If I Could Ask Tiger

I'd like to know if his recent troubles and the new found humility they have brought to Tiger Woods have him re-thinking his use of the gallery to remove a boulder which was in his way during the 1999 Phoenix Open?

You see, I did not feel that the one-ton boulder which Tiger directed the gallery to move out of his way fell within the spirit of the term "loose impediment", even though the rules, when strictly interpreted, provide that it could be so considered. A thousand pound chunk of granite doesn't just blow onto the course, it didn't fall out of a tree or from the sky or off a nearby cliff in the night, Mighty Mouse did not leave it behind; no, it was a part of the course design, in bounds, clearly visible, intentionally left in place. Perhaps not embedded, it set atop the sands, but not overlooked by the staff as debris either.

In the same way that Tiger felt he "deserved to enjoy the temptations" which led him to cheat on his wife, I believe he inwardly knew that what he was asking Rules Official Orlando Pope to acknowledge that he, Tiger Woods, did not deserve to get a bad break at that crucial point in the tournament. After all, we might imagine him thinking, 'I deserve a chance to go for the green', even though it was his own previous act which put him in the position which limited his choices.

Well, not to put too fine a point on the matter, but I do wonder if he was asked to reconsider the situation; would he feel today that he was entitled to the relief he took back then?