Adding to his amazing lifestyle, he also had a top selling video game, Tiger Woods PGA Tour, which added to his yearly revenue. Overall, Woods' life outside of golf was seen as perfect as one can imagine until his sex scandal. All of Woods' success is hard to not admire, but can also bring the feeling of jealousy. Woods' critics were unable to say anything bad about anything related to Woods' until the sex scandal, which has greatly affected Woods' professional life. .
Woods' confidence significantly decreased following the unnecessary attention on the negative aspects of his personal life. Golf has always been considered to be more of a mental game than a physical game. So, with a significant outside factor playing a role on Tiger Woods' mental state, it has been hard for him since he admitted to cheating on Nordegren. This story became marketable very fast by many different top tier tabloids. Once Tiger Woods' life off the television screens was now the center of all media sources, it resulted in many paramount sponsors dropping Woods. One of the greatest golfers of all time went from being seen as a role model to being seen as a cheater. In 2009, Woods admitted himself to the Gentle Path rehab center to receive professional care for sex addiction, taking a step away from golf to focus on more on his family. After the incident in which the public eye has started to hate Tiger Woods, and his golf game began to fall off. When talking the sex scandal and the extent that media disrupted his personal life Tiger Woods' stated, "My behavior doesn't make it right for the media to follow my 2½-year-old daughter to schoolthey staked out my wife and pursued my mom. Whatever my wrongdoings, for the sake of my family, please leave my wife and kids alone" (Shuga par 17). This quote is an example of how far the public eye dove into Tiger Woods' personal life because he was the face of golf.
