What If Earl Woods Were Still Alive?

March 5, 2010 – The first thing to note would be that even though Earl Woods was a noted player off the golf course, if you know what I mean, he’d probably of known about Tiger’s sexploits and got his burly arms around them. Secondly, he’d have plenty to say to the media about what happened, Tiger and Elin, how to compose a mea culpa, Tiger’s so called “handlers” and what the golf superstar’s “responsibilities” are to his doting public. It just wouldn’t be anything more detail revealing than what the media has already got. It would be a lot of “buzz off, people are human, marriages are private, his handlers are dopes, this guy is getting fired, Tiger needs to get back on the golf course, Tom Watson is a hypocrit and this role model stuff is highly overrated.”

Tiger still alludes to the void caused with the loss of his pops. This event is probably the place where he could have most used him. Earl was a straight forward guy. A dollar and cents guy. Objective and protective, a say-it-like-it-is ex-military who had the nerve to predict Tiger “bigger than Ali” and call Richard Williams, of Venus and Serena fame, a dope of a father.

You don’t think Earl would have a notebook full of strikes against Stevie Williams? It doesn’t matter how close Stevie says he and Tiger are. It doesn’t matter what the stats and moneylist reads like with Williams on Tiger’s bag. There are other caddies. You’ve got to wonder what Earl would have thought of Stevie’s drivel about not having a clue about Tiger’s dalliances. So you travel with him, stay with him and caddy for him, but you don’t have a clue? And if you did, you would have run right to Elin and taken the lid off a million- dollar-plus-a-year job, private flights to New Zealand, and an identity as a caddy like no other. Wonder what Earl would have thought about that?