The trouble with Tiger.(Static)(Brief Article)

* The trouble with Tiger: There are certified strategies for capturing The Masters' splendor--go light on commercials, heavy on piano, and ixnay the blimps, Gary McCord and Martha Burk. But what to do when the bloom is off Tiger Woods' azalea? What if the most indulged athlete in TV Land bares his mortality, again? (See CBS squirm.)

Woods has been in autofocus since his precedent-setting 1997 green-jacket victory, when CBS showed 66 of his 69 final-round shots and lapped up a record Masters rating (14.1). At last month's Bay Hill Invitational, NBC gave Woods more face time than any 46th-place finisher ever. On Sunday last year at Augusta, when CBS could have gone up close and persona with front-runner Len ...