Tiger in situation he no longer has control over

So, Tiger Woods ran his car into a fire hydrant and tree.  In the scope of life, not much of a big deal.  Unfortunately for the most recognizable sports star in the world the circumstances around the fender bender are the bigger news.

If this had occurred to Tiger while he was headed to the golf course and had been caused by a spilled cup of coffee in his lap, everyone would have forgotten about it in a day as long as he wasn’t injured too seriously.

But this happened as he was leaving his house at 2:30 in the morning on Thanksgiving night going who knows where for who knows what reason.  As my momma always said, nothing good happens when you’re out after midnight.

Just a couple of days before there was a tabloid report of an affair with a New York party girl.  Wife Elin told police she had to break out car windows with a golf club to get him out of the car, a dubious explanation at best.  Although perfectly within his rights, he’s refused to meet with police to talk about it.  His statements released to the media raised more eyebrows than answered questions.

Personally, I could care less if the richest athlete in the world is cheating on his wife and she got mad and wacked his car with a golf club as he was leaving after an argument.  I’m just speculating here, but you’d think given how Tiger closely guards his privacy and controls everything that goes out in public about his personal life, someone in his highly paid entourage would been smart enough to say there’s a better way to handle this.

For once in his life, Woods has no control over the situation.  It’s gone viral.  There are too many loose ends out there.  It’s a story that won’t go away until he helps it go away or he’ll become a Roger Clemens PR disaster.  

There’s the alleged other woman who’s hired a hire profile attorney to help deny everything in the media.  There are the Florida police who’d still like some answers.  There are tabloids willing to pay big money to get someone to talk.  And there are the fans, who won’t stop asking questions until he gives them an answer that satisfies them.

Tiger’s yacht is named Privacy, something he’ll get little of until he decides to come forward with something more than cryptic statements.