Players Champ Marshals: Tiger Never Asked About Sergio

Michael Bamberger slips it in late in his entertaining story on Tiger's win at The Players, but it seems the marshals that Woods said he consulted about whether it was okay for him to play--when he disrupted Sergio--were not actually consulted.

Worse for Tiger and the English language, they've spoken.

One of them, Gary Anderson, said on Sunday, “He didn’t ask us nothing, and we didn’t say nothing. We’re told not to talk to the players.”

Anderson’s boss, John North, was the chief marshal for the first three holes. He stood over Woods’s ball to protect it from the throng and was five feet away when Woods played his shot. North has worked the tournament as a volunteer marshal for 30 years, he’s a graduate of the Naval Academy, he served in Vietnam, he’s a FedEx pilot and he donates his round on the Stadium course for being a volunteer to the Wounded Warriors project.

“Nothing was said to us and we certainly said nothing to him,” North said. “I was disappointed to hear him make those remarks. We’re there to help the players and enhance the experience of the fans. He was saying what was good for him. It lacked character.”