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Tiger Woods Is Finished...
15/12/09
Tiger Woods is finished as a popular, high-profile, respected number one golfer, credibilty completely shattered. And golf will struggle to regain status given his much-chronicled sexual antics; the repercussions of frolicking (or whatever!) with at least a dozen white 'beauties' is particularly difficult for a sport that is generally recognised as the last bastion of respectability, firm disciplne and protocol!
The incredible career of this child progidy blossomed in tandem with the advent of betting exchanges, BETDAQ/BETFAIR, and the sheer volume of betting when Tiger figures amongst the 'runners' is astronomical; without him it compares to a league one match featuring a couple of lowly teams.
This prolonged serialisation of Tiger Woods represents a financial disaster therefore, meanwhile the golfing world waits with baited breath the outcome of his "indefinite break!"
Unfortunately 'get in the hole' will never be quite the same, if and when Tiger returns, nothing can be and I'm saddened by events; too many are being totally hypocritical, there are few paragons of virtue amongst the press, in any sport or sphere, but even the most cynical and embittered of us could never have expected anything like recent revelations.
Will he play again?
I really don't know, how will he ever be able to face the public having done so much to transcend the barriers which black golfers such as Tiger and Vijay Singh have achieved?
It's a serious situation and the ramifications will be felt as golf struggles to retain its own credibilty!
How did this happen?
Marriage, though statutory as a morality 'stand-by', is extremely difficult and unsuitable for too many (divorce records testify!) and Tiger Woods was living in 'cloud cuckoo land' if he honestly thought that a normal married life would be possible; nigh on forty years ago Elvis Presley was in a similar predicament.
Coincidentally both 'tied the knot' to fairly 'ordinary' girls but neither female had any chance whatsoever of suppressing the demands which were inevitably going to destroy such impossible alliance; there is a price to pay for fame, they bore the brunt and both Presley and Woods entered into the definitive 'catch 22' situation.
Presley died, a broken man, at 42, where will Tiger be in eight years from now?
Words: Jeffrey Ross
