Tiger Woods: Is His New Girlfriend Good for His Image?
By on March 21, 2011
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Tiger Woods' Image Reparation Process May Have Hit a Snag
When the general public looked at Tiger Woods a couple years ago, they were thinking of the greatest golfer in the world, maybe even the greatest of all time.
When people look at Tiger Woods these days, they see a has-been adulterer whose best days are in the distant past. Harsh, but also true.
Credit where credit's due, Tiger has done his damndest to repair his image ever since that fateful night in November of 2009. And for the most part, he's done an admirable job. He has seemed like a genuinely humble man in recent months, and taking to Twitter is one of the best decisions he could have possibly made.
At this point, it probably wouldn't be too much of a stretch to say that most people are rooting for Tiger again, which is no small feat considering the general sense of animosity that most people felt for him this time last year.
And then came a report from TerezOwens.com that Tiger has himself a new girlfriend, a 22-year-old aspiring golfer by the name of Alyse Lahti Johnston. This by no means had to be a bad thing, mind you. But when you hang out with Tiger these days, you run the risk of having all your secrets exposed to the world.
As it turns out, Johnston was recently arrested on suspicion of DUI, and a gossip columnist told ABC News that she has a reputation of being a "party girl."
Now, I'm not about to fault Tiger for dating again, and I'm not about to scold him for not running a background check on Johnston, either. But I will say that this just doesn't look good. People are always going to be skeptical whenever a 35-year-old man starts dating a woman in her early 20s, and the fact that Tiger just so happens to be dating something of a wild child is certainly not going to help matters.
Is Tiger aware of this? Probably.
Does he care? I doubt it, but I can't say I fault him for that either. If he's happy with Johnston, then so be it. Last I checked, this is still a free country.
It is not, however, a forgiving one. Tiger should know that as well as anyone, so here's hoping he knows what he's doing.
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