BY Corky Siemaszko
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Here's Tiger Woods finally looking like the sex-crazed cad we know he is.
Showing off his guns and abs and glaring at the camera, Woods looks nothing like the good guy of the greens in the Annie Liebowitz shot gracing the cover of the latest Vanity Fair.
The menacing shot - never before seen - was taken in January 2006, long before the world learned the married father of two cheated on his wife with a harem of hotties.
In the accompanying article, Buzz Bissinger interviews some of the reporters who covered Woods for years to find out how the golf great kept his catting around under wraps for so long.
Bissinger also revisits the embarrassing interview that a then-21-year-old Woods gave to Charles Pierce of GQ magazine in 1997. Woods joked about lesbian sex and the endowments of black athletes - the kind of gaffe he never repeated once he signed with super agent Mark Steinberg.
Golf blogger Joe Logan says Woods listened to his handlers and became the Sphinx of the links.
"Tiger learned very well to talk forever and say nothing," Logan says.
Michael Bamberger of Sports Illustrated said that as a partly black man in a white man's game, Woods learned how to fly below the radar.
"What seems clear now is that he lived a very abnormal life all his life in a sport in which guys are very conventional," he says. "And if you are not conventional, you get ostracized right away."
Woods even kept other golfers at arm's length, "though he was always affable, never antagonistic," writes Bizzinger.
As the story hit newsstands on Wednesday, Elin Nordegren - Woods' scorned spouse - has been celebrating her 30th birthday far from her husband in the French Alps.
Although it has been widely reported that the Woods marriage is on the rocks and Nordegren has been photographed without her wedding ring, new photos purportedly showing the Swedish siren wearing her wedding bank surfaced and sowed more confusion in the ever-evolving Tiger Tale.
Nordegren, however, has an indentical twin sister - and she too, has a wedding ring. It could not be determined which sister was photographed with the bling.
Woods has been laying low since the scandal broke Thansgiving weekend.
Nordegren has reportedly told pals that her philandering husband left a cool $300 million in her Christmas stocking.
The report, in Britain's News of the World, said it's all part of Nordegren's plan to get hers - and keep their two kids in comfort - in a coming divorce battle.
Woods has not seen his two children - Sam, 2, and 10-month-old Charlie - for more than a month and had to mail them their Christmas presents, a source told the paper.
Photographs in The Daily News over the weekend captured a carefree Nordegren hitting the slopes at France's Chamonix ski resort, a wintry wonderland where the rooms cost $8,000-a-night.
Good Stuff!!
ReplyDeleteI found the article full of buzz-words, that are meant to enflame the senses of the reader, and to keep on promoting the hatred between Mr. Woods, and his wife.
ReplyDeleteDomestic dispute's are supposed to be between the husband and his wife to work out....
The media did not give this couple time to work out their private problems, and went on a witch-hunt, turning over all rocks, & stones, and finding the slugs, to help in the dismantling of the relationship.
The worst part of an alegation, wether it be true or false, is that once it's out there, the public will beleive it....
The young ladies who were all but willing to state that "He did it with me" steped up to get their "Reality TV Moments" that are all the rage these days, and as the frenzy built up, got their fifteen minutes......
It's a sad state of affairs, when Bad is rewarded, private sins between couples cannot be worked out, and money is the bottom line in this sad case...
You reporters helped break up this couple, and to continue to batter at this man, who is not unlike All other men, is a sign of the times that we live in.....
What will it take for you to let go of this story?
Will you drive him to do somthing rash?
Or worst?
until this these pics surface i had always thought that he was ugly - a mouth that was too wide and forward. with the black bandana cap on it seems to reduce his overly sized mouth to more portion size for his face. thses pics make him look sexy!!!
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