Has Tiger Woods Learnt His Lesson?
Tiger Woods one of the ugliest players in sports, who made history again last year but not by scoring a hole in one consistently but by having most confirmed affairs by a celebrity.
Why are we so curious to know about Tiger and his dirty deeds? Well because Tiger Woods had a great image, of being a family man, a celebrity who was never seen in s*x tapes. All you could imagine him doing was holding a golf club; winning titles over titles. His pleasant smile after his winnings, expressing joy all seemed glorious. He was one of the highest paid professional athletes of all time, with major sponsors. His stardom was worldwide, people who did not even know how to hold a golf club let alone did not even know about the sport, knew who Tiger was. He was a family man who had accomplished a lot in his life.
However his impression of being a perfect star, all went down the drain when tiger was injured in a car accident. The small accident left people questioning, as to what happened? The first rumour to surface was tiger was apparently drunk and bashed his car into a tree while driving, but shortly the Florida police exclaimed it had nothing to do with alcohol; leaving people more confused. But everything soon started surfacing as a famous celebrity news site TMZ.com reported that the accident was not actually an accident but what happened was intentional. Tiger’s wife Elin, broke the back window of his Cadillac due to a dispute that took between the couple. Allegedly the heated discussion between the couple arose when Elin found out about his infidelity during the Australian Masters Tour.
It all began with his first mistress named Jaimee Grubbs who is a cocktail waitress in San Diego, confessed she had a two and half year long affair with Woods. She also later sold 300 texts and a few voice clips he had sent to her. The last message Woods sent to her stated: ‘Hey it's Tiger, I need you to do me a huge favour. Can you please take your name off your phone? My wife went through my phone...You got to do this for me. Huge. Quickly. Bye”.
Soon the media pressure increased, Tiger made it to the headlines all across nation. His news of betrayal to his family was known by everyone and shortly other alleged mistresses started coming out with their relationship with Tiger. Tiger’s gossip was the hottest subject he was being talked about in blogs, news sites, channels, news papers, funny jokes about his unfaithful being texted all across the globe.
It didn’t take long before his alleged affair with Rachel Uchitel was confirmed as well which initially Rachel denied. She was planning to hold a press conference but at the last second she allegedly was paid out of it for more than $1M.
However by late December 09’ Tiger had hit triple bogey, more women had surfaced who claimed to have an affair with him a. Kalika Moquin a marketing manager for “The Bank” a night club in Las Vegas who came forward last winter, followed by Jamie Jungers who said she also met Tiger at a night club in Vegas.
If you think Tigers fetish for exotic women had finished, well guess again. The next woman related to Tiger was a Holly Sampson a famous p**n star from Los Angeles, who has made appearances in more than 80 pornographic films. The list continues to get bigger as time passed; more mistresses came forward with substantial evidence against the player, round about 11 women were confirmed.
However Woods finally broke his silence about the accusations and apologized on his website for unspecified "transgressions" in which he "let my family down".
It wasn’t long when all his sponsors started to revert. Gillette called off all their advertisements featuring Tiger and said they don’t plan on hiring him in the near future, followed by Accenture who cut its sponsorship as well and stated that Tiger was “no longer the right representative”. By late December 2009 he was suspended by all his major endorsements, even TAG Heuer dropped Tiger due to the foreseeable future. The only company that decided to stay with him was Electronic Arts, stating they will continue on working with the repressed golfer.
So what are the updates? Well Elin and Woods attorney had been working overtime to resolve the confusion out between the couple on their settlements after the divorce, and they may have finally come up with a solution both parties can agree to.
Reports have surfaced saying, Elin’s plans on making a settlement around $700M, but apparently money isn’t the big issue between the two but the custody of their children. Which apparently Nordegren will get (1-year old son Charlie and 3-year old daughter Sam) and Woods will not be allowed to keep his children around any women that might have been involved with or will be in the future.
With that being said, the question is has Tiger Woods learnt his lesson? We all hope so because even Santa stopped at three.
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