Tiger Woods: Privacy Issue or Ego Issue? Should He Answer Questions?

Posted on November 30, 2009 by Lolita Carrico

Tiger Woods wants the world to leave him alone and he wants his family to have privacy.

Is Tiger Woods getting PR tips from Jon Gosselin? Because the way Tiger Woods is handling the media after his car accident is straight out of the Jon Gosselin playbook, which is to do everything wrong!

Tiger Woods—who takes home $100 million a year—can afford the services of a  media crisis team to advise him. I can’t imagine any PR guru would be advising him to do what he’s been doing—it’s just making the crisis bigger!

The guy has put himself out there for kids as a role model and a good guy.  Lots of products have been purchased by kids and families because of Tiger Woods—does he owe his fans an explanation?  If you don’t think he owes anything to the fans, what about the fact that bad PR is very bad for sponsors?

The game of golf is a little more conservative than other major sports and with so much sponsorship money on the line riding on his squeaky clean image, I would think Woods would have the business savvy to realize he is damaging his career with his behavior.

If Tiger Woods didn’t have a fling with Rachel Uchitel, he is sure acting like a guy who has something to hide.

Tiger should have started talking to the press last week, when the tabloid story of an affair with party hostess Rachel Uchitel started the media frenzy.

The New York Times reports on the reactions to Tiger Woods and his silence since the car accident.

On the Devil Ball Golf blog, Kevin Sullivan, the founder of Kevin Sullivan Communications, writes that the Woods team let the public relations crisis get out of hand in the early, crucial hours. “Tell it first, tell it yourself and tell it all,” Sullivan begins in describing how Woods should have handled things before all the clubs were out of the bag.

Fox has an excellent overview of the situation, columnist Mark Kriegel says it’s not a privacy issue but a Tiger Woods issue that has caused this PR nightmare.

Tiger Woods is a golf icon and a sports superstar who has reaped the benefits of fame—-so why doesn’t he realize that his kind of fame has a price?  I’d love to know what you think about this issue—talk to the poll!

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