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The Second Life of Tiger Woods

(Paperback, Local Edition)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

The Second Life of Tiger Woods

Contributors:

By (Author) Michael Bamberger

ISBN:

9781982167721

Publisher:

Simon & Schuster

Imprint:

Simon & Schuster

Publication Date:

7th October 2020

Edition:

Local Edition

Country:

United States

Classifications

Readership:

General

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Main Subject:
Other Subjects:

Golf

Dewey:

796.352092

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

272

Dimensions:

Width 152mm, Height 229mm, Spine 17mm

Weight:

258g

Description

Tiger Woodss long descent into a personal and professional hell reached bottom in the early hours of Memorial Day in 2017. Woodss DUI arrest that night came on the heels of a desperate spinal surgery, just weeks after he told close friends he might never play tournament golf again. His mug shot and alarming arrest video were painful to look at and, for Woods, a deep humiliation. The former paragon of discipline now found himself hopelessly lost and out of control, exposed for all the world to see. That episode could have marked the beginning of Tigers end. It proved to be the opposite.

Instead of sinking beneath the public disgrace of drug abuse and the private despair of a battered and ailing body, Woods embarked on the long road to redeeming himself. InThe Second Life of Tiger Woods, Michael Bamberger, who has covered Woods since the golfer was an amateur, draws upon his deep network of sources inside locker rooms, caddie yards, clubhouses, fitness trailers, and back offices to tell the true and inspiring story of the legends return. Packed with new information and graced by insight, Bambergers story reveals how this iconic athlete clawed his way back to the top.

Here youll meet the people who have shaped and saved Tigers life. Its a disparate group: a Florida police officer, an old friend from Tigers boyhood, his girlfriend, his manager, his caddie. Youll go inside the ropes and see Tigers interactions with fellow pros, with broadcasters and rules officials and Tour executives, with legends young (Rory McIlroy) and old (Jack Nicklaus) and in between (Fred Couples). On the Sunday before Masters Sunday, youll join Tiger as he takes a long, slow, contemplative walk across Augusta National, and youll be with him again seven days later in the splendid isolation of the tee at thirteen, in the rain, his right foot slipping while he swings his driver at 120 miles per hour.

This is an intimate portrait of a man who has spent his life in front of the camera but has done his best to make sure he was never really known. Here is Tiger, barefoot, in handcuffs, showing a police officer a witty and self-deprecating side of himself that the public never sees. Here is Tiger on the verge of tears with his children at the British Open. Here is Tiger trying to express his gratitude to his mother at a ceremony at the Rose Garden. In these pages, Tiger is funny, cold, generous, self-absorbed, inspiringand real.

The Second Life of Tiger Woodsis not only the saga of an exceptional man but also a celebration of second chances. Being rich and famous had nothing to do with Woodss return. Instead, readers will see him apply his intelligence, pride, and enormous capacity for work to the problems at hand. Bambergers bracingly honest book is about what Tiger Woods did, and about what any of us can do, when we face our demons head-on

Author Bio

Michael Bamberger is a senior writer for the Fire Pit Collective. After college, hespent a more than a decade as a newspaper reporter, followed by twenty-two years atSports Illustrated. He has written a play (Bart & Fay) and seven books, including theNew York TimesbestsellerMen in Green,The Second Life of Tiger Woods, and To the Linksland. His work has appeared in the annual anthologyThe Best American Sports Writingand other collections. In 2022, at Jack Nicklauss Memorial Tournament, Bamberger received the Memorial Golf Journalism Award.

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