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...Immediately following Woods' televised statement, two TIME editors who have followed his career closely, Romesh Ratnesar and Bill Saporito, gave their reactions...
...Ratnesar: My quick reaction: This went better than I expected. He is, unfortunately, a wooden public speaker, and it clearly took effort for him to make such an openly confessional statement. But he sounded genuine, genuinely sorry and chastened. In some ways, the shot of him and his mother after the speech was the most powerful one of all - he seemed in that moment, finally, vulnerable and all too human. And I think that if he hopes to win the public back, showing humility - rather than the imperious self-confidence that has long been part of his mystique - will...
...Ratnesar: I agree that there were some false notes, like the overheated, straw-man defense of Elin - she "deserves praise, not blame." Uh, sorry, but who's blaming her? Among those who think she really did go after him with a 9-iron, most would agree with Jesper Parnevik: she should have used a driver. And there was a brief section early in the speech in which he extolled all the good works being done by the Tiger Woods Foundation - while it was nice to hear that those projects will continue, it also felt discordantly self-serving...
...Ratnesar: One thing does seem clear: He may say he is committed to change, but he can only change so much. He's never going to be a warm, sympathetic and likable figure - and he is still surrounded by the same handlers who enable his worst traits. The sooner he gets back to golf, the better, but from the sound of this statement, you're right ... it may be a longer absence than most of us (and certainly the PGA Tour) anticipated...
...earlier debate between Ratnesar and Saporito on Tiger Woods...