Maybe I'm alone in this, but I really enjoyed Hank Haney's book detailing his time with Tiger Woods. The Big Miss was certainly anything but that as we got a backstage look at one of the greatest athletes of all time.
That's why I'm fired up about a new book that's coming out at a yet-to-be-released date. Here's AdWeek on the Woods bio which will be written by Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian.
The authors have spent the last year doing research and interviews for the book. The book will chart Woods’ rise to success in golf and business and his decline in recent years since his tabloid divorce.
“Our approach has been to gather and digest everything we possibly can,” said Keteyian. “We’re also talking to a lot of people that haven’t talked previously. It’s clearly been a complicated, unmatched, and well-chronicled, rise, fall, and return. But there’s more. A lot more. And I believe the end result will captivate sports fans and fans of big, sweeping biographies.”
So yeah, I'm excited. Benedict took it maybe even a step further.
"(Tiger) is vastly misunderstood," Benedict told Golf Digest. "So much of his family history and his personality has been veiled in secrecy, mythical stories, partial truths, advertising campaigns, and scurrilous headlines. Our objective is to get beyond the veil and reveal in full a human portrait of a true, albeit reluctant, American idol."
