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The Tiger Woods Thread
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Woods is a fascinating character. Any book about him, particularly from Haney, who worked with him personally, is going to be interesting reading, even if it was tabloid gossip guff.
There is also the idea that, from Mark Steinberg I'd imagine, that he was an opportunistic loser who cashed in on his association and relationship with Woods. That the whole seal thing was an exaggeration which he sensationalized to shift copies. The book was an expose, of course there would be an element of that. That he timed it for release before the Masters was just good marketing.
Mark Steinberg would do well in Trumps cabinet.
It is known that Woods undertook or attempted to undertake the navy seal BUDS training. That brilliant ESPN article on the 10th anniversary of his fathers death details it incredibly well about what can only be described as a mental break. Taking that, add in elite golfer playing, training, travel, media duties etc and compound that into the physical and mental situation he now has. He can convince himself to the contrary. Unfortunately, judging by what we've watched, he risks becoming delusional about how he unnecessarily crocked himself by his refusal to speak plainly about it. A bit of candour from Woods on that would be welcome. As in, yeah I went a bit nuts then and bloody well crocked myself like a dope.
I made the comparison earlier to Woods today and his then rivals (Mickelson et al). They were peers to a peerless golfer.
I think what Woods always needed was a friend. Not a confidant like Notah Begay or a buddy/mentor like O'Meara.
He was winning everything. And I think he got bored of winning everything. Breaking that Nicklaus record was only a matter of time.
An analogy for me would be the movie Good Will Hunting.
Tiger was Will Hunting. Golf versus Maths.
Tiger never had the best friend Will Hunting had in Ben Affleck's Chucky.
Remember the scene when Chucky and Will are working on the building site and during a break he threatens Will.
Basically saying, wtf are you doing here? This, while being honorable work, is beneath you.
If I see you here again in a few years, I'll kill you. Basically, you have a gift and you're wasting it and insulting us by pretending to someone you know you're not.
When Tiger was obsessing about Navy Seals, sleeping around with random women during the peak of his career, he needed a true friend like Chucky, not some PR controlled 'friend', to give him some home truths.
Who would tell he was going to get seriously hurt by playing soldier, that he was belittling those same soldiers, that he would suffer mentally from sleeping around, that he was thick to think he, a famous icon, would never get caught.
Who would tell him to go and win. Win until you get to 19. To shut up the doubters.
Who would chew him out about cheating on his wife, a good woman.
No doubt people must have tried. No doubt they no longer formed part of the inner circle.
The list is long of people who became estranged, isolated from him.
He never did have that true friend.0 -
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Woods is a fascinating character. Any book about him, particularly from Haney, who worked with him personally, is going to be interesting reading, even if it was tabloid gossip guff.
There is also the idea that, from Mark Steinberg I'd imagine, that he was an opportunistic loser who cashed in on his association and relationship with Woods. That the whole seal thing was an exaggeration which he sensationalized to shift copies. The book was an expose, of course there would be an element of that. That he timed it for release before the Masters was just good marketing.
Mark Steinberg would do well in Trumps cabinet.
It is known that Woods undertook or attempted to undertake the navy seal BUDS training. That brilliant ESPN article on the 10th anniversary of his fathers death details it incredibly well about what can only be described as a mental break. Taking that, add in elite golfer playing, training, travel, media duties etc and compound that into the physical and mental situation he now has. He can convince himself to the contrary. Unfortunately, judging by what we've watched, he risks becoming delusional about how he unnecessarily crocked himself by his refusal to speak plainly about it. A bit of candour from Woods on that would be welcome. As in, yeah I went a bit nuts then and bloody well crocked myself like a dope.
IDK, anytime I've heard anything from the horses mouth i.e. Woods himself, he appears to be open and honest, it's only when we hear sound bites through other sources that he comes across as delusional etc. one could argue that that is the propose of those sound bites, to make a story where there is none in order to hook people in, i.e. clickbait and people cash in on the back of his fame. I know most people understand that that is the case but it never ceases to amaze that at times people actually believe it.0 -
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