I had to consider a few conditions under which it might, in fact, be appropriate for him return to professional golf today. For example, if he played while wearing a large, red letter “A” on his Nike golf shirt, that might be acceptable. But I don’t know if Woods would be willing to do that, which accounts for at least part of the uncertainty expressed in my poll response.
Furthermore, this “scarlet letter” plan would raise a few uncertainties of its own. For example, what if the public were to mistake the letter for some kind of corporate-sponsorship logo? One way to counter this would be to require that an asterisk appear next to the A, along with a footnote on the back of his shirt that says: “*THIS MEANS I AM AN ADULTERER.” But then he might do something to hide the footnote, like tying a sweater around his waist. They could assess a one-stroke penalty every time he did that, of course — but only if they invented a special rule in advance to cover that situation.
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