Thanks to TMZ's insinuation that Tiger Woods would play in the Tavistock Cup this year, a whole lot more people got to know what the event was and the rivalry between Isleworth and Lake Nona clubs.  (Tavistock Group kind of created the rivalry by developing Lake Nona in the first place.)

Now, though, Tiger Woods has announced that he will not be playing there, or at Bay Hill either.  He will be playing at Augusta National for the first time in 2010.  That comes at the expense of almost no one caring about the Tavistock Cup now. 

With a whimper, the press release announcing the two teams came out yesterday.  Literally no one noticed.

It is not hard to imagine that most of the media outlets that flooded the Tavistock Cup tournament office with credential requests will rescind them or never pick them up, were they granted.  Viewership for the hit-'n'-giggle will plummet from expected outrageous levels.

So, while you're out drinking a green beer (or thirty) today in honor of St. Patrick's banishing the serpents from the Emerald Isle, toast the Tavistock Cup that couldn't keep a big serpent in the pen.