According to the indystar : Tiger Woods will return in two weeks and play in the Arnold Palmer Invitational starting March 25, according The New York Post.
The newspaper is quoting two sources who say Woods has hired former presidential advisor Ari Fleischer, who now runs a sports communications firm, to help him with a strategy to make his entrance back on the PGA Tour.Fleischer, who worked for George W. Bush, had Mark McGwire as a client.
Mark O’Meara, a close friend of Woods, recently told the Golf Channel that he “wouldn’t be surprised” to see Woods in the March 22-23 Tavistock Cup. That event will played at Woods’ home course of Isleworth in Central Florida.
“It’s been a rough road the last three or four months in Tiger’s life and his family’s life,” O’Meara said. “It’s a very difficult situation. Golf is what Tiger does, and possibly part of the healing process is to get back at it.”
Woods has won 12 major championships and 64 events around the world during the decade. He has 56 PGA Tour victories in the decade and an unprecedented winning rate of 30 percent. Nine of his wins were by eight shots or more and he was No. 1 in the Official World Rankings for all but 32 weeks. In December, he was named Athlete of the Decade by the Associated Press.
However, a media frenzy ensued amid reports of Woods’ extramarital affairs, for which he made a televised public apology. The fallout from Woods’ sex scandal has been costly. Three sponsors have dropped him — Accenture, AT&T and, most recently, Gatorade — while others have suspended promotions of Woods while he takes a hiatus from golf.
