At least that’s what Nike chairman and co-founder Phil Knight is saying.  A day after Accenture dropped Tiger Woods, and two days after Gillette did the same, Nike, Woods’ biggest endorsement deal, is still committed to the fallen star.  Knight told SportsBusiness Journal that the scandal surrounding Tiger’s infidelities is all “part of the game.”
Nike, like any smart business, will run a background check on future employees–and Woods was no exception.  Tiger came up clean, according to Knight, before signing the endorsement deal with Nike.
“I think he’s been really great,” Knight said in the interview published Monday. “When his career …read more

You’re probably thinking that Ernie Els failing to win a tournament this year is no big deal.  And normally you’d be right.  But this is the first time since 1990 that the big South African has failed to win a tourney in a calendar year.  That’s a remarkable stretch of 19 years, which, unfortunately, has come to an end.  The Alfred Dunhill Championship was Els last opportunity to win this year, and he had a pretty good shot heading into the final round.  Els started the final round two strokes back of eventual winner Pablo Martin.  But a horrendous 5-over …read more

Tiger Woods announced Friday that he will be taking an indefinite leave from the game of golf, presumably to try and repair his badly fractured marriage.  Tiger hasn’t been seen since before the November 27 crash of his SUV into a neighbor’s tree–an event which set off a cascade of bad news for the world’s No.1 golfer.  The announcement was made on Tiger Woods’ own website, www.tigerwoods.com.  Rumors are rampant that Woods, his wife, Elin Nordegren, and their two children will be escaping to Sweden, in an attempt to get away from the media firestorm brought on by Woods’ infidelities.
Woods’ …read more

According to the man himself, there may just be a film based on Daly’s life on the way.  That movie would be based on a book that Daly plans on writing himself.  Pretty ambitious for a guy who lost 115 lbs.  The question though is–would you go see a movie about John Daly?  If it’s half as entertaining as the (former) big man’s real life, count me in.
Daly has some fairly interesting ideas as to who would play him before and after his lap-band surgery.
“I just saw Matt Damon, how he swung a golf club, and I thought if I …read more

These are tough, trying times for Tiger Woods, and that’s an understatement.  With a parade of women coming out of the shadows, claiming to have had affairs with the world’s No.1 golfer, and reports that wife Elin Nordegren has moved out (temporarily?) of their Orlando home, Tiger needs all the support he can get.
Cue caddie Steve Williams.
The man on Woods’ bag for the last decade has come out publicly to support his embattled boss.  Which is pretty well what any good caddie would do–right?  But don’t expect him to talk about Tiger’s private life–or any skeletons that may still be …read more

Jim Furyk, resplendent in a red shirt, made a Tiger Woods’ type rally, minus all the messy extra-marital affair stuff, to capture the Chevron World Challenge.  It was the first victory for Furyk in over two years.
Furyk’s final round 5-under 67, left him at 13-under for the week, good for the one shot victory over Ireland’s Graeme McDowell.  Furyk’s play on the final two holes showed that even though it’s been awhile, he still remembers how to close a tournament.
On No.17, after blasting out of the greenside bunker, Furyk had himself a 35-foot par putt.  His plan was to leave …read more

Remember Y.E. Yang, the plucky South Korean who bested Tiger Woods (yes, that Tiger Woods) to win the PGA Championship.  Well, he’s doing it again, this time grabbing a 2-stroke lead at the Chevron World Challenge.  Not bad for a guy coping with a pretty bad headache on Friday.  Nevertheless, Yang fired a beautiful 7-under 65 to go 9-under for the tourney thus far.  Yang heads into the weekend with a trio of pretty damn good players right on his tail.  Kenny Perry, Padraig Harrington and Ian Poulter sit at 7-under, while Sean O’Hair, Lee Westwood and Zach Johnson are …read more

Sorry fans, but if you came here looking for the latest news on the Tiger Woods infidelity scandal, you came to the wrong place.  I am just about through with all of it–the mistresses, the altered prenup, everything.  The closest thing to a Tiger mention in this piece will be the fact that the Chevron World Challenge, Tiger’s event (which he dropped out of), is taking place this week, and the first round is in the books.  As it stands, there is a tie at the top of the leaderboard, between Ian Poulter and Zach Johnson.  The pair are sitting …read more

Now that Tiger Woods has admitted to “transgressions” in a statement released on his website (www.tigerwoods.com), he’s opened himself up to criticism for his infidelity.  First up–Jesper Parnevik.  Truth be told, Parnevik has a bit of a vested interest in the whole situation, seeing that he and his wife were responsible for setting up Elin Nordegren with Tiger.  It’s been so long that it’s easy to forget that at one time Nordegren was working as a nanny for the Parneviks.  It was at the 2001 British Open that Nordegren was first introduced to Woods.  They married in 2004.
Parnevik, unlike the …read more

With a boatload of questions still surrounding the infamous Tiger Woods car accident, the host of this week’s Chevron World Challenge, none other than Tiger himself, is bowing out.  His reason?  Injuries sustained from his recent car accident.  The Golf Challenge reports that Woods is suffering from headaches and soreness, thus his reason for pulling out.
Without a doubt fans are going to be upset.  And why shouldn’t they be?  The No.1 golfer in the world, hosting his own event no less, is the main reason many fans bought tickets in the first place.  But fear not–tournament officials are offering refunds …read more