Is Tiger's Indefinite Leave Through July!?**

While AT&T is staying on as sponsor of the July tour stop, it seems Tiger will not be serving as host this year:

Tour spokesman Ty Votaw said that since Woods is on indefinite leave from professional golf, he will not serve as host for the 2010 event. However, his Tiger Woods Foundation will continue to be the beneficiary of the AT&T National, under a contract that runs through 2014, Votaw said.

My initial hunch is that the tour either knows Tiger's not playing in July, or Tiger is never again serving as "host" of the event. So I emailed the PGA Tour's Ty Votaw with those questions. He wrote back:

I can confirm neither of those things. The decision was made at this point in time that, given his indefinite leave and the uncertainty of his schedule for the foreseeable future, he would not serve as host for the 2010 AT&T National.

Update on 2009-12-31 19:10 by Geoff

**I did follow up with Ty Votaw on the question AA raised about whether Tiger's status with the AT&T National was is in some way related to a PGA Tour suspension for conduct unbecoming or a performance enhancing drug violation. He wrote back immediately:

I can confirm that Tiger Woods status as host of the AT+T National is not due to a suspension or any other disciplinary reason.