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Tiger on the Hill
Golf fans on Capitol Hill, take note: Tiger Woods is on the prowl.
As part of the roll-out for the new PGA Tour event held here in the Washington area this summer, Woods will be on the Hill next week along with Tim Finchem, the commissioner of the Professional Golfers' Association, for a little sit-down coffee with members of Congress.
According to Finchem, Woods would "love to meet" members of Congress.
And we can only envision how much they want to meet Tiger, how popular this simple coffee will be. After all, Woods is a sort of transpartisan, the uber athlete in what is perceived as a Republican game, but as a minority a stand-out athlete for liberal Democrats to admire as well.
Rep. Joe Baca (D-Calif.) has offered legislation at least three times to award Woods the Congressional Gold Medal, and about 10 members have signed on as co-sponsors.
Woods is using his Tiger Woods Foundation to sponsor the tournament. It's a multimillion-dollar nonprofit helping youths with education and athletics, and the fact that Woods is coming to Capitol Hill to promote the tournament this summer may signify an effort to expand the foundation.
The time and place of the coffee with Woods has yet to be determined, but, as Finchem wrote in an e-mail to members -- which was forwarded to Capitol Briefing -- he'll keep you posted. Here's what the commissioner wrote:
From: [redacted]
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 12:51 PM
Subject: PGA TOUR in Washington
I wanted to share with you some exciting news we will be announcing later today.
Later this afternoon, we will be announcing a partnership with the Tiger Woods Foundation that will result in a new PGA TOUR event coming to Washington, D.C., starting in July, 2007.
The tournament week will be July 2-8, 2007 with the Tiger Woods Foundation serving as the event's host organization and primary charitable beneficiary. A press conference is scheduled for March 7, 2007 in Washington, D.C. where additional details will be announced, including the event's title sponsor and the charitable vision for the tournament. We are very excited to work with the Tiger Woods Foundation and to be able to bring the PGA TOUR back to Washington, D.C. during the 4th of July holiday celebration.
Prior to the press conference on March 7, Tiger and I will host a congressional coffee on Capitol Hill for members of Congress. We'd love to have you come meet Tiger and hear about the vision for this tournament. We will be getting to you later this week the details of the time and location of this reception but we wanted you to put it on your calendar.
We hope you are as excited as we are about the PGA TOUR returning to Washington, D.C. and we hope to see you on March 7.
Best regards,
Timothy W. Finchem
Commissioner
PGA TOUR
By Paul Kane |
February 28, 2007; 10:08 AM ET
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Posted by: Mohinder L. Jerath, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus | February 28, 2007 2:05 PM
Tiger has reportedly made a long-term commitment to the new DC tournament to benefit his foundation. He may not yet realize that he is unavoidably going to become part of the Washington political dialogue. He'll be urged to do an event for his foundation somewhere in town every year and advocates will try to pull him into other causes as well. He may think of himself as above the political fray but let's see how long that lasts. We are all going to be able to watch the political education of Tiger Woods in the coming years. Welcome to Washington, Tiger...
Posted by: Political Hacker | February 28, 2007 5:10 PM
It's about time he played here, when it was an event other than the U. S. Open.
Let him earn the medal, just like he earns his tournament victories.
Posted by: DC | February 28, 2007 6:05 PM
Tiger is an exmple of outright good sportsmansip and manners. He is among the the all time finest humans in any and all sports. He is an example of a wonderful bringing up by very fine parents and he has the character in the living of his life to go in an out of all kinds social environments.
Posted by: Doug Haddock | March 1, 2007 2:55 PM
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So far Tigger Woods has stayed away from the racial controversy, despite the fact that except for his golf notoriety, being a upright, decent and chartitable person, most of the conservative republican types are neither his friends or deep down fellow Americans. The color of his skin and his ethnic background does not fit with their perverse ideology of inequality and rights only of their kind. They just tolerate, because there is nothing they can do to match his golf game and popularity as a person. So far he has done the right things to stay away from politics and the politico types.
National medal of honor, will not change the person he is. As he can serve his own best interest to stay away from these politicians, that are only second best to child molesters. He be better off to work from behinde the scenes and not get mixed up with the washington corruption.