The reaction throughout the golf world over Tiger Woods‘ alleged alternative lifestyle has been mostly muted, until now.
The ORLANDO SENTINEL reports that Arnold Palmer’s signature PGA Tournament has scrubbed the image of Woods and Palmer together atop the official website for tourney.
But when outed by the Sentinel over the changes, we got yet another opposite day quote for the obvious disassociation with Woods.
Tournament director Scott Wellington said the banner was updated two weeks ago. The redesign was “not necessarily” prompted by Woods’ recent infidelity scandal.
“We are always changing the Web site and keeping it fresh,” Wellington said. “[Woods] is our defending champion, and that’s not going to change.”
Not necessarily? Does that mean the tournament director doesn’t know the ultimate reason for the change?
Reminds me of Tag Heuer reps denying they pulled billboards of Woods in Australia because of bad publicity, then a week later announcing they were dropping Woods.
The opposite day hedges are going to cease if we get more material evidence of affairs or other questionable lifestyle decisions of Woods. And I don’t know too many people who don’t think that’s a possibility.
4:05 pm on December 19th, 2009
arnie, jack, O’Meara, Cook they must be perplexed by their close friends double life
4:42 pm on December 19th, 2009
Tiger and Jack are not close friends …
6:50 pm on December 19th, 2009
If they did the image the way I think they did that’s like a 5 minute operation. Rather sloppy too. See how old Arnie is behind the roses and tint on the new and in front on the old version?
10:24 pm on December 19th, 2009
@ Masschine - like you said its a 5 minute change, because the image was probably in ImageReady or Photoshop and in layers, but the “sloppy” change you mentioned isnt actually sloppy, its “prophetic’!!! Take a look at the original, Tiger is behind the roses and tint… now that Palmer is behind the roses & tint (and w/ the director’s claim that the image was changed on a random schedule) that means that Arnie may be the next player to dissapear from the banner in a week or two! Hopefully not because we find out he lives a double-life too! LOL! As for Tiger’s “friends” and their claims that they didnt know, I think thats BS. They are just trying to dis-associate themselves from this scandal! Believe me, MOST guys who cheat are pretty sloppy accross the board, his real friends know, have always known and are now to afraid of public backlash to be the “friend who didnt stop Tiger”! Think about it, if his “mentors” didnt stop him or tell, they would seem to be just as bad!
10:48 pm on December 19th, 2009
Bobby Jones, Ben Hogan, Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus … true icons and the reason why we love the game of golf … I went to Saint Andrews in Scotland this past summer and played a round there, together with a couple of Scotsmen … it was the greatest golf experience of my life and I urge all those thinking about it, to go as well, if you can …
6:45 am on December 20th, 2009
Cheap shot dropping him like that…what happened to bro’s befo ho’s??? us guys need to stick together for Le Tigre, it’s not like he’s beating on any of these ho’s, he’s just dippin his putter wherever he wants…what’s the problem?
3:49 pm on December 20th, 2009
Arnold had affairs…and don’t kid yourself that most of them do because that is why you have heard very little. Come on people get a grip…..guarantee you 95% of the tour pros screw around. Sad…but true…and for Greg Norman speaking out is like calling the kettle black. He slept with a friends wife, then divorced his, married her and now is divorcing her. hhhhhmmmm. Those who live in glass houses have boulders thrown at them. All of you who pretend to be Christain? Christains don’t judge they way you do….shame on you.
3:57 pm on December 20th, 2009
Green Blazer….how do you know who are good friends? Maybe you just wish you had some?