Mel Gibson Feels 'Sorry' for Tiger Woods

(MYFOX NATIONAL) - One prominent figure has sympathy for Tiger Woods' predicament, while another can't understand why the golf champ went into hiding.

According to US Magazine, Hollywood movie producer/actor Mel Gibson - no stranger to controversy himself after divorcing his wife of 28 years and having a baby with girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva last year - said he thinks the media has focused too much attention on Woods' sex scandal.

"I feel sorry for Tiger Woods," the 54-year-old Gibson told the Daily Mail. "Why are we talking about this when we're sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan? He's being used as a diversion, and it just drives me crazy. You come out savaged."

But if Woods is going to make it back into the world of golf, his former coach of 10 years, Butch Harmon, is disappointed the golf icon has been out of the spotlight since the scandal broke.

In the U.K. for the opening of the PGA tour, Harmon told U.K. newspaper The Guardian that he thinks the golf dynamo needs to hold a press conference: "To stand there in front of everybody, take his medicine, be humble, be embarrassed, be humiliated, and answer the questions."

As to when he believes Woods will be back in the game, the coach said he wouldn't be surprised if he plays before the Master's: "I happen to think he will. I have nothing to base that on other than the fact that I know how much he loves to play golf and live that life."

On the marriage front, however, there are no signs that Woods' wife, Elin Nordegren, will be taking the disgraced golf star back anytime soon.

A picture of the former Swedish model on People.com shows her in Florida without her wedding ring as she takes her 11-month-old son, Charlie, outside this week.