Masters for Tiger

It's his a sport to you. But it's his job. I am just not understanding the principled distinction between Tiger Woods going back to work and Joe from accounting doing the same?

 

OK, but now you're arguing that not playing the Masters should be some sort of penance he should have to pay for his transgressions. Like an out-of-school suspension. And I think that's a fundamentally different argument than the one that was initially proffered, which was that by playing he was somehow shorting his wife.

 

Just heard Kenny Perry on Tiger Woods returning: "It's awesome. We've got our stud back."

 

Good for Tiger, I think that his personal life should stay personal. Let the man golf.

 

And let's be honest---not one single person bought a Nike golf product or a Gatorade or whatever else he endorsed because he was a good family man. Thye boiught it because of what he did on the golf course.

 

I think this sort of thinking completely overlooks the WAG factor. A few years ago, my wife bought me one of those fancy Nike TW golf shirts that go for around $70. She was sick for three days, we spent the entire time watching the US Open (Oakmont) together, and she decided she'd like to get me one despite the expense. She loved, loved, loved that commercial where he gets a tiny set of clubs delivered to his house for "Baby Woods."

(Keep that commercial in mind the next time someone says "He's never portrayed himself as a family man!")

Fast forward several years and countless mistresses. She is in the Nike employee store in Portland, Ore., where everything is 40 percent off the sticker price, and asks me if I want anything. I say, "I wouldn't mind another one of those nice TW shirts if they're only $35."

"No. Way. I'm never buying you anything he endorses again," says my wife. "He is a total creep."

So while plenty of men may forgive, and may go right on buying stuff he endorses, I suspect plenty of women who buy stuff for their husbands/boyfriends will not. And a HUGE percentage of family purchases are not made by the male head of the household.

And that stuff matters to corporations.

 

FWIW, Dan Jenkins tweets about this have been pretty funny.

 

Going forward, I agree with you and can see that conversation playing out many, many times. He's definitely affected his ability to influence purchasing spend in the future negatively with his indiscretions.

I'm just saying that no one in the past ever thought 'you know, I'm going to buy these Nike irons because Tiger Woods has good family values'.

 

And to answer the question about where Tiger stays in Augusta, I do know at one point he was out in Waynesboro (about 45 mins away) though I don't know if he's there any more.

 

The Bird Dog Capital of the World? Really? He couldn't have stayed in Aiken or at Lake Oconee?