Tiger Woods's long descent into a personal and professional hell
reached bottom in the early hours of Memorial Day in 2017. Woods's
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 Tiger's 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. In The 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 legend's
return. Packed with new information and graced by insight,
Bamberger's story reveals how this iconic athlete clawed his way
back to the top. Here you'll meet the people who have shaped and
saved Tiger's life. It's a disparate group: a Florida police
officer, an old friend from Tiger's boyhood, his girlfriend, his
manager, his caddie. You'll go inside the ropes and see Tiger's
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, you'll join Tiger as he takes a long,
slow, contemplative walk across Augusta National, and you'll 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, inspiring-and real. The Second Life
of Tiger Woods is not only the saga of an exceptional man but also
a celebration of second chances. Being rich and famous had nothing
to do with Woods's return. Instead, readers will see him apply his
intelligence, pride, and enormous capacity for work to the problems
at hand. Bamberger's bracingly honest book is about what Tiger
Woods did, and about what any of us can do, when we face our demons
head-on.
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