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"SO WITH TIGER WOODS? GOLF GAME NOW SUCKING LIKE A BILGE PUMP..."

"... can we entertain the hypothesis that his prior slutting around was actually essential to his performance?"

Asks Glenn Reynolds.

Here's what I said back in February, when he made his big "apology":

Deep down, what does he really believe? If I were writing a fictionalized version of his story, I'd have him believe that he is the greatest golfer of all time and that this grand stature authorizes him to do what fits his fabulous mind and body. People get to see the manifestation of that mind and body on the golf course and in those idealized advertisements, but outside of that he must do what has worked, and that means having the anchor of a beautiful family and the whole range of intense sexuality that belongs to him ? because he is what he is. Now, he's been called to account by conventional minds and all those people who make money through him ? the PGA, the sports networks, advertisers ? and they are dragging him down to their mundane morality with no concern for what it took to build the superior mind and body that is Tiger Woods. He is cornered and contemptuous, but he must abase himself for these little people and act as though he agrees. The outrage!

And I said, maybe he needs to throw of the image his father impressed on him and be openly the man he really is, someone more like Hugh Hefner.

What was most essential to Tiger's performance that he's missing now?
	Lots of dirty sex.
	The love of his wife and stability of his family.
	Being regarded as an icon of excellence, which he fed on since early boyhood.
	That big, seemingly endless flow of money, from advertisers feeding on his image of excellence.
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Full post as published by Althouse on August 09, 2010 (boomark / email).