Tiger Woods

Jeff Benedict, Armen Keteyian

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN:
  9781501126475
• Print ISBN:
  9781501126444

#1 New York Times Bestseller * “A whirlwind of a biography that reads honest and true.” —The Wall Street Journal * “There is beauty and awe in this perfectly pitched biography.” —The New York Times * “Comprehensive, propulsive...and unsparing.” —The New Yorker

Based on years of reporting and hundreds of interviews with people from every corner of Tiger Woods’s life this is “a searing biography of golf’s most blazing talent” (GOLF Magazine)—who has made one of the most remarkable comebacks of all time.

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. But it turned out he had been living a double life for years—one that exploded in the aftermath of a Thanksgiving night crash that exposed his serial infidelity and sent his personal and professional lives over a cliff. In this “searing biography of golf’s most blazing talent” (GOLF magazine), Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian dig deep behind the headlines to produce a richly reported answer to the question that has mystified millions of sports fans for nearly a decade: who is Tiger Woods, really?

Drawing on more than four hundred interviews with people from every corner of Woods’s life—many of whom have never spoken about him on the record before—Benedict and Keteyian construct a captivating psychological profile of a mixed race child programmed by an attention-grabbing father and the original Tiger Mom to be the “chosen one,” to change not just the game of golf, but the world as well. But at what cost? Benedict and Keteyian provide the starling answers in this definitive biography that is destined to linger in the minds of readers for years to come.

“Irresistible…Immensely readable…Benedict and Keteyian bring us along for the ride in a whirlwind of a biography that reads honest and true” (The Wall Street Journal). Ultimately, Tiger Woods is “a big American story…exhilarating, depressing, tawdry, and moving in almost equal measure” (The New York Times).

Table of contents

• Cover
• Dedication
• Prologue
• Chapter 1: The End
• Chapter 2: Family Matters
• Chapter 3: A Star is Born
• Chapter 4: The Prodigy
• Chapter 5: Who is Tiger Woods?
• Chapter 6: The Next Level
• Chapter 7: The Amateur
• Chapter 8: Rich Friends
• Chapter 9: Ramping Up
• Chapter 10: Hello World
• Chapter 11: Masterful
• Chapter 12: Mania
• Chapter 13: Changes
• Chapter 14: Exploited
• Chapter 15: Instincts
• Chapter 16: I Got It
• Chapter 17: Any Questions?
• Chapter 18: Transcendence
• Chapter 19: Cold
• Chapter 20: In the Bubble
• Chapter 21: Changes II
• Chapter 22: Unplayable Lie
• Chapter 23: Loss
• Chapter 24: Tick, Tick, Tick
• Chapter 25: It’s Just Pain
• Chapter 26: Miracle Workers
• Chapter 27: Crash
• Chapter 28: Firestorm
• Chapter 29: The Reckoning
• Chapter 30: Constant State of Shame
• Chapter 31: Separation
• Chapter 32: Only Human
• Chapter 33: Point of No Return
• Chapter 34: Into the Rough
• Chapter 35: Making the Cut
• Acknowledgments
• ‘The Dynasty’ Teaser
• About the Author
• Notes
• Index
• Copyright