Vanity Fair, the celebrity scandal glossy known for its Hollywood parties and high-living editor, is now in the golf business. Just a couple months after running an old Tiger Woods photo on its cover, Vanity Fair is preparing what sounds like the definitive article on Woods's mistresses, four of whom posed for the magazine. The title of the article is "The Temptation of Tiger Woods." <

The full story isn't online, but VanityFair.com offers a preview (Warning: Link contains partial nudity), including these two revelations:

Woods has said in recent interviews that no one in his inner circle knew about his affairs, but Seal’s reporting contradicts that. Woods’s mistress Jamie Jungers says, “Every time I would fly out to see [Tiger] or schedule itineraries or anything, I would always go through Bryon [Bell],” Woods’s childhood friend and the president of Tiger Woods Design. (Bell did not respond to requests for comment.)

According to Woods’s mistress Mindy Lawton, when she alerted Tiger to the fact that The National Enquirer had caught on to their affair, he put her in contact with his agent, Mark Steinberg, of IMG Worldwide. After Lawton explained to him what had transpired (see below), Steinberg said, “We’ll take care of it.” (Steinberg did not respond to requests for comment.)

ESPN to show Woods's first tee shot on Thursday, no matter what time

The Masters famously broadcasts only from 4-7 p.m. EST on Thursdays, which The Daily Flog appreciates for letting us know when we should leave work. However, Augusta National has budged a bit and will allow ESPN to show Woods's first tee shot on Thursday no matter what time it is, according to The New York Times.

Depending on Woods’s tee time, it could be a long time before viewers see anything else live, if at all. That is because the Masters has long believed that less is more, so a lot of the action takes place before live coverage starts.

If Woods tees off at 1:52 p.m. next Thursday, as he did in last year’s first round, some of his shots will be seen live during ESPN’s 4 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Eastern time slot. If he has a morning tee time, like last year’s 10:45 a.m. second-round time, nothing he does after his first tee shot will be shown live.

Tee times will be announced Tuesday. 

Michelle Wie finds Stanford studies more interesting than Rules studies

Can't say I blame her, but Paul Arnett of The Honolulu Star-Bulletin makes a compelling case that Wie's Rules gaffes have the potential to be historic in the wrong sort of way.

Four rules violations for Wie since turning pro four-plus years ago is a lifetime's worth for most players competing at the professional level.

There is a theory among golf writers that Wie is a victim of the step-skipping she did as a teenager. Instead of playing golf at the junior, high school and collegiate levels where you learn the basic rules of the game, Wie was busy going to and fro to events on the PGA and LPGA tours, never taking the time to learn the playbook.

Wie has made it clear in the past that she doesn't lose much sleep over her Rules violations, which, in the case of her inadvertent grounding of her club in the hazard Sunday, can appear ridiculous, especially to a curious teenager. Wie didn't sound especially chastened on Monday either.

"People make mistakes, but you know what, that's all in the past. You know, I really think that that's what happened, and hopefully from now on it won't happen. But you know, I'm just trying now to think about this week."

After that response, a reporter asked, "May be a silly question, but now that you have no studying to do for Stanford, will you take out the rules book and look at it a little more or go over it, or is it one of those things that you try not to think about as much?"

Classic Wie answer: "Well, you know, this summer I am going to try to take some online courses and try to transfer them in, so I'm not at Stanford for 10 years, so I want to try to study this summer, see where that takes me."

Wie fans should also check out this charming New York Times article on Wie's interest in art. Of her paintings, which include bloody skulls and teddy-bear-mauling robots, Wie says, “It’s like drawings you do in fifth grade and someone says, ‘You need help.’ ”

What if Tiger Woods came back at the Masters and no one cared?

That could be the case, if you believe the honorable folks in the ticket-resale business.

The New York Times' Mike Tierney checked in with some ticket brokers to see if Woods's return increased Masters ticket prices (always the toughest ticket in sports). The answer: Not so much.

But rates are not soaring at the same pace as golf fans' feverish expectation to see Woods swing a 6-iron for the first time on an American fairway since last fall.

Legal brokers — who acquire tickets to sports events, concerts and the theater, then resell them for profit — generally describe the Tiger bump as slight. Though Woods may be the most compelling athlete around, distancing himself from the field with his disclosure of "repeated irresponsible behavior," the appeal of the Masters for most is atypical in this celebrity-driven era.

"A single player doesn't make a significant impact at this tournament" on prices, said Sam Soni, the vice president for procurement at the broker RazorGator, with offices in four cities, including Atlanta.

I'm not really surprised that Woods had barely any effect on ticket prices. People pay to see something inspiring or historic. Morbid curiosity plays better on television.

Wie, Lies and Videotape
The best take on Michelle Wie's Rules violation at the Kia Classic on Sunday comes from Free Drop, a blog written by Rules official John Vander Borght. You can find a recap of Wie's shot and her penalty here.

Borght was one of the few commentators to give Wie the benefit of the doubt, and he has a good question for those who were quick to condemn her.

Here is my question for those who don't agree. Let's assume that the most honest player you can think of (Bobby Jones in my case) did just what Wie did in the hazard and claimed the he/she thought he was falling. Would you believe him or her?

If so, ask yourself why you don't believe Wie. Is she inherently less trustworthy (I'm sure some will say she is)? Why doesn't she deserve the same benefit of the doubt? What has she really done that is worthy of being branded a liar or a least a fabricator of a story?

Many years ago at my first US Mid-Amateur, I had a case where a player denied doing what I know I saw him do from 150 yards away. After a few minutes of discussion, the rover who was more senior than I was took me aside and let the player continue. He said to me, "If he is lying, he is the one who will have to look in the mirror tomorrow morning when he shaves." If Wie was lying, she'd be the one to have to look in the mirror when she puts on her makeup and know she did. But, who am I to judge that?

Borght should be required reading for all the glib, scolding commentators who teed off on Wie over this.

Butch Harmon says Couples can contend at Augusta
I'm getting a little uncomfortable with the golf media's full-on Freddie Couples man-crush, and now his coach Butch Harmon is joining the hug. At the Shell Houston Open, where Freddie will test his game against the kids, The USA Today's Steve DiMeglio checks in with Harmon, who says that Couples is hitting the ball longer than ever.

"The way he's playing right now, the way he's hitting the driver and putting the ball, I wouldn't be surprised at all if he contended at Augusta National," Harmon said.

The Rules Guy couldn't help but notice that Michelle Wie has started to make a habit out of running afoul of the Rules of Golf, especially when it comes to playing out of hazards. During her Sunday round at the Kia Classic, Wie found herself with a precarious lie near the water on the 11th hole. After unsuccessfully trying to get the ball out of the hazard, Wie grounded her wedge, landing her a 2-stroke penalty under Rule 13-4.

When confronted by a Rules official two holes later, Wie claimed that she had grounded the club in order to maintain her balance, a perfectly reasonable exception to Rule 13-4. Wie makes a good point that the Rules officials never asked her why she grounded the club, but officials can't be expected to be everywhere all the time. Reviewing Golf Channel's video replay, there is no doubt that the ruling was correctly made and enforced.

While Wie was in an awkward stance, she was not off-balance at any time during or after her swing. Ironically, if Wie had leaned a little harder on her club she could have made the argument that she was preparing to exit the water using her club as a cane, another exception provided by Decision 13-4/3.5. While I'm sure the Rules official wouldn't have held it against her, it's worth noting that Wie has not earned much benefit of the doubt after a similarly ill-timed hazard violation at the Women's British Open in 2006, after which she described the Rules of Golf as "not actually great reading material." I suppose Ms. Wie and I will just have to agree to disagree.

As a side note, this is a penalty often committed and not properly enforced by amateur players, who forget that grounding a club outside of an actual body of water, but still within the marked stakes, constitutes grounding a club in a hazard. Remember, just because your club doesn't get wet doesn't mean you've gotten away clean.

What's your take on Wie's explanation? Tell us here.

Michelle Wie was penalized on Sunday for grounding her club after failing to get a shot from the water clear of the hazard. In the replay, she appears stable when she puts the club down in the grass inside the red line.

After her round, Wie argued that she grounded her club to balance herself, which would have been legal, but the rules officials did not buy her argument. Golf Channel broadcast the scene from the TV truck, where Wie stated her case.

"I know that I felt off balance, and it's like I know that I grounded the club, but ..." she said, trailing off. "I have nothing more to appeal, it's just that it doesn't seem fair."

Later, Wie restated her argument when the Golf Channel asked if it was being told what she felt that bothered her.

"It wasn't the fact that I knew I was going to get a two-stroke penalty, and I was thinking in my head, what can I do to cheat my way out of it," she said. "It was more the fact that I knew I grounded the club due to the fact that my right foot was in mud, and I felt like I was off-balance. It was more the feeling that it didn't feel right that they said that it seemed like I wasn't off-balance when I knew I was off-balance."

You can see the shot, and hear Wie's argument, in Golf Channel's video replay and wrap-up. What's your take? Was she legitimately trying to keep her balance? Let us know in the comments field below.

Bob Harig of ESPN.com reports that Phil Mickelson said he wouldn't mind being paired with Tiger Woods at the Masters on Thursday and Friday. Mickelson apparently was serious.

"I think it would be great," Mickelson said Thursday of the possibility of playing in the same threesome during Woods' much-anticipated return to golf. "The [PGA] Tour hasn't paired us together since ... since I've been out on tour. It's never happened before. But I think it'd be great. I'd love it."

Asked later whether he'd like to be hit hard in the head with the new Callaway FT-iZ driver, Mickelson replied, "Awesome, I'd love that. It would be a totally new experience."

Only 11 percent of women to root for Tiger Woods at Masters
Aaron Kuriloff of Bloomberg News reports on a Seton Hall Sports poll which shows that most Americans weren't going to watch the Masters even if Angelina Jolie was paired with Jennifer Aniston.

The presence of the world’s top-ranked player at Augusta National Golf Club will make no difference to the viewing plans of 77 percent of those surveyed. Only 11 percent of women will be rooting for Woods, compared with 18 percent of men. Another 75 percent said they had no preference.

“Women are not as embracing about his return or about his winning, which is not surprising, given the nature of his scandal,” Rick Gentile, director of the poll, said in a news release.

The poll notes that Masters TV ratings are expected to increase by 16 percent. A big number, but the MASH finale will still be safe in the ratings records.

A golfer you can't refuse
Instead of the King, maybe we should call Arnold Palmer the Godfather.

At Bay Hill on Thursday, Mike Weir told the story of how Palmer got him to come back to a tournament he'd been skipping because Palmer's Bay Hill course had gotten too long for a medium hitter like Weir. (Note to young golf writers: Don't ask Weir about being a "short hitter.") At the revamped course, Weir is in second after a 67 in his first round.

I was at the Tradition Golf Club with a buddy, and Arnie was in the locker room and I said, "Hey, Mr. Palmer, how you doing."

And first thing he said was, "You haven't played my tournament in a few years." Didn't say hello.

First thing he said, "You haven't played my tournament in a few years."

I said, "No, I haven't."

He said, "Hey, Mike, I would love to have you come play."

Golf.com's Ryan Reiterman live blogged the second round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational.

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5:58 Well that's it for today. Should be an exciting weekend for golf. Great leaderboard at Bay Hill, Wie's in contention on the LPGA Tour, and the Champions Tour is at beautiful Cap Cana. But for now, it's time to hit the bar ...gimme an Arnold Palmer!

5:55 Now there's a Chris DiMarco sighting! And he's 3 under! Someone keep an eye out for the Loch Ness Monster.

5:54 Ryo Ishikawa nails the 16th in two shots. At 1 over, Ryo needs a birdie to safely finish inside the cut.

5:52 Whoa, a Fred Funk sighting! Funk is 6 over, still recovering from knee surgery last year.

Good morning, and thank you for joining me. Many of you readers have cheered for me, have worked with me, have always supported me with questions, however inane they might have been. Now, every one of you has good reason to be critical of me for my erratic Mailbag peformance. [Sniffle. Tear falling on keyboard.] I have committed transgressions. I have lost sight of my core values and not been faithful to the Mailbag. I stopped meditating on the questions, I felt entitled to skip a week and do nothing but work on my magazine stories. [Places hand over heart.]

When you strip away the denials and rationalizations, you come to the truth about your Mailbag work ethic, and the truth is very painful and, frankly, a tad disgusting. A lot of you are wondering, Why didn't I do a Mailbag last week? People want to find out how I could be so selfish and so foolish. People want to know how I could have done this to my readers. And while I have always tried to be a private typist, there are some things I want to say. But, like, I can't say them unless you, the readers, ask me questions.

My editor and I have started the process of discussing the damage caused by my behavior. As he pointed out to me, my real apology to the golf.com faithful will not come in the form of words. Well, actually it will. Lotsa words. Starting next week. Hopefully. There are many people on the Internet who believed in me. Today, I want to ask for your help. I ask you to find room in your heart to one day believe in me again. And to send in some damn questions. Thank you. [Long, sorrowful embrace with MacBook Pro.]

Since Phil usually does better when the pressure is off of him to be the main guy, how do you rate his chances at Augusta? Lots of people are forgetting that he beat Tiger head to head there last year.
—Brian

I think the return of Tiger benefits Phil more than any other player. Mickelson has lacked a certain energy so far this year but he should get a needed jolt by having his old adversary around. And for Phil, returning to Augusta will stir the memories of his incredible front nine during last year's Masters, when he turned his vaunted playing partner into little more than window dressing. As you point out, Brian, the pressure to be the man and carry the sport seemed to weigh heavily on Mickelson. Now, with all the attention on Woods, Phil can sneak into Augusta and make another run at a third jacket. I certainly expect him to be in the mix late on Sunday.

Watch some redneck with a belly full of beer give Tiger a blast at the Masters. I can see it coming. It will be interesting to see just how tough Stevie Williams really is. Personally, I hope Williams ends up being thrown in the lake on 16 on Friday afternoon. This could really be a great Masters.
—Toni from Chualar, Cal.

Funny thing about Stevie, he's going to be scrutinized almost as carefully as Tiger. He's cultivated the image as such a vigilante of gallery justice that it's almost like he's daring someone to test him. I don't expect it to happen at the Masters, at least not during the actual tournament rounds. The practice rounds are a bit more of a free-for-all but Thurs.-Sun. no one gets in there on a one-day pass. The patron badges are good for all four rounds and often shared among family, friends and business associates. If a fan does something stupid and gets the badge revoked there will be dozens of people affected. But the Masters is its own little universe. Once Stevie gets out in the real world, the yahoo factor goes up significantly. Will he be able to handle it? I'm not so sure.

Alan, How is it that Gary Koch thinks every single shot he's calling is "awkward"? Next time you are watching an NBC telecast count the number of times GK uses that word. It's constant. Almost in the Bob Rosburg "He's got NO shot" camp. Can we come up with some new adjectives for Gary to use this week at Bay Hill? —MacKenzie

I've never noticed this verbal tic but will now study's Friday telecast in forensic detail. In the meantime, here are some suggestions for Koch: discomfiting, dicey, prickly, ticklish, spiky, thorny, and, my personal favorite, FUBAR.

I'm a huge Tiger fan but really can't get my head around the fact that he has been associated with some obscure Canadian doctor, Anthony Galea, a Canadian football team physician. I'm supposed to believe that there aren't about a 1,000 more doctors here in the U.S. more qualified and world renowned for their expertise with knee injuries? The only thing this Canadian doctor is known for is his use of HGH, which is legal in Canada and his association with some well-known baseball cheaters (A-Rod for one). So I guess my question here is why it seems like the golfing media is content to give Tiger a free pass on this issue? Especially when you consider the remarkable transformation in Woods's physique, from a Charles Howell like waif to NFL starting strong safety... Is it fair to say that any reporter or news agency that dared look into this would be forever blacklisted from ever getting a story from Tiger again?
—Jerry Oram

The only "reporters" who have given Tiger a free pass on this are Tom Rinaldi and Kelly Tilghman. They're the only ones who have interviewed Woods since his association with Dr. Galea came to light and I was surprised and disappointed neither pressed him on it. I can assure you many scribes, including this typist, are deeply interested in the Woods-Galea relationship and I guarantee it will be brought up during Woods's Masters press conference. I hope he is forthcoming.

This perception about a blacklist is laughable. The fact is, no reporter was getting meaningful access to Woods before the scandal. He's already shown he's now going to be more cloistered and controlling than before. Why would anyone try to curry favor with a subject who would never reciprocate? The press was never beholden to Woods before, but going forward there is going to be a new level of scrutiny, candor and criticism. And impudence.

(Photo: Mike Ehrmann/SI)

It's not even April yet, but Michael Whitmer of the Boston Globe is already seeing cracks in Tim Finchem's armor. Whitmer details the foibles, faux-pas and flat out mistakes the Commish has made this year:

Finchem sent a memo to tournament directors updating them on the eligibility status of 10-time tour winner Steve Elkington, who isn't fully exempt this season and must rely on sponsor exemptions. This didn't sit well with some players, who viewed the commissioner's actions as biased. Former tour winners Tim Herron and David Duval, who also aren't fully exempt, were openly critical of Finchem...

Finchem didn't alert the players [to Tiger's press conference during the WGC Match Play Championship], who were ambushed by the media seeking reaction following first-round matches. Finchem took full responsibility, saying, "You can never communicate too much in this business, and when you don't, you usually pay a price."

Communication wasn't a problem at the start of the year when a handful of pros, including Phil Mickelson, chose to put a 20-year-old Ping wedge in the bag...When Mickelson and some other prominent names (Fred Couples, Hunter Mahan) chose to use the club, other players spoke up, saying the spirit of the new rule was being bent. Scott McCarron called Mickelson out, saying using the Ping wedge was a form of cheating.

Whitmer also brings up the positive stories on Tour this year, including wins by Tour stalwarts (Ernie Els and Jim Furyk), young guns (Dustin Johnson and Camilo Villegas) and the English invasion. All in all it hasn't been a debacle of a season so far, even sans Tiger, but it's hard to argue that the Tour is dealing with enough major issues that Finchem needs to take a little more time communicating with players in order to keep the small fiasco's like Tiger's presser and Phil's wedge at bay.

Will Tiger get heckled?
With all of the buildup to Tiger's appearance at this year's Masters, it's hard not to wonder what the patrons' reaction will be as Woods takes his first few steps down the fairway. Larry Dorman of The New York Times is already thinking about what the fans might have in store for the world's most famous golfer:

It may or may not happen during the Masters at Augusta National Golf Club in two weeks. If so, it would probably happen during the practice rounds Monday through Wednesday. During the tournament's four rounds, fans with season badges would be loath to jeopardize their reputation or annual entree to the Masters merely to holler something that would violate the code of sportsmanship laid down by Bobby Jones.

But eventually someone will scream something at Woods. No one doubts it, not even — or perhaps, especially — Woods, who said, "I'm a little nervous about that, to be honest with you" when asked by an ESPN reporter on Sunday about the possibility of a negative crowd reaction.

Dorman also talked to Stewart Cink and Colin Montgomerie about what it's like to play under intense fan scrutiny, presumably to get a taste of what Tiger might expect:

Stewart Cink, who is friendly with Woods and said he would not mind being paired with him at the Masters, recalled his own experience with raw nerve endings inside the ropes. It came the week after he blew a 2-foot putt at the United States Open in 2001 that would have landed him in the Monday playoff.

"I felt exposed," said Cink, whose exposure does not approximate Woods's. "I had just done something crazy at the U.S. Open, and going into Westchester, where the crowd is vocal, I was a little bit nervous about what some of the comments might be. And there were some comments.

"So I can definitely understand how he might be feeling about what may come out of some of the people. The Masters is a lot different animal than Westchester, but he is going to hear some things, whether there or later on down the road."

"I've heard when he said that he's nervous to come back, and that's the first time I've ever heard Tiger say those words," Montgomerie, this year's European Ryder Cup captain, said at Bay Hill, where he is playing the Arnold Palmer Invitational on a sponsor's exemption. "I think it will be fine. Coming to a so-called normal PGA Tour event, it might be different.

As much as I respect Cink and Monty, asking anyone these questions is completely absurd. Tiger's crowds were already huge and bordering on crazed at times, so there is absolutely no way to know what's going to happen (although Monty makes a great point about the Masters being different than a "normal PGA Tour event," which I agree will work in Tiger's favor).

I think the real question isn't so much how the crowd is going to react to Tiger, but how Tiger's going to react to the crowd. Will he show a little more love going down the fairway? Will he give them a couple smiles or extra fist pumps on the green? Will he curse up a storm after a bad shot or a click of the camera in his backswing? Only time will tell.

Tiger's Monday conference is well timed for screwing with the sports media
The Media's been abuzz about Tiger immediately taking Arnie's advice and scheduling a press conference for 2 p.m. on the Monday of Masters week. But Jeff Shain at the Orlando Sentinel points out what many of us noticed about the timing of Tiger's first presser in nearly six months:

The good news is that Woods will face the Masters media — booking a 2 p.m. mass interview for Monday of that week. The bad news, for hoops fans anyway, is that he'll grab all the headlines usually reserved for the NCAA Tournament finale. (Now maybe if Stanford had a team good enough to get to the Final Four…)

We see the logic here. Every media outlet will be hyper-focused on Woods until he speaks, so get the procedure done so everybody can return their energies to discussing the Masters itself.

But Masters Monday is usually treated as a light news day while March Madness crowns its champion. Woods is guaranteed to commandeer the biggest headlines now, with the exception of outlets that actually cover the NCAA finalists.

Something tells me that there's currently a very busy person working the switchboards at Augusta Regional Airport, as every reporter with a set of credentials tries to work his or her way onto an earlier flight.

Tiger the favorite? The pros think so.
Nobody was surprised when the talking heads and Vegas oddsmakers immediately predicted Woods would win at Augusta this year, Teddy Greenspan from the Chicago Tribune takes a look at how some of Tiger's peers (who have been practicing with him this week) view his chances:

Four-to-1 for a guy who hasn't been fitted for a green jacket since 2005, who has not played a competitive round in four months, who just might be reminded of his personal flaws as he takes back the blade on a hellacious 6-footer? (TIGER is a CHEETAH T-shirt sold separately.)

Seems absurd to me — and to a chunk of players on the PGA Tour. Of course, they think his odds actually should be lower.

"I'd give him 50-50," Billy Mayfair said from the practice range at the Arnold Palmer Invitational. "One, it's the intimidation factor. Two, you have to remember: Even though the crowds at Augusta will be very sedate and appreciative, they're still going to be loud. I think it will affect other players more than Tiger."

Said Paul Goydos: "Every time we underestimate the guy, he exceeds those expectations. And I expect him to exceed them this time too."

How about the fact that he whiffed on the majors last year, going 0-for-4?

"So I would say he's due," Goydos replied.

50/50 is about as ridiculous a statement as you can make, but I think I appreciate what Mayfair is trying to say. Tiger is striping the ball right now, even in the opinion of guys who do it for a living.

Golf Magazine's Cameron Morfit live blogged the first round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational.

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5:59 Very nice par putt from Love, who cards a 66 to tie Holmes for the 18-hole lead at the Arnold Palmer Invitational Presented by MasterCard. So at the end of the day it's Holmes and Love at 6-under, Henrik Stenson and Mike Weir a shot back, and Robert Allenby and Ernie Els leading a large contingent another shot back at 4-under. With one eye on Bay Hill, one eye on Augusta, signing off ... 

5:58 Love leaves himself a six-footer for par on 18. With Phil off the course, we're seeing some new faces on the telecast. Alex Prugh, eagle, back to even par. Too early to say if he'll be Rookie of the Year, but he's my ROY so far.

5:55 First Allenby, now Love? On the heels of then-co-leader Allenby's double-bogey on 18, co-leader Love blows his approach shot over the 18th green, onto a grassy bank. That third shot could be nasty. 

ORLANDO, Fla.--Stewart Cink is one of the most underrated interviews on the PGA Tour, a fact that was clear during his session with the media on Wednesday morning at Bay Hill before the Arnold Palmer Invitational.

Cink on whether he's disappointed that international players have won seven of the last 12 major championships: "Well, the only time I really care if players are American or European is in the Ryder Cup. So if it's not me winning majors, to be honest, it doesn't really matters who it is. That sounds selfish and it is selfish, but that's OK. It's an individual game out here. So I don't feel like there's any disappointment at all in Americans not winning more majors. I'm glad I got mine."

Cink on whether Tiger Woods can be a competitive factor at the Masters in two weeks: "I can't believe you're even asking that question. We're talking about Tiger Woods, the best player who's ever played golf. I've seen the players who are usually in that conversation. I've never seen anybody who plays golf like Tiger Woods does. So the answer to that question is yes, I believe he can be a factor."

Cink on whether this Masters feels any different with Tiger's return: "I think it's going to be one of the biggest events in golf history because the biggest player in golf history is coming back from an absence, and everybody is going to scrutinize his game and what he says and where he goes and where he has dinner, everything. I think it will also end up being a great golf tournament because he will probably end up in the mix, and it will be really compelling."

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