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Tuesday, March 16, 2010

The Tiger Saga: Much ado about nothing?

The word is out that Tiger Woods is ready to make his triumphant return to golf next month at the Masters.
At the same golf tournament where he captivated audiences in 1997, shooting a 18 to win the storied event, in a few weeks, he will try to captivate us all again.
And it won't be easy.
Everyone in the world knows about his recent transgressions; his strange post-holiday car accident, the rumors of marital infidelity, the flood of women who came out of the woodwork to confess they had sexual relationships with him. Then the very public destruction of his marriage and the obligatory stay in a rehab facility.
All these things have been shoved down our throats for the past few months, and to be quite honest, I'm sick of it.
I'm not sick about the fact a public figure cheated on his wife. Yes, it's deplorable, but it's none of my business. It doesn't affect the way I live my life at all.
What makes me sick is that I can't turn on the television without hearing something about this.
Is it news?
Maybe, it was at the first onset, but not anymore. This isn't the kind of thing that people should be worried about being constantly updated about.
It's something that a man and his wife need to work out.
Them.
Only them.
Not anyone else. Once again, it's none of our business.
People act like it is such a big deal that he is going to start golfing again.
Why?
He's a professional golfer. That's what he does.
Yeah, he got caught doing something he shouldn't have been doing, but if you think it is something a thousand other professional athletes haven't done, you're kidding yourself.
Now, just because other people do it does that make it right?
No.
But it still makes it none of our business.
So next month Tiger Woods will go back to Augusta National and try to play well enough to make us all forget about the last few months.
I, for one, hope he does it.

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