel contributor after he got the evil stare today from Michael Corleone Tiger Woods following a rough exchange that is probably making newscasts nationwide as I post this.

First, a recap of Tiger's latest "Where's Ari Fleischer when you need him" moment today, asked repeatedly about Hank Haney's new book about their years together.

Dave Shedloski with a presser recap.

Q. I'm sorry, the book thing is out there and you guys have commented about it; specifically in regards to being a Navy SEAL and considering being a Navy SEAL during the height of your career, was that something you were considering?

WOODS: I've already talked about everything -- in the book, yes, I've already commented on everything, Alex.

Q. Then I must have missed you answering that question.

TIGER WOODS: Well, I've already commented on the book. Is that in the book? Is it in the book?

Q. That's a fair question, right, you guys are suggesting that there's something wrong with the excerpts in the book. I'm just trying to find out if that's true or not.

The transcript left out Tiger saying, "You're a beauty you know that?" And as the tour media official tried to move things along, it then finished with one more Miceli question not picked up and...

TIGER WOODS: I don't know. Have a good day.

The sarcastic nature of the final remark made it into Doug Ferguson's lede about the press conference.

The tour did their usual copyright infringement stuff at YouTube, but Deadspin still has the clip posted with good audio.

The Big Lead also has it posted. And here is (for now) a YouTube clip.

As for Tiger's almost comical inability to handle this in a way that makes the book go away or minimizes the sales impact (he just helped sell another bunch of copies today on a relatively minor revelation), I'm envisioning a clever opponent pulling a first tee Trevino.

Here's how it goes.

Player is rifling through his bag looking for something on the first tee of a major while paired with Tiger, and as he's trying to find whatever is buried so deep, out comes a copy of Hank's book, only it comes flying out a la the fake snake at Merion. Everyone busts up except you-know-who!

Podcast: Jaime Diaz On The Big Miss

Sam Weinman's interview with Hank Haney ghost Jaime Diaz offers more insights into the forthcoming book and Diaz's thinking in accepting a job that will vault him to Feinstein status with Tiger.

And you can also subscribe to Golf Digest podcasts on iTunes and it'll show up on your device as well.