Tiger Woods

By Jeff Benedict, Armen Keteyian

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs

Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian's 2018 biography of the golfer Tiger Woods draws on interviews with more than 250 people from every part of his life. The authors trace Woods's childhood under his demanding father, Earl, his rise as a young prodigy and his success in professional golf. They also examine the 2009 scandal over his infidelity that upended his career, and his efforts to return. The book was adapted as Tiger, a two-part HBO miniseries, in 2021.

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• Shane Parrish: “Even if you don’t like golf, this book is hard to put down. One of my working hypotheses is that people with extreme abilities are not balanced. Attempts to address the imbalance usually cause them to lose some or all of their advantage, which contributed to the outlier success. Tiger is fascinating.”