Thursday, December 10, 2009

PAYAL GWALANI

LOVE, SEX AND TIGER


The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But the tiger has dates to keep
And miles to go before he sleeps
And miles to go before he sleeps

When a person is (nick)named Tiger Woods, the chances are that he acts like a tiger in the woods. And when a person achieves success and fame right early, disaster awaits him in the shadows. Boris Becker whom the sports buffs adored at 18 crashed and tumbled into a mess of his own making, domestic and financial. Child prodigy Kevin McAllister of Home Alone fame started the slide with his first divorce at 20, with many more in the making. With the whole world doting on you, and with dollars to flaunt and morals to break, the illusion of immortality traps you.
This unprecedented career began in the summer of 1996. He has won 93 tournaments, 71 of those on the PGA Tour. Tiger became the first ever to hold all four professional major championships at the same time. He is the career player leader and the career money leader. In winning the US Open Championship, Woods became the youngest to complete the career Grand Slam and the fifth to do so, after Hogan, Gene Sarazen, Gary Player and Jack Nicklaus.
The U.S. Open and Masters victories came by record margins – 15 strokes and 12 strokes respectively – and the U.S. Open triumph swept aside the 13-stroke major championship standard which had stood for 138 years, established by Old Tom Morris in the 1862 Open Championship.
Jaimee Grubbs, the cocktail waitress who is now well known because of her affair with Woods for three years, describes her first encounter: he just grabbed me, kissed me and what followed is material for a blue movie. Rachel Uchitel, another woman said to be involved with Woods, has gone to the extent of denying the affair, perhaps not knowing what is done cannot be undone by denials.
Now the pertinent question is how should Elin Nordegren, Tiger's wife and mother of their 2-year-old daughter Sam and 9-month-old son Charlie, take it. Do a Hillary Rodham Clinton? That perhaps is the strength of a woman and the crowning glory of a dignified married woman.
Forgive the Tiger but learn from him the laws of success – his focus, his passion, his drive, his indefatigable energy and his devotion to the game.

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