Originally Posted by
guadzilla
Eh... who Tiger chooses to bang or not to bang is none of any of your business and shouldnt have anything to do with his golfing.
I am amazed how adults seem to end up behaving like teenage girls when it comes to sporting heroes and completely lose all perspective.
They are sportspeople who are good at their particular sports, not deities walking among men. The ability to swing a stick, lay a mean bodycheck or turn pedals really fast does not make anyone a "hero" by any means.
If you are feeling let-down b/c your hero - be it Tiger, Bonds, Lance, Vick or whoever - turned out to be a less than stellar person, it is your own fault for acting like a 14-year old at a Skid Row concert, putting that person on a pedestal and worshiping them.
Please don't misinterpret my message or broaden it to a pure morality issue. Lots of golfers, football & basketball players, astronauts and presidents have jumped on almost everything in sight. What seperates Tiger was his moral arrogance. He looked down his nose at mere humans and spoke ad nauseum about his perfect life, especially his perfect morally upright family life. It wasn't so much the fact he cheated with a ton of especially sleazy skanks, it was that he misrepresented what he really was to millions of youngsters world wide. It was the hypocrisy, not the immorality, that brought Tiger down for so many.
You also said that Tiger's unregulated banging shouldn't have anything to do with his golfing. His playing performance since the pitching wedge/SUV events have shown that quite the opposite is true.
Tiger fell so far that the rest of the PGA Tour players lost their fear of him and are no longer intimidated by the formerly perfect golfer in Sunday red. Besides the millions in lost advertising revenue he lost his ability to intimidate by merely showing up. All that having been said, it may well be that Tiger's biggest problem is his loss of self respect.
As far as Hogan, he was a super arrogant prick that nobody could stand during his playing years. Tiger was arrogant, but never to the level of Hogan. Hogan was an unquestioned golfing legend, but Jones, Nicklaus, and Palmer are golfing icons for a reason. Tiger was approaching that status but that is now likely lost, even if he does break Jack's majors record.