Celebs Who Can't Stand Tiger Woods

In 2009, comedians had a field day when Tiger Woods' cheating scandal broke the news. Comedian George Lopez was no exception. The Lopez Tonight host proceeded with jokes and skits centered around the golfer's controversy. However, there was a time where Lopez did stick up for the embattled athlete midway through a monologue on his TBS talk show. "There's 10 women. At some point, the women have to take responsibility. It is not all his fault," Lopez said during a December 2009 monologue. Ask Lopez about Woods today and he will probably be singing a different tune.

In 2016, the five-time green jacket winner hit the green with then President-elect Donald Trump two days before Christmas. Prior to the presidential election, Lopez voiced his displeasure with the Republican candidate, telling Bloomberg Politics Trump being elected "would be a significant issue for people of color." So when TMZ asked the comic for his thoughts about the golfing buddies, Lopez replied: "That's just a couple of white dudes playing golf." G. Lo elaborated, saying, "All the golfers are Republicans, everybody knows that. So Tiger is a Republican and Tiger voted for Trump... I didn't vote for Trump, so I wouldn't golf with him."

Lopez was not afraid to take away Woods' person of color card for the golfer who once classified his ethnic background as "Cablinasian," or "ca- Caucasian, bl- Blak, i- Indian, Asian."

Comedian Jordan Peele once portrayed Tiger Woods in a Mad TV skit. As a filmmaker, Peele is best known for writing and directing the critically acclaimed movie Get Out, which won a 2018 Academy Award and landed three additional nominations. The socially conscious film is a clever critique on racism, and it effectively coined a new term — "the sunken place" — to describe systemic inequities in American culture. "The Sunken Place means we're marginalized. No matter how hard we scream, the system silences us," Peele tweeted in 2017.

So when Tiger Woods and President Donald Trump were making headlines for an anticipated golf outing in 2017, Peele took a shot at the 11-time PGA of America Player of the Year. The Emmy-winner compared Woods to what characters in Get Out experienced, tweeting: "Now you're in The Sunken Place." The Urban Dictionary further elaborates this term symbolizes "the metaphorical place a person goes to when they are compliant to their own oppression" and it applies to "anyone who chooses to stay silent in the face of discrimination or injustice, usually of their own."

It seems very unlikely the US filmmaker and Woods will share a tee time anytime soon.

Queens, N.Y. native Nas is as bold as they come. The rapper has sold over 25 million records and is known for his searing diss tracks, which means a name drop by this 13-time Grammy Award nominee is not always a good thing. Tiger Woods felt exactly how a Nas shout-out could sting in 2004, with the release of "These Are Our Heroes." Through the Nasir Jones Production track, the artist compares several Black athletes and entertainers, who have conformed to the masses, as slaves trying to please their masters, some of whom, like Woods, he calls out by name.

Four years after the track's release, Nas backed his opinion, citing the professional golfer's reaction to a commentator. In 2008, Golf Channel commentators Nick Faldo and Kelly Tilghman were talking about how dominant Woods was compared to his competition. As Faldo suggested that competitors should gang up on Woods, Tilghman interjected "lynch him in the back alley" and smiled. Tilgham was suspended for the remark, however, Woods' agent Mark Steinberg said (via ESPN), Woods and Tilghman are friends and "we know unequivocally that there was no ill intent in her comments." Nas thought otherwise. "Tiger Woods standing up for this white lady, who said something about him being lynched, is a coon move to me," Nas told HipHopDX. "God bless the brother. I like to see him doing his thing, but that's a flaw in his character. That's an issue I would have with Tiger Woods."

In December 2009, Roseanne Barr didn't hold back when bashing Tiger Woods on The Wendy Williams Show. The comic, who admitted she had been cheated on before, shared a list of things she'd do to Woods had she been Elin Nordegren during the cheating scandal.

Barr told Wendy Williams: "I will wait until that f-er fell asleep and then I would hit him with a bag of dirty sweat socks right in the kisser. I would put ex-lax in his soup... I would then hunt down some of those ho-stesses that slept with my husband knowing full well that he was a married man and I would call them lowdown street you-know-what... Then, I would file for divorce, take half the guy's money, kick his butt to the curb but even if he was to buy me a 900-karat diamond to wear on my finger signifying his humiliation, a heartbroken apology of fidelity and trust, and take his rotten butt back but again I would say, 'Hey, shove it Tiger. I ain't one of your no class h**s and then I will walk out and hit his car with a golf club and then leave with the dogs and his kids and his mother." 

She sure doesn't seem forgiving towards adultery, however, the Roseanne star has since endured her own public shaming scandal that forced her off of the show she created. We wonder if she's now singing a different tune?

Rachel Uchitel shot to unfortunate fame when the New York Post ran her image on a cover during the 9/11 terrorist attack, in which she appeared crying for her fiancé, who died "in the south tower." By the decade's end, her face would be all over tabloids as "mistress No. 1" in the Tiger Woods cheating scandal. Uchitel told Juicy Scoop w Heather McDonald, "I was branded, really, as 'the victim,' and then 10 years later I was branded the villain." She said she resented the double-standard as "Tiger gets to win awards or win his different tournaments. He gets to come out of things and have mishaps, and get up again, and people want to cheer for him. But the women don't get that so much, not just with him, but with any scandal, and that's not really fair."

According to TMZ, Uchitel canceled a tell-all press conference in 2009 after allegedly agreeing to keep the affair confidential in exchange for a $10 million settlement, most of which she then reportedly gave back after a dispute from Woods' lawyer about whether or not she violated the terms of the agreement. While the details of that alleged agreement remain hidden, as of this writing, Uchitel is set to be featured in the two-part HBO documentary series, Tiger in which she will "[break] her silence for the first time.

Something tells us she's not going to sing Woods' praises in that one. 

The rivalry between Tiger Woods and Sergio Garcia dates back to the 1999 PGA Championship. After Woods won at Medinah, he continued to flourish on the green and as a public figure. Meanwhile, Garcia stayed relevant by mouthing-off about Woods, which he cranked up considerably in 2013.

In a 2013 press conference, Woods' nemesis perpetuated a stereotype associated with Black people when answering whether or not he'd invite his rival to dinner, saying (via ABC World News), "We will have him 'round every night. We will serve fried chicken." Woods fired back at Garcia's racial slur on Twitter: "The comment that was made wasn't silly. It was wrong, hurtful and clearly inappropriate..." Woods added a second tweet: "I'm confident that there is real regret that the remark was made." Garcia apologized, saying (via The Guardian) "I obviously was caught off guard by a question, but don't get me wrong, I understand my answer was totally stupid and out of place."

A reporter asked Woods, would he consider contacting Garcia to bury the hatchet? Woods bluntly (via The Guardian) said "No," and when answering a journalist's question as to "why don't you like Tiger Woods?" Garcia responded (via SNTV), "There's people that you connect with and there's people that you don't. ... He doesn't need me in his life, I don't need him in mine." Twenty-one years in the making it is safe to assume this feud between Woods and Garcia will never end.