Tiger broke virtually every record in professional golf starting when he was what - 20? 21? Up until then, his life was nothing but golf. Nothing else. So he’s never had anything else to fall back on for his self-worth, except not only winning, but besting everyone, all the time.
For awhile, about five years actually, he amazed the world, breaking records over and over and over again. But he’s human, and he peaked, and he had to start dealing with that. But the only place he had to deal with it was within the realm of golf, in the public eye. Imagine all of your personal development exposed like that, to the world, under constant pressure to perform as the best in the world, with hundreds of millions in endorsements on the line, every day. Frankly, I’m surprised he hasn’t cracked up before this.
And while I’m also not not surprised about the intensity of the scorn he’s received, it’s still disappointing to see. People make gods out of other people when they see excellence in them, and then when they fall from grace and are revealed to be merely human, deliver a bloody execution they would never think of deserving themselves. The unforgiving rightiousness is pathetic.
I'm not commenting on his personal off-course foibles. I'm commenting about his on-course, expletive filled tirades. The PGA Tour isn't the NBA where thuggish and boorish behavior is welcomed and celebrated. If that makes golf or me a snob, then I'm a snob. Golf is suppose to be a game of gentleman and for gentleman. Keep the "in da hood" vernacular "in da hood" and off the course.
If you we're away of this, then it wouldn't really be a surprise to discover that he few (are there any?) professional golfers who back him at all.
Call it jealousy if you like. But Tiger Woods is the furthest thing from a gentleman golf has ever seen. Fortunately for him, he got to play the race card to expunge all his on the golf course aberrant behavior, and it never hurt him one bit.
Too bad for him that the tabloid press didn't operate under the self imposed journalistic black out rules that the sports/news media did. Sex trumps race.