I am skeptical by nature. It has something to do with being a journalist. I spend my professional life around self-serving, egomaniac, BS artists and it makes me suspicious.

Which brings me to Tiger Woods. He’s on a campaign to show he’s reformed and is a good guy as opposed to what he was before he reformed. He did an interview on ESPN radio and he wrote a first person essay for Newsweek, all explaining he’s good again.

He may very well be good, the kind of guy you’d like your daughter to marry. I’m skeptical. If he’s so good why does he have to talk on the radio and write an essay to advertise it? If you’re good you lead a good life. Good people don’t advertise their goodness.

Advertising your goodness doesn’t seem so good. The skeptic in me wonders if he’s a phony, a hypocrite and if he’s trying to mold opinion and get people to see him a certain way — a fictional way. He used to do that for sure. In other words, is this goodness thing a mere PR campaign?

I wonder. If I’m wrong about Woods I apologize. But I’m not sold based on one essay.