Tiger Said Basically Nothing, Media Salivates

After the Stevie thing, Tiger's first tournament press conference since the US Open in June had the media teeming with excitement.  They were all slipping notes into their Steve Williams reports that Wednesday would be SO interesting because Tiger would have to talk about the Steve thing and other subjects.

They asked Tiger just one question about Steve.  And Bill Plaschke, of the LA Times, did it.  He's not a golf writer.

Q. I've got to ask you about Stevie. Can you talk about any further reaction to it?

TIGER WOODS: Yeah, what ended up happening is I communicated with Phil, and we have discussed it. I talked to Stevie about it, and he feels bad, what happened. At this point it happened at all, and it's something that none of us really wanted to have happen, but it's over and done with and we put it to bed.

Just what you would expect from a Tiger Woods presser - company line and don't say too much.  It's an easy formula to remember, so I am surprised that the media had forgotten it in the run up to yesterday.

Geoff Shackelford walks you through the inane, awful, and dumb questions asked throughout the remainder of the presser.  It's worth the read and saves you the time of having to pick them out through the ASAP Sports transcript.

Golf Channel was all over the press conference video.  Well, it is December.  But, it was analyzed to death.  Poor Todd Lewis and Rex Hoggard had to act like there was any kind of revelation in what Tiger said because that's all they're going to get out of him.  They had to make the best of it.  Golf Central probably had a spike in ratings because of the Tiger sighting.  That really does happen.

The only major revelation out of all of this is that next year's Chevron World Challenge will offer Official World Golf Ranking points to participants.  Depending on how they are structured, it should attract an even better field for the ultra-limited field event.  It is the lone unofficial PGA Tour event to offer the points.