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Lthe history of Tiger Woods It can be written in a thousand different ways, narrated by each of the people who have approached who is one of the most important athletes in history. Now, a documentary by HBO titled TIGER (episodes aired January 11 and 18), brings together some of these people and tries to analyze various episodes, sometimes morbid, that have marked the life of the great Californian golfer, the best in history in his sport.
There are those who are willing to see the final result to know what he had to say his former lover, Rachel Uchitel (who will appear in Chapter 2), the trigger for that episode that ended with Woods driving his car into a tree in 2009, once his wife read some messages on her spouse’s cell phone. According to Uchitel, the famous athlete wrote: “You are the only woman I have ever loved”. He tells some detail about how he felt “liberated” with her.
The documentary also reviews the harassment suffered by the Tiger from the American tabloid press, especially for the National Enquirer. Even his editor-in-chief, Neal Boulton, remembers how one of his reporters hunted Tiger with a mistress and retrieved a tampon from a trash can to use as evidence in case Woods denied the foreplay.
There is talk of the direct victims of all that: from a wife -Elin Nordegren- humiliated constantly from the tabloid press, which was practically forced to disappear so they can raise their children away from the spotlightEven some of the lovers Woods had, hunted down just to mark the star as a depraved being.
But it is also put in retrospect for example the ruthless attack on the figure of the golfer by the president of Augusta National then, Billy Payne, in 2010 (“He has disappointed us all, and more importantly, our children and grandchildren. Our hero did not live up to the expectations of the role model we want for our children”). According to Los Angeles Times reporter Thomas Bonk, Payne would not have humiliated one of his white champions like that.
The documentary actually reaches point to Earl Woods, the golfer’s father, as the person who prepared him for sporting success, but at the same time led him to his personal failure. However, the patriarch warned: “The world will be a better place with its existence. This is my treasure, please accept it and respect it.” In the documentary itself, the Testimony of a friend of Earl’s, in which he talks about the infidelities of the star’s father, hinting that the future behavior of the Californian golfer was inherited.
There are more characters who feel damaged by Tiger, like Steve Williams, his former caddy, which more or less counts that I left it lying, or Dina Parr, his high school girlfriend, whose breakup after three years of relationship was allegedly due to pressure from Woods’ parents, who did not want to interfere with their son’s career. Everyone talks, that’s true, but without actually stoning Tiger, and perhaps it is because the protagonist of this story – who even remains as a victim – was neither a villain nor left an unpaid account. Yes, the player’s agent has already recalled that it is an unauthorized documentary.
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