Why Tiger Woods Should NOT Apologize for Cheating on His Wife

If you’re like me, you’re starting to get sick and tired of hearing about Tiger Woods and his affairs with x-amount of ladies (currently 15 at the time of this typing, but the number is sure to go up, much like Mr. Wood’s libido).

Every other hour of the news these days is chock full of more and more “insights” into Tiger Woods’ private life: whom he had sex with, whom he left text/voice messages to, how he likes it kinky in bed… at this point, the news stories about him are playing out like some kind of soft-core porn movie on Cinemax!

I understand the business of the media.  It is there job to keep showing the public this story because (a) it’s a hot topic, (b) it gets people watching their shows (since all of it boils down to ratings and ad money), and (c) it was SO unpredicted that this clean-cut golf guy would be the one cheating on his wife, let alone with so many other women.

With all that said, I DO wish there was ONE aspect of the story that would stop covering: Tiger apologizing to the public.

Granted, he’s only personally apologized via statements through his publicist; however, the media keeps putting out a new update each day about how he’s been apologizing to his wife; ponying up money to get her to stay; and even going so far as to put himself on a hiatus from golf in an attempt to get his family back together.

I just have one thing to say about Tiger’s efforts…

STOP APOLOGIZING FOR YOUR ACTIONS.

Yes, what you did was wrong, and you shouldn’t have done it… but for the love of golf, man, PLEASE STOP SAYING YOU’RE SORRY.

Why am I saying this? Because I know that, deep down in Tiger’s heart, he’s NOT sorry for his actions.  The only thing he’s sorry for is that he got CAUGHT.

Think about it: had it not been discovered that Mr. Woods was making “hole in one” shots in other “greens” outside his own backyard, do you REALLY think he would have stopped?

Had his wife not discovered the truth about his philandering, do you think he’d be at home right now consoling his wife, or out getting it on with another floozy?

In short, had this story not leaked to the press, he’d STILL BE DOING THE SAME ACTIONS HE WAS DOING BEFORE HE GOT CAUGHT.

Those actions are conscious choices he was already making.  He already KNEW he was going against his family.  He already KNEW his wife (who probably already knew about a few of the affairs) was going to be hurt by his actions. And, despite this knowledge, he KNEW he wanted to do what he wanted to do.

Coming out and apologizing after the fact, then, seems like a moronic thing to do.  Tiger can beg and plead and cry all he wants to, but the only thing he’s really sorry about is how his reputation has been tarnished as a result of his actions.

If he was really, REALLY sorry, he would have cheated once, realized it was a mistake, and THEN told his wife “sorry”… and stopped cheating.  She may not have decided to stay with him after that one indiscretion (I wouldn’t have either), but at least the apology would have appeared more genuine.  Sorry, Tiger, but it seems less genuine when you have to apologize for bedding 15+ women over the span of your entire marriage.

Ultimately, Tiger got what he wanted out of all these affairs.  He got to sex lots of different (white) women; he got to do kinky things with them that he probably wasn’t able to do with his wife; and – at least until his actions went public – he got a huge ego boost out of being able to bed so many girls, based solely on his name alone.

What should he have to apologize for?

-Aaron P. Taylor