Shirtless Tiger on Vanity Fair

The shot of Woods below appears on the cover of the February issue of Vanity Fair and was taken by celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz. The picture may be pre-scandal but the image of a shirtless Tiger Woods on the cover of Vanity Fair has still caused a stir.  

Though Longtime Sponsors Are Sticking With Tiger Woods, a research shows that Woods had a positive approval rating of 85% in 2005. Days after his crash it was 60% and now it's reported as being at 34%, prompting Vanity Fair to describe it as "one of the greatest recorded drops in popularity of any nonpolitical figure". Accenture has ended Tiger Woods sponsorship, but Nike still stand by him. 

Vanity Fair explain that there is a full portfolio of never-before-seen photos of a raw, unguarded Woods in the issue which goes on sale in the UK on January 12th. 

Inside, Pulitzer Prize winner Buzz Bissinger, author of Friday Night Lights and, most recently, co-author of Shooting Stars with LeBron James, reflects on Woods's downfall and what his future may hold. But the golf clubs he use will not.

Woods "had always been the bionic man in terms of personality, controlling to a fault," Bissinger writes. 

He calls the pre-scandal Woods "the perfect man and pitchman for our imperfect times, a charming non-person," noting that "with Woods, everything was crafted to produce a man of nothing, with no interior-non-threatening and non-controversial." 

But "in the end it was the age-old clash of image versus reality.... He deluded himself into thinking he could be something that he wasn't: untouchable. The greatest feat of his career is that he managed to get away with it for so long in public, the bionic man instead of the human one who hit a fire hydrant." 

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