Golf's golden boy in PR hell

Has any sportsman ever fallen from grace as quickly as Tiger Woods?

Has any sportsman ever fallen from grace as quickly as Tiger Woods? "Boring with a capital B", was a recent verdict from Sports Illustrated. Most of us who follow golf wouldn't dissent from that, even if we don't go quite as far as Rod Liddle. "The most relentlessly boring man in the entire history of the world's most boring game," said Liddle in The Sunday Times, "a man seemingly bereft of personality, hinterland, mischief, hidden depths you name it, Tiger Woods doesn't have it."

This is the same Tiger Woods whose "scorecard" The Sun produced last week. (Sample: "Hole One. The Rachel Uchitel, Par 34. Deceptively tough... Hole Six: The Cory Rist. Par 31. Lovely pin position but beware of trap. At the time there were only seven holes: A Sun "scorecard" now would list 13.) So it went on. On Saturday, the paper quoted a "notorious Hollywood madam" as telling a US website Tiger had "splashed out £25,000 a weekend partying with high-class hookers Michelle Braun said that she sometimes provided Woods with ten to 15 girls at a time".

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