This is tooooooo good, had to get it in here.....
GEOFF MCCLURE
December 9, 2009
The cover of Golf Digest.
AS IT emerged yesterday that Tiger Woods is now on the inward nine when it comes to women claiming to have had affairs with him - news reports put the latest tally down to 10 (and there you were, weren't you, laughing at our suggestion yesterday it would be 10 by the end of this week) - what about this? Is this the funniest thing you have ever seen?
Now, we have often heard of publications getting into trouble with pre-print deadlines (back in the 1970s and '80s, when colour covers required days of preparation, we lost count of the number of times local newspapers had Melbourne Cup day cover photographs of Cup hopefuls that had been scratched by the time the paper hit the newsstands).
Nothing compares to this though, surely the most excruciatingly ill-timed front cover ever, the January 2010 edition of Golf Digest magazine which shows a mocked-up image of President Barack Obama lining up a putt while apparently taking advice from his ''caddie'' Woods.
All this with the words: ''10 Tips Obama Can Take from Tiger''. Well, what a difference four weeks can make because it was apparently this time last month that the magazine was sent to the printers with the editor no doubt congratulating himself, what with Tiger, the family man with seemingly unblemished role-model qualities alongside the most powerful man in the world.
Inside, the article adds to the embarrassment by referring to the President and the now scandal-plagued golfer as "two men who might have much to talk about, like siblings separated at birth".
What's more, Golf Digest praises Woods as "a good role model because he has always been able to pull himself together after setbacks". According to the article, Obama could also benefit from a Woods-like agility with image control, the magazine adding: "Tiger never does anything that would make him ridiculous."
Talk about famous last words.
