Tiger Woods Returning To Golf In 2 Weeks

Tiger Woods is getting back to his old ways. As we previously blogged, Tiger has been back to the golf course close to his home, practicing his swing. There have been speculations as to when Tiger would return to the game, but it seems he has enlisted some help to get him ready for a return in the next 2 weeks.

Two sources in the golf community told The New York Post that Ari Fleischer, the former press secretary to Pres. George W. Bush and the man who was brought in to help repair the steroid-shattered image of Mark McGwire, has been huddling with Woods, plotting a strategy for his return to golf — at the Arnold Palmer Invitational starting March 25 at Bay Hill in Orlando.

“They were in his living room this week going over a strategy for how to handle Bay Hill in two weeks,” one source said.

The other source told The Post, “I would be shocked if he didn’t play the Arnold Palmer.”

Palmer himself reportedly has told some close confidants that Woods is definitely playing Bay Hill. Quietly, the people running the tournament are preparing for a larger-than-usual media crush.

Meanwhile, Mark O’Meara, Woods’ longtime friend and neighbor, told Golf Channel Wednesday that he “wouldn’t be surprised” to see Woods make his anticipated return at the Tavistock Cup, a made-for-TV inter-club event on March 22-23 at Isleworth, Woods’ home course outside of Orlando.

O’Meara said the two-day exhibition matches might be a “nice way” for Woods to “ease back into the whole situation.”

“It’s been a rough road the last three or four months in Tiger’s life and his family’s life,” O’Meara said. “It’s a very difficult situation. Golf is what Tiger does, and possibly part of the healing process is to get back at it.”

It appears Fleischer is a big part of helping that healing process.

Hopefully, Tiger will take  the same kind of initiative to get his marriage fixed.