It wasn’t long ago that I’d have bet 10 euros (US$14,555) that Tiger Woods would go undefeated in 2008. Then March came and it all went to heck.

Simply put, the last month has been one of disappointment for Woods:

• He lost at the CA-Championship at Doral.
• He blitzkrieg’d a photographer with obscene, verbal threats, giving Brandon Tucker an extreme case of the vapors.
• He lost the Tavistock Cup individual tourney to J.B. Holmes.
• He submissively took second place at the Masters.
• He’s had to have lost a bundle on the stock market.

• His financial guru Joe Lewis lost his pants with Bear Stearns.

Oh, Tiger is still the World’s No. 1 player, but after ending last season and starting this PGA Tour campaign on fire, his play has been sort of ordinary by Eldrick standards.

For Tiger, the solution is simple: stop playing the insipidly elite Tavistock Cup. Because for a player that picks and chooses his schedule and plays a limited amount of tournaments during the year due to mental and physical fatigue, is it really worth it to take a boatload of money so he can be the lead pony in the dog-and-pony show that is Tavistock?

After all, since he started competing for the rich folks’ pleasure, he’s just won one Masters title. Which is great, and all, but not what one would expect from the man Jack Nicklaus once said could accumulate 20 green jackets before it was all said and done.

–WKW