Golf Digest will suspend Tiger Woods' monthly instructional columns
while the golfer is on indefinite leave from golf, the magazine
announced Wednesday.
"Golf Digest has had a long-standing relationship with Tiger
Woods to provide instruction articles for the magazine, and we do
not have any plans to change that," the magazine said in a
statement. "We respect Tiger's decision to take a break from
professional golf and focus on his family; Tiger's bylined
instruction articles will not be published in Golf Digest during
his time away from the game."
Woods will remain on the magazine's masthead as a Playing
Editor, the magazine said.
It was unclear if the magazine would continue to pay Woods
while he is on leave. According to the New York Post, Golf Digest
has an exclusive long-term contract with Woods valued at $3 million
per year.
"We have nothing to say in regards to Tiger's compensation,"
said a Condé Nast spokesman, according to the Post. Condé
Nast owns Golf Digest.
Woods took an indefinite leave from golf on Dec. 11, two
weeks after he crashed his SUV into a tree outside his Florida
home, and in the wake of more than a dozen women coming forward
claiming to have had an affair with him.
