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Originally Posted by Richard Dickson  His sponsors want Tiger because he's a hell of a golfer, not because he's a model for the ideal marriage.
Besides, if a sponsor dropped him, you can bet a competitor would sign up him ten seconds later.
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He may yet lose sponsors. It's pretty frequent that they pop up immediately with "We're standing by him" but change their mind in a couple weeks when all the sordid details pop up. Now that we're up to three purported mistresses and counting, it may get worse before it gets better.
As to hiring escorts...I'm of the impression/suspicion that at least one of these women (Rachel Uchitel) is in fact an escort...she's just trying not to let that tidbit get out. The other two purported mistresses were quiet until it started to unravel, so they seemed to be keeping a lid on it until his wife found out (or perhaps found out that there were more mistresses than she was willing to accept, but that's rampant speculation on my part).
Of course, the main issue is that Tiger was basically in a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation. He's getting uber-scrutiny because he's been so extremely guarded about his private life in the past, and because he's been propped up as a "role model" for years now. But in order to have pre-emptively avoided such a thing he'd have had to basically give up his privacy completely, which he shouldn't have to do.
Of course, immediately going into "Deny and Divert" mode instead of 'fessing up to begin with just makes him look more douchey. Yeah, he's entitled to some privacy but he's also a public figure and should have a publicist team smart enough to know how to handle something like this better. You take the bad (losing some of your privacy) with the good (billions of dollars).
