"I always have to answer all the questions"
/I was a bit surprised by the reaction to Jaime Diaz's Tiger profile in the February Golf Digest, particularly that it was in some way soft or not particularly revealing. After a second scan, I remain surprised at the amount Diaz revealed to the likely detriment of his relationship with Tiger.
This caught my eye:
It was also a year of impatience with the golf press. Angry about being criticized for his behavior and his game (no major-championship victories among his seven wins), he told me he was "pretty burned out on the media," and for the first time in eight years he declined to be interviewed in person for a year-end story for Golf Digest.
"I always have to answer all the questions," he told me in an October phone conversation that he agreed to instead. "That's one of the reasons I've quit reading all articles. I don't watch golf on television unless my friends are playing. And if they're playing well, I still keep the volume on mute. A lot of these media guys are so opinionated, but they don't have all the information."
That suggests to me that Tiger will be a recluse when/if he returns. I don't see how he can recover from what's been written and said the last few weeks, particularly if he thought the press was out of line before the accident.