I didn't buy what he was selling. I always assumed by his antics on the course he was a self absorbed prick who basically created a entire fake persona - hence all the secrecy, + always wondered if his marriage might have been arranged for PR purposes ala TCruise etc, so when the **** blew up in his face and the rest of the world found I wasn't disappointed. The whoring was somewhat well known and rumored years prior to it all coming out.

Though I was kind of surprised to find out he was banging whores while his wife was preggo but whatever.

I will say that his crash and burn did make him seem more human. I always kind of viewed him as a golfing robot obsessed with winning and devoid of having any traits I could relate to. Still a whiny prick, but at least he is a whiny prick with flaws.

Google what?

Did shaving with Gillette razors tell you he was a good husband who just wanted a smooth face for his wife? Did using AT&T tell you he just wanted good service so he could talk to his kids every night while he traveled?

Because I didn't read any of that into the ads. And outside of advertising and golf, TW is basically hidden from the public, so you must have had some other way of figuring out TW is a model husband and doting father. What was it?

No I think they create the image by the type of Companies he endorses and when he wins a tourney hugging his wife and kids and earlier his parents.

I think if your not a fan of Tiger than your enjoying his fall from grace. Though many tour pros would accept his fall two top tens in Majors.

He had many fooled but will pay the price in Divorce court. Also we will never know if Jack or Arnold were playboys or not no TMZ than.

If you dont think his people were trying to create that squeky clean family man image I disagree.

Also he was role model with his charitable foundation that was to teach kids. He set a poor example for those kids.

I'm sure Tiger was not the only one doing this for this reason....

During the winter I take lessons i a dome (beat: winter sucks for golfers) one of the ladies that is in the program happens to be a doctor that occasionally works PGA tour events if she is needed. She was telling me and the instructor how ever since this happened with Tiger most golfers now travel with their significant other with them on the road. No one will publicly say this is the case but I'm not a rocket scienetist and I think it's safe to say you can put two and two together on this one.

The doctor when telling us about this literrally described it as sort of "ball and chain" every were the golfers go that the wives can come which is pretty much every were they are there now.

Edit

Not trying to derail discussion but thought some might be interested in this

leather,

do you live in/near chicago?

I only heard rumors about Jack, but with Arnold there is no doubt. He was a world class skirt chaser and he didn't even try and hide it.

Regardless, neither Jack or Arnie, given the rules in place at the time was dumb enough to get caught and have it mean much to them. Can't say that for Tiger.

Who cares? He did it, a lot... He got caught. Its not our lives. Give him a break. I would do the same!

"given the rules in place at that time"

lol, WTF are you talking about? Cheating was "ok" back then so they were good people? Moran, the only difference is that the press did not report it because it had nothing to do with golf and they didn't care to drag a guys personal life through the mud.

Tiger Woods divorce is about to become official, RadarOnline.com has learned exclusively.
The final divorce is imminent, a source close to the situation told RadarOnline.com.
“They’ve agreed on all the major points,” one source told us. “It’s all been worked out privately.
“Both Tiger and Elin are very close to finishing the negotiations and filing and signing the paperwork.”

Elin is expected to receive approximately $750 million in the settlement. ---> can't believe that is true but wholly **** if it is.

Also during the whole blow-up ESPN, etc ran several interviews etc where Tiger talked about how important being a great father and husband and family man was to him and how it was far more important than winning majors blah blah blah. But I mean that was part of his overall marketing strategy in terms of selling Tiger Inc. to the world so I don't really fault him.

I personally never cared for him because of how he acted on the course - basically all the stuff Watson talked about. He always seemed like a impersonal prick and jackass...who also happened to be the greatest golfer ever. So when all his **** blew up in his face it was lol. His awful attempts to fix things - trying to buy his wife back, spending millions shutting up his whores, his lolz news conference apology, and using his dead dad in a commercial were just icing on the cake.

I find this $750 million number hard to believe. Tiger just recently crossed the $1 billion in income plateau, the first athlete to ever do so, but it's not like he has a net worth of $1 billion, should be far less. So it appears this number is actually more than his net worth, which makes zero sense, but I guess we'll see.

BO

lol 750 mirrion

I have miss communicated.... again. What I meant was, if Jack or Arnie "were" doing something wrong (and I mean anything) at least they were smart enough not to get caught. Unlike Tiger. Using the day and age argument as default just isn't gonna cut it. Not everyone from days past did it and not everyone from today gets caught.

Very well put and exactly how I feel. Yeah that number is Huge

75 mil probably

That 750 must be for her and the kid right? She is taking the kid I assume. What would he do with it? I guess the kid will get his end now instead of when Tiger croaks. Tiger would have to write the kid out of his will specifically and point to the deal with Elin unless he dies without a will. In which case the kid could get double paid.

They have two children which would make a divorce doubly sad. All parties will always have more money than they know what to do with, so amounts and times are of no consequence.

BO

assuming he puts his money to work its likely he has enough to cover this and still have a few hundred million left over imo.

Forbes places Tiger's net worth at $600 million.

http://www.forbes.com/2009/05/06/ric...americans.html

BO

Any chance the $750 mil includes a set alimony type payment over the next x years? That seems to be the only way that number makes sense.

Pretty interesting article on possible divorce. Main paragraph is listed.

http://sports.yahoo.com/golf/pga/new...divorceoptions


f there is no prenuptial agreement, she would be entitled to half of Woods’ assets earned since they were married—not half of his net worth, which Forbes magazine estimated at $600 million last year. And because Woods made much of that fortune before their 2004 wedding, the amount could actually be much lower than those floating around celebrity gossip websites.

There is no question Tiger promoted a family image.

His released family pictures. His foundation promoted 'family' values. In his interviews, he said family was a priority. He said the birth of his kids was more important than his winning majors.

I still don't think there were many rumors of his whore-mongering. I don't think the golf press or the vast majority of his players knew it. He was shuttled to the tournament than whisked off in a cocoon.

fwiw Schumacher already did it.

So they just made up a number.. Better off going high than low is my guess. What do you guys think she ends up with? (Not that we'll ever know) Did they have a pre nup?

That's debatable. The source for that is a Eurobusiness article from 2005. From what I've seen from Forbes, a source typically known to be the most accurate, at least in the U.S., things could certainly be different elsewhere, Schumacher didn't or hasn't made that plateau.

BO