2p.m. CBS will have all the action of the WGC – Accenture Match Play Championship. Yesterday the CBS golf team had reactions to Tiger Woods Friday statement.
JIM NANTZ: It is interesting Nick because everyone has to have an opinion on it and judge the way they look at it whether it was heartfelt or not. I do believe it was a bit scripted and robotic at times. But clearly remorseful, in just about every single category right down the line.
NICK FALDO: I can’t imagine Tiger ever thought in his career he was going to have to stand up to the world and be humiliated and have to apologize.
NANTZ: I really thought that going into it there was a chance he would add some insight on when he’s coming back…I don’t think even now he even knows. I felt all along that Augusta would be in the cards. Now I don’t see anything imminent as far as his return.
FALDO: I agree with you. I already thought Augusta made sense. You can go there, the privacy the week before to prepare yourself. You have the patrons I am sure that would look after him. He would feel a little more secure because he is stepping into a new environment. An environment where he has no idea how the public are going to receive him.
FALDO: For me if you want to get back to the fairway and be a part of the family, it could be done. Personally I think he can jump on his private plane, get back out here and maybe it wouldn’t do him too much harm to come back out on tour and show everybody he’s human. Come and play, take what he gets. If he plays badly, he plays badly. He has to start all over again. But I can also understand with Tiger…his whole career he only wants to come to the golf course when he is 100% ready because all he wants to do is win.
Is he going to be capable of being this new Tiger? Tiger Woods the golfer when he plays again will he be motoring around the golf course with the same kind of vibe and attitude that he had before?
FALDO: I can’t imagine that would happen. To go to the golf course you have to have pretty good self-esteem. When you are standing there basically the world is looking at you. And it really was with Tiger. What he’s done off the golf course he can never erase that, that is with him for the rest of his life. So how he rebuilds everything and comes back out as a golfer he almost has to become a saint.
