"Ma'am, are you the stripper?"

We learned yesterday that Tiger comes to Augusta with an army of former FBI and Secret Service and the confirmation comes in this moment of bumbling stupidity that reads like an April Fools Joke and that the club committee should be investigating immediately if they have any concept how disturbing this is.

From Steve Elling, writing about the unusually hectic Monday on the course:

You can't tell these players without a scorecard, and in this case, players isn't a term being used to describe the 97 competitors.

As Woods played his practice round, a woman camped near the fifth tee was approached by a member of Woods' considerable security detail and was asked, "Ma'am, are you the stripper?"

The woman looked at the guy like he had a 3-iron growing out of his forehead. Thus, the security guard reached in his pocket and produced a sheet containing the color mugs shots of Woods' alleged mistresses, who are clearly on his watch list. It was a rogue's gallery, indeed.

"We've just got to be extra careful," the guard told the woman.

She wasn't quite sure how to react. But it was hard to view the inquisition as flattering.

"I'm not sure how to feel yet," she told a TV producer who watched the entire episode.

Welcome to the 2010 Masters, Year of the Tiger, where at least one security guard has a list of American's least-wanted.