I predict he nails a Ho on New Years Eve, then another 2-3 in Feb, and maybe a couple more in March.
Oh. Return to Golf.
Nevermind.
The only reason Woods’ affairs is getting so much attention is because he is one of the biggest athletes around. Christ, if every pro athlete who commits adultery was supposed to take time off to pay penance, we wouldn’t never have enough bodies to put a game. I doubt that many golf fans give a shit about his personal life, anyway.
Well, it sounds like he is putting in some pretty full days at the range, and flew Hank out for a couple of days. Anyone want to change, update, reassert their predictions?
A lot of people are suggesting he will start off at that private intra-club tourney coming up, just because of the lack of galleries and controlled coverage. So we’ll have to discuss whether that qualifies as his “return.” But I’m sticking with Bay Hill, and say there is no way he skips the Masters.
I guess we see that 4 months or so and one scripted apology is what it takes to make up to your family and fans after years of serial philandering! 
I think he’s out for the year. Public memory is a funny thing–this year’s “scandal-ridden celebrity is back” turns into “haunted elder statesman returns to the fold” in about that time.
He’s already down, you can stop kicking him.
I swear I don’t understand why reading from a prepared statement is tantamount to baby burning with you guys. So he wrote it out before hand? So fucking what? He owed you and me and everybody else in the world outside his family and friends exactly squat.
Okay - forget the apology altogether, written or not. He’s still a shit. Nothing has happened to change my mind.
There is no way he is going to miss a whole season. And there’s no reason he ought to. Erin has shown that she’s willing to maintain a sham of a marriage for whatever rea$on. He might as well get back to doing what (er, one of the things) he’s good at. His whole career he’s shown the ability to duck any questions/comments he doesn’t want to deal with. So there’s no need for him to talk or apologize to anyone, or answer any questions he doesn’t want to. And once he starts winning again, he’ll be able to call the shots for all the adoring fans and sponsors.
Aside from your intense dislike of him, what makes you think that he and his wife are not truly trying to patch things up? Do you have any inside info?
Reports say he’s returning for Bay Hill but others say he will return for the Masters
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Man, next month already…I’m guessing he just wants something to take his mind off the shambles that his personal life has become.
He’ll probably come back pretty damn focused though, wonder what the odds on him winning his first tourney are.
He’s won the Bay Hill a bunch of times , I think 6 times so the odds are very good he wins that one.
Back for the Masters
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100316/ap_on_sp_go_ne/glf_woods_return
Will people boo him?
I doubt he is booed there. At August anyone who even looks at him funny will probably be tossed out. The real test will be when he goes to a normal tourney without such tight control.
I am betting that he returns for the Masters.
Anyone want to bet with me?
:dubious: 
So, he’s taking a low-keyed approach!
I was skeptical that he’d miss the Masters, but I thought he’d play at least one tournament before then. Guess not.
I’d like to believe that we are above booing him at, of all places, the Masters.
Looks like it is the Masters (ESPN reporting). The quicker this circus dies down, and focuses on performance on the links, the better for him and the sport.
Please accept this as a serious question, rather than yet another manifestation of my dislike for a particular golfer.
I’m wondering exactly what is currently the best for golf. I’ve always sort of had uneasy feelings WRT the image of golf. The whole “I can’t make a shot if someone coughs during my backswing” is pretty unique in sport. And the clean-cut “honorable” image is somewhat at odds with the sport being contested at venues which have long been largely synonymous of just about every form of bigotry.
In recent years we’ve seen the explosion of the 16th hole in Phoenix, and more boisterous NY fans at Beth Page Black. And players present their lives as reality TV shows.
I guess I’m not saying golf should race down to the lowest possible level. But could Tiger’s recent actions provide the opportunity for a repositioning of the brand? The continued reference back to an earlier day of gentlemanly competition seems a tad out of whack with the huge amount of money involved these days. And those rosy olden days weren’t all that rosy for everyone.
I’m just kinda thinking out loud here. But it seems a little - um - hypocritical for the sport to portray this idyllic, squeaky clean, gentlemanly image on the course, once the curtain has been pulled aside to reveal how at least some of the participants party it up off the course. A lot of folk say “everyone makes mistakes.” That may well be the case. But if it is, might it be preferable to allow some individuality and fallibility into the sport’s marketing?
Are there any real “bad boys” in golf? Someone to say, "Yep, I’m gonna party all offseason, bed whomever I want, say outrageous stuff, and I’ll still whup your butt on the links!"
Like I said, just kinda thinking out loud.
Rumor has it Arnold Palmer chased a lot of women in his younger days. Of course back then the media did not care, just like the media didn’t care JFK chased women while president.
As far as bigotry, Augusta still refuses to have a woman member , they only let blacks in after they were pressured. But for many years the PGA played at a lot of white only clubs.