Tiger Woods is a golfer. He plays perhaps the best game of golf ever - period.
I enjoy watching him play, and I will continue to watch. I will continue to pay to watch, when the opportunity arises.
I doubt that Tiger Woods set out to be a role model. The people who venerated him, his handlers, the corporations that thrust him onto a pedestal to better sell their wares or images...they made him a role model. I'm not silly enough to believe that he didn't understand the consequences, and so I assume that he accepted that mantle when he accepted the paychecks, the awards, and the adulation.
But who cares? Honestly, there is too much given to the concept of athlete as role model, of actor as role model, etc etc etc. I've never had time for it.
That being said, he's done the right thing, stepped up, and taken the blame squarely. He's lost personally, professionally, and financially from this - I'm not interested in judging him, nor placing my moral expectations upon him.
Hmm, I feel like I have rambled incoherently here. Take this as you will - can't be bothered to edit for comprehension at this hour
