I had to laugh to myself when I received an email earlier this week containing the transcript of the Tigers Woods interview with the Golf Channel.

I laughed because after reading it, I didn’t learn anything about Woods that I didn’t already believe.

He controlled the interview, by allowing the Golf Channel and ESPN just five minutes.
Please!

If you would just man up and sit down and do a real interview and answer the tough questions, not just side step them by saying that’s personal.

It’s all personal.

Tiger please stop listening to your handlers. You can do this all by yourself. You’re a man now, start acting like one.

I applaud CBS for refusing to bow to Tiger’s wishes. At least someone had the guts to stand up to him.

Tiger really doesn’t owe us any explanation about his personal life and what transpired that night.

What he does owe us is an explanation as to why he lied and why he hasn’t come out and taken on all comers with the gloves off.

I didn’t believe for a minute that his exile from golf would last very long.

In fact, when he announced he was stepping away from the game, the first thing I thought was he would be back at the Masters.

The first part of the interview was priceless.

One of my favorite parts was how he couldn’t stop sleeping with other women. He tried, but he couldn’t stop.

According to Tiger, “it was just horrific.”
Come on. You are sleeping with a number of women behind your wife’s back and it’s horrific?

What it was, Tiger was immoral.

I doubt it was horrific.

Another part I truly enjoyed was when the Golf Channel’s Kelly Tilghman asked what really happened that night.

Tiger’s response is one for the books.

“It’s all in the police report, they investigated it and they have it on public record, there’s a lot of stuff between Elin and I that will remain private and that’s about it,” he answered.
“How did you crash the car?” Tilghman asked.

” I wasn’t going very fast, but unfortunately, I hit a few things,”

Wow, talk about riveting.

I guess I had higher expectations from Tiger Woods.

He wasn’t your typical professional athlete who believes he can do what he wants when he wants.

I guess I was wrong.

When he first broke onto the scene people were ready to crown him the “greatest golfer of all-time.”

Being a Jack Nicklaus fan, that rubbed me the wrong way. He had just begun his career and was no where near breaking Jack’s record of 18 majors.

As time wore on, and after listing to Nicklaus talk about Woods, I too started to drink the Kool Aid.

But this episode has made me rethink what I believe about Tiger.

He may surpass 18 majors and he may not.

But no matter what, he will never be greater than Nicklaus for many reasons, one of which appears to be his character.

I thought Tiger Woods was a character guy. I guess I was wrong about that too.

Not because he was unfaithful to his wife, but because he wasn’t man enough to step up and admit to it until he was outed and he had no other choice.