Woods is still no pin-up like Messi or the mighty man from Munster

THERE’S a saying in sport that goes along the lines “show me a good loser and I’ll show you a loser”. This was the type of comment fans of Tiger Woods made in his defence last Sunday evening after he completed his fourth place finish in the US Masters at Augusta.

Woods was lined up for a TV interview as Phil Mickleson strode down the 18th fairway towards the completion of his winning round, bringing him his third “green jacket”. The attitude Woods displayed during the interview confirmed that this Tiger will not change his stripes, no matter how much “therapy” he has been receiving at expensive clinics with the supposed aim of modifying or controlling his personality.

Woods did not get an easy interview, as would have been the way previously before controversy about issues that should have remained private became public.