If you don't want to be in the public arena, then stay out of it, it was after all, his choice, and his own actions made his life public in both accounts.
Who cares what kind of people will follow as long as they pay? We'll I've been to a few PGA tour moments and their is a distinct difference between those who respect the game, the players and the honor within its history and those who sneak in for the drama of attention, arrgghh, the distraction of having to throw those people out is not fun.
You are right, it is my responsibility to teach my kids, tell me, who should I use now, he was/is the best of the best in golf, the creme' de la creme' and he was still not strong enough to say NO. Now i get to use him to teach them what happens when you get so full of yourself that you lose your own self dignity, great.
As I said the more these athletes believe they can get away with this, the more they think society will accept this, the fewer good men we will have to use as those role models at all, especially it seems the ones who draw the most reverence to begin with, and who initially we believe deserve it, he was the man who encompassed the American dream, what kind of dreamers are we.
Apparently in the beginning, the sponsors didn't think his behavior was normal. His wife didn't think this was normal, his friends didn't think this was normal, his family didn't think this was normal and most of America didn't think this was normal behavior either or it would not have made the news. I think the crazy ones are the ones who say "who cares" and pretend that it just doesn't matter, apparently it mattered, a lot, to a lot of people.
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you can tell them all you want but it won't matter until they think it does
p.s. I contradict my contradictions, with or without intention, sometimes.
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