Tiger Woods

The primary New York Instances finest vendor primarily based on years of reporting and interviews with greater than 250 folks from each nook of Tiger Woods’s life – this “complete, propulsive…and unsparing” (The New Yorker) biography is “an formidable 360-degree portrait of golf’s most scrutinized determine…brimming with revealing particulars” (Golf Digest).

In 2009, Tiger Woods was probably the most well-known athlete on the planet, a transcendent star of just about unfathomable fame and fortune residing what gave the impression to be the right life. However it turned out he had been residing a double life for years – one which exploded within the aftermath of a Thanksgiving-night crash that uncovered his serial infidelity and despatched his private {and professional} lives over a cliff. On this “searing biography of golf’s most blazing expertise” (GOLF journal), Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian dig deep behind the headlines to supply a richly reported reply to the query that has mystified hundreds of thousands of sports activities followers for almost a decade: who’s Tiger Woods, actually? 

Drawing on greater than 400 interviews with folks from each nook of Woods’s life – a lot of whom have by no means spoken about him on the report earlier than – Benedict and Keteyian assemble a fascinating psychological profile of a mixed-race little one programmed by an attention-grabbing father and the unique Tiger Mother to be the “chosen one”, to vary not simply the sport of golf, however the world as effectively. However at what value? Benedict and Keteyian present the starling solutions on this definitive biography that’s destined to linger within the minds of listeners for years to return. 

“Irresistible…. Immensely readable…. Benedict and Keteyian carry us alongside for the trip in a whirlwind of a biography that reads sincere and true.” (The Wall Road Journal) 

Finally, Tiger Woods is “an enormous American story…exhilarating, miserable, tawdry, and shifting in nearly equal measure” (The New York Instances).