埃森哲咨询公司中止与老虎伍德的赞助协议

The giant management consultancy firm Accenture has ended its sponsorship of Tiger Woods, saying the golfer is "no longer the right representative".

规模庞大的管理咨询公司埃森哲停止了与老虎·伍兹的赞助协议，称其“不再是合适的代言人”。

Tiger Woods and Accenture have been partners for six years

Woods has been engulfed¹ in被淹没，被吞没 a media storm since a disturbance骚乱，忧郁 outside his house two weeks ago. He has since admitted being unfaithful to his wife.

Woods is taking an indefinite不确定的，无限的 break from golf to try to save his marriage.

Accenture is the second sponsor to react to the news. Gillette吉列 has already said it would cut back Woods' role.

"For the past six years, Accenture and Tiger Woods have had a very successful sponsorship arrangement and his achievements on the golf course have been a powerful metaphor³暗喻，隐喻 for business success in Accenture's advertising⁴," the company said in a statement.

"However, given the circumstances of the last two weeks, after careful consideration and analysis, the company has determined⁵ that he is no longer the right representative for its advertising.

Accenture said that "it wishes only the best for Tiger Woods and his family".

Billion dollars

Among his other sponsors, the US phone firm AT&T has said it is "presently evaluating评估 our ongoing⁶ relationship" with Woods, but his main sponsor Nike said it was standing⁷ firm and offered him its "full support".

Until scandal broke, Woods was one of the biggest targets for global corporations. Links with an array of brands - also including Electronic Arts video games, Gatorade佳得乐 drinks, and Tag Heuer豪雅表 watches - have helped him amass⁸积聚，积累 a fortune.

The Associated Press says he is believed to be the first sports star to have earned $1bn (£600m).

Woods, 33, is considered one of the best golfers of all time and was thought by many experts to be likely to overhaul详细检查 Jack¹⁰ Nicklaus' record of 18 major championship victories.

He has won 14 so far, but BBC golf commentator¹¹ Peter Alliss believes it is possible he will not play again.

"He's going to have to put up with a lot of nonsense and ridicule¹² and comment for the next 20 to 30 years and it depends how well he tackles that," he said.

"He's in a very, nasty awkward笨拙的，尴尬的 position of his own making, I'm afraid.

"You have to wonder about all sorts of things that we're not privy¹³ to参与，对……知情 - his state of mind, whether he wants to continue, whether he's thinking of early retirement¹⁴."

The storm blew up after Woods crashed his car into a fire hydrant消防栓 and a tree outside his Florida home at the end of November.

Rumours¹⁵ of an argument in the Woods household家庭 led to media allegations about extra-marital affairs. Lurid¹⁶ headlines have linked him to a string of women.

On Friday, Woods admitted for the first time that he had been unfaithful to his wife Elin.

"I am deeply aware of the disappointment and hurt that my infidelity无信仰，背信 has caused to so many people, most of all my wife and children," said Woods in a statement.