Fans. Family. By Daily Mail Reporter Updated: 11:12 GMT, 3 October 2010 It has been almost a year since the Thanksgiving Day car crash that led to the life of the Worlds greatest golfer unravelling before our eyes. But for the first time one of Tiger Woods' family members is talking about the scandal and how, he thinks, the golfer's late father would react to the revelations. Earl Woods Jr, Tiger's older half brother, spoke to Fox 10 in Phoenix and he believes that the father Tiger idolised would no longer be on his side. Doting dad: Tiger Woods smiles as he stands with his father, Earl Woods who passed away in May 2006 'I think my dad would be very disappointed with him," says Earl Jr. in the interview. 'He would probably want to know how he's going to fix it. Earl Jr believed that his father, who died in 2006,would of been most distraught over the breakdown in the stars marriage following the infidelities. 'She was family,' says Earl Jr of Tiger's ex-wife Elin. 'My dad and her really connected.'
Ex-Wife, Elin Nordegren. <br/><a href=" US News</a> | <a href=" Business News</a> Copy Elin Nordegren said she wanted to save her marriage to Tiger Woods even after she was "blindsided" by his multiple affairs, but in the end the damage was irreparable and she didn't trust him. "I've been through hell," Nordegren, whose divorce was finalized Monday, told People magazine in the issue to hit newsstands Friday. Elin Nordegren Breaks Her Silence on Tiger Woods Affairs Nordegren revealed that she had no clue about her golfing superstar husband's infidelities, saying she was "blindsided" and "embarrassed" by the affairs.
At a press conference today preceding a golf tournament in New Jersey, Woods called the divorce a "sad time. " "You know, it's a sad time in our lives," he said. Nordegren: 'I Never Suspected' "I never suspected, not a one," she said in the exclusive interview. Tiger Woods Discusses Elin Nordegren and Divorce. Jaimee Grubbs Claims Tiger Woods Affair. A Los Angeles cocktail waitress claims she had a nearly three-year fling with golf superstar Tiger Woods, according to US Weekly magazine. Jaimee Grubbs, 24, told the magazine that she began having an affair with Woods in April 2007 and has since had 20 sexual encounters with the golfer. The article, published today on the magazine's Web site, said that Grubbs claims to have more than "300 racy texts from Woods" as well as photos.
Voicemails allegedly left by Woods on Grubbs' cell phone will be released on the magazine's site Wednesday, according to the report. Grubbs recently appeared on VH1's "Tool Academy. " Messages left for Woods' attorney, Mark NeJame, were not immediately returned. null Woods apparently referenced the allegations of an affair in a statement on his Web site following his one-car accident last week.
He also said: "This situation is my fault, and it's obviously embarrassing to my family and me. Late Tuesday, Woods' lawyer NeJame said that the athlete had paid the fine. Mistress-Rachel Uchitel. Jason Merritt/Getty Images Tiger Woods' former mistress is back in the news again, and no matter what the story is about, it will always be bad for Tiger. There are rumors that Rachel Uchitel is pregnant with her newlywed husband, Matt Hahn. The New York Daily News is reporting she found out she was pregnant when she and her husband auditioned for The Amazing Race. Uchitel denied the report saying, "What? Where are you reading that?
" in a text message to the paper. She's most noted for being Tiger's mistress during his marriage fallout and all the craziness that has practically ruined his career over the last couple of years. Any time she makes headlines, it is bad news for Tiger. Will Tiger Woods Win a Major in 2012? Yes No The fact that she was almost on a reality show would have been devastating for Tiger's image.
His performance on the golf course isn't helping with sponsors right now, but at least he is losing them over his play and not his image. The Public. The Associated Press Newsweek posted an op-ed piece by Woods on Wednesday titled, "How I've Redefined Victory. " Thursday he appeared on ESPN Radio's Mike & Mike in the Morning. As he approaches the one-year anniversary of a Thanksgiving night car accident that wrecked his image, these are some of the signs that Woods is entering a rebuilding stage. "It's a positive step for him," said Mark Steinberg, his agent at IMG.
"He's making the effort to do some things different. " Woods has had a Twitter account since June 2009 — his sign name, "Tiger Woods" was secured about a year before that — but the only tweets were to announce his Twitter page, Facebook page and a redesign of his website. Then came a tweet at 11:08 a.m. Woods had just over 90,000 followers until that tweet. "Tiger wants to do some things a little differently moving forward," Steinberg said. "At first, I didn't want to look inward," Woods wrote. He ends the op-ed piece by writing, "I'm not the same man I was a year go. Sponsors. A recent issue of Forbes features a full-page ad for the consulting firm Accenture with Tiger Woods striding through tall grass.
The tagline reads, “The road to high performance isn’t always paved.” To which the obvious rejoinder these days is “Sometimes it runs straight into a fire hydrant.” Jokes about Woods’s current woes come easy, but the story is not trivial—at least, not in terms of money. Woods has been the best-paid athlete in the world for almost a decade, and much of that income is from endorsements; ESPN once estimated that his lifetime earnings could total as much as six billion dollars. The fact that a golfer’s marital troubles might affect the bottom line of a multinational is a relatively recent phenomenon.
There is a logic to this. In other words, Woods has been presented as the embodiment of bourgeois virtues: dedication, hard work, single-mindedness. The current scandal has disrupted, if not shattered, this image of perfect control. Sponsors sticking by Tiger. The sex scandal surrounding golf icon Tiger Woods has put sports marketers in the rough. They face a difficult choice. If they stick with him, they risk alienating consumers put off by the lurid allegations about Woods' private life. And there's the prospect of yet more allegations after they've affirmed their support. Dump him now, however, and you risk missing the upside of one of the potentially great comebacks in sports.
Each of Woods' sponsors faces a unique set of considerations while formulating a postscandal Tiger plan. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Besides Nike, several other Woods sponsors may escape unscathed. Caddy. Updated Nov 15, 2011 6:57 PM ET Tiger Woods wants to bury the past. In his mind, the public spat with his estranged caddie, Steve Williams, is over and won’t overshadow this week’s Presidents Cup, where Williams is working for Australian Adam Scott. “It’s already done,” Woods said Tuesday at Royal Melbourne. “I addressed it last week and as I said, life goes forward, not backwards.” For Williams, not so much. The outspoken New Zealander, who was embroiled in a controversy after making racially tinged remarks about Woods two weeks ago at a dinner in Shanghai, has opened up about all things Tiger.
In a New Zealand television interview on the program "In Depth with Graham Bensinger," which took place before his comments in China, Williams predicted that Woods won’t achieve his lifelong dream — to break Jack Nicklaus’ record of 18 majors. “He has to have a career equal to Phil Mickelson from here on in,” Williams said, just to equal Nicklaus. “It was a big thing, there’s no two ways about it. No more relationship. I recently traveled to Auckland, New Zealand to sit down with Tiger Woods' former caddy Steve Williams for his first extensive interview since being fired by Tiger. The interview is for a new episode of In Depth. Fired by Tiger in July, Williams opens up about Tiger's scandal, the fallout, the circumstances leading up to his firing, and his most memorable moments working with Tiger. Williams also speaks about his career as a caddy starting at a very young age, his love for auto racing and his significant charitable contributions.
Highlights: Steve Williams says that Tiger Woods will never break Jack Nicklaus' all-time major record. Jack Nicklaus won 18 majors in his career. Williams: Well, if you look at it in the perspective that he has to have a career sort of equal to Phil Mickelson from here on in. Watch clip: Steve Williams reflects back on 12 years with Tiger Woods: After all of this, how well do you believe you knew Tiger? Williams: Well not very well obviously. Watch clip: Watch clip: