Tiger Apologizes for ‘Transgressions,’ Slams Tabloid Media

Woods: “Personal sins should not require press releases.”

Hours after a voicemail Tiger Woods left for one of the women who claimed to have had an affair with him surfaced — while others told their Tiger tales to tabloids — the world’s number one golfer released another statement.

This time, it came with an apology, an admission of "trangressions" (a word that almost immediately became the no. 1 trending search term on Google) — and a shot at the media.

"Personal sins should not require press releases," Woods wrote on his Web site while, ostensibly, issuing a press release about his personal sins.

The full text:

I have let my family down and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart.

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