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Zusatztext “If King Lear had been about golf! or if the great Russian novelists had turned their lens toward modern expectations and fame! toward the most American of fathers and sons! the result would be this book. The rise and fall and return of Tiger Woods in these pages is both mythic and poignantly small and human.” —Wright Thompson! senior writer! ESPN The Magazine Informationen zum Autor Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian Klappentext #1 New York Times Bestseller * “A whirlwind of a biography that reads honest and true.” — The Wall Street Journal * “There is beauty and awe in this perfectly pitched biography.” — The New York Times * “Comprehensive, propulsive...and unsparing.” — The New Yorker Based on years of reporting and hundreds of interviews with people from every corner of Tiger Woods’s life this is “a searing biography of golf’s most blazing talent” ( GOLF Magazine )—who has made one of the most remarkable comebacks of all time. In 2009, Tiger Woods was the most famous athlete on the planet, a transcendent star of almost unfathomable fame and fortune living what appeared to be the perfect life. But it turned out he had been living a double life for years—one that exploded in the aftermath of a Thanksgiving night crash that exposed his serial infidelity and sent his personal and professional lives over a cliff. In this “searing biography of golf’s most blazing talent” ( GOLF magazine), Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian dig deep behind the headlines to produce a richly reported answer to the question that has mystified millions of sports fans for nearly a decade: who is Tiger Woods, really? Drawing on more than four hundred interviews with people from every corner of Woods’s life—many of whom have never spoken about him on the record before—Benedict and Keteyian construct a captivating psychological profile of a mixed race child programmed by an attention-grabbing father and the original Tiger Mom to be the “chosen one,” to change not just the game of golf, but the world as well. But at what cost? Benedict and Keteyian provide the starling answers in this definitive biography that is destined to linger in the minds of readers for years to come. “Irresistible…Immensely readable…Benedict and Keteyian bring us along for the ride in a whirlwind of a biography that reads honest and true” ( The Wall Street Journal ). Ultimately, Tiger Woods is “a big American story…exhilarating, depressing, tawdry, and moving in almost equal measure” ( The New York Times ). Leseprobe Tiger Woods PROLOGUE Standing between two gravestones, Mike Mohler drove a posthole digger deep into the dirt, twisting it like a corkscrew. It was Friday, May 5, 2006, and warm temperatures had softened the earth at Sunset Cemetery in Manhattan, Kansas. Clump by clump, the balding forty-four-year-old sexton meticulously dug a grave, piling the dirt beside it. In twenty-four hours, the ashen remains of the city’s most famous son would be laid to rest there. Hardly anyone knew the burial was happening, and Mohler aimed to keep it that way. The night before, Mohler had been home watching television when his phone rang. It was about nine p.m., and the caller didn’t identify herself. “We have a burial coming your way,” she said. An odd way to begin a call, thought Mohler. Especially one made to his home at such a late hour. “What’s the name of the deceased?” he asked. “I can’t tell you that,” the woman said. “Well, I can’t help you if you won’t give me a name,” he told her. “I can’t do that unless you sign confidentiality papers,” she said. Mohler told her that wouldn’t be necessary...
