Bearded & Tschorn: Tiger Woods tries a tonsorial transformation
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Tiger Woods is showing his face in public again as he gears up for a return to the Masters Tournament this weekend in Augusta, Ga. And that face seems to be sporting some brand new whiskers -- the beginnings of the classic mustache/chin beard combination known as a ‘circle beard,’ or ‘door-knocker’ (due to its shape) a style, as we’ve pointed out, is mistakenly referred to as a ‘goatee.’
As we’ve often pointed out here at Bearded & Tschorn, men usually grow facial hair (or drastically alter what facial hair they’ve been cultivating for years) for a reason -- and that reason is usually to mark a passage change in life.
So it doesn’t take too much armchair psychology to interpret Tiger’s new set of whiskers as an indication that the guy he looks at in the mirror every morning -- or that we see on the golf course this weekend -- is somehow very different than the pre-Thanksgiving 2009 Tiger Woods.
By the look of it, the golfer has only just begun his attempts at tonsorial transformation. But if that circle beard begins to take on scraggly Brad Pittish dimensions -- and Woods is truly back on his game -- literally and figuratively -- we think it might be a good opportunity for Gillette (the razor maker that was the first major sponsor to back away from Woods in the aftermath of his eventually admitted extramarital affairs) to get back on the Tiger train by sponsoring Woods’ full facial deforestation.
Can’t you just see the ad tagline now? ‘It’s all about saving face ...’
-- Adam Tschorn
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