“Tiger is being Tiger. You guys have spent a lot of time with him and seen how he is. I don’t know how else to answer that."

Steve Elling on Mark O'Meara's comments about Tiger in a pre-Toshiba Classic teleconference:

But he pointed out that Woods is notoriously hard-headed and seems to have decided to handle the scandal with outright defiance. Even three months after the initial tabloid report and infamous car crash, Woods has yet to say a word publicly about the matter, a few comments attributed to him on his Web site notwithstanding.

“I guess he has all these advisors,” O’Meara said Wednesday in a teleconference for the Toshiba Classic on the Champions Tour. “I’m not his advisor. I would have handled it differently myself, personally, but that’s who I am. Whether he’s handled it right or wrong, only time can decide that.

“Tiger is being Tiger. You guys have spent a lot of time with him and seen how he is. I don’t know how else to answer that.

“A lot of times, why I don’t say anything is, it wouldn’t do me any good to make a comment. I certainly don’t want to offend my friend, but if he asked me my personal opinion about something, I’m going to give it to him. That would obviously be between he and I, but I would have handled it differently. But he’s a different guy than Mark O’Meara.”