Release Date:- 2018-03-27
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āA confident and substantial book...It has torque and velocity...It makes a sweet sound, like a well-struck golf ball. I found it exhilarating, depressing, tawdry, and moving in almost equal measure. Itās a big American story.ā āThe New York Times
Based on years of reporting and interviews with more than 250 people from every corner of Tiger Woodsās lifeāmany of whom have never spoken about him on the record beforeāa sweeping, revelatory, and defining biography of an American icon.
In 2009, Tiger Woods was the most famous athlete on the planet, a transcendent star of almost unfathomable fame and fortune living what appeared to be the perfect life. Married to a Swedish beauty and the father of two young children, he was the winner of fourteen major golf championships and earning more than $100 million annually. But it was all a carefully crafted illusion. As it turned out, Woods had been living a double life for yearsāone that unraveled in the aftermath of a Thanksgiving-night car crash that exposed his serial infidelity and sent his personal and professional lives over a cliff. Still, the world has always wondered: Who is Tiger Woods, really?
In Tiger Woods, Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian, the team behind the New York Times bestseller The System, look deep behind the headlines to produce a richly reported answer to that question. To find out, they conducted hundreds of interviews with people from every facet of Woodsās lifeāfriends, family members, teachers, romantic partners, coaches, business associates, physicians, Tour pros, and members of Woodsās inner circle.
From those interviews, and extensive, carefully sourced research, they have uncovered new, intimate, and surprising details about the man behind the myth. We read an inside account of Tigerās relationship with his first love, Dina Gravell, and their excruciating breakup at the hands of his parents. We learn that Tigerās longtime sports agency, International Management Group (IMG), made $50,000 annual payments to Tigerās father, Earl Woods, as a ātalent scoutāāyears before Tiger was their client. We discover startling new details about Earl, who died in 2006 and to this day lies in an unmarked grave. We come along as Tiger plunges into the Las Vegas and New York nightclub worlds alongside fellow superstars Michael Jordan and Charles Barkley. We are whisked behind the scenes during the National Enquirerās globetrotting hunt to expose Tigerās infidelity, and we get a rare look inside his subsequent sex-addiction treatment at the Pine Grove facility in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
But the portrait of Woods that emerges in Tiger Woods is far more rewarding than revelations alone. By tracing his life from its origins as the mixed-race son of an attention-seeking father and the original Tiger Momāwho programmed him to be āthe chosen one,ā tasked with changing not just the game of golf but the world as wellāthe authors provide a wealth of new insight into the human being trapped inside his parentsā creation. Most of all, we are reminded, time and time again, of Woodsās singular greatness and the exhilaration we felt watching an athletic genius dominate his sport for nearly twenty years.
But at what cost? Benedict and Keteyian provide the answers in an extraordinary biography that is destined to become the defining book about an authentic American legendāand to linger in the minds of readers for years to come.