Tiger Woods Couldn't Set Aside Arrogance He's choked up one second, lecturing the media the next By John Johnson Posted Feb 20, 2010 11:20 AM CST Copied Tiger Woods makes a statement at the Sawgrass Players Club, Friday, Feb. 19, 2010, in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Sam Greenwood, Pool) Great athletes must possess "extraordinary arrogance," writes sports author John Feinstein. They must know they can make that clutch shot. Tiger Woods is a perfect example, and that's precisely why yesterday's scripted news conference fell flat. "At a moment when the arrogance that makes him a great golfer should have been put aside, he couldn't do it," Feinstein writes in the Washington Post. "Seconds after delivering his various mea culpas, he started lecturing the media." He also refused to take questions. "Let's be sure we have this straight: Woods, who says he now understands that he's not above the rules of common decency, is still above answering questions from those who are paid to represent a public that has helped make him a billionaire." If Tiger wants to make tangible first step, let's see him sit out the Masters in April to, as he put it, "work on my problem." Read These Next New Fox star, 23, misses first day after car troubles. Iran's supreme leader makes first public comments since ceasefire. Her blood isn't compatible with anyone else's. Man accused of killing his daughters might be dead. Report an error