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All Things Tiger
For a virtual recluse, Tiger
Woods can sure generate
headlines. Let’s review the past
week:
On the positive side, there
were reports that Tiger, Elin
and the kids have been liv-
ing together under the same
roof for more than a week, and
the two were spotted kissing.
That’s good. It’s also good to
hear Tiger and Hank Haney
have been working together at
Isleworth and that Tiger may
re-emerge at Augusta for The
Masters. ESPN and CBS have to
be tickled on that news.
And for the gamesters,
Electronic Arts’ “Tiger Woods
PGA TOUR 11” is set around the
Ryder Cup and allows players
to choose between playing for
the U.S. squad led by Tiger or
the European squad led by Rory
McIlroy. It is due to arrive for
Xbox 360, Wii, PlayStation 3 and
iPhone platforms on June 8.
Of course, it is never all
positive these days for Tiger.
While he has so far avoided
the skewer of “Family Guy” cre-
ator Seth MacFarlane, the kids
of “South Park,” are ready to
take him on. The Com-
edy Central cartoon
will open its 14th
season Wednesday
with the troubled golfer meet-
ing Stan, Kyle, Kenny (above)
and Cartman (bottom left) in
their animated Colorado town,
with sex addiction the theme.
And for those who share a
love of golf and inflatable dolls,
well, there’s now the new Take-
Home Tiger Love Doll, pro-
duced by Pipedream Products.
And let’s just leave it at that.
Pinehurst’s iconic No. 2
course, which will host the 2014
men’s and
women’s
U.S. Opens
in succes-
sive weeks,
is getting
a nip and a
tuck from
course doctors Bill Coore and
Ben Crenshaw. The design
team has been directed to re-
store natural aesthetic charac-
teristics and to bring back stra-
tegic play crafted by designer
Donald Ross that had been lost
over time. Work, which began
this month, is not expected to
impact play on No. 2 until the
course closes for the winter,
Nov. 15-March 2. It is expected
to be completed in early 2011.
Korea and Japan have de-
cided, after a five-year break, to
renew their Korea-Japan Team
Match. And it’s probably not
dumb luck that this resumption
coincides with the emergence of
a pair of 18-year-old phenoms –
Japan’s Ryo Ishikawa and South
Korean Noh Seung-yul – whose
impending duel is certain to
generate not only great inter-
est, but also great ratings in the
Asian TV market. The match
is scheduled Sept. 10-12 in
Seoul with 10 players from each
country taking on one another
in stroke-play competition. The
purse is $700,000.
Float a boat? How about
float a golf course. That’s what
the Indian Ocean country of
Maldives is talking about . . .
building a floating course. The
island nation, best known for
its scuba diving, has reached an
agreement with Dutch Dock-
lands to develop a host of float-
ing golf facilities to tackle the
threat of global warming. Presi-
dent Mohamed Nasheed has
made climate change a priority
since the island is just a few
feet above sea level. He believes
the floating course will reduce
the impact on underwater life
and minimize the changes to
coastal morphology. l
