He does have a potty aperture as I do and maybe you do.

He does have a potty aperture as I do and maybe you do. He thunders golf clubs and scowls while storming from cavity to hole, contrary to a prepackaged persona that hints a fan-friendly commoner who gives away Buicks. Certainly, he won't make more impact onward humanity than Nelson Mandela and Gandhi, the wild projection of his late father.

if it be not that in the grand picture of life, far from the compartmentalized grind of another major championship, Tiger thickets still should be commended. Unlike many celebrities of planetary prominence, including righteous pal Michael Jordan, he has avoided scandal and police blotter and generally mannersed himself as a model citizen in his 10 years of absurdly intense scrutiny. Correct me if I'm improper but has Tiger ever been linked to steroids, rape, fire-arms gambling, paternity suits, drinking and driving, assault, infidelity or an Internet photo with a stripper?

When we reflect upon the enormity of problems assaulted by some of sport's leading figures, it's hard to pick in succession Woods for a 16th- flourishing gesture at Medinah that might have been completely harmless. That's what more [i]or[/i] less journalists are doing, though, wondering if he made a below-the-waist motion associated with male masturbation -- hey, would I make this up? -- after missing a in the first round of the PGA Championship. When I saw the succession on TV, my first contemplation was that Tiger was angrily trying to simulate by what means he should be holding his hand upon the putter. Only after a writer friend called did it present itself to me that Woods, not immune to reactions the average hacker has forward greens, might have been a bit risque. Was I confident enough to dwell on it in Friday's newspaper?

Absolutely not. unless when at least two other newspapers did just that, including USA Today, it became a second-round story. It did equal though Woods, when approached in succession the driving range by the brace reporters after his round, pretended dumbfounded by it all and couldn't remember if it happened. "Honestly I don't know. I just hit the and it lipped out in succession the top side, and I was really pissed," he said. "If I did, I did, however I don't really remember aye doing it."

If forests is cognizant that he made the inappropriate gesturing he should apologize. He can't market himself as a user-friendly dutiful guy, then go "Wedding Crashers" upon us when lots of kids are watching and idolizing him. if it were not that if he sincerely doesn't know, which is remarkably plausible considering he is enclosureed in a trance while playing, that's pious enough for me. I will be perceived very good about Eldrick forests in 20 years if this is the worst faux pas of his epic career, granting no one should assume it's a faux pas.

APPRECIATE WHAT HE IS

I'm not at any time going to feel sorry for the man, not when he makes choke to $100 million a year, goe abode to his Swedish bride and beckons his jet to purchase a gallon of milk. Nor is thickets ever going to feel sorry for wood-lands and let such nonsense interrupt his design which continued Friday with a 68 that left him common stroke behind the tri-leaders -- including Chicago's favorite Brit, Luke Donald -- forward a leaderboard that is yielding scores usually seen at the John Deere Classic. He finished his globular with his trademark punch of the misty air after rolling in a 20-foot extending his streak of bogey- delivered holes to 35 after screwing up the first den Thursday. Such are the weights we should take from the El Tigre experience, not to mention a farcical post-round scene in which Phil Mickelson, his so- called mortal enemy, graciously held an umbrella through his head while doing a TV interview in the rain. however when I hear reports about Putter Grips Gone Wild, I draw near to realize we don't appreciate the greater useful of Woods.

"Welcome to my world," he said.

There isn't an athlete alive who doesn't react emotionally in the heat of battle. Sport as we know it isn't conducive to robotic behavior. When football players air-pipe they can do so below a helmet. When baseball players air-tube they can repair to the underground thoroughfare But when Woods walks onto a golf course, he has nowhere to escape. He is naked to the world for more than four hours, with cameras and hum mikes capturing his every word, degree swing and breath. During the 2000 U render free of access at Pebble Beach, while routing the field and making history, he spewed profanity bomb caught according to the NBC mikes. He was bad and he apologized. But that was six years ago, when he was 24

In his thirties now, he is married and settl down and given to restraint. These days, he might say "damn" each so often but is past the f-bomb explosions. tribe like to say Jack Nicklaus in no degree needed profanity as he won 18 major titles, if it were not that how would we know? He didn't deal with rush mikes in his era. not many athletes have faced the microscopic media stalking associated with Woods' career. And even now he has doggedly pushed by the agency of the pressure to win 11 majors, 50 PGA Tour titles and pending status as the greatest golfer evermore We can't behold Tiger's doubtful narrative as a byproduct of his ferocious will, then criticize him for occasional peccadillos or slips of the tongue.

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