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Woods will be better off making quick return
"That's because golf is all he has left for the foreseeable future."
Tiger Woods will return to golf sooner rather than later.
A guess would be the World Golf Championships-CA Championship at Doral, March 11-14. If not there, the Arnold Palmer Invitational in his home town of Orlando, Fla., March 18-21, two weeks before the Masters.
The reason I anticipate Woods's self-imposed "indefinite leave" from golf - an attempt to save a marriage that probably can't be saved amid the fallout of a sex scandal - will be brief is that golf is all he has left for the foreseeable future. Some people have speculated that Woods could take six months to a year off.
Woods, having only himself to blame, has been reduced to a shadow of the golf icon he was in the wake of what's transpired since he crashed his car near his home in the early morning hours of Nov. 27.
That incident triggered the unravelling of the personal life of arguably the greatest golfer and the richest athlete in sport.
The only things we can be reasonably certain about regarding the whole sordid mess is the admission on his website to "personal failings" and "transgressions" in response to reports of affairs with numerous women. All of these "transgressions" took place while married to wife Elin Nordegren for the last five years, the mother of the couple's children, 2-year-old daughter Sam, and 10-month-old son Charlie.
Another certainty is that a number of the corporate giants that helped Woods become the world's first billionaire athlete have limited his exposure value or shed ties altogether, at least for now.
Golf is, however, what made Woods and at this point would figure to be his only salvation. Given all that has happened, no one can take away the fact he's won 71 times on the PGA Tour, including 14 major championships.
And now that he's within arm's length of eclipsing Jack Nicklaus's record of 18 major titles and Sam Snead's mark of 82 for most wins on Tour, the only way to regain some degree of self esteem, keeping in mind he might never get his family back, would be to pursue golf with ruthless abandon. And the sooner that begins, the better.
It won't be an easy ride, especially being back in full view of the inquiring minds who want to know. There will be many questions asked and likely very few answered on the path back to the game.
You can be sure the yahoos will be out in force outside the ropes along the fairways upon his return, just as they have been in the media in recent weeks. They have continued to speculate about the number of women Woods might have bedded. And on Tuesday, on the eve of his 34th birthday, a story surfaced
detailing how Nordegren, enraged after finding out about her husband's infidelity, smashed him in the face with a 9-iron and chased him out their Florida home before he crashed his car while trying to flee.
Furman Bisher, a retired sports columnist for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, wrote that Woods was taken away to a hospital in Phoenix where he had reconstructive surgery to repair the damage. Bisher said that is the reason he hasn't been seen since the crash.
Bisher apparently got his information from an unnamed source whom he said was a "trustworthy journalist" he has known for years. Sorry, but this does beg the question what "journalist," if the details are true, would give away a story like that rather than write it him or herself?
Expect the vitriolic criticism from those who have had a hate on for Woods for whatever reason from the beginning to continue, too. No doubt some of them have forgotten about the skeletons in the closets of their own glass houses.
Make no mistake, Woods screwed up big time. We all know it. He's admitted as much and while he might not deserve our sympathy, he should have the chance to try to make things right, as difficult as that might be. A return to golf sooner than later can only help the process.
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