Tiger Woods - Human or Animal?

Tigers Woods. Tsk tsk. What to say about a man whose professional career as the world's greatest golfer was almost ended last November, when he crashed his car at 2:30am whist driving away from his house at high speed. He was then 'rescued' by his wife, who was for some strange reason chasing him in his car wielding one of his own golfing clubs.

Suspicious? Maybe. Dumb? Absolutely.

It has since been revealed that despite being married to Elin Nordegren, a former Swedish model and daughter of former minister of migration Barbro Holmberg, Tiger had indulged in a series of no less that 15 extramarital affaris, including famously San Diego cocktail waitress Jaimee Grubbs, who publicly claimed in the gossip magazine Us Weekly that she had a two-and-a-half-year affair with Woods.

It almost makes you wonder whether you really can have too much of a good thing.

Born Eldrick Tont Woods, Tiger Woods is one of the most successful professional golfers of all time. His personal affairs notwithstanding, he had been a poster boy for the American Dream to so many people, benefiting the lives of those who he helped through his many and highly publicized charity events. On the course, his swing and stance was perfect. He had more awards and praise heaped upon him in his ten year golfing career than most people experience in a lifetime.

But off the course, it seemed that his behavior had been less than perfect. With fans turning away in droves and his sponsorship deals dropping like flies after details of his affairs began to emerge, he famously said that "he used to believe he was entitled to do whatever he wanted to do, and that, due to his success, normal rules did not apply to him."

Unfortunately for Tiger, when you're married to a supermodel with two kids, on top of being one of the world's most recognizable faces, 'normal rules' have a way of following you home, or in Tiger's case, chasing you out of your home wielding one of your own golfing clubs. If you could write a manual on how to completely ruin your life, Tiger's Woods style, it might read a little something like this.

To those who argue against nature over nurture, you have your anthropology experiment right here in the form of a man who thought he could do whatever he wanted because he is famous. To anyone who has ever dated a star of some kind, you might say that the warning was on the box.

But to those of you with any common sense whatsoever, you might say that the higher they are, the further they fall.... and in Tiger Wood's case, it looks like the fall will continue for a long while to come.