Stricker: "I don't know if Augusta would like that to happen, you know?"

Bob Harig reports on nice guy Steve Stricker trying as deftly as possible to let Tiger know it'd be an unwelcome act of selfishness to not get his first event out of the way prior to the Masters.

"Hopefully he comes back before that," Stricker said at the Doral Resort. "You'd think as a player, being gone for so long, he'd want to come back before that.

"Whenever he comes back it's going to draw a lot of attention to that tournament and the focus is going to be on him coming back. I don't know if Augusta would like that to happen, you know? To turn it into Tiger's comeback instead of the Masters Tournament itself."