"It is incomprehensible that a person who manages every aspect of Tiger’s public life had no knowledge of his now-disastrous private life."
/Greg Stewart of Steinberg's hometown paper in Peoria notes the following about the Tiger-Steiny relationship:
Steinberg was with Woods last month in Australia, where his alleged affair with Mistress No. 1, Rachel Uchitel, was first reported. It is incomprehensible that a person who manages every aspect of Tiger’s public life had no knowledge of his now-disastrous private life.
Yet it is understandable how Steinberg might feel helpless in this situation. Advisors earn their keep before the shot hits the fan, not after. But Steinberg is all-too-aware of how he landed this job in the first place. At the 1998 British Open, Hughes Norton, then Tiger’s agent at IMG, told Woods that it wasn’t a good idea to be photographed with then-girlfriend Joanna Jagoda.
Not long after, Woods fired Norton and replaced him with Steinberg.