Rick Reilly Skewers Tiger Woods About Being Cheap, and Tells Wild Rachel Uchitel Story
By Jason McIntyre
The 2016 Masters was fun for about 90 minutes, when Jordan Spieth collapsed on the back nine. But TV ratings were still very low, and when the 2nd biggest story is the winner’s brother tweeting … yeah. This led Colin Cowherd to bring ESPN’s Rick Reilly on his radio show to talk about Tiger Woods, who was the 3rd biggest story of the Masters and he didn’t even play.
Perhaps this is just news to me, but when asked about what happened to Tiger Woods, Reilly dropped a hammer, some of which I didn’t see coming:
"Karma. Tiger embarrassed himself thinking he was bulletproof. Thinking he could sleep with all these pancake waitresses and nobody would find out … thinking he could work out with US Army Rangers and he wouldn’t get hurt … treat people badly, not tip, not pick up checks. Not even pay up his portion of the dinner … you know the reason he got caught, Colin? Rachel Uchitel wanted $500 to move out on her boyfriend and go into an apartment in Vegas. [Tiger] wouldn’t pay it. She got so mad, she went to the National Enquirer. That’s just straight up karma. That’s just being cheap and it comes back to cost you."
There have been many stories about what happened between Tiger Woods, Rachel Uchitel and waitresses and playmates around the country, but to my recollection, this is the first time I’ve heard anyone mention the Vegas apartment being the impetus that triggered one of the biggest downfalls of any professional athlete in sports history. (Yes, OJ Simpson has a very strong case for #1, but a 6-time Pro Bowler vs arguably the greatest and most important golfer in the sport’s history? It’s worth a discussion).
Tiger has of course never discussed this portion of Reilly’s tale, and he likely never will get into the harem of women he’s been linked to. (I still can’t believe this Daily Mail story about Tiger and a waitress at a diner.) Uchitel has probably signed too many confidentiality agreements to ever write a book about it.
So we’ll just have this: Rick Reilly attempting to speak authoritatively on the matter.