“If this was a scheme concocted by your handlers, get some new people. One of the reasons you’re in this mess is because your handlers helped you craft an image that wasn’t really you. Swearing on the golf course is you. Throwing clubs is you. A lot of people took issue with those offensive jokes you told GQ’s Charles Pierce in 1997; that was you, too. But if stepping away from golf is a calculated public relations stunt meant to generate some empathy, that means you’ve learned nothing from this entire ordeal.”