I couldn't possibly care less about this ridiculous "controversy" over Woods' car crash. What was he doing leaving his house at that hour? Who cares? It's his business what he was doing. Is it suddenly illegal to leave your house in the wee hours?

Are he and his wife having difficulties? That's their business. Is he having an affair with that woman? He's one of the two or three most famous and desirable men in the world. Temptation of the flesh must be thrust before that man on an hourly basis. In any case, it's only his business and his wife's, no one else's. He owes no one any explanation about anything.

My chief interest in this story now rests in the fact that Woods, or someone representing him, possesses highly admirable grammatical skills. Consider these portions of his statement, as printed in the Guardian:



"This situation is my fault, and it's obviously embarrassing to my family and me. I'm human and I'm not perfect. I will certainly make sure this doesn't happen again. "The only person responsible for the accident is me. My wife, Elin, acted courageously when she saw I was hurt and in trouble. She was the first person to help me. Any other assertion is absolutely false. "I would also ask for some understanding that my family and I deserve some privacy no matter how intrusive some people can be."

Notice in the first graf the correct use of "my family and me" where many half-educated nitwits would say "my family and I" because they think it sounds classier.

But it gets even better. See those commas around his wife's name in the second graf? He, or someone, obviously knows what an appositive is. Believe me, folks, this is a dying piece of knowledge, even among so-called writers.

But wait -- it gets even better! Then, in the third graf, he shows that he knows the difference between "my family and me" and "my family and I," because he uses the latter correctly in the third graf.

So my opinion of the man has only increased in the last 24 hours. Indeed my sole question about this incident is not for Woods, but for General Motors: Are you telling me, Cadillac corporation, that a golf club swung by a thin and not-terribly-muscular (by appearances) woman can break an Escalade window? No wonder you're in trouble.