Tiger Woods (book)
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| Author | Jeff Benedict Armen Keteyian |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Sports |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
Publication date | 27 March 2018 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print, digital |
| Pages | 512 pp |
| ISBN | 978-1501126420 |
Tiger Woods is a 2018 biography of professional golfer Tiger Woods written by Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian.[1][2] It is the second book co-authored by Benedict and Keteyian, who published The System: The Glory and Scandal of Big-Time College Football in 2013.[3] The book was adapted as Tiger, a two-part HBO miniseries in 2021.
Prior to writing the book, Benedict and Keteyian read over 20 books previously published about Woods' life, including Woods' own memoir, The 1997 Masters: My Story. The authors also read articles by Wright Thompson, Gary Smith, Frank Deford and others as they created a timeline of Woods' life that, once complete, was over 70,000 words in length.[2]
More than 250 people were interviewed for the book.[3] Keteyian interviewed Mark O'Meara for the book while O'Meara was playing a round at the 2017 Conquistadores Classic. O'Meara's ex-wife, Alicia O'Meara, was also interviewed several times for the book. The authors declined an on-the-record interview Woods himself for the book as they were not willing to meet Woods' conditions for such an interview, and the authors were not able to conduct any off-the-record conversations with Woods himself.[2]
Keteyian said the reason for writing the book was to attempt to answer the question, "Who is Tiger Woods?"[4]
Synopsis
The biography opens with the 2009 car accident on the day after Thanksgiving that precipitated Woods' infidelity scandal and fallout.[3]
From The Financial Times:
- "Much time is spent on the pathologies of his parents, his African-American father Earl and Thai mother Kultida, whom Earl met when he was an army officer in Asia and still married to his first wife. While his father is credited with teaching their son the game and pushing him to greatness, Tida, as she is known, is found to be more cold-blooded and the source of his killer instinct...Benedict and Keteyian provide extensive details of Tiger’s famous nastiness, which was helpful in dispatching golf foes and deployed against anyone he no longer required. And there are painstaking descriptions of his escapades with Las Vegas hostesses and waffle house waitresses."[5]