Golf: Tiger Woods worries about father

Tiger Woods has more than protecting his world No 1 ranking on his mind as he prepares for the Deutsche Bank Championship near Boston. His father has had a relapse of prostate cancer. "It's been tough," Woods said after a pre-tournament pro-am yesterday. "It's just like it was back in '96 and '97, when my dad had a heart attack and had complications with heart surgery." The elder Woods was diagnosed with prostate cancer six years ago; radiation treatment was believed to be successful. But Earl Woods said yesterday that the cancer had returned and spread throughout his body, forming lesions in his back and a tumour behind his left eye.