Tiger Woods

Packed with groundbreaking, behind-the-scenes details, this major biography of Tiger Woods tells the explosive full story behind the rise, fall and rise again of a global icon. A rattling read . . .Superbly written.Daily Mail In 2009,Tiger Woodswas the most famous athlete on the planet, a sporting star of almost unfathomable fame and fortune living what appeared to be the perfect life - professionally and personally.Winner of fourteen major golf championshipsand seventy-nine PGA Tour events, Woods was the firstbillion-dollar athlete, earning more than $100 million a year in endorsements from the likes ofNike, Gillette, AT&T and Gatorade. But it was all a carefully crafted illusion. Woods had been living a double life for years - one that exploded in the aftermath of a late-night crash that exposed his serial infidelity and sent his personal and professional life off a cliff. Drawing on more thanfour hundred interviewswith people from every corner of Woods's life, acclaimed investigative journalists Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyiandig deep behind the headlines to produce a richly researched answer to the question that has mystified millions of sports fans:who is Tiger Woods?Based on three years of extensive research and reporting, two of today's most acclaimed investigative journalists, Jeff Benedict ofSports Illustratedand eleven-time Emmy Award winner Armen Keteyian, deliver the first major biography of Tiger Woods.