Why Is Tiger Taking So Long To Commit To The Safeway?

Who knows!

To recap: he committed September 7th to playing next week's PGA Tour 2016-17 kickoff event and has until 5 pm ET Friday to actaully pencil himself in via the tour's online entry system* email or phone according to a player who saw this post and says the tour system was shut down Wednesday until further notice due to Hurricane Matthew.

For reasons unclear, Tiger has yet to commit. Perhaps it's as simple as his endless affection for the Friday news dump, deriving pleasure at the thought of writers constantly refreshing his website in hopes of getting to report whatever the writers at TigerWoods.com say.

Or, as Joel Beall notes, the reason for the no-commit can only mean one of three things. Two of the reasons do not have him teeing it up in Napa.

Though it all begs the question: why drag something out as simple as a commitment to an event you've verbally committed to? Only TW knows.