Woods tees up Masters PR drive

TWO weeks to the Masters and Tiger Woods is gradually pre-paring the ground for Augusta.

In the early hours of yesterday morning, Irish time, he agreed to his first interviews since the whole rumpus blew up last December and you can see the hand of his management team IMG in the timing and in what he had to tell his inquisitors, Kelly Tilghman of Golf Channel and Tom Rinaldi of ESPN.

Now the speculation moves on as to how he will handle what promises to be a monumental test of his nerve and well-being, on and off the golf course. Will he agree to the customary pre-tournament press conference? If so, will the questions be vetted beforehand or censored in any way? Will instructions be issued to the ‘patrons’, as Masters spectators are called, as to how they should behave when Woods is on the golf course? Will those who step outside those guidelines be escorted from the premises?