Golf: Zoeller breaks self-imposed silence

Fuzzy Zoeller, still stinging from the uproar over his insensitive remarks about Tiger Woods, has emerged from four days of seclusion contrite but ready to move on.

"You take your bumps, you take your licks and you get up and you shake them off and you keep on ticking and keep moving forward," said Zoeller, who has apologised to Woods. "It's easy to run from your problems, but why run? I'm not a runner."

Zoeller's comments were the first he has made since last Wednesday, when he abruptly withdrew from the Greater Greensboro Open at the height of the controversy after calling Woods "that litttle boy".