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Tiger misses deadline for PGA World Championship
By Tom Zulewski February 13, 2010 |
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Not a word from Eldrick Tiger Woods as the deadline for filing for the WGC-Accenture match play Championship had passed last Friday at 5PM. Woods who has not been seen but heard from at a rehab clinic in Hattiesburg Mississippi but since then nothing. Accenture who dropped Woods from sponsorship is the sponsor for the tournament. Woods who seeks privacy at all times and wanted his image guarded in the same regards may still feel the embarrassment of his personal situation and is not ready to come out yet. Woods won the tournament three times coming off knee surgery last year which he won in the first round only to get defeated in the second round by Tim Clark in Arizona. The Woods' camp never gave a reason for not signing up for the tournament; Sportstalk tried reaching Woods and was told that he is still asking for privacy. "We never know until Friday who is going to play, and were please to have the field we do, Tiger and Phil are missing for personal reasons, but every other top player is coming." said Tournament Director Wade Dunegan who is not saying out loud what everyone else is thinking in the PGA that Tiger and Mickelson are the game's meal tickets and the TV ratings and the less attendance will reflect their absence. SAP Open in Sango: Andy Roddick is on the marquee outside HP Pavilion and those who saw and walked up to buy tickets were not disappointed as he handled Tomas Berdych 7-6 (5), 7-6 (5), on Friday night at the SAP Friday night semifinals. Roddick who has won three tournaments in San Jose and has also won eight of his last nine matches there, "he hits the ball so hard and so flat that it kind of keeps you off balance, you feel like your scrapping and clawing trying to hold on." said Roddick referring to Berdych. Men's Olympic lugers will lower themselves on track: Just for the fact that the luger track was introduced as the fastest track in team Olympic history in Vancouver it has put some doubt in the athletes minds of its safety and the death of 21 year old Georgia luger Nodar Kumaritashvili was one that not only sent shock and sadness through the Olympic village but now the U.S. luger team has said they would start lower in competition and in practice. Olympic officials said that they have agreed to move the starting line further back down the track in consideration of the emotional component in mind for the luger athletes after the death of Kumaritashvili. The move makes it lower at the sliding track and the starting line for the Men's will now be where the Women's starting line is. The move also means it will be easier to navigate the track. The Olympic officials as well as the athletes are hoping this will ease some worries. The original starting line had the lugers traveling some 90 MPH the fastest the sport has seen in the Olympic practices. TV ratings say "whose your Go Daddy?" for Danica: She may not have won the last NASCAR race she participated in going for sixth place but Danica Patrick was a winner in the last series for the TV ratings pulling in a Nielson share of 2.3 which means 1.7 million more households were tuning into Danica's performance and viewership peaked at 2.66 during the race meaning that over 2 million viewers were tuned in at one point. Let's face it that's who they were there to watch. No matter what the other drivers, sponsors, car owners, and corporate types are saying about Patrick's NASCAR duties she is a marketing tool force to be reckoned with and each time she races you be assured the TV ratings will be in the millions. It’s a far cry than where NASCAR was before in past years the sport was drawing near bottom ratings. Some ESPN poker matches were out doing NASCAR back in the day, but with Patrick in there that might all change. Tom Zulewski files his report each week for Sportstalk Radio |
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