Golf pundit resigns after insinuating Woods cheated

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Golf commentator Brandel Chamblee has resigned from his job writing columns for Golf.com, acknowledging that he made a “mistake” when he insinuated that Tiger Woods had cheated on the PGA Tour.

Chamblee addressed the issue during an interview on the Golf Channel, where he works as a television analyst.

“There’s no way that I could know with 100% certainty what Tiger’s intent was in any of those situations,” he said. “That was my mistake.”

In his column for Golf.com, which is operated by Sports Illustrated, Chamblee referred to penalties that Woods drew at the Masters, the BMW Championship and a tournament in Abu Dhabi. He compared the golfer’s actions to his own experience getting caught cheating in school.

“I went too far,” he said, later adding that “my editor at Golf.com asked me to rewrite the ending when I sent it in to him. I wished I would have listened to him.”

In the two weeks since the column appeared, Woods had called for Golf Channel to take action. Rory McIlroy made similar comments at the HSBC Champions in Shanghai on Thursday.