Tiger Woods can't make this one go away

Well, it probably won’t be long now until Tiger and Elin show up on 60 Minutes, holding hands and setting the record straight. Just like, you know, Roger Clemens did.

    Whatever happened between Woods and his wife, in the wake of (since denied) suggestions from the National Enquirer that he had been having an affair, he’s taking a pounding here. His agents and handlers and press people should know that people will talk and figure things out for themslves, that when no reasonable explanation for a minor car crash at 2:25 a.m. is forthcoming, that others trying to put two and two together is par for the course.

    They won’t be the first or last married couple to have difficulties, if that is indeed the case. And who wouldn’t understand that any high-profile public figures in that situation would prefer privacy?

That said, let’s just say that if Elin went after his car with a golf club – a 9-iron would seem to have enough loft here – and, distracted, he took out a fire hydrant and bumped a tree in the process, well, that makes more sense than anything that has been told to us.

    One thing about Woods: He is the suing kind. If the Enquirer story was wrong, as maintained by the New York socialite in question – a woman who certainly seems to have bagged her collagen limit, by the way – then Woods can cue his lawyers.

He has done it before; remember when he won a judgement against an Irish magazine that published fake nude photos of his wife before the Ryder Cup a couple of years ago. He also has sued the maker of his yacht for using an unauthorized plug from Tiger and won the suit. He also went after an artist at Augusta who paints and sells portraits of past Masters champions. He didn’t win that one.

    So he has options if, indeed, he has been libelled and Elin had nothing to be angry about. In which case, he still needs to come up with a reasonable explanation as to what happened at that time of night and the way he is canceling meetings with the police, it doesn’t sound as if he has one for them, let alone the rest of the world. And they’re the ones who will be laying charges, if it gets that far.

    None of this will go away simply because Woods and his people want it to go away. He’s too much of a world brand, a world brand with a carefully nurtured image,  for people to stop asking reasonable questions. Finding a friendly “interviewer’’ who will let him (and them) spin a bunch of nonsense isn’t going to get it done.

   

Comments

[johnstruthers]

So as a Defence lawyer I can tell you he will be advised to say nothing. In the age of equality if he had cut her, chased her and smashed the car causing an accident which knocked her out he'd be in jail. She's not. If he tells the truth she could be charged. He doesn't want that. Without public statements the police won't have grounds. He wasn't impaired and there's difficulty laying traffic charges for the same reason. Here it might be careless driving. 6 points on his licence is tolerable. Sure we can figure it out. So what? He'll say mea culpa and apologize. By not talking, given he caused the problem he is being the bigger gentleman. It's not our business.

[Allison Gowling]

Do all of us really care about every breath Tiger Woods takes? No...

Does the media think the entire reading public wants to know every minutia about Tiger Woods and other celebrities? Apparently so.

He had a car accident...so what...please move on to the more important issues in the world.

Allison Gowling

[KD]

The problem is his attitude that the police can talk to him whenever he feels that it's convenient for him. If I crashed my car, the police would be expecting me to talk right away, not a few days later when I felt like it, or when I had time to get my story straight. Let's face it, this is nothing more than Tiger thinking that he's special. Since you already used the Roger Clemens analogy, let's just say that Tiger has an ego that makes Clemens look as humble as Mother Teresa, and he thinks that he ca get away with this because of who he is.

[John Demerse]

Tiger is like most men, me included. He is an adulterer.
Nothing new about that. We all hate to admit it.

[Moserman]

Not a Tiger fan before - so this fiasco changes nothing (although it is nice to see the rich and famous get a kick in the ----- sometimes).

[AcaiCleanse]

he is TIGER WOODS he could do whatever he wants.

[Acnezine]

Let him do whatever he wants to do. Leave him alone man!!