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Tiger Woods
Tiger Woods | Jeff Benedict, Armen Keteyian
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A 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. Its a big American story. The New York Times Based on years of reporting and interviews with more than 250 people from every corner of Tiger Woodss lifemany of whom have never spoken about him on the record beforea 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 yearsone 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 Woodss lifefriends, family members, teachers, romantic partners, coaches, business associates, physicians, Tour pros, and members of Woodss 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 Tigers relationship with his first love, Dina Gravell, and their excruciating breakup at the hands of his parents. We learn that Tigers longtime sports agency, International Management Group (IMG), made $50,000 annual payments to Tigers father, Earl Woods, as a talent scoutyears 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 Enquirers globetrotting hunt to expose Tigers 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 Momwho programmed him to be the chosen one, tasked with changing not just the game of golf but the world as wellthe authors provide a wealth of new insight into the human being trapped inside his parents creation. Most of all, we are reminded, time and time again, of Woodss 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 legendand to linger in the minds of readers for years to come.
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This book got to be a bit of a long read for me, but I still enjoyed reading about the mental aspects of the game of golf and the psychological mine fields professional athletes must conquer. 🤩💪🏻

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Super interesting book about complete mastery of sports and the downfall of the individual.

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You do not need to be a fan of golf or sports to find this book fascinating. The comprehensive research and narrative writing results in a story of unbelievably high standards, overbearing parents, the psychology of success, and more. I‘m only about a quarter of the way through, but I cannot stop listening.

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