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With his latest mishaps.......he now moves out of my career top ten.

That's ridiculous. Even if he never plays another tournament, he's already, I believe, 2nd in majors won and maybe 2nd or 3rd in career wins, obviously first in earnings and I'm sure in the top few in just about every other stat. How can he be out of top 10. What does infidelity have to do with his golfing accomplishments?
 

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That's ridiculous. Even if he never plays another tournament, he's already, I believe, 2nd in majors won and maybe 2nd or 3rd in career wins, obviously first in earnings and I'm sure in the top few in just about every other stat. How can he be out of top 10. What does infidelity have to do with his golfing accomplishments?

nothing; fishhead's jealously/hatred for the man is the sole reason
 

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this interview happened 2 days before the crash ....What a piece of shit

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Posted on Wed, Dec. 16, 2009
Woods' time away from golf will hurt Tiger Inc.



By EMILY FREDRIX
AP Marketing Writer

When Tiger Woods' break from golf ends, he's unlikely to regain his crown as one of the world's most valuable pitchmen, even if he gets back to winning tournaments and convinces people he's changed.

America loves comeback stories, but his future ad opportunities are likely to be limited to sports product endorsements, significantly reducing his earnings power.

That was the takeaway from Gillette's announcement Saturday that it won't feature Woods in its ads for an unspecified period of time. It was the first major sponsor to distance itself from Woods since he announced late Friday he is taking an indefinite leave from golf to work on his marriage after allegations of infidelity surfaced in recent weeks.

Woods' time-out and request for privacy may give sponsors the cover they need to pull their ads indefinitely and distance themselves from allegations that Woods had trysts with multiple women.

AT&T said it is evaluating its relationship with the golfer. Representatives from Accenture won't say what its plans are regarding Woods, whom the consulting firm has used to personify its claimed attributes of integrity and high performance. But its Web site no longer displays on its home page an image of the golfer that had been there as recently as Thursday.

Companies often use athletes and celebrities in image ads not to sell products but to ride the coattails of their perceived qualities in the hope that it will rub off on them. Those kinds of ads are now likely gone forever for Woods as Tiger Inc. has self-destructed, costing him hundreds of millions in future endorsement fees.

Before the Nov. 27 car accident that exposed Woods' alleged serial infidelity, 91 percent of the opinions expressed about him on the Internet were positive, according to Zeta Interactive. As of Saturday, Woods' positive rating online had fallen to just 41 percent.

That's bad news for Accenture. The global consulting and outsourcing firm lauded its connections with Woods in a 2006 news release, saying its "Go on, be a Tiger" campaign had boosted its image significantly.

"The world associates Tiger with high performance. He embodies the relentless pursuit of perfection," James E. Murphy, Accenture's chief marketing and communications officer, was quoted as saying in that release. The company didn't return requests for comment Saturday.

Gillette, which uses the slogan "The best a man can get," said it won't air advertisements featuring Woods or include him in public appearances. Woods was hired by Gillette in 2007 and has been in ads for Gillette Fusion Power razors with titles like "Phenom" and "Champions" with other stars including tennis great Roger Federer and soccer player Thierry Henry.

"This is supporting his desire to step out of the public eye and we're going to support him by helping him to take a lower profile," said Damon Jones, a spokesman for Gillette, a unit of Cincinnati-based Procter & Gamble.

He wouldn't say when - or if - the company would resume ads with Woods. Woods hasn't been seen in a prime-time television commercial since a Gillette spot on Nov. 29, according to research firm Nielsen Co.

No companies have cut ties altogether to Woods in the weeks since his marital troubles came to light, tarnishing the image of a man who spent 13 years in the public eye carefully cultivating a good guy image. But with the 33-year-old's decision to leave golf - at least temporarily - they're now forced to consider their future with him.

"They're going to hedge, they're going to buy some time to determine whether or not the situation will turn," said Rick Burton, former chief marketing officer of the United States Olympic Committee and now a sports marketing professor at Syracuse University.

Woods' agent, Mark Steinberg, said Friday it would be "premature and inappropriate" to talk about Woods' specific business relationships. "Each sponsor has unique considerations and ultimately the decisions they make we would fully understand and accept."

Woods' array of endorsements helped him become the first sports star to earn $1 billion, according to Forbes. Michael Jordan, Woods' closest contemporary, is a distant second at $800 million, amassed during and after an NBA career that spanned nearly 20 years. Basketball star LeBron James has made public his desire to be the next athlete to earn $1 billion. Woods' time-out could mean more room for James and other athletes to snatch up more endorsements.

Nike Inc. said late Friday it supports his decision. Gatorade, a unit of PepsiCo Inc., said previously it supports Woods and said Saturday it has no updated comment. EA Sports has been selling Tiger Woods video golf games for a decade, and its next edition featuring him comes out in six months, giving it time to see what happens. Watch maker Tag Heuer did not return a call Saturday.

All of these companies are examining their relationships with him, said Jonathan Bernstein, president of Bernstein Crisis Management. He expects they are commissioning research to see how much damage - if any - Woods' scandal is doing to their brands.

The answer to that may lie in the nature of the product being pitched.

"The ones that would stand to lose the least are sports," Bernstein said. "The connection with a watch company or a clothing company is much more tenuous and probably more subject to damage than connections to Nike."

A Wisconsin middle school already has learned Tiger Inc. may not be worth as much as it was a month ago.

The band at the Clintonville middle school had expected to raise $1,600 from an autographed photo of Woods that was auctioned off Dec. 5. Instead, most of the people just shook their heads as they walked by the picture, which finally sold for $300.

"The faces they were making, saying 'Are you kidding? Why would you do this?'" said Adam Englebretson, athletic director for the Clintonville district's high school.

Woods' earnings prowess also has been cut short. "The sponsors who want to sign him up may be different," said Larry L. Smith, president of the Institute for Crisis Management. "It may be somebody who wants to market only to men or only to the avid golfer. There may be fewer cross-generational or cross-demographic sponsors."

Even for Nike, which built its golf business that generates $650 million a year in revenue around Woods, the timing of the scandal couldn't be worse. "Nike Golf is Tiger Woods," said Mike Paul, president of MGP & Associates PR. "This is the time of year that they should be selling golf clubs for Christmas."

Mary Le Beau is among the golfers now reluctant to buy Nike equipment or apparel tied to Tiger. "There's so many choices that you don't have to give up any quality to go with your conscience," said the 52-year-old marketer from Green Bay, Wis.

Others at risk of becoming collateral damage include: the television networks that drove up the bidding to show golf tournaments and other professional golfers who have benefited from the quadrupling of prize money since Woods joined the PGA tour in 1996.

The PGA's contracts with TV broadcasters NBC and CBS expire in 2012, with negotiations on a new deal likely to begin during the second half of next year.

As a measure of Woods' importance to the PGA, the average television rating fell by nearly 50 percent for a host of 2008 tournaments that Woods missed while he was recovering from knee surgery, according to Nielsen Co.

Expect Americans to root for him when - and if - he does come back, now that he's positioned himself as less than the champion he's always been known for being.

"We always root for the underdog," Smith said. "We all think that everybody has a chance to be successful. It depends how hard somebody is willing to work and what sacrifices they're willing to make."

Woods is golf to so many people. But even without him, people won't lose their interest, said Gary Lynch, sales associate at New York Golf Center.

"Icons come and go," he said. "This is a big story because of the financial aspect involved and because he set himself up to be a saint."
Emily Fredrix reported from Milwaukee. AP Business Writers Michael Liedtke in San Francisco; Rachel Beck, Damian Troise, Stephen Manning and Mae Anderson in New York; Sarah Skidmore in Portland, Ore.; and Ryan Nakashima in Los Angeles contributed to this report.
 

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Tiger Woods sex scandal: Wife Elin Nordegren, kids going to Sweden while Tiger spends time with pals

BY George Rush and Corky Siemaszko
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Wednesday, December 16th 2009, 4:00 AM

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Tiger Woods' family is heading to Sweden for the holidays, but the disgraced golfer is not going with them - he's hanging with "the boys."
"He is very contrite, but he's also disoriented," a longtime friend of Woods told the Daily News on Tuesday. "He still can't believe this is happening."
Woods, whose image has been wrecked by reports he cheated on his wife, Elin Nordegren, with a bevy of babes, is stressed out but "not on sedatives," the source said.
The golfing great is looking for a safe harbor and "waiting for the storm to settle."
"He's been talking about going away with two or three of his friends, just the boys," said the friend, who has known Woods since the golfer was a teenager.
"They've been trying to figure out a place that would be safe."
Woods' posse includes his newly married pal, Byron Bell, whose name was drawn into the scandal when it was revealed he helped deliver New York party girl Rachel Uchitel to Australia for a reported rendezvous with Woods.
The other "boys," according to the source, are college pals from Stanford.
"Their wives aren't happy," he said.
Neither is Nordegren, who has said nothing publicly about her husband's "transgressions" - and who was not wearing her wedding ring in recent photographs.
"Elin is planning to take the kids to spend the holidays with her family in Sweden," the source said, who added that the $2 million island hideaway Nordegren bought before the scandal erupted is probably not where she will spend Christmas.
"Tiger and Elin bought that for her mom as a weekend place," the source said.
Woods' friend said it's likely the golfer cheated on Nordegren with more than the dozen or so women who have already emerged since Thanksgiving.
"But some of them probably don't want to come forward," he said. "The first couple of mistresses seemed special. They don't want to be No. 42."
Woods' holiday escape plans were revealed on the same day that:
- MSNBC.com reported that the golfer sent hush money to his honeys.
Woods wired anywhere from $5,000 to $10,000 a month to several of the busty babes and one lucky lady reportedly was on Tiger's tab to the tune of up to $20,000 a month, the network reported.
"The money comes via a wire transfer," one woman told MSNBC. "There's no contract about it, there's no discussion about what it's for, but it's implied that it's in exchange for keeping quiet about his affair."
MSNBC cited as their sources "several women who were involved with the golfer" but did not identify any of them.
- A report said Theresa Rogers, the latest woman linked to Woods, bragged to buddies that she showed the golfer "everything he needed to know to be a great lover."
"Theresa was crazy about Tiger but she didn't want to feel like a bought woman, a paid escort," a source told RadarOnline.com. "She just wanted to be the woman who schooled Tiger in the bedroom."
A fortysomething South Florida bombshell, Rogers was outed earlier by Radar as one of the disgraced golf great's longest-serving gal pals.
Radar reported Rogers traveled extensively with Woods over a five-year period and took up with Woods, 33, before he married Nordegren, 29. She continued seeing him after he tied the knot, according to Radar.
That report could not be independently confirmed.
csiemaszko@nydailynews.com
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Woods' posse includes his newly married pal, Byron Bell, whose name was drawn into the scandal when it was revealed he helped deliver New York party girl Rachel Uchitel to Australia for a reported rendezvous with Woods.
The other "boys," according to the source, are college pals from
Stanford.
"Their wives aren't happy," he said.







NO KIDDING........




 

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nothing; fishhead's jealously/hatred for the man is the sole reason

For the record, I don't have one bit of jealousy or hatred toward Mr. Toast.............do I like, no, I DON'T LIKE HIM, AND HAVE NO RESPECT FOR HIM.....(see Jesper Parnivik).


By the way, since this story broke until now, I have for the most part been spot on with my feelings as to what was going to transpire in the aftermath of this.........just hope I don't continue to be spot on, as I certainly DO NOT WANT ANYONE PHYSICALLY HARMED HERE........be it Toast himself or anyone he is associated with.
 

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He is very contrite , still cant believe this is happening....


What kind of fantasy world does this ego maniac live in ?

Cant believe what is happening ? Your wife is pissed ? She's leaving ?

He will be spotted with Rachel in the coming weeks..
 

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Woods, who has admitted to marital infidelity, is accused of having affairs with 10 women – Rachel Uchitel, Jaimee Grubbs, Kalika Moquin, Jamie Jungers, Mindy Lawton, Cori Rist, Holly Sampson, Joslyn James, Julie Postle and Teresa Rogers

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