Lindsey Vonn is adjusting to the relative anonymity of being Tiger Woods' woman.
In a New York Times story Friday, writer Bill Pennington began the piece by mentioning how Vonn went "largely unnoticed" as she sat on a wall 20 yards from where Woods teed off at the U.S. Open 2013.
"I can be normal by myself; no one notices me. But whenever he's around, we're living in a fishbowl," Vonn tells the NYT. "I didn't quite know what I was getting myself into. It's weird. But it's just something I have to deal with. He has his job, and I have mine. I just have to get used to it."
Somebody should remind her she's DATING TIGER WOODS! This romance is doomed if Vonn can't come to terms with the fact that there are way more golf fans than there are in skiing fandom.
To wit: "Some people seem to forget that I'm not just Tiger's girlfriend," Vonn told the NYT.
"I'm actually a successful athlete. I'm Lindsey. I have my own career and my own life."
Pennington must have caught Vonn on one of her rehabbing blues days, although she's walking without a limp or brace as she rehabs her surgically repaired knee, which she hopes to put in skis in early September. That "would be more than a month ahead of the recovery schedule announced after her tumbling, violent crash in a race four months ago. … She [has] no doubt she would defend her Olympic downhill title in February at the Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, an event she expects Woods to attend."
As for the fact that the fishbowl had made her life complicated, "It's worth it." Vonn repeatedly told Pennington: "I'm very happy. Things are great."