After rehabilitating knee and Achilles tendon injuries, Tiger Woods is playing his first tournament in four months this weekend at the World Golf Association-Bridgestone Invitational in Akron, Ohio.

Woods shot 2-under for his first round, which is impressive considering his lack of practice time during rehab and the length of his layoff from competition.

Meanwhile, Geoff Shackelford notes a couple of recent articles on how a couple of Woods’ big-shot friends are drifting apart from him after his troubles over the past couple of years.

However, the irony of those stories is that Woods’ biggest problem may well be that he doesn’t have any real friends at all.