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PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. - PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem said golf will survive no matter how long Tiger Woods stays away to sort out his personal life, and that a portrait of "gloom and doom" is misleading. In the midst of a shocking sex scandal, Woods is taking an indefinite leave from competition to try to save his marriage, leaving the sport without its biggest star as it tries to cope with a downturn in the economy....

Sounds like good advice. Who knows if the young man will accept that advice.

He actually has tremendous skills and talent, it is just that he rarely took them seriously. If he had Wood's work ethic early in his career, he'd have been another Palmer/Nicklaus. Daly was one of the very, very few that could outdrive Tiger Woods in distance. Wow, he ca really cream the ball.

All the gossipy sensationalism aside, this really is a sad tale. Tiger Woods had it all and he blew it, big time. Even sadder is the fact that Tiger Woods had gained achievement that few black athletes accomplish. He had breathed the rarified air reserved for iconic men like Jackie Robinson, Mohamed Ali, Michael Jordon, Wilt Chamberlin, Hank Aaron, to name but a few. Men who not only stood out in their sport, but often set the standard of...

I listened to this on the radio. Anyone here watch it and see if the replay call was right,even if it's irrelevant.

Japanese teen golf star Ryo Ishikawa, the country's youngest-ever top earner, has been advised by senior players not to follow the example of scandal-hit Tiger Woods. Masashi "Jumbo" Ozaki, who holds the Japan Tour record of 94 wins, played a round with Ishikawa Monday in a celebrity charity tournament in Chiba, outside Tokyo, as Woods' affairs continued to dominate world news. "He (Ishikawa) is the top...