Tiger Woods‘ image is at least temporarily taking a beating.
A USA Today/Gallup poll done over the weekend finds that Woods’ favorable rating has declined to 33%, while his unfavorable rating has risen to 57%. That is a sharp contrast from the last Woods-centric poll in 2005, when his favorable rating was 85% and his unfavorable rating was just 8%.
The 52-point decline in Woods’ favorability “is the largest drop between consecutive measurements since Gallup began tracking it in 1992.”
Additionally, the 55-point decline from Woods’ high (88% favorability in 2000) to today’s low “matches that of President George W. Bush from 2001-2008.”
Gallup Poll managing editor Jeffrey Jones noted that Woods has gone from being “the most positively rated person we rated” to ranking “worse than a lot of the politicians we measure.”
