Tiger talk buzzing at California tourney
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December 3, 2009, Thursday
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TIGER Woods' presence is larger than ever at the Chevron World Challenge in Thousand Oakes, California, even if he isn't coming to his own tournament.
Padraig Harrington was leaving the media center after his interview at the tournament when he passed Lee Westwood and offered some tips.
"Would you like to know what questions are being asked?" Irishman Harrington said.
Westwood smiled and said, "I imagine there's only one."
As most players were getting ready to practice on Tuesday, TV sets were tuned to a press conference in Florida, where state troopers declared the investigation into Woods' November 27 early morning crash was over and that he would be cited for careless driving and fined US$164.
Then came a Us Weekly story with a woman claiming to have text messages and voice mails from an affair with Woods that began more than two years ago. That magazine cover story comes less than a week after the National Enquirer published a story alleging that Woods had been seeing New York nightclub hostess Rachel Uchitel, who has denied it.
"There's lot of questions that we're never going to get the answers to, and the fact that he is the No. 1 sports star in the world means that there is going to be a higher profile to those things," Harrington said. "It is what it is because of how good he is, and he'll have to deal with it."
Most players, even those who are close to Woods, have not heard from him and don't know what to think, much less say. "I haven't talked to him," said Mark O'Meara, who took him under his wing when Woods turned pro at age 20 in 1996.
Padraig Harrington was leaving the media center after his interview at the tournament when he passed Lee Westwood and offered some tips.
"Would you like to know what questions are being asked?" Irishman Harrington said.
Westwood smiled and said, "I imagine there's only one."
As most players were getting ready to practice on Tuesday, TV sets were tuned to a press conference in Florida, where state troopers declared the investigation into Woods' November 27 early morning crash was over and that he would be cited for careless driving and fined US$164.
Then came a Us Weekly story with a woman claiming to have text messages and voice mails from an affair with Woods that began more than two years ago. That magazine cover story comes less than a week after the National Enquirer published a story alleging that Woods had been seeing New York nightclub hostess Rachel Uchitel, who has denied it.
"There's lot of questions that we're never going to get the answers to, and the fact that he is the No. 1 sports star in the world means that there is going to be a higher profile to those things," Harrington said. "It is what it is because of how good he is, and he'll have to deal with it."
Most players, even those who are close to Woods, have not heard from him and don't know what to think, much less say. "I haven't talked to him," said Mark O'Meara, who took him under his wing when Woods turned pro at age 20 in 1996.
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