At the risk of coming across as Neanderthal Man:

Tiger Woods needs to go back to work.

Drop Elin and the kids off in Sweden, stay through Christmas, then get back on his plane and come home. Get out to the course with his coach and start working on his game, start preparing to take the PGA apart the way we all expect him to, now that he has his rehab year under his belt.

Yes, he “cheated.” It may be true that his marriage is over. That may actually be for the best, since Tiger clearly enjoys playing the field, so to speak. Perhaps his mistake was to get married in the first place. Perhaps he was just the latest man who believed that marriage would “cure” his “appetite”, so to speak.

None of that is a crime. I find it somewhat natural. Evidently it was unnatural for Tiger to “behave.’

So, let Tiger be Tiger. Elin, you get the chalet, the yacht, and a lifetime of financial riches. You’ll be OK. The humiliation is his, not yours. You don’t really want him to be destroyed, do you?

On the other hand, he can’t really be trusted either. So call it what it is, a marriage gone bad, and let everybody move on with their lives.

If I’m not seeing Tiger back on the links by March at the latest, I’m going to get very angry. 2010 is a no-excuses year for the man who is unafraid of predicting his own calender-year Grand Slam, a feat which has never been accomplished in the modern era. He says he’s already done it - not all in the same calendar year, but in a row - so why can’t he do it again?

That’s my Tiger, smiling for the camera and telling us in his calm way that he has every intention of doing things that nobody else has any hope of doing.

I’m not even mad at him for his dalliances - they didn’t affect me, did they? No, this is between him, Elin and the kids, and they will find a way to figure it out. Maybe a John and Yoko sabbatical, who knows? Sure, it’s tabloid fodder, but then so is Britney Spears’ ass, so what does that tell you?

Tiger, come up with a plan to go forward with your private life - don’t worry about “saving” anything, just do what makes sense - and then, as soon as possible, please:

Go back to work.

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