As a married father the same age and with two kids near the same ages as Woods', your shameless exaltation of him on your cover was too much. His upwards-looking, ear-to-ear smiling visage only required you to airbrush an encircling halo to complete your unabashed, drooling, institutionalized worship of a great golfer but an utterly pathetic father, husband, and role model to millions.
I am disgusted to see Tiger Woods on the cover of the April issue of GD. I don't think he deserves to be on the cover after all the embarrassment to his wife and children. I thought he was great up to that point. After that I have lost all respect for him.
Thanks for your letters. Tiger Woods is an extraordinary golfer, and the mastery of golf is what our magazine is all about. He is also an extraordinary story, partly for the very history you mention in your letters. He is finally a man who has confessed his mistakes--publicly--and vowed to turn things around--in particular to be a conscientious father. We respect that intention. What we've learned about Tiger, we think, ought to make us less apt to judge him on a perfectionistic scale, and more likely to see a human being, not an icon, who is one of the best ever to play our sport. He is certainly a contender for the first major of the year, the Masters. For those reasons we feel he deserves to be on the cover.
Jason Kerkezi, Marbleton, GA
I applauded you when you pulled out of your magazine and I indicated that if you brought him back I would not renew my subscription. Well the April 2011 Cover pretty much took care of that. Seems that very few of us have any kind of standards left.
Charles Pinkerton, Cottage Grove, WI
Ruth Suina, Pena Blanca, NM
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