All golf fans know how close personally and professionally Tiger Woods is to his caddy, Steve Williams. The two are together on the course and the road for months at a time and have developed a seemingly unassailable bond. (Unlike Woods’ marriage.)
(Inset Photo Credit: ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Based on what we now know about Woods’ alt-lifestyle, is it not reasonable to believe that Williams knew about Woods’ infidelity? And if Woods’s wife Elin Nordegren made that reasonable assumption, would she want Williams working with her husband in the future? The same Williams who probably knew of Woods’ dalliances and kept it secret from her?
If the majority of the reports of Woods affairs are true, you don’t need to be a psychologist to figure out that the golfer is obsessed with having sex with women other than his wife. Woods to this point in his life has surrounded himself with enablers akin to an alcoholic’s only friends also serving as his bartenders.
So if Woods is going to remain faithful going forward (I know), why shouldn’t Nordegren demand that her husband ditch his closest business and personal associates - which would include Williams?
Isn’t that one of the first rules of someone in recovery? Removing the environment that fosters the problem?
I bring this up not to pretend that it will happen, but to point out how unworkable Woods’ marriage is going forward. If she stays with Woods, Nordegren will always have people in her daily life who remind her of Woods’ manic philandering. And that’s on top of her humiliation in public or every time she turnes on televison or logs onto the internet.
Not many people I know think that the marriage isn’t effectively over, and the first sign may have come today with Nordegren reportedly moving out of the family home. Meanwhile Woods is scrambling to salvage their fraudulent union, which he probably thinks he needs to secure many of his endorsement deals.
I can’t see Nordegren remaining in this arrangement much longer if she wants to retain her sanity and a semblance of a normal life for her children.
9:58 pm on December 7th, 2009
All right Brooks, we gave you your props after the ET interview, let’s not go all TMZ, gossipy now….
10:11 pm on December 7th, 2009
How long until woodsbybrooks.com opens up, so we can get this gossip crap out of here?
10:23 pm on December 7th, 2009
Look brooks, you’ve gone too far. Changing caddy’s isn’t going to matter. If these allegations are true the man is a nymphomaniac. He needs professional help
10:51 pm on December 7th, 2009
Bros before hos.
Keep Steve, focus on your golf, get rid of your wife, stay in your kids life Tiger.
He’s really losing it and he needs to get back to the focus he had when he was winning majors. I don’t give a flying F about who he bangs or his wife. Women like her are a dime a dozen. He got tired of banging her, like we all do.
Tiger. Please. Get back on the golf course. Take your anger and frustration and sadness out on that little white ball.
10:53 pm on December 7th, 2009
Nobody has mentioned FUZZY ZELLER. He made a mistake and Tiger hung him out to dry as long as he could. Cost Fuzzy all his endorsements! I guess what goes around..comes around.
11:12 pm on December 7th, 2009
Fuzzy lost his endorsements because he spoke about black folks like some sort of foreign creatures……’fried chicken or whatever they eat’…….
11:14 pm on December 7th, 2009
Brooks’ point is 100% bang on. Tiger has decisions to make… life decisions. I think if Elin told him to spend a year at home he would! But if he decides that golf is more important then divorce is his only option. He has embarrassed the hell out of this woman and the next move is entirely hers. I’d move out with the kids for 6 months and take it from there.
11:36 pm on December 7th, 2009
If there is any hope for an alcoholic or addict to recover from his/her affliction, the cardinal rule is to stay away from slipery people, slipery places and slipery things. That means:
1-Slipery People: No more hanging out with drinking buddies or using friends and no more associating with people who helped the chemically dependent person to use. Or, who knew about the dependency and helped keep it a secret. I short, no more associating with users and enablers.
2.- Slipery Places: No more going to old haunts; places where the alcoholic or addict might be in jeopardy of using again. And, no more going to events where drinking or using is a major part of entertainment.
3.- Slipery Things: No more using the chemical of choice, no more day dreaming about it and no substituting some other form instant gratification.
Now, where does that leave Tiger?
1.- Slipery People: No more Steve Williams, no more IMG, no more Nike and no more buddies who cover for him.
2.- Slipery Places: No more night clubs, bars or VIP rooms and no more fast food restaurants..
3.- Slipery Things: No more objectifying women simply as sex objects, no more using and women for instant gratification and no substituting porn.
If there is any hope for Tiger, the cardinal rule applies: no more slipery people, places or things. It’s as simple as that.
12:02 am on December 8th, 2009
We just want it to look good on the surface…
12:09 am on December 8th, 2009
Why does everyone keep saying “he needs his wife for the endorsements”? He has made 1 Billion dollars already, he doesnt need any cash, zero. Regardless, maybe his endorsement earnings drop in half going forward and he only makes 50 Million a year, he can probably get by.
He doesnt need his wife for money, he just thinks he really loves her until she takes him back and a month from now he wants some more strange.
12:20 am on December 8th, 2009
Dr. Steve, use spell check
12:20 am on December 8th, 2009
the dude is a turd. plain and simple. i doubt he plays golf this year if hes gonna save his crappy marriage. hate to say it but maybe “its the culture”
12:23 am on December 8th, 2009
Steve Williams….God I hate that prick. I hope Tiger ‘divorces’ him, just so he loses his gravy train.
1:39 am on December 8th, 2009
the sad thing is he let down a lot of people that thouht he was a cut above .when one is a famous as he is he is held to a higher standard. thats just the way it is . he will lose most of his endorsements if he doesnt change /comeout and really share his problems. even jack and arnie have to be extreamly sad over this . i have tought kids golf for 30yrs and said to many , conduct yourself as tiger does .i have had many long talks with them this week and the look of sadness on their faces breaks my heart. i cant remember when i have been so sad over something myself .yes he has the right to his privacy but to mislead young people ,thats what really hurts here .maybe he should never have gotten married ,then this might not be such a big deal. many people feel like they have been led down the primrose path .i hope he mans up and finally speaks out on this .the longer he waits the worse it will get . his first tournament back will be very interesting and maybe the toughest he will ever play . this is all so very sad .jmho
3:01 am on December 8th, 2009
Think, Elin has married two man, Tiger and Steve. She has to keep only one, hit the road Steve!!!!! You do not belong in Woods union, you are in Elin eyes a traitor.
3:33 am on December 8th, 2009
c’mon people the guy was not happy, not even once with that crap eilen what ever her name is. Just divorced the salty food that is what he needs to do.
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7:37 am on December 8th, 2009
I read everyone posting. And it is funny how people and the media who is so caught in the hype can speculate what happen.Or even give opinion on what should be done. Or how it happen. But one question for everyone, Were you there?
8:22 am on December 8th, 2009
What’s love got to do with it??
8:29 am on December 8th, 2009
If I am Elin, I renegotiate the prenup for a couple of years, pocket 80 million, stay out of Tigers bed, have a boy on the side, show up to a few parties as needed, and once the deal is signed, do an interview with Oprah stating exactly what you are doing, you are doing it for your kids and the money etc, and the day the deal expires, move out and bank your money and move on with life.
8:48 am on December 8th, 2009
He sure loves the white women
9:31 am on December 8th, 2009
Wao!!
10:03 am on December 8th, 2009
Happy to hear “she’s moved out” though i’ve heard it was Tiger who’s moved to another home in the neighborhood. Makes more sense…..not to disrupt children’s lives and routine anymore than they have to. I think Elin’s mother being rushed to the hospital is (probably) indicative of stress and turmoil in that house.
I think Elin should file for divorce. She’s young, she still has ability to rebuild her life with someone that loves her and WANTS to be with her. I’ve known men like Tiger, his behavior goes much deeper than throwing medical term of “sex addict” to it. She obviously has emotional commitment issues….that is reason for the sex. You noticed that none of these encounters have had an emotional element to them. Generally men like this continue this behavior for a very long time….usually only when their noodle wears out.
10:39 am on December 8th, 2009
What a bunch of crap all these posts are. The guy sucummed to all the media pressure, stress and bs for 14 yrs. GHC give him a break. This is not the end of the world folks. Walk in another man’s moccasins for a while before you start condeming. These posts, polls, advise columns are really out of line. The number one hit on TV, 2 and 1/2 men sez it all as far as I am concerned. Only differece he is married. So What.
Not the first guy to commit adultery, nor the last. An bringing in othere people to these posts is more bs. I read it and see the the injustice of so many sooth sayers who think they know it all, when they all no nothing. Let it be for gods sake, let it be.
10:59 am on December 8th, 2009
Elin, GET RID OF WILLIAMS!!!
Yes, he is in the same league as Tiger. That’s his buddy and out of respect to Elin he needs to go!!!
I hope for the best and for you to get through this nightmare! God Bless
11:07 am on December 8th, 2009
Where da white wimmin at?
What dat you say?
Cheetah have dem all.
Damn
11:35 am on December 8th, 2009
Pure speculation Brooks. Come on!! Williams knows who “butters his bread.” He’s not going to rat on Tiger, but it doesn’t necessarily mean he agrees with how Tiger chooses to live his life. Tiger is the only one to blame for his philandering. Williams might be caught in the middle, but he never put a gun to Tiger’s head and told him to step out on his wife. Don’t get involved in someone else’s marriage unless they ask you to. In this type of case, you’re damned if you do and you’re damned if you don’t.
11:37 am on December 8th, 2009
If you can eat lobster at home why would you eat at McDonalds. I tell you why, someone isn’t doing her job at home.
12:01 pm on December 8th, 2009
this continues to be a very bad story, because so many people are affected and hurt. it’s very easy to make jokes about it, but the millions of people that are hurt by this situation is very unfortunate. one question for all the steve williams haters, why is he to blame? his job is to carry tiger’s golf bag, that’s it. what tiger does off the golf course, has nothing to do with steve.
1:11 pm on December 8th, 2009
Tiger is a scumbag. To portray huimself as such a good family man then do this. WHAT A HYPOCRIT!!!!
2:12 pm on December 8th, 2009
Theirs only one person in my long lifetime to have his cake and eat it too, in fact he got paid for it and quite handsomely.
three guesses, first to don’t count. Oh hell I’ll just tell ya Hugh Heffner. So I think Tiger should divorce and start a new rag called “TIGER’S PROW-LINGS. He could make more BILLIONS.
3:18 pm on December 8th, 2009
Don’t be shy. What do you really think of Tiger?
Personally I don’t care at all. I’m not married to him and it’s none of my business.
5:36 pm on December 8th, 2009
Scott - now we all know your wife / girlfriend (or both) cheats. There’s no way you’re “getting the job done at home” because you’re a moron…. Serial cheating is not about what’s happening in the sack at home.
8:53 pm on December 8th, 2009
Stupidest….theory….ever…. Brooks.
9:13 pm on December 8th, 2009
Like Father, Like Son! The Apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree. Wonder if Tiger inherited his Daddy’s porn library. Tiger was indoctrinated by his father as early as the Jr. Golf Days. This is no surprise to me. Daddy Dearest settled out of court on a sexual harassement case and it was kept very quiet in the media. Could be because of his SUPPORT GROUP. He has taught Tiger well. Poor Tida. She had to endure this behavior from her husband and now her precious Tiger. Oh well, and the sting goes on! Amazing what money can buy.
1:20 pm on December 9th, 2009
Send Williams packing….he is a douche. Remember the time he threw the photographer’s camera into the lake. The man is crude. Good riddance. And yes, everyone is right about Fuzzy. He was screwed. And I am sure he is getting a bit of satisfaction from Tiger’s antics. Frankly, I wish he would retire.
12:24 am on December 12th, 2009
Tiger good luck..get over it and welcome to the real world…..S h I T happenes…but really thank you,,,because every foresome that takes a golf vacation 2 or 3 times of year…is now over because of you……the woman now ask us is that what you and your friends do……we dont need the BS..really thank you
12:45 am on December 12th, 2009
Tiger is scum. His marriage is over. His endorsements are over. His golf is over. The wages of Sin…………………………
1:06 pm on December 12th, 2009
Everyone is making this assumption Elin is the hurt spouse. We are giving her a personality including character just like we did Tiger. The truth is we know even less about her. This whole thing could have been a business deal for her too. Tiger’s end was to keep it on the quiet. She now gets to renegotiate……..