Our Prediction: Tiger Woods’ Marriage is Over

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 Blog / Commentary by IARC

A porn star.  A reality TV personality.  A pancake house waitress.  A divorced mother.  A nightclub hostess.  These are examples of the ever-increasing harem of women stepping forward claiming affairs with Tiger Woods.  In the immediate aftermath of the car accident, Tiger and his representatives went into overdrive, with media reports indicating huge sums of money were involved to essentially pay off his wife to publicly salvage their marriage.

But we predict that Elin will realize this relationship is truly finished and cannot be saved.  She’ll be offended at the hush money being offered and will refuse to be humiliated like Eliot Spitzer’s wife and act more like Jenny Sanford, holding her head up high and demonstrating to the public that she’s retaining her dignity.

The allegations will get worse and be so damaging to Tiger’s very carefully crafted public persona, that he will never recover.  His sponsors will leave, despite their loyalty now.  A report alleges that the National Enquirer videotaped a romp of Tiger with one of his mistresses two years ago in his car.  These salacious details will continue in the weeks ahead

An affair is bad enough, and for many couples, they are unable to deal with the infidelity, while others are able to, through therapy, hard work, and spending years building back the trust that was lost.  But Tiger’s case isn’t one of just an affair.  This is someone with a serial addiction to sex and women, who hasn’t come to terms with his duties as a husband and father.  Like some politicians who use their families as props, Tiger used his wife and children to create an image of someone he’s not.

The truth has come out and he’s damaged forever.  His legacy on the golf course will be tainted by allegations of sex in a car in a church parking lot, while his wife and children were at home.  This is the image of Tiger Woods people will remember, not the heroic golf player he was, an image he’s desperately trying to sell, but we’re not buying.