GoodSports: Tiger Woods Donates $1 Million to Charity

Tiger Woods is paying out $1 million for a bet he didn't lose. Full story after the break. 

It all started a few weeks ago when Woods, eight-over (correction: six-over, apologies) after the first nine holes, pulled out of the Players Championship tournament, citing pain in his knee and Achilles'. The media reaction was, of course, wildlly negative. People called him a quitter, a wimp, washed up, old. Inevitably, someone connected it to steroid use.* 

Anyway, Woods on Tuesday had a press conference for the AT&T National in Philadelphia. Before he started it, he wrote on Twitter, "I'll donate one million dollars to [the Tiger Woods Foundation] if no one asks about the leg." 

Since the room was full of responsible journalists, the very first question was about, you guessed it, the leg. Well, technically: "How's your overall health for the U.S. Open?" Sneaky wording, there. So far as I can find, nobody asked specifically about the leg ... although, c'mon, "overall health"? Of course they want to know about THE LEG.

Anyway, according to the Washington Post, Woods replied, "With the proper treatment, the proper rehab, I'll be ready." 

So naturally, people on Twitter interrogated Woods about that million-dollar tweet. Woods replied, "Bet was over after first question but of course I'm going to give the money to the @TWFoundation." 

Atta baby, Woods. 

For more details on Woods's knee, check out the full story here. 

* And of course, Woods very well may have used 'roids at some point. It wouldn't surprise me a bit. And honestly, I don't care. He made golf fun to watch. Nobody got hurt. The other two sports predominantly afflicted by performance-enhancing drug use are football and baseball. In those games, juiced up blockheads can kill somebody—in football by using their body as a projectile, in baseball by crushing said projectile with a club. Steroids have no place there, on account of they can, you know, end somebody's life. Golf? What harm are steroids going to do to someone in golf? Seriously, I want to know what you think—hit me in the comments.