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I’ve never cared for Tiger Woods even though we’re the same age and he began his pro golf career as I began my sports writing career in the late 1990s.
I just never cared for his persona of being Mr. Perfect and the fact that he dissed the African-American culture on The Oprah Show by saying he considers himself a cablanasian and not a black man. But that’s a whole other story.

Despite not caring a flip about Tiger, I don’t get any satisfaction out of his name and family being dragged through the mud. For some reason, I actually feel empathy for him and especially his Swedish wife Elin, who has to come to grips with not one affair, but now 16 different mistresses and more are sure to come.
Tiger’s mess has spilled over into American households, where workers will lose their jobs to compensate for the major losses ahead for companies tied to the world’s No. 1 golfer. According to CNN, the billionaire golfer is estimated to have a $600 million impact on the U.S. economy.
Accenture LPC, which put all its eggs into Woods’ basket, has withdrawn its sponsorship. Golf analysts expect Tiger’s peers on the PGA Tour to take a big hit because tournament earnings will be much smaller without Woods on the course to bring in TV revenue. TV viewership was down 50 percent while Woods sat out with a knee injury last year.
Officials in Sheboygan County, Wisc., said Woods’ presence at the 2004 PGA Championship, brought $76 million to the state, and they expect to lose out on millions if the world’s No. 1 golfer is absent from the tournament in August.
But Tiger’s women will be just fine.
Since Tiger crashed his Cadillac Escalade into a fire hydrant to burst open a major sex scandal three weeks ago, 16 women have come forward about sleeping with him. Most of Tiger’s women have been paid by news organizations and tabloids to share their story. A few of them have been offered $1 million to pose nude. And it’s been speculated that even Tiger has chipped in to keep some of the women quiet.
But Elin Woods, who has been photographed out without her wedding ring, stands to profit the most. She already has bought a $2 million home on a Swedish island, and stands to get tens of millions for divorcing Tiger.
So we finally know that Tiger isn’t the goody two-shoes he always portrayed, and the women he has used, particularly his wife, are getting their piece of the billionaire’s success.

By Teneshia LaFaye
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