No Congressional Medal for Tiger

This is shocking. Golfer Tiger Woods will not be receiving the Congressional Gold Medal from Congress as was originally planned by California representative (D) Joe Baca. It’s not clear just why the representative bailed on his plan to give him the award or what might have triggered the sudden decision to halt the award-giving process.

In a statement, Baca said “In light of the recent developments surrounding Tiger Woods and his family, I will not pursue legislation awarding him the Congressional Gold Medal this session.”

Baca apparently has some kind of insider information. OTR has done extensive Google searches and can’t find any inkling of what Baca might be referring to. Is it because Tiger isn’t playing any more tournaments this year? We guess that could be it.

Photo Caption: Tiger demonstrates what he would do with the Congressional Gold Medal if he actually won it. Unseen in the background is a proud Elin.

Baca introduced the legislation in March, which would give Woods the highest honor possible for a civilian. The bill states, “To provide for the award of a gold medal on behalf of the Congress to Tiger Woods, in recognition of his service to the Nation in promoting excellence and good sportsmanship, and in breaking barriers with grace and dignity by showing that golf is a sport for all people.”

Right, so what is the problem? We’re thinking that some sort of news might come to light. That’s the thing with being a high-ranking national politician, you are privy to news and information that we normal folk aren’t.

One theory that we have as to why Tiger might not get the award, is that Representative Baca realized that we have two wars going on, a real estate crisis and an economy that is in the dumper. We think he finally noticed all this and realized that this isn’t the time to be giving out stupid awards to a douchebag that does great things with other rich people at country clubs. Just a thought.

Stay tuned. We’ll see if any Tiger Woods news surfaces so we can find out just what he’s talking about.