NEW YORK — To appreciate how fast and how far Tiger Woods has fallen is to understand what put him on such a pinnacle in sports.

Woods put his name on every page of the PGA Tour record book with 10 incomparable years in golf. He won more major championships than anyone except Jack Nicklaus, more PGA Tour events than anyone except four of the greatest golfers in history. That's not his career, that's his decade.

Then, in just days, he became a tabloid magnet. No one can be certain how Woods will weather the storm.