December 2, 2015

"The hardest part for me is there's really nothing I can look forward to, nothing I can build toward."

"So where is the light at the end of the tunnel? I don't know, so that's been hard... I think I've achieved a lot, and if that's all it entails, then I've had a pretty good run. But I'm hoping that's not it. I'm hoping that I can get back out here and compete against these guys. I really do miss it.... If I can get to that, then we can start talking about golf.... But let me get to where I can pass the time and really be a part of my kids' life in the way that I want to be part of it physically, not just as a cheerleader."

Said Tiger Woods, who spends most of his time playing video games.

37 comments:

tim in vermont said...

I don't watch golf anymore, though I play it whenever I can, but I used to love Sunday afternoon when Tiger was in the lead, to watch him win. Lots of h8rs out there, I know, but whatever. Call me a fanboi or what you like. Greatness is fascinating and nobody can deny, love him or hate him, that TW was great, maybe the GOAT, and I am saying that in the voice of Tony the Tiger.

traditionalguy said...

The Masters will rejuvenate him. And he may win it.

kjbe said...

"The Masters will rejuvenate him. And he may win it."

Not gonna happen.

Curious George said...

His career is over. And has been for a while.

Michael K said...

Poor Tiger. He used to spend lots of time with girls.

Growing up is tough.

khesanh0802 said...

The problem all top athletes have. How to adjust to life after your talent wanes. Fortunately for most they have had pretty good earnings during their hay day. Tiger is a little different because he has dug himself a moral hole while he has watched his talent wane. Peyton Manning, OTH, will always be treated as a man of character because he has demonstrated it throughout his career.

tim maguire said...

Some really heartfelt words for a guy describing getting paid obscene amounts of money to play a game. Who in their right mind gives a crap about Tiger Woods and whether he will be condemned to a life of playing golf for mere fun?

AllenS said...

It's been pretty much downhill since he took the 9 iron to the head.

tim maguire said...

@tim in vermont, yeah, I'm sure it was really special watching Tiger Woods be really good at something useless and meaningless. I don't hate Tiger, I hate the failure to recognize the emptiness of the thing you are a fanboi for.

Ann Althouse said...

The tragic tale of a man who was loved far, far too much. It's hard to feel sorry for him, but why didn't his wife go to prison for what she did?

AllenS said...

I would imagine that Woods refused to press for charges against his wife, Althouse.

DanTheMan said...

> Peyton Manning, OTH, will always be treated as a man of character because he has demonstrated it throughout his career.

Like when he sexually assaulted a female trainer while at UT? And then lied about it? And then blamed the victim?

tim in vermont said...

When you call something "useless" and "meaningless," those are words that in logic, are seen as "asserting a negative." You do know that the bar for proving a negative is incredibly high. Mathematical proof is out in your case, so the only way you can prove your negative is by exhaustion, in other words, you will have to go through every possible meaning in human experience and attempt to apply it to a game that many many people find beautiful and demonstrate that it doesn't apply.

Forgive me if I don't think you can do that.

But show us on the doll how the bad man made you watch golf.

Static Ping said...

I feel bad for Tiger in same sense that I feel bad for Dr. Zhivago.

Dr. Zhivago was put in a situation where he had a choice of two wonderful women and, while life was going to be hard due circumstances outside of his control, he would have been happy if he just picked one of them. He couldn't and hence the unhappiness that follows him. Frankly, he's a bit of a well-meaning jerk.

Tiger Woods had the choice to be the happy family man with a beautiful wife and children, or he could live the rock star fantasy life of banging every porn star and assorted groupie he could get his hands on. He decided on both - he seemed to have a thing for floozies that looked a lot like his wife - and hence his misery since then. For that matter he could have done the rock star thing and then settled down to the family man thing, but he couldn't do that either. Not that I recommend the rock star life - it does not tend to end well - but it would have been happier than the public fiasco that followed.

Hmm, maybe I feel bad for Tiger Woods in the same way I feel bad for Charlie Sheen.

Static Ping said...

Ann, no jury would convict her of the crime. It is difficult to get sympathy for a victim when the defense attorney gets to list a long yet incomplete list of women, many of them of dubious venereal health, that the victim cheated with. I get the sense that Tiger may also have agreed that he really deserved what he got.

tim in vermont said...

I don't feel bad for TW BTW. I feel bad for the Canadian kid working in a gas station because in Canada, NHL players are not routed through college, the way the NFL and MLB does it. They just play hockey bantam through the juniors and if they are not good enough to make the NHL, well, they are abandoned without even a sniff of an education in return.

TW just has some soul searching to do. We all go through it, unless we live a completely unexamined life, but he has the money to do what he likes, when he finally decides what that is. Not like an NFL player living with concussions and physical pain. This is not a Shakespearean tragedy where everybody dies. Everybody will die in the end, but it will be a good long time.

cubanbob said...

Must be something wrong with me since I just can't be roused enough to give a crap about Tiger and his ennui.

Rick said...

He decided on both - he seemed to have a thing for floozies that looked a lot like his wife - and hence his misery since then.

Tiger Woods without the marriage would be treated like Derek Jeter who famously slept with half of Maxim's top ten at one point.

He should have left the Perkins waitresses and neighbor's daughters alone though. He was the best golfer in the word, set some standards.

PB said...

Tiger, why don't you go back and finish your Stanford degree? Do something useful instead of slacking about with video games.

damikesc said...

He had higher class tail than the husband of the Democratic front-runner.

And unlike Tiger's wife, she refused to leave.

Your Dem frontrunner.

JSD said...

The most important thing for Tiger right now is to avoid ending up like Lance Armstrong. He has all the smoke signals of being a juicer. His connection to Dr. Galea is well known. Bad things can be discovered in a court of law. That’s the last place that Tiger would ever want to be.

Yancey Ward said...

I am like Tim in Vermont- have mostly stopped watching golf altogether for the same reason. Woods set the standard by which others in his sport were measured afterwards. And it isn't even the case that one had to be a fanboi to follow him- I pretty much always root for underdogs in individual sports, and it was only in the last 2 years or so I even wanted to see Woods to win.

Leaving aside his personal character flaws, one past the age of 30 can certainly sympathize with the loss of physical prowess. There is something universal in that.

Ann Althouse said...

So you can wait until your husband is zonked out on Ambien and then start clubbing this defensively body and force him into a situation where he's trying to escape in a car that he's in no condition to drive, but he's running for his life, and he drives it until he crashes... and everyone understands. No problem. She's pretty. She's been cheated on.

damikesc said...

So you can wait until your husband is zonked out on Ambien and then start clubbing this defensively body and force him into a situation where he's trying to escape in a car that he's in no condition to drive, but he's running for his life, and he drives it until he crashes... and everyone understands. No problem. She's pretty. She's been cheated on.

Not saying it's not a problem. It absolutely is.

But you have a jury to deal with in a criminal case. And "cheating husband" is never going to win over "wronged wife". It'd be a waste of time, kill his marketability further, and take years for a likely negative result.

Rick said...

and everyone understands. No problem. She's pretty. She's been cheated on.

We're being scolded for being off topic. But since literally everyone knows the magic word is "she" what's the point? Yes, she can do anything she wants as long as she didn't kill him. In that case she would take some criticism but be found not guilty at trial. Both feminists and racialists would claim the event proves America is ---ist against them.

tim in vermont said...

So you can wait until your husband is zonked out on Ambien and then start clubbing this defensively body and force him into a situation where he's trying to escape in a car that he's in no condition to drive, but he's running for his life, and he drives it until he crashes... and everyone understands. No problem. She's pretty. She's been cheated on.

It's called female privilege and if a guy ever wants to get his dick wet again, he doesn't even bother to question it. I mean it's not like steel trap logic is a useful tool in an argument like this.

tim in vermont said...

Seriously, what is more eminently mockable today than a "Men's Rights" advocate? If she cut off his dick too, she would be a folk hero.

damikesc said...

Seriously, what is more eminently mockable today than a "Men's Rights" advocate?

And, sadly, they have FAR more of a case to make than modern feminists do.

When men are killing themselves in their middle ages at alarming rates --- that's not a sign of "patriarchy"

dwick said...

tim in vermont on 12/2/15 @ 10:12 AM said...
"...I feel bad for the Canadian kid working in a gas station because in Canada, NHL players are not routed through college, the way the NFL and MLB does it."


I guess tim in vermont has never heard of MLB minor league baseball - not to mention the various independent and semi-pro leagues. Hey tim in vermont - check out: http://www.milb.com/index.jsp?sid=t462

Some players choose the college route, sure... but a lot if not most are drafted right out of high school.

fivewheels said...

If anyone thinks Peyton Manning has never banged a Perkins waitress, I think they have some disillusionment coming. He's also a d-bag who has always been a selfish teammate, hoarding attention and credit.

I also think there's an unfortunate temptation to conflate Woods' personal issues with his physical decline. His golf game didn't go south when he started having extramarital sex. His game fell apart when he had knee and back injuries, with which the Pope couldn't maintain a good swing.

Tom said...

Tiger's facing publically what we all face eventually. It's not that we become useless. It's that we become useless at someone at which we were once great. And turning to the other things in our lives that should be interesting is harder than it seems.

On the question of why his ex-wife didn't go to jail for assault with a deadly nine iron, we guilted and shamed Tiger into letting her get away with it. Name the person who would have stood by and taken a public stance for Tiger if he had pressed charges. It doesn't just happen to women. I worked at a Steel Mill and we had a Nurse Practitioner onsite. She reported to me. After about a year at the plant, I asked her, generally, what's the biggest health issue the employees face (99% men). She said that it's the normal stuff - anxiety, depression, bad diet, and not enough exercise. Then I ask her if she had pinpointed a root cause. What she said shocked me. She said that a large percentage of the men she's seeing for depression and anxiety are being abused by their wife at home - either physically, emotionally, or monetarily.

AllenS said...

If charges were filed against Woods' wife, can you imagine the discovery phase of the trial?

A very large amount of money that Woods was making came from endorsements. Think about the facts brought out during trial would make on those endorsements.

Woods wouldn't want to see any of this going to trial. Since the prosecutors are aware of that, they wouldn't attempt to put his wife in jail, knowing that they would be ruining Woods' financially.

mccullough said...

Probably time to start calling him Eldrick. He's almost 40 and is done with golf and endorsements for the most part. Tiger is a nickname and middle age is no time for nicknames

exhelodrvr1 said...

"and everyone understands. No problem"

Yep. Like paying child support when it's not your child. Or having the name of the accused rapist made public but not the name of the accuser.

tim in vermont said...

Imagine the outrage if instead of cutting off a guy's dick because he used it to fool around with other women, so he deserved it, a man threw acid on his wife's beautiful face because she used it to get other guys behind his back.

Can you almost hear the cries of "she deserved it!" that would ensue... Umm, no?

I love women, but honestly, even my wife says Bobbit deserved it. Maybe that's just a veiled warning... Not that threats of mutilation with a deadly weapon constitute any kind of abuse.

Char Char Binks, Esq. said...

Despite all his sporting success, and money, what a pathetic loser.

Anonymous said...

Tutor high school golfers. Better yet, start a foundation for tutoring high school golfers. Preferably in the inner city.

Get a real job. Invest in real estate, like Magic Johnson. Start an interior design company, like Venus Williams.

Or, or course, just bellyache for the rest of your miserable life.