Ready or not // Woods' decision to go pro signals a new era for golf

At approximately 2:30 p.m. today at Brown Deer Park Golf Coursein Milwaukee, Tiger Woods will walk into a roomful of microphones,notepads, cameras and expectations and tell the breathlessly waitingsports world why he has turned professional. The clicking, whirring,scribbling, buzzing and flashing will be at once blinding anddeafening.

Woods released a statement Tuesday announcing his decision.Today he will explain why he chose the Greater Milwaukee Open to gopro. Already cell phones are lighting up like Christmas trees.Deal-makers are emerging from every imaginable nook and cranny,pushing, shoving and angling. Scammers are huddling. Publishers arescheming. TV talk show …