In my mind they’re genuine and heartfelt. But “sorry I borrowed your Crazy Heart CD and the car slid on the ice and ruined it” is different than stating that one has had multiple partners for years at a time, a girl in every port, so to speak.
I’ve never been a golf fan but marveled at that young boy, Tiger Woods, who could seemingly do no wrong. Yes, I’m older than Tiger, but there were plenty of younger African American boys who wanted to get out of the ghettos and for the first time saw golf, a nearly exclusively White sport, as an opportunity.
He seemed perfect but even when he was 18-19, I knew a flaw had to develop. No, it’s not a sex addiction, it’s believing one is above it all, the law, the marriage vows, the role one has as role model for ones’ children and thousands of young people who look up to this person who knows how to swing a club.
Back in the day I admired his father for raising such an ambitious and talented son. Now I believe his parents created a monster who believes he is infallible.
Today when I heard his scripted apology at PGA headquarters in front of a hand-picked audience of golf journalists, where he did not take a single question, I thought a few things. First, he’s pissed that he got caught. Second, in his attempts to take total control of his career and media access, he blew that too. Most important, he spent most of his time apologizing to the “people in the room,” the golf press.
What does he want? Any normal person who had an affair would get back together with his wife, or not. He would want to spend time with his children, or not. He would want to go back to golf. Yes, that’s the kicker. He wouldn’t have had a hand-picked audience in the PGA HQ unless he wanted to get back to golfing asap. As I said, most normal people would have been able to do this in private. Tiger Woods is a public figure. Whatever he does in public, is public. And if he thinks he can have golf chicks on the side from now on, the golf and other press will be on him in a heartbeat.
Talk about being a prisoner in one’s own lies. Now he went back into seclusion (aka “rehab”) to await press fallout. You may be a heck of a golfer, Tiger, but there’s more tarnish on that carefully polished facade than one lame press conference (it was a statement, not a conference) can repair. Sorry for going off-topic but I couldn’t help it. Dee
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