Alex Smythe (FGCU) Tiger Woods and Society

18. March 2010 by student.

Tiger Woods. One of the greatest athletes of our generation, some are safe to say of all time. However, with recent media coverage, we have found out some interesting things about Tiger.  Tiger Woods was the role model for all prospective golfers and maybe even just sports players in general. He was the first Billionaire paid athlete ever. He was on his way to glory, when the evening of his car accident. What I believe happened was his wife chased him down the street and he got distracted while she was bashing his windows in with one of his golf clubs laying around the house after she found the sexual text messages back and forth with Jamie Grubbs. It was found out that Tiger Woods cheated on his wife with several different women instead of just the suspected view and everything started going downhill after that. He lost sponsorships and people were in disgust of what this top idolized athlete did.  As men, our instinct is to make as many offspring as possible. As strong as Tiger Woods may have seemed physically and mentally, he was not able to resist. At the age of 3 he was on a TV show hitting a golf ball better than most adults do. It was impressive, but he didn’t have a choice. His parents forced golf on him since he was in diapers and he got very far from it. He was a scrawny 155lb 6′0” guy all the way through college so no girl would want to be with a scrawny golfer just because society could care less about a unpaid golfer athlete. He obviously had no women until he turned professional and all those checks started coming in. With checks came women and he had no idea what to do in the situation. He would go out and women would just flop themselves onto him knowing he had what they want, which was money. He put on a few more pounds of muscle and became more attractive to women. Anyone winning millions of dollars with endorsements and sponsorships and being that famous would be sure to get any women he wanted. If Tiger Woods would have been less golf crazy as a kid, or not as “forced” into being a good student or golfer, he may actually wouldn’t have cheated on his wife. He wanted to get a taste of something he never had gotten and when he got married he probably was forced into that by his wife Elin and already was texting all these other girls on the sideline. He got caught up in something too tough for any Alpha male could handle. He got caught. Other men do it and it. Would society cared as much if he divorced his wife, and then went with all these women? Why does society have to care so much? Once we stop looking at the media for attention and realize that we all have very similar actions, that they are mortal too. Celebrities and top athletes make mistakes too. Yes, he did something socially incorrect by doing this, but having his endorsements and a few sponsors revoked because of it is a bit ridiculous (even though he doesn’t need the money). In the end, Tiger did something society didn’t like and it is understandable why he got such hasty and bad remarks, but in the end he is still just a normal human who makes mistakes just like all of us. Maybe he should just say he is Mormon.

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