Reply #36: No, I don't think he owed a public apology

[supernova]

in any moral sense.

However, two things are going on here:

1) I've come to understand that public absolution is part of recovery therapy. It's not that the listeners are owed so much as the person needs to express wrongdoing so that they can begin the healing process. I'm OK with that aspect of it. I would feel better if he had/will privately broken it off with his "mistresses." In the age of equality, can we please stop using that archaic term? They aren't "mistresses" who will be alternate wives throughout his life. They're casual hookups where both parties knew what they were getting into.

2) His sponsors want the $$ to keep rolling in. This presser is PR. He is a business icon. For that aspect of it, I do feel sorry him. Most of us are left to attend to our screwups in private. I would wish the same for him. But that isn't going to be possible as long as they lead him around by the nose. He might learn to tell those folks to take a hike. He probably has enough money now to buy every PGA professional course in the US many times over. He should go with that. If he's the man I think he is (will become?) then he will eventually take this road.