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Golfers concerned over
Anthrax alert
Concerned by the wave of anthrax cases surfacing around the country, wary professional
sports teams and leagues are warning players to handle mail with care, if they
handle it at all.
And many athletes are being extra cautious about what once was a routine matter
of answering correspondence from fans.
Each week, Tiger Woods gets stacks of mail sent either through the PGA Tour
or to his agent's offices. They eventually work their way down to a business office
he has in Orlando, Fla., and are now handled more carefully than ever.
"My assistant has definitely talked about using gloves," Woods said.
"It is a danger right now, the way things are going. But it's one of those
things where a lot of fans write in, and you have to answer."
Jackie Sutherland, the mailroom manager for the PGA Tour, said a couple of
players have called and said they don't want their mail and to stamp it return
to sender.
Effective Monday, mailroom workers began wearing surgical gloves. If mail has
no return address and looks suspicious, Sutherland said he sends the worker out
of the room, closes the door, shuts off the air conditioning and opens it himself
or calls the head of PGA Tour security, Joe Corless, a retired FBI agent.
"We're really been watching Tiger's stuff lately, because he's the big
dog," Sutherland said.
Davis Love III gets a postal bin full of mail every week.
"We just talked to our local postmaster and said that for things that
we don't know where it comes from, we're going to stamp it refuse or return to
sender," he said. "If I get a name I don't know that is not a bill,
we're just going to send it back."
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