SINGAPORE: Tiger Woods is “moving forward” after a Golf Channel analyst who insinuated he cheated went on TV to admit he had made a mistake, his agent told yesterday
Mark Steinberg, speaking at an appearance in Singapore, signalled the world number one was keen to draw a line under a row which had raised the threat of legal action.
“We’re not going to comment any further, we’re done,” said Steinberg, as Woods held a clinic for young golfers and dyslexic children at the Marina Bay Sands casino-hotel.
“We’re done speaking about it. I’ve got a lot of work to do ahead of me and Tiger’s got a lot to do ahead of him, so we’re just moving forward.”
Steinberg had said he was considering a libel suit after analyst Brandel Chamblee wrote an article accusing Woods of bending the rules following a series of penalties this year.
On Wednesday, in his first televised comments on the issue, Chamblee admitted he “went too far”, but stopped short of making a full apology.
“Cheating involves intent,” Chamblee said. “There’s no way that I could know with 100 percent certainty what Tiger’s intent was in any of those situations. That was my mistake.”
Chamblee’s explanation mirrors his initial response to Steinberg, when he issued tweets admitting he had been unfair to Woods, but then said he stood by his comments.
Woods had earlier indicated he would leave it to the Golf Channel to act on Chamblee.
“The whole issue has been very disappointing as he (Chamblee) didn’t really apologise and he sort of reignited the whole situation,” he said in China on Monday.
“But so as far as I am concerned I’m going to put it behind me and move forward, so the ball really is in the court of the Golf Channel and what they are prepared to do.” AFP
