COLUMBIA, Calif. -- Tiger Woods, the winner of 14 major golf tournaments, the sport's all-time leading money-winner, the only player to have won the four professional major championships in succession, has been named the Men's Crisis Center's Man of the Year for 2009.

"The only thing that means a lot to me is winning," Woods said, although that was four years ago and he was talking about golf, not about the coveted award, which entitles Woods to a complimentary Men's Crisis Center T-shirt.

A blue-ribbon panel of MCC volunteers selected Woods over several nominees, including South Carolina Gov. Mark "Appalachian Tail" Sanford, TV talk show host David "Staff Party" Letterman and former California Assemblyman Mike "Spanky"
Duvall.

The award is given annually to male victims of sexual aggression or men who get in trouble for being men. Past winners include former President Bill Clinton, former Oregon Sen. Robert Packwood and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. The entire Alaska chapter of the Men's Crisis Center won an honorable mention last year when feminist extremists tried to get the men kicked out of a highway beautification project.

The center, founded in 1986, is headquartered in Columbia, CA. Co-founder and Grand Poobah Ron DeLacy said the group convenes irregularly for poker games, cigar smoking, alcohol therapy and other celebrations of maleness.

More information on the group is available at its website,
http://doodoowah.com/mccpage.html