eventually they got him off the road. pretty scary video there. i don't think i'd go within 100 meters of that gator. >> we're still working on a name for the new show. maybe we'll call it animal traffic tricks or tips. that does it for this edition of "360." thanks for watching. larry king starts right now. >> caller: tonight, tiger woods confesses to the world. >> i was unfaithful. i had affairs. i cheated. >> caller: the fallen idol blames himself. >> i thought i could get away with whatever i wanted to. >> larry: says he's getting treatment. >> what i did was not acceptable. >> larry: and that he has to change. >> my failures have made me look at myself in a way i never wanted to before.

>> larry: witnesses who were in the room are here with first-hand accounts. and then golfing great nick gal faldo, form nba star john salley and dr. drew answered this question, is tiger really sorry? next on "larry king live." good evening. tiger woods' first public statement since the car accident that led to shocking revelations of infidelity lasted a tightly scripted 13.5 minutes. here are some of the key moments. >> i am deeply sorry for my irresponsible and selfish behavior i engaged in. i know i have bitterly disappointed all of you. i have made you question who i am and how i could have done the things i did.

for all that i have done, i am so sorry. i was unfaithful. i had affairs. i cheated. what i did is not acceptable. and i am the only person to blame. i brought this shame on myself. i hurt my wife, my kids, my mother, my wife's family, my friends, my foundation and kids all around the world who admired me. >> joining us now, sir nick faldo, the lead golf analyst for cbs sports, one of the all-time greats, the winner of six majors, including three masters. and bramly cham lee, former pga tour analyst. so nick what, did you make of that today? >> as you can imagine, larry, i can't imagine tiger ever

imagined in his life he would be literally standing up in front of the world and having to apologize for his indiscretions. so you know, it was a pretty profound apology. i thought that part was very good, but i'm sure, as we're going to discuss in the show, there's plenty of other sides to it that are very important. but the bottom line is for us, we golfers, we're still in the dark, very much like i am, as to when he's going to return to playing golf again. >> larry: randall, how did it impress you? >> well, i thought it was a pretty good step towards rebuilding his image. i thought it was comprehensive, i thought it was sincere. i thought like nick faldo just stated, did he show a different side, humility. we have not seen humility from tiger woods in the last 15 years, so the overriding sentiment, i thought, was that it was -- on all fronts achieved what i think he set out to achieve. >> larry: nick, if anything,

what surprised you this morning? >> well, the most obvious thing is, you know, the one thing i thought was very interesting was he's obviously trying to rebuild things with elin, and she had said words are better, you know -- sorry. action or behavior is more powerful than words. he contradicteded himself by saying we've got a lot of talking to do. but for me, he could kill two birds with one stone here and get back out on the golf course. it's extremely important for him to be back out on the golf course. that's what he is, he's a golfer chasing jack nicklaus's records. he wants to do that. he wants to leave this legacy. and i feel as soon as he gets out there, it's important, to him because that is the only area he is not sure of. it's a totally different unknown environment. he knows the way the meed yaed treat him, he knows the way the business world has reacted to him, so his unknown is to get himself back on the golf course.

i can understand tiger is a person who only wants to get on the golf course when he's 100% comfortable and he's there ready to win. look at his incredible record. so you know, until he gets that right, he obviously feels he still has a major problem to get to that step, but if he really wants to rebuild the family, which we believe he does and look after the children, he could quite easily scoop them all up, he's got a private plane, he's got plenty of wealth to have a house at every tournament to, have tutors to have nannies. dad goes off to play golf and rebuilds his family. if you want to rebuild your family, that would be a great start i think. >> loirks but he has to finish rehab, doesn't he? >> absolutely, and i would respectfully disagree with nick. if i understand the rehabilitation process completely, it's that first you have to go through all these steps. he still has rehab to continue

with, maybe another week or two weeks. then he has to make amends at home. i mean, the damage that he has caused with his family is immense, and i doubt that the make-believe life and the fantasy life of the tour would be an ideal situation in which for him to achieve that. i was surprised at his honest revelations, at his accurate assessment of the things that led to this behavior. by him saying that he did not think that normal rules applied to him, that he thought he was entitled and that his money and fame gave him easy access to temptation and that he strayed from his beliefs in buddhism. these are revelations. these rin sights into tiger's life that he has never ever been willingly or able to give to anyone in the media and they interest tried. they have tried for 13 years to get anything out of him other than what club he hit and how he won a golf tournament. today he did that and in a humble manner. >> nick, what are the other golfers saying?

>> well, it's very dlirvegs larry. we've got 150 guys most weeks on tour. and you can imagine they go from one end of the spectrum to the other and others couldn't care less. he's been a very important part of the tour. what he's generated through television, the interest, what he's brought to the tour for the players to gain financially has been immense. so, you know, that's an extremely wide spectrum. so you know, listening toing what brandel is saying, you know, if he really wants to look after the family, he should just quit golf and go look after the family. but he's a golfer chasing jack's records and he has an empire, he has a business, and i can't imagine right now there are too many sponsors that want to shell out $20 million to have tiger woods right now. >> larry: we're going to take a break. we'll be joined by howard bragman who's a top expert in

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>> larry: welcome back. sir nick faldo remains and howard bragman joins us, expert on strategic and crisis communications. and dr. drew pinsky, the host of vh-1's "celebrity rehab with

dr. drew," and the author of "mirror effect, how celebrity narcissism is dee seducing america." here's tiger. >> i stopped living by the core values that i was taught to believe in. i knew i was wrong but il convinced myself that the rules didn't apply. it's up to me to make amends and that starts with never repeating the mistakes i've made. it's up to me to start living a life of integrity. parents used to point to me as a role model for their kids. i owe all those families a special apology. i want to say to them that i am truly sorry. there are many people in this room, and there are many people at home who believed in me. today i want to ask for your help.

i ask you to find room in your heart to one day believe in me again. >> larry: howard bragman, how did this strategy work? >> i think the words were right, larry. i think he said the right thing. he could have used a good editor. i think there was about 13 minutes, it could have gone to about half that. one of the biggest problems is not so much what he did. the mainstream media is not happy with tiger because he chose to go around them. in the beginning he wrote on his blog as opposed to talking with them and doing an interview with a credible journalist. this the didn't help that problem. >> but espn polling over 100,000 people now, 65% said he was sincere. >> you know what? and that's fine. but what he wanted to do was make this go away, and the mainstream media isn't letting this go away because it's getting viewers on tv. it's getting viewers to web sites, it's selling newspapers,

and i think a credible interview with a credible journalist would have done a lot more good. >> dr. drew, how did he do? >> he did okay. i mean, the fact is, he had this highly rehearsed very prified kind of presentation, and there was some dramatic pauses and there was real effect in those pauses. but i walked away with a bad feeling, i have to tell you. not that there weren't some good things. he said he's going to dedicate himself to his treatment and put golf aside and he now has a supportive peer group. i had a couple bad feelings. one he was so repeating over and over again his apology. at no point -- he kept emphasizing how he was a bad person, an irresponsible person, outside of his core values but he never said, i'm a sick person with a problem and this is where it took me. he said, i'm a bad person. i don't remember rehab is telling him -- >> no, they were having him look at his character defects but now

ears the treatment that can help with you that. he's probably doing that, but i don't think this really helped him. >> nick, before you leave us, do you think he'll play again this year? >> that's a big question. obviously, we hope he does. i mean, the masters would make sense but after the way he was talking, maybe that sounds a little soon now. because when tiger was out there, he had this great aura around him. he had magnetism. when he stood on the first tee, he had this presence and to do that, you've got to have great self-esteem when you've got the rest of the world looking at you and critiquing everything, you've got to be feeling pretty good and obviously, this has taken a major dent. he has to stand -- feel good standing at that first tee and just feel comfortable with himself. >> brandon, do you think he'll be back soon? >> i think we'll see him back this year. i doubt if we see him at the masters. i think the earliest would be the u.s. open at pebble beach. i think that he has to be sure

that his family slif shored up and that he can commit the time, the energy, and the mental challenge of getting back to golf. and that is all-encompassing and you can't be worried about your home life if you're going to go out and compete, even a man with his talent. >> howard brag pan and dr. pinsky will remain. what was it like in the room where tiger confessed today? find out from someone who was there next. ring ring ring ring

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we're talking about tiger woods' statement today. doug ferguson is a golf writer in the room when tiger spoke. what was the atmosphere like, doug? >> strange when we got in, larry. it was like showing up to church early. all of his close associates and friends and whatnot had already been seated and sat there and frankly didn't move for the next 25, 30 minutes. a presidential feel to it with the blue drapes, and there was no big announcement. tiger just walked in the room and began. and, frankly, the only drama was when the center camera went out about nine minutes into his statement. >> larry: the golf writers association was offering an opportunity to be part of the media pool. they declined. did you have any kind of queasy feelings of going where you weren't allowed to ask anything?

>> not necessarily, larry. i respect what had they did. the a.p. has a history of covering the news. i appreciate what they've done, but that's what the news was and we were there to cover it. in terms of questions, it was stated it was not a press conference. we were sitting all the way to the back of the room and probably 40, 50 feet away from tiger, and when he finished and you know, in a hush in the room and hugs with his mother and some of his close employees, and he was out the door. >> larry: was there anything you thought tourz, boy, i'd like to ask him this? >> well, i think there is a long list of them, and i think we'll get that time eventually. you know, who exactly is he, and even he alluded to that in his speech about a lot of people don't really know who he is by his actions. and secondly, you know, why should anyone believe him given the last three months or two years of deception?

and you know, lots of other things, larry. i think we'll get that chance when he does return to golf, which i think will be sooner rather than later. there won't be such a controlled setting. i think what we saw today was a chance for him to speak to his associates and kind of a viewing area for the media. you know, there was 40 people in the room, and i'm guessing about 34 of them or so had not seen tiger since the accident. it almost seemed like i'm going to talk to these guys first, and eventually when i get back to golf, he will face the media. that time is coming and there will be no questions he can dodge. >> larry: thanks, doug ferguson. in today's statement, tiger repeatedly said the blame for what's happened is his and his alone, but he also took a couple of swipes at the press. watch. >> i understand the press wants to ask me for the details of the times i was unfaithful. i understand people want to know whether elin and i will remain together.

please know that as far as i'm concerned, every one of these questions and answers is a matter between elin and me. these are issues between a husband and a wife. >> caller: quick. >> larry: quickly, back to howard. you would advise him to do what, do this show? >> slushlgs what else would you want him to do? >> caller: there's a catharsis that comes from putting yourself up to the question. because he puts himself in this seat doesn't mean he has to talk about things he doesn't want to talk about but it makes you vulnerable, it builds sympathy and other journalists will start to leave you alone a little bit. i'm sure oprah and matt will be unhappy that you got it and they didn't. >> larry: did he have to do this, doctor? did he have to come forward at

all. >> no, he doesn't have to do anything. one of the reasons he's in this position is he didn't step up a little sooner and push people back. we wouldn't be recommending that he make apologies to certain people or get up and say i'm a sex addict. but for him to say i've gone to places i never thought i would go, i'm getting help now, what i didn't see him say is i'm struggling against the process. i saw a man appeared rather depressed. sometimes patients who are already depressed become severely depressed. >> we're going to talk to a wife who knows all about the temptations professional athletes face and what she says may shock you next. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] all we ask is that you keep doing what you've always done.

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>> larry: we've got another excerpt from tiger's statement talk bths mind-set that led to what he calls irresponsible and selfish behavior. >> i thought i could get away with whatever i wanted to. i felt that i had worked hard my entire life and deserved to enjoy all the temptations around me. i felt i was entitled. thanks to money and fame, i didn't have far -- i didn't have to go far to find them. i was wrong. i was foolish. i don't get to play by different rules. the same boundaries that apply to everyone apply to me.

>> larry: we now welcome jackie kris christi, the wife of the former nba player, doug christi. the christies are known for their commitment to marriage an monogamy. and from new york, the one and only stephen a. smith from fox sports on the radio and a columnist for the "philadelphia inquirer" always calls them as he sees them. we'll start with jackie. from the perspective of an athlete's wife, what did you make of this statement? >> i took it as i thought it wasn't enough. i felt like it was contrived and he wrote it and he was saying all the right things. i would have wanted more emotion. i just felt like it was really shallow. >> larry: did you expect him to tell his wife he loved her? >> i expected him to tell her he loved her, i expected him to get on bended knee. if you want the world to know how sorry are you for what you've done to your wife, you need to prove it and probleming it i don't think is reading a statement. >> larry: so you're saying if that were you, that's what you would have expected. you would have been long gone.

>> a long time ago, but i still would have wanted the apology. >> larry: stephen smith who calls them as he seize them, what did you make of it today? >> i think jackie is being far too kind. he came across as phoney and entirely weak. >> larry: steve, try to have a point of view. >> it's ridiculous, larry, when you consider the fact he's been lying from opening tap when he came up with that cockamamie story about how his wife was a hero after she tried to rescue him from the black escalade, he's been lying since day one. today he said he realized he's not above the rules, but he circumvented the rules. because protocol calls when you make a mistake like this and a public figure like this, you've got to stand in the public eye and take questions from journalists. you've got the golf writers of america having to boycott this event because this man tried to hand pick a few journalists that he wanted in attend nz, he wanted to be surrounded by

family, friends and loved ones and didn't want to answer any questions. who does he think he is? it's that simple. >> larry: should he have answered questions, howard? >> absolutely. he's a smart guy. give me a day with him, there is nothing he couldn't have handled. any good media trainer could get this guy through it. >> larry: doctor? should he have? >> we really don't know what's going on with him from a mental health standpoint. i felt very unsettled after this. >> larry: you think he's depresses. >> and it could have made things worse from the standpoint of his mental health. it's possible. we just don't know what's going on. >> larry: do you think he should have his life should be his own? >> i think elin should have been there. he made comment of me and my wife are going to start rebuilding our relationship but where is she. >> >> larry: stephen, why do you say oh, no? >> you can't have her there. she's already gone through enough humiliation. this man did not have an affair, he had multiple affairs. they're speculating allegedly. it wasn't just with other women, it was with prostitutes, for crying out loud.

he didn't just meet them in a hotel room, they were in her house while she was ath pregnant, allegedly. all this stuff is coming out and you talk about she's supposed to sit there holding his hand and talk -- oh, no. >> you misunderstand me. >> if i were him, i stay as far as away from him actually. >> i think she should have been there so that when he apologized, he apologized to her first and foremost. i stated before, i would have left a long time ago, but if elin does elect to stay with tiger, i definitely feel that will apologizing to her publicly because he humiliated her publicly, he definitely needed to have her there first and foremost because first and foremost you're going to apologize to me. i'm still not going to be with you, but apologize. >> but she doesn't want to be seen by anybody. >> jackie, thanks for coming. >> thank you. >> larry: we'll have you back. try to be a little forceful tonight, okay? >> i'm sorry. >> larry: we'll take a break. when we come back, jim gray and john salley will join us.

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by a long shot. he's a an major personality. all right, james gray, who breaks news every night. what did you make of it today? >> well, i've known tiger woods since he was 8 years old and i saw a very different tiger woods today. i saw a guy -- five things i saw i don't think i've ever seen in him before. he was shaken and uncomfortable. he didn't display any of the confidence that he ever has. he didn't smile one time. we're so used to seeing his teeth in all those commercials and we're also used to seeing him have that determination in his eyes and that stare. he didn't have any of those, but i saw one thing i hadn't seen, either, and brandel talked about it and nick faldo, and that was a touch of humility. i saw a touch of that today, larry. >> larry: john salley, what did you get? >> one, i'm glad he took responsibility for what he did. taking responsibility, i wrote a book it's on my website it's "refrigerator magnet theory."

you've got to take responsibility and people don't do that. i love jimmy, but saying he wasn't humble and all that stuff, and doug christie's wife saying she would have left a long time ago. all these people say that and they also tell people they love them and they love them for everything they are. when they get married, i love you through thick and thin, through rich and poor and i love you with my conscious and subconscious and then they talk about abandoning them. >> my point is, he got up there and said, i made a mistake. i'm human. he did what he needed to do. he stopped the world for 20 minutes. the last time that happened was in a movie. he stopped the world for 20 minutes. i woke up this morning just to see tiger woods. so guess what, he did what he needed to for the public, for the media. >> larry: steven, i imagine you disagree? >> oh, absolutely, i always -- usually disagree with john. john knows that. did anybody grasp the idea, just the idea, that maybe, just maybe, he was uncomfortable

because he had to speak somewhat truthfully about something for the first time in his life? this is not a guy that's accustomed to making himself available to some folks, to revealing himself to folks. this was a guy that was uncomfortable, had to read a statement. it's your life, why do you have to read a statement? >> this is why you read a statement. because you get up in front of the world, you want to make sure, it's the same statement that was on his website. you want to make sure the words you felt come out, and nobody can sit around and say he left something out, he should have said this. he was speaking from the heart. i believe he wrote the things he said. >> you believe -- you can't tell. >> you believe he doesn't. >> exactly. >> how can you not tell? >> can't tell. we don't know for sure. i'm telling you -- >> you know him? you're sure? you're sure about that? >> i'll tell you this. do you know anybody, steve? >> larry: hold it a second. i want to get jim. jim gray knows him the longest. we're going to have bragman and

pinski analyze salley and smith. jim, you knew him a long time. who's right here? >> well, you know, i don't think that either of them are right. i think it's somewhere in between. i mean, let's just say this. from the news aspect today, i was happy to hear tiger woods say that he has not used performance-enhancing drugs. i was happy to hear tiger woods say today that there has never been any domestic violence in his marriage. i thought those two proclamations were something that everybody wanted to have answered and he gave those answers. i was also hoping while hearing this that this wasn't a john edwards moment, that this wasn't perhaps a moment of bill clinton. i hope that this is truthful. i hope we don't come to find out something else along the line. i was very happy to hear those two things today, and i think that's the right step in the right direction, and he's going to have to face these questions at some point because the reporters are not going to go away. everybody's spoken about it at some point. i just want to say one thing about howard bragman.

it's not about coaching somebody into doing something and having it come out the way that it should. it's about telling the truth. just tell the truth. america buried richard nixon a hero. there was a 21-gun salute. the man tore and devastated this country. he lost all of our credibility and the belief in our government and there was a 21-gun salute. he died a hero. we can certainly get over tiger woods having sex outside of his marriage. >> larry: john, what did you want to say? >> if you showed all these different people, they would be human. it came out early because the media is upset, and he made a point. this is between he and his wife, and the media should only talk about his golf. >> larry: stephen snnl don't you believe -- >> it is between him and his wife. i want to make that clear. it's between him and his wife. it's nobody else's business. but tiger made it everyone's business because he tried to manipulate the masses to try to make them believe what he wanted them to believe at the very beginning. that's the points that you all

are missing. he came up with the story about the wife busting out the windows trying to drag him out of the escalade. he came up with all that stuff, making everybody think he was going down a highway at 100 miles per hour when he crashed going down his driveway into a tree. >> maybe something happened to the pedal. >> john, i'm serious. the point is, this guy is making up stories because he's making a concerted effort to manipulate people into believing what he wants them to believe as opposed to answering questions. >> i disagree with you. >> larry: i've got to get a breaking. >> stop lying. >> larry: stephen. >> call me, we'll talk about it. >> larry: steven, we're going to have you back very soon, but please promise the next time, be forthcoming. >> i promise. >> larry: have some opinions. stop with the laid back. greg will come back, sally will come back. what tiger didn't say. we'll take a look at that what it can mean next. ( sneeze )

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>> we're taking a look at tiger woods' public confession. with us is dr. gale salz, new york presbyterian and best selling author among her books "anatomy of a secret life." robi ludwig is here, contributory care.com. tiger woods mentioned his wife at least nine times during today's 13.5 minute statement. we'll talk about it. watch this first. >> elin and i have started the process of discussing the damage caused by my behavior. as elin pointed out to me, my

real apology to her will not come in the form of words. it will come from my behavior over time. some people have speculated that elin somehow hurt or attacked me on thanksgiving night. it angers me that people would fabricate a story like that. elin never hit me that night or any other night. there has never been an episode of domestic violence in our marriage, ever. elin has shown enormous grace and poise throughout this ordeal. >> larry: dr. saltz, what's your read on all of this? >> i think he's trying to be generous to his wife, appropriately so. i think you could hear that he's been in therapy as he talks about the fact that, yes, it's not about saying you're sorry, it's about showing over the long haul, over a long period of time that he's going to do the hard work that it would take to build back some sort of a

relationship. now, whether or not he can do that i think remains to be seen, but i think that is something he probably learned in his therapy, and so something he's trying to relay. >> larry: all right. robi, what do you think? >> well, i agree with gail. it sounds like he's had some time to start the reflection process, the self-reflection process, and he's gaining more insight into perhaps why he did some of the things that he did, but it is a long road, and my gut feeling is that he really has no idea yet as to why he was behaving the way he did. and he needs to make those connections, and yes, certainly marriages can get through infidelity. the question is, is he willing to be in his marriage in a very different way than he has been in the past? and we don't know that. >> gail, should he have said today that he loved his wife? >> i think that the things that he's going to say about his wife, i actually think that it

was appropriate that he said that's going to be between he and her. i know that people are voyeuristically dying to hear -- to know what's going on in there but once he starts to open that up, it's just going to invite more curiosity and more wanting to see inside and he should probably try to keep that separate because that's not what the public is upset about. the public is upset about the hypocrisy, saying i am this wonderful role model for children, et cetera its and not behaving that way and i think that should be separate with what's going on in his marriage. >> larry: robi, can he get it back? >> yes, and you and i were talking about kobe bryant i don't know how many years ago when he was having his difficulty in the news. we are somewhat forgiving, in some ways we like to see people are put up on a pedestal and they fall. we like to see them rise again. do they rise in the same way?

no. because we understand that they're flawed people. but certainly people have made it back. >> larry: thank you, girls. ladies; i'm sorry. forgive me. the pga tour's top man joins us next with what this means for the world of pro golf.

tonight on 360, home from haiti. jim allen, one of the missionaries under arrest for nearly three weeks, shares his side of what will really

happened. what they were hoping to accomplish and how everything went so wrong so quickly. also, does your reaction to the tiger woods news conference depend on your sex? we'll have two very different takes, plus a look at the stage craft anchorgraphy of what was and wasn't said and who was and wasn't in the audience. those stories in the raw politics and the new look and new energy at the conservative's convention here in washington. but for now, back to larry. >> larry: we're back. we're talking about tiger woods' public remarks today. pga tour commissioner tim finchum joins us from florida. he applauds tiger's statement, calling it good news for the tour. how so, tim? >> well, i think it was a positive first step. i mean, i think what fans want to see is not just that tiger comes back and plays golf but that when he does so, he brings the right comportment with him and he has his personal life in order, and certainly i felt the statement today committed him to a course to do just that, and i thought it was very encouraging.

>> larry: from a personal perspective, what was it like to be there? >> well, it was kind of a strange atmosphere, really. i mean, it was very quiet, it was serious. i thought he was direct, forceful. he spoke to the people that he wanted to reach in terms of the people who have been impacted by his situation. and these were people in have interfaced with his foundation, with his tournaments, with his business aspects, and with him personally and some family members. so it was a unique thing, but, again, a serious situation. >> larry: he greeted you after. did you exchange any words? >> no, we shook hands. i had spoken to him yesterday briefly, and i'll be talking to him when he finishes his therapy. he's gone back into therapy. but, you know, my take on this

was positive, and the thing that struck me most was that he seemed very committed to the course that he's laid out. he laid out a course and he set the standards that he wants to be measures by now, and you know, he has a history of when he sets his mind to something to get there and we've watched him over the last 14 years. and he set those standards today and i wouldn't bet against him. >> larry: we have another clip from tiger's statement. this is about his future in golf. let's watch. >> i do plan to return to golf one day. i just don't know when that day will be. i don't rule out that it will be this year. when i do return, i need to make my behavior more respectful of the game >> larry: from a tour standpoint, tim, it's very

important to have him back. purely for ratings and interest, isn't it? >> well, yeah. i mean, we perform reasonably well, you know, any time. no one man is the pga tour. he was out for most of 2008 and we actually had a record year that year. from a television standpoint he brings so much attention to the sport. it would be great to have him back. it's important for any sport to have their number one player or athlete back and playing. i was encouraged when he said he was very open to returning this year. and we're hopeful that he can get these issues to a point that allows him to do that during 2010. >> larry: he didn't really owe this, did he? i mean, he didn't owe a statement about his personal life or anything. he didn't have to do this today. do you think it was wise? >> well, i did. you know, i -- you know, my sense is that it had something to do with his therapy, but

also, you know, i think he recognizes that to wait until he walks out on the golf course, you know, the fans want to know that he's focused on where he needs to be and that they can count on him, you know, moving forward to get these issues resolved, get them behind him and be able to come out and play the game, as i said earlier, but to do it with a certain amount of comportment and with some understanding of his focus on his personal issues. so this is a major step i thought for him to talk about very personal issues in a very open and candid way. when he says things like, you know, i was, the fame and the money gave me a sense of entitlement that i felt you know, i was operating in the parameters of rules that apply to other people, don't apply to

me and things like that. i thought it was very revealing of how focused he is on these issues. >> larry: thanks, tim, see you on the fairways. >> thanks, larry. i appreciate it. >> larry: tim finchem, pga tour commissioner. back with more after this. so i was the guy who was never going to have the heart attack.

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>> larry: we wind up things with our panel. jim gray, what do you think happens from here? when does tiger come back? >> well, i hope that he comes back this season. he left the door open. you know, i've been thinking about the great icons and tiger's often compared to muxtd muhammad ali and babe ruth and michael jordan. i just remember how inclusive muhammad ali was, how he put his arm around everybody and he brought everybody along and made them feel good. i remember the great day ten years ago you took me with you to see president mandela. he said, people will forget what you say and people will forget what you do. no one will ever forget the way you make them feel. well, tiger woods has made a lot of people feel real good about the way he plays golf. i think today was the beginning of repairing the damage. i hope that he will fulfill what he said he will do and live a life of integrity and bring people along now. >> larry: very well said.

john, what do you think is next? >> i just finished sitting here talking to my friend. howard. it's more what you do speaks so loudly. what you say doesn't matter. and -- >> larry: words are cheap. >> right. words are cheap. >> and what he does is, he does make everybody feel good. but that's not his job. the deal is they want him to be something he's not because that's what they want. i will tell tiger, man, what somebody thinks about you is none of your business. don't worry about what they think about you. he is back already. the fact he came back and spoke today, he's back. they just want him to play -- the real deal, everybody just wants him to play golf so just let him play golf. >> larry: howard? >> he's my client. i'm going to tell him three things. get a thick skin, as john just said. learn, practice your buddhism and really practice patience because you fall in a hole really quickly, you get out really slowly, and play amazing golf. that's what got you there in the first place. that's what's going to get you out of this eventually. >> larry: what would you say if he were your patient? >> i have a different priority than these guys do. it takes three to five years to

thoroughly treat the condition that tiger has. it's a very serious condition. >> larry: sex addiction? >> absolutely. >> larry: some people say it isn't. >> he's admitted to a program. >> larry: salley says it isn't. >> you have to meet criteria for this condition to be admitted to a program that is state licensed such as the one in mississippi he's in. it cannot be discussed anymore. he has it. the other issue people need to remember is elin has as much work as he does. oftentimes the spouse, feels betrayed and feel like that's the person that needs the treatment, is reluctant. but they need to participate as much and sometimes more than the identified patient. a lot of work ahead, but if they want to salvage this marriage and help this family they have ing about three to five years are of really intensive treatment ahead. >> larry: quickly, jim, will it affect his play? >> that's an interesting question. because it's always been stated much back by the english and over in scotland that it's a game of inches. the most important one is in between your ears. tiger woods is going to have to have everything going on right

in his mind to have his game. he hasn't lost his golf game. right now, he looked shaken to me today. and i don't think he's in any condition to play golf. i think it's exactly right. he needs to get his life straight and in order. i think he'll play great golf again, but i think it's going to take some time and it remains to be seen if he'll ever be at ta pinnacle that he was before all of this happened. >> larry: the other athlete here, john, do you think he will play well? >> kobe bryant played better. when it was all around him, this was his sanctuary. i agree with dr. drew, that his wife has to have this conversation because they have to get back together. and you've got to get back together and figure out exactly what you want out of this relationship. >> larry: thank you all very much. we have obviously not heard the last of this. the dalai lama met with president obama the other day and he will do an exclusive interview with us on monday night. the dalai lama monday night on "larry king live."

right now, john king sits in for anderson cooper with "a.c. 360." john? >> thanks larry. a great program. everyone's talking tonight about tiger and his apology. tonight we're going to take a step beyond, tackling it from a number of fresh angles, including this. >> family foreman is looking beyond tiger's performance in front of the cameras to what those cameras really captured. things you and i might have missed. >> this highly staged and scripted apology was intended to calm the storm around tiger woods, but it has unleashed a torrent of debate. three things you may not have noticed but are ripping through discussions tonight. tiger wore no wedding ring. sure, photos suggest he rarely did before the scandal. but you can bet the absence was noted today. so was the absence of his wife, who was nowhere to be seen. so were the reactions of his mother who rarely even looked up at him during that statement. and the reactions of others, who were looking very hard. you know who was in his hand-picd