
Tiger and Sean Foley bonding, man
It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise, but Tiger’s withdrawal from the Player’s dominates today’s headlines, with every major outlet publishing at least one piece on the former World Number One’s travails.
For some reason, this latest debacle has captured the journalistic imagination in a way that several of Woods’ most recent setbacks haven’t. The public nature of the humbling, perhaps, the wealth of figurative significance afforded by the image of a formerly implacable golfing force reduced to baby steps and the ignominy of enduring one fluffed shot after another, has left everyone with the sense that something important has just occurred, even if they can’t agree on what that something might be.