My point was not about Tiger’s character but about the public relations training he received. The two are unrelated.
Think it through, they are one and the same.
My photographer friend said Tiger was arrogant and not the public persona. This means, no doubt, that unscripted Tiger treated both fans and the media like peons.
Now, in front of a microphone, with both tape recorders and cameras running, I’ve no doubt that Tiger was perfect. But unscripted he was, frankly, a jerk.
I think you were fed a party line. No one who believed and lived by that party line would turn off the graciousness ans become a butthole when the recording devices were off. It’s pretty clear to me that Tiger did not live according to that eternal wisdom from his father. And, for all we know, those words you quoted weren’t his father’s but taken from a book of quotations.