OK Tiger

Tiger Woods is the best golfer in the world. He is head and shoulders above the rest. When he plays the questions is Tiger or the field. He plays so well out of bad lies, maybe that is one of the things that makes him so appealing. If he is playing out of a good lie his approach shot will land just inside yours so he can watch the line when you putt. He can handle the pressure of being a one man machine. No teammates, no coach, just him. Yes he has his caddy and yes a caddy is important, but no one ever says that was a caddy error. He wears all the mistakes on his own and takes all the glory on his own.

It's starting to look like golf is all he is good at.

There is a rather long list of women that he has been unfaithful to his (super hot) wife with. So being a good husband is not on his list of things that he has been very good at.

Once this list became public, he has not managed the situation very well. I realize that he has people that deal with this for him, but they are not doing a very good job and he should have noticed and put them on the right course.

He is not doing a very good job at fixing the problem. Changing everything at once is rarely successful and becoming a recluse will only to serve to keep this story alive a lot longer.

So what should he be doing?

If he wasn't ready to settle down he probably shouldn't have but we all make mistakes and truly you are measured on how you handle your mistakes. So he got married and was having a whole lot on the side. Apparently this was not in the deal when he got married. I'm not going to belabour this point.

So what should he be doing?

He should be making a public statement, in person, in front of camera and reporters. Postings on his website are cold and impersonal. It could be written by anyone, and probably was. He should spill the facts in a straight up manner. He should clear the air.

He also should be playing golf. The world we live in is a lot of 'what have you done for me lately.' Well, lately Tiger, you have been cheating. We need to see him golfing. We need to see him winning. That is familiar to us. It will feel right to us. We will fall back into that groove very quickly. Yes there will be a lot said about him on is comeback. Yes the commentators on TV will talk way too much about it. Yes all eyes will be on him, but this is what he is good at.

Many athletes have problems staying faithful. It's no secret these days. As long as they win we seem to forgive, or at least look the other way. We will be the same with Tiger. You may think it will be different but it won't. We may not look at him as squeaky clean again. He may seem a bit more human. We now know he is not perfect. That may change the mystique but if he wins we will invite him back into our hero basket and that is what he really needs.

OK Tiger, its your shot, you're deep in the rough, put in on the green near the pin like you so often do.