Excuses

Claiming he will spend time with his new daughter and wife, Tiger Woods will get to miss the Grand Blanc (Mich., as if that wasn't your first guess) Buick tournament instead of the British Open, which he would have missed if his daughter had not been born a couple weeks early ... and he had taken the time off. He certainly appears to have a charmed life.

** An oddity: golf is usually the excuse to stay away from the family. **