šŸŒ Golf | Tiger Woods

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Divea, I highly doubt Tigerā€™s PR guys had anything to do with getting the couple to stay together. Thatā€™s taking the cynical angle just a bit too far, IMHO.[/quote]
:raspberry: Never said I was right or logical. PR guyā€™s have a lot to do with being seen together strategically.

How many people would have said that if a woman spent time away from her children to sleep with a million men. Sleeping around is not just sex, it is so much effort. Calling, lying, finding rendezvous zones, commuting to and fro, covering up, buying gifts, the whole gambit. If a woman invested so much time, effort, money, and reputation to sleep around, her kids would be taken from her in 2 seconds flat. With all his touring, screwing and gaming, I donā€™t think he was doing any parenting.

I am not a divorce advocate, but somehow living happily after such a scandal is highly unlikely. However, raising poor screwed up kids is worse than raising rich screwed up kids.

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Apologies have been accepted, it seems, by an ever demanding public:

[quote]In his wildest dreams, Tiger Woods couldnā€™t have hoped for a better return.

Emerging from five months of tabloid hell, Woods recorded his best-ever opening round at the Masters on Thursday, a four-under-par 68 which left him in a tie for seventh, two shots off the lead of the reborn Fred Couples.
At the end of an eventful day, even Woods was surprised.

ā€œA little bit, yeah,ā€ he acknowledged.

But as good as his start to the tournament was, the tone of the Woods comeback wasnā€™t determined by his three birdies or the two eagles, but by the fans.

He was embraced, encouraged and applauded. We saw Thursday that forgiveness is possible; that people are willing to give Tiger Woods a second chance.

ā€œThe people, I havenā€™t heard them cheer this loud in all my years here,ā€ he said.

ā€œSo it certainly helped keep my spirits up because I was certainly missing a bunch of putts out there. It helps when you get the crowd like that.

ā€œI said thank you all the way. I was saying thank you all day. The people were just incredible, incredible all day.ā€

And maybe that was the real lesson of Thursday for Woods: that redemption isnā€™t a one-way street.

He has his part to do, too.

As Augusta National chairman Billy Payne sternly said the day before, ā€œwith fame and fortune comes responsibility, not invisibility."
Woods needed to know, Payne said, that he wasnā€™t playing golf just for himself and that ā€œevery kid he passes on the course wants his swing, but would settle for his smile."

Woods clearly took the message to heart. Iā€™ve never seen him smile so much, tip his cap to the galleries and generally acknowledge the fans like he did Thursday.

He was a man in search of acceptance.
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msn.foxsports.com/golf/story/Mas ā€¦ ess-040810

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Forgiveness for what? What did he do to ā€œpeople?ā€ A second chance at what? Being a golf champion? ā€œPeopleā€ can stop him from being good at golf?
What a load of shite! :roflmao:

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He didnā€™t do anything to me, and it is pointless to ask for my forgiveness or a second chance. YAWN! The proper audience are his family and his sponsors.

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Please read my initial statement, seasoned with irony and a bit of humorā€¦

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Rubbish! If you were a half black, half Thai millionaire with bad dress sense you could easily have been tarred with the same brush. There but by the grace of god. Cherish that apology! Be lavish with your forgiveness.

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Iā€™m not going to forgive him. He promised me ages ago heā€™d help me with some pipes that needed lagging and he still hasnā€™t showed up. :fume:

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Did I? Did we?? When?

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Forgiveness for what? What did he do to ā€œpeople?ā€ A second chance at what? Being a golf champion? ā€œPeopleā€ can stop him from being good at golf?
What a load of shite! :roflmao:[/quote]

Maybe he should just tell them all the eff off. Itā€™s not like he needs the sponsors money. He can just come out and say I have a big swinging dick and a big swinging golf club. Plenty of woman ready to sleep with him, no one asked them to do that did they?

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Xinhua news seems to offer articles that yahoo and google avoid:

news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/s ā€¦ 356279.htm

TIGER Woods may have fathered the love child of Porn Star Devon James!!!

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[quote=ā€œJack Burtonā€]Xinhua news seems to offer articles that yahoo and google avoid:

news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/s ā€¦ 356279.htm

TIGER Woods may have fathered the love child of Porn Star Devon James!!![/quote]

You are NOT the father!*

*Thatā€™s a line from the Maury Povich Showā€¦

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What a great story and come back after many years in Tiger Woods winning the Masters Sunday. Hope Taiwan knows it female golfers are also great (my Taiwanese co workers seem know little how well Taiwanese females golfers do), seems they get much less news coverage than I think they should say compared to in Korea or Japan, My experience is Taiwanese value ladyā€™s looks over being great (best) at golf which is heartbreaking to me.

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It was sad watching his fall. And it seemed he could never rise again. But he did it at 43 years of age. I know very little about golf, but this is much more than about that silly game.

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Ever since Yani Tseng blew up her skyrocketing golf career (#1 for nearly 2 years I think..) by hanging with 黑äŗŗ, the Taiwanese entertainment and once basketball star wanna-be and his group of losers, Taiwan pretty much lost interest in female golf.

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You say you know very little about golf yet you pronounce it as being silly. That sounds a bit silly.

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Ha, ha. Indeed. Anyway, good job Tiger! Some cool tweets from some famous folks related to t he win.

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Yeah, I was glued to the screen this morning. As a European I was rooting for Molinari, but the great Mr. Woods cannot be denied. More wins to come.

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Iā€™m glad he got this win. The perseverance of a champion. Most would have called it quits, even i was thinking he should just quit and enjoy the rest of his life. The obsession with winning and perfection is another level for guys like tiger. I remember having a bunch of Nike tiger hats and golf gear when I played on the golf team for school.

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Iā€™m shocked. I thought Woods was an over-the-hill joke now. Canā€™t believe heā€™d come back to win after 11(?) years of decline (and personal problems).

Good for him though. This comeback will probably make a good 30-for-30 documentary or even a feel good movie one day.

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Not to mention multiple serious spine surgeries that would be hard for the average person to just be back to 100% doing day to day stuff.