I play baseball, not golf, but professional golf is surely the hardest test of nerve in sport. The combination of personality factors that made Woods into the greatest lone wolf of all time also arrested his development. And for anyone, adversity is more natural and easier to deal with than adulation.
He would be far better off shedding the image and being whatever he is. But he won't.

I can't wait to see what kind of apologia pro vita sua you could craft for Amy Bishop.

THIS is an apology, Gerard:

http://www.hulu.com/watch/126490/saturday-night-live-rahm-emanuel

"flogged fleshless by an flock of Carmelite nuns on Methamphetamine"

Wonderful as always, Gerard, but this brought tears to my eyes.

Yeah, man.

If anything is a bigger shuck than the current national addiction to apologies, though, it's the whole "sexual addiction" scam.

"I know I'm married, or living with somebody, but my panties get to tingling and I just can't help myself. It's not my fault, though, because I'm an addict, and my husband or wife should feel sorry for me."

"Oh yeah, and blow jobs don't count."

Codependents Unanimous scores again. Disgusting.

Disgusting is right. The whole concept of addiction is cheapened by crap like this. Heroin in an addiction- you stop, and your body raises holy hell. Nicotine is an addiction. Ask anyone who has stopped smoking. Same thing with alcohol. Sex? Sorry. A compulsion, maybe, but not an addiction.
I couldn't turn on the radio, or walk by a TV yesterday without hearing this sorry-ass horndog. He even dragged in some vapid garbage out of his "Buddhist beliefs" to try to throw some quasi-religious piety into the mix.
And one other thing- The dude is a fucking Golfer. Sorry, but golfers are simply not important. Anyone who makes a role model out of a golfer deserves all the disappointment they get.
All Tiger Woods is sorry about is getting caught.

JWM

Nice job, most succinct of grovellers, but sending her the puppy w an embroidered LLBean collar saying "Sorry" would have melted even hearts of stone. On a Steve Jobs' minimalist stage, spotlit and fuzzy and adorable.
Cute trumps abject....

To sort of paraphrase Oscar Wilde...

"Anyone who can hear Tigers Woods apologizing without bursting into laughter must surely have a heart of stone."

This is so cynical. Have to profoundly disagree with you on this one Gerard. Sure there are plenty of people who make insincere amends/apologies for outer benefits and not inner redemption--- and who can know anyone's true (usually mixed) motivations except over time?--- but for those who truly hit bottom, this can be a very holy place to be. I don't think he did it expecting the world to forgive him. Some will, some won't. He did it for far deeper reasons.

It seems to have become a trend for the rich and famous to immediately attend "rehab" (drug, alcohol, sex, dwarf-tossing, what have you) after one has been caught with their hand firmly ensconced in the cookie jar.
At some point in time also comes a public apology, with the rehab stint paraded around as proof of the sinners earnest attempt at mitigating their indescretions.
It's worked for virtually EVERYONE else so far (there's even a reality TV show with heidi fliess, tom sizemore, mackenzie phillips, dennis rodman and a host of unbelievably old-looking people my age in it).
Hey, if it works for drugged-out actors and musicians, why not tiger?

The first rule he should have learned is that others may think you are a god - but your family by blood and your family by choice have gone into the bathroom just after you got done with your business.

They know better. And you got to live with them. Welcome to reality champ-chump.

My informal sampling of friends and relatives shows that NOT ONE OF THEM could stand to watch even a news report on his apology. In every instance they reached for the remote and switched to ANYTHING but "Woods apologizes" news.

I for one was glad to hear him invoke his long lost, but now useful, Buddist religion to help him through his PR travails.

I think I'll resurrect "Dewey's Pre-Hab Program":

"Like Re-hab, only you complete the program in advance of the offense that will ultimately turn you into a social pariah. Attend around your schedule, instead of the media’s! Complete in advance of potentially hazardous duty, (i.e. appearing on “The View”) for added insurance against the wrath of the PC Squad. Note: You will automatically receive 100 Sensitivity Credits with enrollment in any of the Pre-hab programs."

I don't know why it never took off. I should contact Algore's agent.

Arthur, it is not necessary to have met you to know you.
The fact is, Woods is a beast to the little people once he is out of range of the cameras. Like, Hillary. This is not a secret.
How the rich or powerful behave toward those who have no defenses against them is the easiest and most reliable way to judge someone you wouldn't otherwise know.
The fact that Ty Cobb was a beast does not affect my admiration for what he accomplished, but Cobb was no hypocrite. Hypocrisy demands a willing audience.

I overheard an undergrad at school casually demolish the whole charade: "Tiger Woods called the press conference to announce that he's changing his name to Cheetah."

A public apology is about as meaningless as the clown running this country.

Thanks for the quote from Chester A. Riley, and using a word I've not seen in years (quim).

See "Inside the Secret Service" for dirt on HRC and how she treats the little people.

For how Tiger Woods treats others, his numerous affairs while his wife and kids were at home is prima facie evidence. You don't have to know that he has a thug for a caddie to understand this. Why would you have a thug as a caddie if you did not like thugs?

"Why would you have a thug as a caddie if you did not like thugs?"
Because he's good with his wood?

Frankly he should never have made a public apology. He is a golfer, and better at it than anyone has ever been. What he sticks in who, and how it effects his personal life, isn't the worlds business.