Tiger Woods continues to struggle
with his golf game, as media reports swirl that he has reached a divorce deal with wife Elin Nordegren. Reportedly Elin will get $100,000,000 for her silence, physical custody and joint legal custody of their children. Meanwhile, Tiger played disastrously at the AT&T National tournament. CBS Sports says Tiger is wearing a scarlet letter these days: A for Awful (his performance on the golf course and A for Adulterous (his performance off the golf course):
With apologies to Nathaniel Hawthorne, Tiger Woods is creating has his own version of the Scarlet Letter these days.
It's also a Capital A, in this case as in Awful, a word he used frequently this week at the AT&T National to describe some aspect of his golf game as he tried to regain the regal form that has allowed him to dominate his sport for most of the past 14 years.
Woods trotted it out a couple of weeks ago at the U.S. Open, when he made headlines describing the bumpy, inconsistent Pebble Beach greens as "awful" after his opening round. Now, apparently, he can't seem to get that A-word out of his head (even as the rest of the world can't seem get to get Hester Prynne's A-word, as in adultery, out of their own thoughts in the wake of Woods' well-documented marital infidelities).
Thursday here at Aronimink: "I just putted awful, really," he said after a first-round 73.
Friday, asked about playing the course's two par-5 holes in 1 over: "I played them awful, absolutely awful."
A few questions later, talking about the current state of his game after a second-round 70, he added, "it's not quite where it needs to be, not quite sharp yet. I hit it awesome, putt awful. I putt great, hit it awful. It's always something, isn't it?"
Tiger is hoping to do better at the British Open, which begins in two weeks at St. Andrews.
