Take all the professional golfers, basketball players, footballers and tennis pros and put them on an ocean liner, park it over the Marianas Trench, load torpedo, and “Fire One”.

My life will be effected not.

And that goes for his billion dollar wife, too.

Geez, get a life people.

1. Race–Tiger was Obama before there was Obama, the very symbol of post-racial progress and a guy people could root for in the second whitest of mainstream sports (after hockey and ignoring for a moment things like yacht-racing and fox-hunting) and feel virtuous. Talk about clean, articulate, and attractive!

2. The leadership deficit–People look to celebrities for leadership in the absence of leadership from more traditional sources. Now here is another cultural leader with feet of clay.

3. The state of marriage and traditional institutions–What did those marriage vows mean, anyway, in the face of the temptations of the stresses and strains of human sexuality? Which leads us to…

4. Alpha males and hypergamy–There is a lot of chatter about “the hook up culture,” the ability of alpha males to bag all the chicks, the willingness of women to throw themselves at alpha males, and the ever present incentive for women to move up to a higher status male, even if that male “belongs” to some other woman…for now. Which leads us to…

5. The insecurity of married women–You are always getting older; the younger women are coming on; women your age are working out a lot and making smutty cougar jokes; you are at home with the kids. Has feminism helped or hurt you? Did you settle? If you did, do you have enough security? Could what happened to Mrs. Woods (I don’t know her name) happen to you?

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/columnist/brennan/2010-02-18-tiger-announcement_N.htm

The thing that really stuns me is that this staged “press conference” apology was deemed worthy of live network coverage in the middle of the day. Unbelieveable.

I really wish Tiger would shut up now, share all future apologies only with his wife and children, and go play golf.

“Anyone who can hear Tiger Woods’ apology without bursting into laughter must surely have a heart of stone.”

The Little Nell of Golf…

Does Tiger himself know who he is, much less the public or press? Like many celebrities, he appears to have a carefully constructed image to present to the cameras or the golfing gallery.

When he got caught in his messy off-camera life, that image was marred. Now he seems to be trying to rebuild the same image.

I hope he can begin to change the way he thinks and acts.

Seems to me the compulsion that made Tiger an excellent golfer may also be the personality trait that makes him an unacceptable man whore by society.

I agree with Abe Lincoln who said something like “The people with no vices happen to be the same ones with little virtue”.

I could care less about the empty moral shell that is Tiger Woods and his little apology. Actually, I do care a little. I care enough to hope that he is never on top again . . . in golf or in females.