Tiger Woods believes fans won't heckle him at Masters, despite affairs on wife Elin Nordegren: caddy

Tiger Woods thinks he has a good shot of winning the upcoming Masters Tournament, his longtime caddie said Tuesday.
"Tiger doesn't play in golf tournaments unless he believes he can win," Steve Williams told the Times of London. "Tiger's key strength, as we all know, is his mental strength and he is going to need it all through this period."
Woods is returning to pro golf April 8 still dogged by a sex scandal that nearly scuttled his marriage and derailed his career.
He is unlikely to face much heckling about his hijinks from the rabble because the organizers at Augusta National "are very specific with who they let in," Williams said.
"The people that are going to watch at Augusta are called patrons there, not spectators," he said.
"They are all golf fans and it is a very difficult tournament to get into. It is the only golf tournament in the world there is waiting list to get in to."
Those golf enthusiasts "will be very happy to see Tiger playing at Augusta where he's been successful," said Williams.
Woods has won four green jackets at Augusta.
Before Woods hits the links, the notoriously press-shy golfer will face reporters on Monday.
"By granting those media interviews and taking those questions about the Masters indicates to me that he really is getting ready and feels like he is going to be able to compete," Williams said.
It remains to be seen how forthcoming Woods will be.
So far, Woods has given only a couple tightly-controlled interviews since the scandal erupted on Nov. 27. He apologized for - but gave few details about - catting around behind wife Elin Nordegren's back with a parade of party girls and porn stars.
Woods has not competed in a tournament since November and took a hiatus from golf while he tried to patch-up his marriage and underwent sex addiction therapy

He will be lucky to make the cut. IMO

And I agree, even though I think Woods is a fraud, he's smart, he picked this event to make his comeback because the marshals at Augusta are much more strict regarding crowd control, and Woods knows this very well.

Yeah. He will be fine. Masters is probably a more controlled enviroment than any other tourney.

Now, will he win after such a huge lay off?! Remains to be seen.

I'm hearing that they're talking about setting a very early tee time for Tiger on the first day. Maybe hoping he can get in that first round before everybody wakes up. He would probably have a few less boos at that time. But an afternoon round the next day could be a different story.

how long before we dont have to hear about him fucking chicks you think rest of his career?

Tiger is VERY familiar with this golf course.....he can play bad and unfocused while still making the cut.....Don't think he wins this but I see virtually no problems with making the cut

Unless they put him off in the dark there will be plenty of people to see him play. I use to go put my chairs out on 13 at 6:00 in the morning and there were already 100 seats ahead of me and sometimes 50 or 60 people eating donuts and coffee and now i let a friend's son do it and i give him 30.00 to do it at 5:00 for me.They can't put him off early enough but i'm not going to waste my time following him. There will be too many galkers

He'll be fine in Augusta. No one will risk losing their patron card. All bets are off for his first tournament after that. I can hardly wait.

Tiger's performance in 1997 Augusta is still the most amazing thing in golf hostory to me, Period. End of story

1 Tiger Woods United States 70-66-65-69=270 -18 $486,000
2 Tom Kite United States 77-69-66-70=282 -6 $291,600
3 Tommy Tolles United States 72-72-72-67=283 -5 $183,600
4 Tom Watson United States 75-68-69-72=284 -4 $129,600
T5 Costantino Rocca Italy 71-69-70-75=285 -3 $102,600
Paul Stankowski United States 68-74-69-74=285
T7 Fred Couples United States 72-69-73-72=286 -2 $78,570
Bernhard Langer Germany 72-72-74-68=286
Justin Leonard United States 76-69-71-70=286
Davis Love III United States 72-71-72-71=286
Jeff Sluman United States 74-67-72-73=286
T12 Steve Elkington Australia 76-72-72-67=287

carl spackler said:

He will be lucky to make the cut. IMO

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Are you drunk?

buddy m said:

Unless they put him off in the dark there will be plenty of people to see him play. I use to go put my chairs out on 13 at 6:00 in the morning and there were already 100 seats ahead of me and sometimes 50 or 60 people eating donuts and coffee and now i let a friend's son do it and i give him 30.00 to do it at 5:00 for me.They can't put him off early enough but i'm not going to waste my time following him. There will be too many galkers

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There will be plenty of people there. But if those early bird fans are anything like me, I usually have to have a couple cups of coffee in me before I get up the energy to hassle or boo somebody. Tiger will probably get a few boo hoo's along with a smattering of applause when he's first introduced. But after that the joke kind of gets old. And I doubt we'll hear much from the crowd after that. Besides, who are the one's who are really mad at Tiger? It's the women. The men could care less about his indiscretions. And women are usually too well-mannered to keep up a boofest on a golf course. There might be a few beligerent teenage kids along the way. But I'm betting they'll be led to the gate pretty quick if they keep it up. Usually when people travel that far and pay that much to get into a major golf tournament, one warning is usually all they need to shut the hell up. Especially at the Masters.

This is the perfect spot for this prima donna prick to make his comeback to golf. Augusta National controls everything about the Masters and anyone that even looks at Tiger Woods the wrong way will have their badge taken away for eternity.

I heard on the first day of the Masters on Thursday that any skank that gives Tiger Woods their phone number gets a free sandwich at Subway.

http://www.the33tv.com/sports/os-tiger-woods-fan-voices-0405-20100404,0,5698100.story

Tiger Woods at Masters: Why heckling is unlikely at Augusta

Decorum still reigns at Augusta, but eventually Tiger Woods will feel sting of jokes from golf fans

By Jeff Shain, Orlando Sentinel
9:44 PM CDT, April 4, 2010

Tiger Woods practiced Sunday at Augusta National Golf Club for this week's Masters. (DARRON CUMMINGS/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS / April 4, 2010)


The first public salvo came not in spoken form, but written in 5-foot-high letters.

"WE MISS YOU TIGER" read the banner trailing from behind the small plane that flew over Torrey Pines two months ago, when some of the world's top golfers competed in the PGA Tour's annual stop outside San Diego.

Woods wasn't anywhere to be found that day — preoccupied, folks later learned, by a six-week therapy program to conquer the sexual lures that left his marriage in tatters and turned his name into a national punch line.

The banner, though, certainly made a name for the strip club that hired the aerial advertising. And now with Woods preparing for his return this week to competitive golf, you know some tabloid-reading hecklers will be waiting to fire a barb at the besmirched golfer.

The question is whether it will happen — whether it can happen — at the Masters.

"Certainly not from the proper patrons. You won't see anything," said Isleworth pro Stuart Appleby, a neighbor of Woods' for nearly a decade. "Augusta has always had a grip on what they want to do."

Maybe it happens at the U.S. Open. Probably at any standard PGA Tour event. After years of Tiger adoration as he walked the fairways, it's now open season for detractors armed with a gold mine of joke fodder from Woods' sexual dalliances.

Just not at Augusta National Golf Club, where Woods arrived Sunday to begin practice for the tournament that begins Thursday. When the gates open for practice at 8 a.m. today, some 30,000 people will file onto the grounds.

"When you come to Augusta, it's such a whole new world there," NBC golf analyst Johnny Miller said. "There's such a spirit of reverence. That's why I think he picked Augusta to come back. The decorum and reverence there are almost like a church."

This is a place, remember, where fans aren't fans; they're "patrons." Marshalls still scold unruly patrons for running on the grounds. Rows and rows of green folding chairs are left near the 18th green, their owners secure that no one will try to occupy or move them as they stroll the fairways in the early rounds.

Razz a competitor? Heck, can one even say "razz" at the National?

"It's probably the most controlled atmosphere you can possibly have," former U.S. Open champion Jim Furyk said. "Augusta's got that stigma or whatever you want to [call] it. Fans are as well-behaved as they can get because everyone's afraid they will lose their ticket."

Masters badges are not the type of thing to be put at risk. Like Green Bay Packers or WashingtonRedskins football tickets, they can't be bought on the open market. They're fought over in divorces.

And when it comes to rowdy behavior, Augusta National always retains the right to reassign your badge number.

"It is the most controlled environment possible," said Colin Montgomerie, Europe's captain for this fall's Ryder Cup matches. "I think he's been very wise in selecting the Masters for his return."

For Woods, perhaps the toughest part of this week will be 2 p.m. today when he holds his first news conference.

But the bigger test figures to come later, as the PGA Tour winds its way through the spring and early summer schedule.

Maybe it's in Charlotte, N.C., where Woods usually emerges from his post-Masters cooldown. Maybe at The Players Championship, the "fifth major" in Ponte Vedra Beach that features the highest purse in the game. Maybe at the Memorial Tournament in Ohio.

Or if Woods really keeps his schedule to the barest of minimums, the U.S. Open in Pebble Beach come June. At some point, though, someone will shout out a wisecrack about his foibles.

"There's going to be one guy out of 100 that has four or five beers and maybe pops off," NBC's Miller suggested. "[Woods] knows that's going to happen. It's not going to happen very often, but guys might [try]."

Steve Stricker, No. 2 behind Woods in the world rankings, said: "I think tournaments aren't going to put up with it. I think the security level will be a little stronger to start with, to see what the reaction is really like."

Incidents do happen, though. At the 2002 U.S. Open, Sergio Garcia's habit of squeezing and resqueezing his club just before starting his swing made perfect fodder for louts who began loudly counting every false start.

At the 2003 Doral stop, two spectators taunted French pro Thomas Levet at a time when France was slow to join the U.S.-led plans to overthrow Saddam Hussein in Iraq.

A fan was tossed from the 2004 WGC Match Play final between Woods and Davis Love III for twice blurting out "No Love!" just as Love was preparing to tee off.

"There are going to be some crazies out there that will try to give [Woods] a hard time," Champions Tour pro Fred Funk said. "They just need to be dealt with."

Maybe the most effective method, England's Ian Poulter offered, doesn't involve speech police at all.

"Stuff it in there to two feet and knock [the putt] in," the Lake Nona resident said. "Pull off some good golf shots, and you won't get heckled."

Read Jeff Shain's golf blog, The Downswing, at OrlandoSentinel.com/golfblog and e-mail him at jshain@orlandosentinel.com.

He sells merchandise, endorsements and tickets and that is what golf cares most about

He should not have even bothered with the press confrence today

So fake. At least it wasn't some robotic speech

Whether you like him or hate him, 99% of the people are there to watch him swing the club. Not to heckle him. Judging by the good reactions so far from his practice round, I don't think we'll see much booing.

I kept looking at his eyes during the press confrence Tiger seemed stoned.

Someone show the guy some visine for next time

Didnt see the Press Conference, yet im sure ill see it in its entirety on SC. I have 1 question to all those fans who will be on his DICK... What has he ever done to you or your family? Why in THE FUCK do we as a public care if this man had SEX with other women? Wouldnt we all lay da pipe on a fine ass bitch if she came our way? So with that being said I think that since everybody holds the Masters as a special place im sure they will get the haters off the course if spoted. And if he wins? Our wives will go out and buy us the newest Nike appearel.

i would have asked this question :


" if you hadnt got caught thanksgiving night , would you still be doing it ? "

if he said no .

my follow up question would have been :

" why are you lying to us now ? "