Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Woods Continues To Show Poor Judgement

It was just announced that Tiger Woods was named athlete of the decade by the Associated Press. As long as he's not named man of the year or husband of the decade I guess that's fair enough. Woods personal character is much debated these days, but if we judge him solely by what he's done between the ropes he is as deserving as the next guy. If it is proven that Woods used performance enhancers, which isn't likely, I wonder if they'll take the award back.
I doubt much will come of the current P.E.D. story. Even when athletes use these substances it is often hard to prove if and when they did so. If Woods comes out clean after the investigation of his doctor Anthony Galea he and his team at I.M.G. are guilty of something else- stupidity. Woods allegedly received a routine and legal treatment from Galea on his recovering knee. The question is why he would go to Galea for a treatment he could get from thousands of other doctors. Why would Woods and his agent needlessly open the door of suspicion . Woods showed more reckless decision making by allowing a doctor with a questionable background to come to his house and treat him on several occasions. Woods has shown a lot of poor decision making skills recently and this is just another one that makes me scratch my head and wonder. So we have only two possible scenarios here, Woods has been administered performance enhancing substances by Galea or he has simply left himself open to second guessing by using Galea's services. Either way it is just another headache for Woods damage control staff. With his personal credibility at an all time low his golf game is all he has right now. If it does come out that he has cheated on the course he won't even have that to fall back on. Woods wishes to be judged strictly on his golfing abilities and nothing else. He got his wish today from the A.P.

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