"A Subpar Performance..."

I don't wish to waste a lot of time on Mr. Tiger Woods and his precipitous fall from prominence, as I believe there are far more important and critical issues ensnaring this country and our world that deserve far greater dissection and discussion than the continuing despicable escapades of an individual who has a better than average knack of striking a golf ball with some notable consistency. The country is sinking deeper daily into the pit of socialist hell, but the media deliberately chooses instead to focus on the titillatingly sensational, fueling the 24/7 news cycle with a tireless onslaught of dirty laundry tidbits to feed the public's unquenchable appetite for scandal. I often wonder as a society whether or not we are capable of paying attention to or passionately being moved by anything of substance other than what we stuff into our addled brains in the form of mindless entertainment. I have my doubts...

That having been said, my personal reaction to Mr. Wood's many documented dalliances is that he has sullied so many beds in his past extramarital exploits that he will be indeed a very fortunate man if he is permitted again to occupy the marital bed in which he made a devout covenant never to defile. Mr. Woods would do well from this point forward to take an extended sabbatical from the game of golf and devote himself to the sole goal of salvaging his marriage. If that indeterminate amount of time required for such reconciliation amounts to months, if not years, then so be it. He owes such a tireless effort, not to his heretofore adoring public, but to his wife and their two children. His legacy as perhaps the greatest golfer the world has ever witnessed pales in comparison to the besmirched legacy that now hangs around his neck like an albatross. Whether or not Tiger can ever again trod the fairways as a redeemed man will depend on how the public receives him, proudly wearing the iconic "TW" on his golf cap or with a forever tainted scarlet "A."

The time for a forthright decision as to his and his family's future has been thrust upon him. It is time for him to tee it up and do the right thing... no errant shots...no shortcuts...just a determined deliberateness to remain on the straight an narrow. Failing that, he will be remembered not so much as being a great athlete, but as a failed man.