Reply #14: it's not a "pity" that "Earl Woods is not around to see the destruction he has wrought" [View All]

He's the one who made Tiger what he is today. He carefully controlled and managed every aspect of his son's life as he grew up and molded him into an adult obsessed with a single goal. And Earl did a fantastic job of it too. In the process he deprived Tiger of a normal childhood. Every spare moment of the kid's life was spent on the golf course and in the process he missed out on the things the rest of us guys did during our formative years. Such as trying to have sex with the girls we would meet. He never had a date in high school. Because his father wouldn't let him. It's no wonder he has some strange ideas about sex. He really didn't learn a lot about it until he was an adult.

Remember, his dad had Tiger on the Johnny Carson show at about age four, demonstrating his ability to hit a golf ball. And it only got worse.

I'm really not blaming Tiger a whole lot for his behavior. IMO he's only trying to relive his high school years, fifteen years too late.