"Woods' annoying practice of withholding his commitment to any event until the final deadline is simply irresponsible -- especially now that he brings with him so much excess baggage."

Scott Michaux on the possibility of a Tiger return overshadowing the Masters:

Whatever the case, the players would like a resolution of a festering issue that's been hovering in the air all season.

"Until you hear it from Tiger Woods and his agents, it's still speculation," said Stricker, who counts himself as one of the golfer's friends on tour. "We'd like to know one way or another for sure. Everybody would. It gets to the point where you're like, 'C'mon, just make up your mind and tell us where you're playing because we're all dying to know anyway.' "

Woods certainly owes his peers that courtesy. And he owes the tournament itself the same kind of heads up.

Woods' annoying practice of withholding his commitment to any event until the final deadline is simply irresponsible -- especially now that he brings with him so much excess baggage.