It has been confirmed that Tiger Woods will return to Melbourne to defend his Australian Masters title.
The local state government will pay $A1.5 million once again, part of the $A3 million fee the golfer's people demand for him to play overseas.
Photos taken during last year's Masters of Rachel Uchitel checking into the same hotel as the golfer sparked the revelations of his reported infidelities with several women.
"We're not the morality police here in Victoria," Tim Holding, the Victorian tourism minister, reportedly told Radar Online.
"We don't cross-examine sporting superstars about their personal lives ... I just think that's a very slippery slope … Everyone's entitled to a second chance and I think Tiger Woods is no exception."
The Australasian PGA Tour's tournaments director Andrew Langford-Jones told the Age a close watch will be kept on spectators who pester Woods.
''One of the reasons he's coming back is the positive and knowledgeable response he got here last year from people who understand the game. If anyone's silly enough to yell things out, it won't be tolerated.''