If it had been a single one-night-stand, I could see moving on. But what Tiger did is a conduct a multi-year deliberate attempt to deceive not just his wife, but golf fans too. If his treatment of all these girls, as we’ve heard from them and their friends (like the sister in this article) is true, he has all the makings of a sociopath.
I don’t know if you’re much of a golf fan, like I am, but golf is different from other sports. In other sports, players are usually applauded if they’re able to break the rules and get away with it (take football, for instance, when a player gets away with unnecessary roughness). But golf is not just about the integrity of the game; it is also about the integrity of its players. Take the famous story of Bobby Jones calling a two-stroke penalty on himself in the US Open, only to end up losing by one stroke. This kind of stuff is fundamental to the game of golf.
Tiger’s integrity as a man and a golfer have both been called into question with all this news. We’ve been fed the picture of the perfect man before now, but now we know this is a man with some likely serious mental issues. I’m going to have serious questions about his integrity from now on, and I’m not even religious.
And this is coming from someone who was a big Tiger supporter. I even went to the man’s tournament (every day, including the pro-am) for all three years he had it here in DC, even the year he was a no-show because of his injury.
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But golf is not just about the integrity of the game; it is also about the integrity of its players.
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Perhaps now the 100 Billion pound elephant in the room will be discussed.
Tiger Woods is a Performance Enhancing Drug User.
Sportswriters are terrified of the issue and his peers on the PGA Tour are either privately very upset, or just accept it as a trade off because since Tiger came on the scene everyone is making a LOT more money.
I’ll tell you one guy who is likely seething in his own juices over this, Jack Nicklaus. It’s time for this whole facade to fall now, he’s cheated on his wife and he cheats at his sport.
Crucify him?
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Very well put.
I agree with you. My husband plays golf and it has always driven him insane that the clintoon would get away with cheating on the course. Golf is maybe the ONLY game where integrity is this important. To have ZERO integrity in his personal life, as has been demonstrated, really does bleed over into his golf persona.