Tiger, who will be returning to golf in the Master’s much sooner than expected will not have the luxury of being paid enormous amounts of money for sporting a shiny new logo on his golf bag.

Poor Tiger.

First, he gets in a very public car accident which started all of the speculation about his marriage in the first place. Then, the shit-storm hit and Tiger lost countless sponsors, which equaled mucho dinero and a tremendous loss of face for the golfer once known as having a semi-stellar reputation. If the loss of money and public face wasn’t enough for the unlucky Tiger, he had to go to Sex Re-hab, which is something that I can only envision from the movie “Choke” and the main character’s “Sex Addicts” support group meetings, which always ended up with most of the participants having sex.

Now, after being dropped by AT & T, Tiger is going to have to sport the old logo from his longest-running sponsor: Nike. How embarrassing is that? I’m guessing that most of the golfers will have new sponsors.

I’m sure that he could have done some more creative marketing than that. Last I heard, Hooters was still looking for a golfer to sponsor and I am positive that a semi-stellar guy like Tiger (who did publicly apologize to the entire United States for his sexual liaisons) would love to have a Hooters logo on his bag. Maybe he could even get a couple of cheerleader/waitresses to boot.

As to whether or not Tiger will actually fare well in the Master’s, I’ll leave that to the experts. The bookies are giving ole Tiger three-to-one odds to win in Augusta. For those of you who are concerned about the relative emptiness of Tiger’s wallet after all of those lap dances, just keep in mind that if Tiger Woods wins the Master’s, he will take home a purse of $7.5 million, which is not too shabby.

Of course, Tiger is still under the sponsorship of Nike indefinitely, who is no slouch in terms of athlete sponsorship in the United States.