And Now Comes the Tiger Woods Gag Order

↵↵While I’m guessing there was no direct edict from CBS Sports telling Ian Baker-Finch to not comment on Tiger Woods, the commentator probably took a brief moment to think about his own future before he dropped his answer on the Sydney Morning Herald:↵

↵↵⇥ “Mate, if I say one word about Tiger I will get fired,” Baker-Finch said before playing in Australia’s richest one-day pro-am at Wynnum Golf Club today.↵↵↵And really, isn’t that about what you’d expect? Can you blame him? Tiger is the goose that lays the PGA’s golden egg. Don’t think for a minute that Baker-Finch will be the last person, in a commentator role, to decline commenting on Tiger. If he, and other commentators, want to keep their job, there’s little to gain by discussing Tiger Woods’ extramarital affairs.↵

↵↵It’s too bad, because there is a discussion to be had, and it really all depends on how the subject is broached. If the question is something along the lines of “So how about that Jamie Grubbs?” then obviously the commentator should “plead the fif.” But I hope that at some point, there’s a commentator willing to step back from the actual scandal to talk about what it all means for golf if Tiger Woods is gone for a prolonged period of time, a thought Tim Finchem would just assume cast aside for the time being.↵

↵↵(H/T to Deadspin)↵

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