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The New York Times is reporting that AT&T has dropped Tiger Woods.
“AT&T, whose logo had been emblazoned on Woods’s golf bag, said Thursday that it is ending its sponsorship agreement with him. In a brief statement, the company said it wishes him well in the future.
AT&T joins Accenture in severing its sponsorship deals with Woods after he acknowledged reports of marital infidelity and said he would take an “indefinite break” from professional golf to focus on his family.
Tag Heuer, the Swiss luxury watchmaker, Proctor & Gamble and other companies have scaled back marketing campaigns that include Woods.
Nike, another major sponsor, has stood by Woods, who has remained in seclusion after crashing his SUV into a neighbor’s tree in an early morning accident on Nov. 27.
AT&T had earlier said it was evaluating its relationship with Woods, who was recently voted the PGA Tour player of the year by the players for the 10th time in his 13 years on the tour.
For the past three years, the AT&T National has been “hosted by Tiger Woods.” Woods won last year’s tournament, held at the Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Md.
The tournament raised millions of dollars for the Tiger Woods Foundation, including more than $2 million for the “future development of the Tiger Woods Learning Center to be built in the Washington D.C. area.”"
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