What I learned from reading Tiger Woods by Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian.
Tiger woods was the kind of transcendent star that comes around about as often as Halley's comet.
By almost any measure, he is the most talented golfer who has ever lived and arguably the greatest individual athlete in modern history.
For a 15 year span from August 1994, when he won his first of three consecutive us amateur championships as an 18 year old high school senior, to the early morning hours of November 27, 2009, when he crashed his suv into a tree and effectively ended the most dominant run in the history of golf, woods was a human whirlwind of heart stopping drama and entertainment.
He was someone no one had ever seen or will ever see again.
At the height of Tiger's career, golf beat the NFL and the NBA in ratings.
He was mobbed by fans wherever he went.
Kings and presidents courted him.
Corporations wooed him.
Women wanted to sleep with him.
For the better part of two decades, he was simply the most famous athlete on earth.
Despite his killer instinct on the course, he was an introvert off of it, more comfortable practicing and training in solitude.
As far back his childhood, he spent far more time by himself.
Tiger is the most mysterious athlete of his time, an enigma obsessed with privacy, who mastered the art of being invisible in plain sight of saying something while revealing virtually nothing.
The two qualities woods values most are privacy and loyalty.
So that begs the question, why tackle this project?
They're talking about the book.
Why tackle this project in the first place?
Our answer is simple.
Very few individuals are known throughout the world by one word.
That is an excerpt from the book that I'm going to talk to you about today, which is titled Tiger woods, and it was written by Jeff Benedict and Armin Container.