Tiger Woods News Conference Friday

[RemyM]

I have never done a 12 step program, is this announcement in line with some stage of a 12 step?

Yes, he's making amends for errors.

[Chas]

I didn't know that Accenture had approved it either - whoever there was responsible for making it. I daresay TW still has his defenders at the company, which is now (as a Corporation at least) just interested in limiting the damage to its reputation, which is very substantial in my opinion. Many people here didn't even know what Accenture is all about - pretty funny in context. The effect on the Match Play is what it is - anyone here dispute that? Of course the point remains (and Ernie's), that Tiger should have set this up for a Monday or Tuesday rather than a Friday - for reasons that I'm sure people understand very well whether they admit it or not.

Good to see that the Golf Writers Associations is showing some integrity by boycotting the event, because of the way that Tiger and his handlers have organized it. Bravo to them for that. Someone in the industry is showing some guts for a change.

Alex B: good post. It is a hypothesis, obviously - like many posts in this whole discussion. It sounds like you are familiar with the nature of hypotheses and with statistical matters - are you a scientist by any chance? If I can get a good data set I'm thinking of doing a ROC analysis (followed by a Fisher's exact perhaps) .......

[Alex B]

Alex B: good post. It is a hypothesis, obviously - like many posts in this whole discussion. It sounds like you are familiar with the nature of hypotheses and with statistical matters - are you a scientist by any chance? If I can get a good data set I'm thinking of doing a ROC analysis (followed by a Fisher's exact perhaps) .......

Haha no, I'm not a scientist at all -- I'm a college student, probably a Classics major, and I run and hide from science courses. So I guess that's as far away from "scientist" as it gets ...

[Tiger Spuds]

If Accenture are ok with, fair enough.But to be fair, you can't blame people for thinking this is an intentional slight to Accenture.It would be very Tiger - like behavior.

[RichF]

With the issued statement today from the PGA / Finchem about the timing of Woods' public-statement being due to him having to go back to therapy next week - I still can't understand why he needs to make a public appearance, reading words off sheet put down by Steinberg (and whoever else in 'Team-Tiger'), when he could have issued a simple statement on his website as he did in 2008 when the knee blew out???

Curious.

[pusher]

More and more Brandel Chamblee shows us his understanding and class.

[Doctorfro]

He's such a stiff. Terrible actor

[RemyM]

This is real stuff, he has a ways to go with rehab he won't be playing for at least a couple more months.

[Gioguy21]

...he sure can act tho

[pusher]

He's such a stiff. Terrible actor

What do you want him to do?

[RemyM]

His mother looks like she is gong to be sick.

[RemyM]

News flash, Tiger Woods is human.

[Dubya D]

What do you want him to do?

Exactly...he has probably gone thru all the emotions and tears in private.

[RemyM]

All of you who who think this was staged know nothing about addictions. This was real.

[sean_miller]

Ernie was right? No, Ernie really needs to keep his mouth shut. Ernie wouldn't have nearly as large of a bank account if it weren't for Tiger.

I too wish Ernie would have zipped it (no pun intended) but wasn't he a wealthy and successful professional golfer long before Tiger Woods hit the scene? I can't comment on how much his association with Tiger off the course has lined his pockets, but I recall Ernie was involved with course design early on as well.

[RichF]

Looks like we got Major winners not named 'Tiger Woods' this year, then.

[trog2233]

Didnt answer much as expected but he seemed very sincere to me...

[BallStriker]

WTF was that? No update on a return to golf, or did I miss that?????