Maybe Tiger Woods will re-think this whole comeback-at-the-Masters thing when he hears what Kenny Perry has planned for him.

"I'm going to go give him a hug," Perry told media members at the Transitions Championship in Tampa, Fla., on Wednesday. "I'm going up there and get right in his face and tell him if I can do anything for him, let me know."

Perry added that he understood why other Tour players might dread being paired with Woods during the tournament because of all the distractions, but he said he could handle it.

"It would be a tough pairing to tell you the truth," Perry said. "I'm old enough to maybe handle that, I don't know, maybe you need some hillbilly like me to do that."

Perry said he thought most people will give Woods a second chance when he returns to the public eye.

"I think people will forgive," Perry said. "I don't know anybody in this room that is perfect. We have all made mistakes. It's like any sickness, like alcohol, drugs, you name it; there's so many things out there that people get hung up into and it grabs you and just can't get away from it for whatever reason. I don't know what does that inside a person. But I hope America forgives. I hope we are that country that will forgive, and give him a second shot."

One thing Perry doesn't understand, however, is how Woods will get ready to play in the Masters without any warm-up tournaments.

"If I play four, five weeks in a row, usually the first two weeks are terrible, and third week is okay, and maybe by the fifth week I'm all right and then I'll take a week off and then I'll go at it again," Perry said. "But he's had long stretches off in the past and he's come back and won the first week out. I don't see how people do that. I really don't understand that. I cannot process that in my head. It's like a billion dollars; that doesn't compute with me."

And if Woods really plays well?

"He's going to astound us all if he goes out there and wins the thing," Perry said