This week's perspective from Joe Chidley:In Tiger Woods’ long, slow journey back to acceptance (not respectability – never respectability), a milestone came this week with the announcement that he’s returning to golf at the Masters next month. No doubt the return of Tiger, after months in the PR hidey-hole that is sex-addiction therapy, will attract a media circus to Augusta and record audiences to their TV sets. That would happen no matter when or where Tiger hit the links again, but the choice of the Masters was especially smart. True, he’s won more often at the WGC-CA and WGC-Bridgestone tourneys, but he’s already missed the CA and the Bridgestone isn’t until August. And anyway, the Masters is the PGA Tour’s most high-profile event, bar none, and to face the public and his fellow competitors there signals that he is meeting his challenges head-on – something he tried to portray himself doing in his televised apology, with mixed results. In that forum, he was doing the talking (something he’s never been very good at). Now he needs to let his game do the talking. With four green jackets in the past 13 years, Tiger’s record at Augusta National is second only to Jack Nicklaus’, so he stands a fair chance of winning. And winning would be a boost for his reputation, because it will remind the world that Tiger Woods is famous for something other than his libido and his poor choice of sexual confidantes.
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