Prime Example 1A Of Why You Take Charge Of Your Damage Control

There are so many lasting images searing into what's left of my memory from the Tiger Woods accident and ensuing crisis. But we have a new leader in the clubhouse.

Now, the question I had planned to pose to you all was this: what's been more damaging to his image, (A) the fourteen other women/loss-of-sponsors/other-assorted revelations, or (B) the stony silence/no-denial reaction to reports since November 27th. But after reading Benoit Denizet-Lewis's blog post on the sex rehab clinic where Tiger is staying, I now know the answer: B.

Some background: Radaronline reports Tiger is in the Mississippi rehab center. Some outlets pick it up but when Denizet-Lewis blogs a confirmation, the story goes mainstream because of the author's first, gulp, hand knowledge of sex-rehab center in question and his ties to the New York Times as a "Contributing Writer."

So Denizet-Lewis's blog post is going along with insights into Gentle Path (the center), the program director and the possibility Tiger was in Arizona but left that program because...well I'm just guessing here, but maybe they didn't have The Golf Channel?

Anyway, Denizet-Lewis apparently didn't sign any confidentiality clauses and there's no brotherhood of former rehabbed horndogs preventing the sharing of candid insights into how these centers work. And hey, while he's got a lot of readers, how about a little plug for his book?

So I'll leave it up to you to read it, but be warned, it's a major TMI moment.

Oh a brighter note, Radar is reporting that Tiger will be back to golf in the spring. And since they've been right more than they've been wrong, let's just give them the benefit. It beats talking about those dreaded "coping mechanisms."