The very last gasp of any chance that this scandal could end by creating a better Tiger Woods appears to have vanished with the news that Tiger will make a public statement Friday that, before it even happens, is rightly being reamed for being arrogant, selfish, controlling and egotistical.

I had started to actually feel a little sorry for Tiger with the all of the inaccurate and overdone media coverage of this scandal, but if this event on Friday goes anything like expected, I am quite sure that I will go right back to hating Tiger Woods (one of the many reasons that this site is now under the new domain name, www.TigerWoodsWASGod.com ).

Here are my major problems with what appears to be happening:

– The timing, for no apparent reason, during a tournament sponsored by one of his former sponsors give the appearance of arrogance, revenge and anger.

– The location, the PGA Tour headquarters, seems designed to allow Tiger to show everyone who is boss (and boy has the Tour laid down on this one, they gave hm the keys to the palace without even asking what he was going to do with them!).

– The careful selection of a very few select media representatives to act as his props while not being allowed to ask questions shows a cowardice that is consistent with his three month hiding period (not to mention the gutlessness of media members to be willingly used like this).

As for what TIger will actually say, it would seem that the most likely scenario is that he will announce that he will be playing in the unofficial Tavistock Cup and then The Masters.

If this is indeed  the case, it would seem to me that this means that Elin is leaving him. It makes no sense that Tiger would come back so soon unless he had nothing else to lose. It has also been widely noted that Tiger was not wearing a wedding ring while on his staged “photo shoot jog” yesterday.

I would certainly hope that the pretend news conference that is planned for tomorrow is truly a “first step” and that Tiger may yet still redeem himself, but the initial evidence is not at all promising and Tiger has clearly lost all right to any benefit of the doubt.