Tiger vs. the Golf Media: It's No Contest

Watching Tiger Woods effortlessly handling the polite queries from golf reporters at his meticulously staged press conference in Augusta yesterday, I was reminded of a story about the English soccer team at the 1986 soccer World Cup, which took place in Mexico. For the early stages of the tournament, the English team was based in Monterrey, a grim industrial city in the north of the country. I went to Mexico as a fan, but one of my old Fleet Street pals, Allan Hall, was there working for The...