Tiger Woods

Weeks ago when the story broke about Tiger Woods being in an accident, it seemed like the world stopped just to watch and listen. There were no more wars going on in the Middle East and the economic crisis was nonexistent. Basically the media outlets turned into celebrity gossip channels. Even the business channels were speculating about prenups and what a divorce would cost him, experts were being interviewed to get into the mind of the great one.

My first thought after his accident was reported was ‘I hope he is doing o.k.’, then there were the speculations surrounding his golf club, was it a weapon used in a domestic dispute or the Jaws of Life that was used to rescue him. Next came the rumours swirling around about an affair he had, then it was up to nine at my last count. I thought, here we go; the media is out to get him big time. Only to hear days later that in a statement to the press Tiger Woods apologised for his many “transgressions”. I thought, really these rumours were all true. I think a lot of people didn’t believe these things being said about him were true until his statement of transgressions.

We have been plagued with politicians and sports personalities who have fallen into traps of “transgressions”, it’s like an epidemic. I thought Tiger Wood was too smart to fall into this sort of situation. He has done so well to keep his private life just so, private. Why did he have to put his family through such nonsense and jeopardize what he has worked so hard to achieve? It seems ludicrous to me.

Didn’t he know that these women (I use the term loosely), had only one thing in mind, publicizing there affair to become famous, because there were no other ways to get the spotlight of the media on them. I guess they are working on book deals and reality shows by now. How do people live like that? What fascinated him about them, to end up throwing his life away like that, be it temporarily?

I feel so much sympathy for his wife, having the whole world gossiping about you because of your husband’s dumb transgressions. It must take quite a toll to know that your husband was playing the field both professionally and personally. I hope his babies are unaware of their father’s stupidity and are unaffected by this whole situation due to their age.

Now there are speculations about whether or not he is going lose his sponsors and the millions that go along with these deals. Tiger has stepped back from his charity, taken time off from golf and is on the verge of losing his family all because of his alleged numerous fidelities. With all these women plus family and business, how did he find time for golf, I guess he is a good multitasker.

In the end he is going to be even more successful, he will be winning tournaments and his sponsors will probably have to pay him twice as much to have him be the face of their product. I don’t think he will want a repeat of the last few weeks so he will stay away from cocktail waitresses from now on. His family life, I’m not so sure about. We will have to wait and see.