Boy - I am pretty shocked with all the
news swirling around Tiger Woods and his alleged affairs with two or more gorgeous women. Just when you think a person has it all in place - just when you
think someone (by the likes of Tiger Woods) has a million good things going for him, this sort of unexpected fall-out is shocking.
When one is a pro-golfer to the highest caliber that Woods is, a million things that need to be in harmony. Is it just a coincidence that three of America's greatest golfers had enduring marriages? Ben Hogan was married to Valerie for 62 years, Arnold Palmer was married to Winnie for 45 years and Jack and Barbara Nicklaus are still going after nearly 50 years.
Woods lacks that security right now. When he reversed into a fire hydrant and then drove forward into a tree, he was clearly troubled. And that's the million dollar question...what in the blazes was Woods up to at 0230 hours in the morning? WHERE did he think he was going?
Woods was reportedly not drunk in charge of a moving vehicle. But there was obviously something swimming about inside his head. You even wonder if the crash was a deliberate and bizarre cry for help. It was, after all, his wife who pulled him out of the vehicle. Woods was mumbling incoherently when the police arrived.
Nicklaus said that his priorities changed with the arrival of children and you suspect that Woods believed the same would happen to him. His late father, Earl, was after all the center of Tiger's universe.
Instead, though he has two children - Sam Alexis, aged three, and and Charlie Axel, nine months - Woods seems to have lost his moral compass. From the sounds of things, that moral compass has spun off course some time ago, but it's now all catchin' up to the golfing great.
Stability at home seems to equate to success on the course for most of the greats of the game. It is not easy being the first lady of golf and Hogan, Palmer and Nicklaus have always attributed much of their success to their wives.
You will be hard pushed to find anyone who has a bad word to say about Elin Woods either, but marriage is a partnership and right now Tiger looks close to breaking point. I feel sorry for the man...there's something about his quiet and shy nature that always appealed to me.
It's like somebody got it all wrong, but there goes the denial aspect of the case.
It will all come out in the wash, as they say....I suggest to TIGER WOODS that he come clean, issue a public apology for all his reported and unreported transgressions- and really make a monumental effort to live a clean an honest life for himself. Those product endorsements that belong to Tiger today may disappear tomorrow but that's the price a man must pay if he insists on living a double life.





