TPC Sawgrass Cart Barn On Full Lockdown!

TMZ reports that the TPC Sawgrass staff is scrambling to empty the cart storage area so that Tiger's SUV convoy can enter free of camera-phone-toting beverage cart girls. Or, to prevent Tiger's entourage from using the Co-COO's parking spaces?

We're told officials believe Tiger will arrive in a fleet of black SUVs sometime before 11 AM -- when he is scheduled to speak. Tiger's crew will drive underneath the clubhouse -- presumably so he can move about freely without worrying about interlopers seeing or hearing anything Tiger doesn't want people to see or hear.

We're told local police officers will be on site during the event -- some of the cops will be in plain clothes.

Uh, it's a gated community. Seems like overkill, no?