Posted on 12/27/2009 3:03:23 PM PST by Charles Henrickson
In an athlete’s environment, money can be its own pollutant; you can become desensitized to the significance of what it can buy. Typically, if a person spends hundreds of dollars on arrangements to pass time with someone, that someone would be important in his life. But when you have extensive financial resources, it’s easy to send similar signals to people who are meaningful only for a moment. Even worse, you might only concern yourself with what it means to you. As the money flows in, so do the toys — cars, clothes, bling — and once in the stratosphere, a la Tiger, it is amazing how easy it is, if you are not careful and grounded, to start seeing women as another accessory in your life. . . .
Tiger Woods has been transformational for the game of golf in so many ways. That is indisputable. But he has proven to be just like every other figure who fell for the little guy with the pitchfork on his shoulder telling him, “It’s all good, no one will know, you can get away with it.” But that little guy on his shoulder didn’t tell him that in the real world, you don’t get away with it because even when you are the only one who knows, that is enough to destroy you. It just will happen from the inside out.
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If you have a BOUGHT wife, why shouldn’t you have some BOUGHT spares?
Interesting and insightful. That article led to another.. interview with Pat Harrington... who gives his perspective as well.
I think Tiger royally screwed up his image - but he’ll be back playing golf soon. Hopefully Tiger will have learned a difficult life lesson, faces his storm and comes out of it a much better person.
Excellent piece, thanks.
There's some prudent planning.
Wonder if you can you get road hazard protection on those spares?
It’s gotten so bad for Tiger, that he’s been demoted to Cheetah.
I (jokingly) tell my wife at times that when she turns 42 I’m trading her in for two 21’s. It always gets a chuckle out of her.
Tiger Woods is a sociopath who thinks of nobody else but himself. Ah, such sense of entitlement.
Pretty good piece of writing.
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