Chamblee’s comments, insinuating that Woods had cheated during the season, upset Woods. Woods’s agent, Mark Steinberg, called them “shameful, baseless and completely out of line,” and said that he was looking into legal action.
In an interview on Golf Channel, Chamblee said that his mistake in writing about Woods’s season was to compare his own cheating on a fourth-grade math test with Woods’s being a “a little cavalier about the rules” in incidents that led to three two-stroke penalties.
“Cheating involves intent,” Chamblee said on the “Golf Central” studio show. “Now, I know what my intent was on that fourth-grade math test. But there’s no way that I could know with 100 percent certainty what Tiger’s intent was in any of those situations.”
Chamblee, who had apologized on Twitter, said that he was resigning from Golf.com, where his remarks were published, not Golf Channel. “Tiger and his camp, they’re upset at Golf Channel,” he said. “This column appeared on Golf.com. Nobody here at Golf Channel knew anything about it and my editor at Golf.com asked me to rewrite the ending when I sent it to him.”
He added that he realized that a conflict existed in working for Golf Channel and Golf magazine, which is owned by Sports Illustrated. Now, he said, “if Tiger and his camp have an issue with something I write, they will at least be yelling at the right people.”
Mike McCarley, the president of Golf Channel, declined to comment.
Article source: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/31/sports/golf/chamblee-resigns-from-golf-magazine-after-critical-remarks-on-woods.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
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