Will Golf Digest change the cover of Tiger Woods and Obama before its release?”
The editors at Golf Digest had this great idea. President Barack Obama has been playing a lot of golf lately. And according to a detailed report in The Wall Street Journal, not playing that well. So why not invite Tiger Woods, the world’s pre-eminent golfer, to give the president some tips? And, in another brainstorm, they even used Photoshop to create an image of Woods in caddy gear posing behind Obama as he judges a putt. After all, Steve Rushin explains in the January issue, they are at the top of their fields, both “prominent, multi-ethnic” African-Americans, both with an older man as lieutenant — Vice President Joe Biden and caddy Steve Williams. Mostly, said the writer, the difficulty of their tasks is similar. “Shooting back-to-back 65s at Firestone Country Club is — ask any golfer — every bit as difficult as achieving world peace,” Rushin wrote. But that was before Woods was embroiled in a personal saga gone public, with so many women now stepping forward to claim a relation
