Tiger Woods at the WGC Match Play Championship
Previous rumours that Tiger Woods was preparing to return to golf for the WGC Match Play Championship which will take place at Dove Mountain Arizona proved incorrect, but by an interesting coincidence of dates, the timing Tiger Wood’s much heralded public apology will coincide with the championship.
Tiger Woods might not be the prefect role model, but he is the prefect golf player, and the sport has missed his presence. He has not taken part in the sport since November. Instead Tiger has been doing his best to cope with a media feeding frenzy, some of the most hypocritical moralising we have seen for some time, sponsors beating a hasty retreat from once lucrative contracts, an embittered and once violent wife, kiss and tell stories from a host of dubious blondes, promised public apologies, and treatment for sex addiction. What is the treatment for sex addiction? We can only guess that it is a series of ice-cold baths.
Naturally Tiger’s return has been a carefully staged managed event; a press conference devoid of representatives from the press and with no questions being allowed and times to coincide with the fact that the minds of most of the golfing fraternity should be focussed elsewhere, the Match Play Championship in Arizona.
In fact the timing of Tiger’s presses conference has come under sever criticism from none other than the one time world number one golf player Ernie Els. He said that Woods was being very selfish and unfair to Accenture which was sponsoring the Match Play Championship. Is it a coincidence that Accenture was the first sponsor to drop Woods following the infamous car crash?
Hopefully the whole sorry charade will soon be history and Tiger can return to what he is best at which is of course golf. The most likely time for his return is the Masters which will take place at Augusta in April.
In the absence of Woods, the favourite to win the World Match Play is Geoff Ogilvy at 9/1 with extrabet.
All odds correct at time of writing are subject to change
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