Tiger Woods says he is prepared to move on, and it is now up to the Golf Channel what will come up of the controversy recently started after analyst Brandel Chamblee labeled the world's top-ranked golfer a "cheater."
Speaking publicly about the incident for the first time on Sunday, Woods told ESPN "all I am going to say is that I know I am going forward... I don't know what the Golf Channel is going to do. The whole issue has been very disappointing, as he didn't really apologize and and he sort of reignited the whole situation.
Chamblee recently wrote for Golf Channel.com that he gave Woods an "F" for his five-win because of a series of rules violations. He later added "Woods was a little cavalier with the rules" and made the analogy of the time his fourth-grade teacher crossed out "100" and gave him an "F" for cheating on a math test. Chamblee last week tweeted that the cheating comparison went too far, and he apologized to Woods for "this incited discourse."
"All I am going to say is that I know I am going forward," Woods told ESPN before his exhibition match with Rory McIIroy at Mission Hills. "But then, I don't know what the Golf Channel is going to do or not. But then that's up to them. The whole issue has been very disappointing, as he didn't really apologize and he sort of reignited the whole situation.
Woods' agent, Mark Steinberg, was so incensed by the column that he issued a statement to ESPN.com that raised the possibility of legal action.
Woods accepted a 2-shot penalty in Abu Dhabi for taking relief from an embedded ball in a sandy area covered with vegetation. During The Masters at Augusta National, he likewise received a 2-shot penalty for taking the wrong drop in the second round. And the PGA Tour gave him a 2-shot penalty after his second round of the BMW Championship when video evidence showed that his ball moved slightly from behind the first green. Even after watching the video, Woods insisted that his ball only oscillated.
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