Stranger By The Minute: Tiger Watch Continues

There is no news on the Tiger front as of 11 a.m. ET here at Valhalla, which is bizarre in that Tiger is obviously not well enough to play this week, so dragging out a decision at this point is either (A) designed to get attention and have people talking about him--working--or, (B) he really is thinking of playing for no good reason.

He'll certainly want to take this advice from one of his favorite writers, John Feinstein, who I'll be sparing with alongside Jaime Diaz tonight on Golf Channel from 6-7 ET in a state of the game-themed Live From.

He's here!! State of the game discussion moves to 8-9 p.m ET! Plenty to talk about.

Anyway, Feinstein on Tiger. Sadly for the sake of interesting television, I concur...

Healthy doesn’t mean playing through pain or feeling good enough to give it a try. Healthy means pain free and feeling as if you’re able to do anything you want to do with a golf club in your hands. Because back problems tend to be chronic for anyone, but especially for golfers, Woods may not be able to get there. But he needs to at least make a serious attempt.

He needs to tell his agent, Mark Steinberg, to not call him to talk business. He needs to tell his sponsors to go away for a while, and he needs to cancel those overseas commitments for appearance fees. He doesn’t need the money. He needs to be healthy.