Sex and Golf: It Doesn't Get Any Better Than This!

NEWTOWN SQUARE - I've just arrived at the Media Center here at Aronimink for the AT&T National. If I'm not mistaken, it's converted from an indoor tennis court(s). It's beautiful, air-conditioned and state of the art - technologically speaking. In front of me is a electronic scoreboard as well as a TV broadcasting the World Cup. PAR is playing JPN.

Not a lot of action here yet.

The big question I have for spectators today is "What do you think about the idea of sexual addiction? Is it a real disease? Or was it something invented by mental health professionals to fleece insurance companies and to give wayward men and women a medical excuse for behaving badly?"

Of course, this is a pertinent question given that the most famous golfer in the world and the unofficial host of this tournament has tacitly admitted to a problem along these lines. It has been reported that after the sex scandal exploded in the media last November, Tiger Woods checked into a posh rehab for sex addicts.

Is bedding porn stars and cocktail waitresses an uncontrollable and compulsive act requiring a 12-step intervention or simply reckless and morally objectionable?

I have my own opinion on this I'll be sharing later. I'll be very interested in what others have to say about it. But I doubt it will be brought up at Tiger's press conference this afternoon. We'll see.