Listening to the radio today and heard a couple more bizarre Tiger stories.
According to the Wall Street Journal, a hush-hush deal was made between Tiger Woods and the National Enquirer back in 2007. According to the article, Tiger was caught by a reporter in a church parking lot with a young lady. Apparently they even had photos! His people made an agreement NE’s publisher in which the story would not be exposed in exchange for a Tiger Woods cover story at one of the publisher’s other magazine’s. (A Men’s Health editor apparently resigned in disgust over this.) Although the publisher has denied these accounts, several people close to the situation have gone on record confirming the report.
Moreover, there’s disputing reports on how Tiger Woods is spending his free time. One report said he’s has locked himself in one of his two homes and watches nothing but cartoons and eating cold cereal. He refuses to watch ESPN because he wants to escape all the Tiger reports.
Another report says he’s flying on a jet plane, pleading with sponsors not to drop him.
And then there’s the one about his wife definitely filing for divorce.
My take: It’s going to get a whole lot worse for Tiger before it gets better. Tiger’s life isn’t ruined but it’s going to be a while before things get back to normal.