Tiger, burning bright
POWERFUL: TWO-PART DOCUMENTARY TELLING THE WOODS STORY
Dad believed he would be a world changer on the scale of Buddha, Gandhi...
The HBO two-part Tiger Woods documentary,
Tiger, offers a revealing look at the rise, fall and epic comeback of the golfing icon.
At age two, Woods appeared on TV to show off his putting skills.
His father, Earl, tells how Woods picked up a golf club at three months and started playing at eight months.
According to people in the documentary, Woods Snr believed he had been chosen by God to groom his son for greatness, not just on the golf course, but as a world changer on the scale of Buddha, Mahatma Gandhi, Jesus or Nelson Mandela.
The documentary contextualises Woods’ triumphs and tragedies through never-before-seen footage and interviews with those who know him best, including his former caddy and close friend, Steve Williams. Others include golf legend Sir Nick Faldo, Woods’ first true love, Dina Parr, and Rachel Uchitel – the woman at the centre of the sex scandal that altered Woods’ world – breaking her silence for the first time.
Based on the 2018 New York
Times best-selling biography penned by Armen Keteyian and Jeff Benedict, Tiger is executive produced by Oscar winner Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side) and directed by Oscar-nominated, Emmy-winning filmmaker Matthew Heineman (Cartel Land,
A Private War) and Emmy-nominee Matthew Hamachek (Amanda
Knox). Tiger has an 8/10 rating on IMDb, with Variety hailing it as “urgent and powerful viewing that withholds judgment, but nothing else”.