Reporter Win McMurry got Woods' sore neck confused with the part of his anatomy more closely associated with his infamous marital woes.
"[Woods] says he's been playing with a bad neck for about a month and thinks it could be a bulging d--k," said McMurry.
The blond broadcaster quickly corrected herself, letting the audience know she was talking about a "disk in his upper back," not the four-letter body part better known to a bevy of porn stars and party girls.
The faux pas aired shortly after Woods withdrew from the last round of The Players Championship golf tournament complaining of pain.
Woods' premature departure followed an errant tee shot on the seventh hole of the TPC Sawgrass golf course and a second shot that left him grimacing in pain.
McMurry, who anchors the studio updates for The Golf Channel, was the one left red-faced after relaying the news to the hundreds of thousands subscribers to the cable network owned by Comcast.
South African Tim Clark went on to win the tournament.
Neither McMurry nor representatives of The Golf Channel could be immediately reached for comment.
The tawdry-tongued slip quickly spread across the Internet. Sports Web site Deadspin.com posted a clip of McMurry's blooper, describing it as "a Freudian moment from one Golf Channel reporter."
McMurry, who previously worked for WCBS-TV Channel 2 in New York, was not the only one prompted into making a crusty comment by Woods' injury.
Paul Azinger, captain of the 2008 USA Ryder Cup golf team, issued an innuendo-loaded tweet about Tiger dropping out of the tourney.
"Could this have been prevented with a good Swedish massage?" Azinger quipped on Twitter, an apparent reference to Woods' Swedish bombshell wife, Elin Nordegren.
Woods' surprise departure Sunday raised eyebrows among golf insiders, who are privately questioning whether he can recapture the swing and drive that made him the No. 1 golfer in the world.
In 2008, Woods won the U.S. Open championship on a broken leg.
"I've been playing through it. I can't play through it anymore," said Woods, who was shooting two over par for the round when he pulled out.
He said the pain predates his comeback last month at the Masters tournament in Augusta, Ga.
It was the second straight disappointing match for Woods, who played so lousy at last week's Quail Hollow Championship in Charlotte, N.C., that he failed to make the final round cut.
Woods was forced to take a sabbatical from golf after a car crash in November outside his Florida house exposed him as a serial cheater, ruined his good-guy image and threatened to destroy his marriage.
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