Posted on 08/08/2010 9:56:24 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
The revelations that once seemed to come daily have now largely stopped. No more mistresses have stepped forward, and no more apologies are necessary.
Nine months after the secret world of Tiger Woods was laid bare, even the tabloids and celebrity websites seem to have lost interest. The only real questions left are how much his wife will get in a divorce and when she will get it.
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He really doesn’t need any more money.
But obviously his ego needs to be fed.
Perhaps his buddy Baraq could appoint him to a cabinet post (Minister of Sports?) or Ambassador to Kenya?
He looks like an Eldrick with that goatee or whatever it is.
Petrified Wood
I was watching the Bridgestone yesterday and I was thinking several things:
1) It’s great to see a tournament where it’s not all Tiger, all the time.
2) When they showed the montage of Tiger’s bad day, I felt kind of sorry for him.
3) Then, I was thinking - what if this is just a ploy (making such a complete mess of things) to get us feeling sorry for him and rooting for him again. The reason I thought this was because every part of his game is crap. If nothing else, he could slow down and take his time on the shots. Instead, he is hacking around. His drives stink. His green shots are amateurish. His putts are woeful.
(Sorry to sound so cynical, but rich people pay a lot of semi-rich people to manipulate us at every turn.)
Nothing useful has been done by,
or said about this person,
except as a morality play,
pure advertising greed,
or naked self interest
Waste of Bandwidth
Next story...
Actually he needs money now more than ever. $100 million to Elin. Plus making payments for all his pre-curse days toys are expensive. Think his big yacht doesn't require a big chunk of change just for upkeep? Meanwhile his endorsement money has pretty much dried up.
Tiger’s career will come down to this:
During his Heyday he was known for his dedication - he was at the course before any other players arrived, and he was still on the range when all the other players had left after a round. The man literally practiced 8-10 hours a day, in addition to 4 hours on the golf course.
he was the best because he made himself the best.
contrast that to this year, and particularly this season - Woods showed up at Firestone about an hour before his tee time each day, hit a few balls, played (loosly speaking) his round, and then goes directly to his car and leaves.
He is not practicing at all. His mind is not on golf, it is on his divorce. I doubt he will do anything at all this season.
BUT, the key will be next year - One of two things will happen once the divorce is final:
1. Tiger will throw it in and say to hell with it, and either retire or continue to hack the ball around just living on his past
2. he will use golf as his escape, and will become the hours a day practicer he was — if that happens he will have an unbelievable comeback.
“Alas, poor Eldrick!
“I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite earning power, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne Golf on his back a thousand times, and now how abhorr’d in its imagination he is!”
Sporting Wood?
très excellent
Curse of Eldrick? No. More like the curse of DICK....Tiger’s Dick.
Paging Andrew Lloyd Webber!
I like Tiger Woody.
From a write up of his round on Friday:
Tiger Woods blew his drive on his final hole of the day deep into the gallery and the trees, punched out short of the green and found that his ball had come to rest near a large metal sewer grate. Eau, the aroma.
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Making his eighth start of the season, Woods is backpedaling, not making progress. He has found an astounding eight of 28 fairways and one of his first 10 on Friday. Mind you, this at a venue where he has never finished worse than T4.
He whacked a young spectator with one wild tee shot on his front nine. Later in the round, somebody inside the ropes passed gas so loudly -- it was a player or caddie -- that it could be heard in the gallery.
You’re a great writer, PJ — maybe you should do the screenplay?
(And get a certain “Parsodist” to select the songs & lyrics ;)
I hear Tiger and Algore will start their own pro-am tour.
The commentators on the yahoo.com page include those who take note of the fact that he ain’t practicing anymore. At least one accuses him of being a painkiller addict, and another one states that this bursting skyrocket/self-destruct phenomenon is common to all parent-pushed, child-prodigy athletes. He’s been nothing but a golf-playing robot since his early teens.
And of course there are all those yahoos who say he just needs to start hooking up again.
He could retire and make like Bruce Jenner—ie. doing just about anything and everything—from driving racecars, starring in goofy movies, doing infomercials, celebrity appearances, sports commentating, judging pet shows, lending his name to various commercial ventures (and starting a few serious companies as well)...etc. Not to marrying several times and having plenty of showbiz brat kids.
But then again, he already blew up his most precious possession, his good name, so that’s all out.
So he can either make like O.J. Simpson or get his head back together and get back into the game.
Just “Woody” will suffice.
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