Not trying to dump on Tiger Woods at this point. The New York Post reported that Golf Digest is “loosening its ties to Tiger Woods, suspending his monthly instructional golf articles while Woods is on leave from professional golf,” but the magazine “has not totally severed its connection with Tiger.” Writer Keith Kelly noted that Golf Digest has an “exclusive long-term contract with Woods valued at $3[M] per year,” and the publication “declined to say whether Tiger’s compensation would be suspended.” A spokesperson for Golf Digest publisher Conde Nast said that Woods “will remain on the magazine’s masthead as Playing Editor.”

Golf Digest’s admission that it is “benching Tiger was buried in an editor’s note,” Kelly said.