Tiger Woods and Elin play tennis and then go on a family vacation

It looks like Tiger Woods’ public apology either went a long way with his wife, or that they reached a tentative truce well ahead of his staged attempt to get back into the sponsors’ good graces. The two were spotted playing tennis together on Saturday and then boarding a private plane with their two children headed out of Orlando, Florida.

The day after Tiger Woods publicly apologized for cheating on his wife Elin, she went shopping at a Florida mall.

In jeans, boots, shades and wearing no wedding ring, Elin, 30, was spotted at a shopping center Saturday with daughter Sam, 2, who wore a pair of red Nike sneakers. (Nike is the one sponsor who refused to drop Woods, 34, despite his sex scandal.) Son Charlie, 1, was not with them.

According to RadarOnline, mom and daughter later lunched with friends.

UsMagazine.com has learned that Woods and his wife flew out of Orlando late Saturday evening. But before that, Radar reports, he and Elin played tennis together.

In his apology Friday, Woods declined to say whether he and his wife were splitting.

[From US Weekly]

Tiger’s mom, who sat in the front row during his speech and gave him a tearful hug and kiss afterwards, has spoken to reporters defending her son. She said “I am upset the way media treated him like he’s a criminal. He didn’t kill anybody, he didn’t do anything illegal. They’ve being carrying on from Thanksgiving until now, that’s not right.” It is illegal to hire hookers in the city of Las Vegas, and it’s Tiger’s fault that he faced all that fallout. This was the biggest scandal to break all year in 2009 and his mom is only fooling himself if she’s blaming the media for being interested in it. This guy sold himself as a family man and he was busted with over a dozen mistresses. It’s no one’s fault but his own, and he’ll keep trying to get away with it, especially when he’s surrounded by apologists like his mom and maybe Elin. (It’s hard to tell what her position is exactly, but she seems to be sticking by him and it’s not like she left the state or the country.)

Radar Online quotes a psychotherapist who believes that Tiger Woods is a “narcissist and a sociopath.” Dr. Gilda Carle reviewed Tiger’s “I’m sorry” performance and came to the conclusion that “He was uncomfortable in this new role as ‘somebody who was very sorry,’ in this new role as a ‘vulnerable and flawed character,’ and Sociopaths will go to any length to appear to be something they are not.” Dr. Carle also said that Tiger brought his mom out to hug him to show that “Mommy still loves me, so should my public.” She concludes that “what he is really sorry about is that he lost the endorsements and the ability to play golf, and most importantly the image of being ‘Mr. Perfect.’”

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