Tiger Woods Reportedly in Arizona -- Again -- for More Treatment

Tiger Woods is back in Arizona, but not for the Waste Management Phoenix Open. The blogosphere is buzzing with news that Woods' private plane landed in Mesa, (or maybe Scottsdale), and that the golfing great and his wife may be headed to an addiction treatment facility in Wickenburg...

By Ray Stern

February 23, 2010

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Tiger Woods is back in Arizona, but not for the Waste Management Phoenix Open.

The blogosphere is buzzing with news that Woods' private plane landed in Mesa, (or maybe Scottsdale), and that the golfing great and his wife may be headed to an addiction treatment facility in Wickenburg.

He reportedly attended the Meadows facility in Wickenburg, a small town northwest of Phoenix, back in December.

Curing a billionaire's addiction to sex takes time -- and plenty of jet fuel.

Woods could have saved time and money by taking a less responsible path, maybe do something along the lines of the Onion's imagined apology speech.

Because it won't matter in the long run.

We'd bet a box of Wheaties that Woods won't really give up night-putting.

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Ray Stern is the former news editor of Phoenix New Times. He worked as a newspaper reporter in Arizona for more than two decades. He's won numerous awards for his reporting, including the Arizona Press Club's Don Bolles Award for Investigative Journalism.