PAGE 2 • TV
THE BULLETIN • JANUARY 7 - 13, 2021
BY GEORGE DICKIE
“Tiger” premieres
Sunday on HBO.
HBO’s ‘Tiger’ a warts-and-
all portrait of a golf great
Tiger Woods was the type of singular
talent that was preprogrammed for great-
ness seemingly from birth.
He gripped a golf club at two months
old, was hitting drives on “The Mike
Douglas Show” at two years and was
repeatedly told by his father Earl that
through golf he could make a difference.
And, of course, he did.
His story is told in the two-part HBO
Sports documentary “Tiger,” airing
consecutive Sundays, Jan. 10 and 17.
Directed by Matthew Heineman (“The
Trade”) and Matthew Hamachek (“Meet
the Patels”), the three-and-one-half-hour
film follows the rise, fall and return to
the game of the golf icon through nev-
er-before-seen footage and interviews
with those who know him best, including
former caddie Steve Williams, golf legend
Nick Faldo, Earl Woods’ biographer and
close friend Pete McDaniel, Woods’ first
true love Dina Parr and Rachel Uchitel,
the woman at the center of the sex scan-
dal that would alter the course of Woods’
life.
Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian’s
book “Tiger Woods” served as a resource
for the film, which was made without the
participation of the Woods camp.
Of course, the accolades on the links
speak for themselves: 82 PGA Tour wins,
15 major championships (including five
Masters titles), 10-time PGA Tour top
money winner, 11-time PGA Tour Player
of the Year and a host of other laurels.
And the driving force behind that success,
at least at the outset, was Earl Woods.
He was easily the biggest influence of
Tiger’s childhood and young adulthood,
putting all his resources into molding his
son into a champion. The documentary
details Earl’s love of the game and how
that was passed on to Tiger. But as Tiger’s
career took off and he matured as a man,
he grew away from his father.
Part of that was due to Earl’s womaniz-
ing. One scene in the documentary tells
of how he didn’t bother to hide his in-
discretions from his son, which disgusted
Tiger.
Of course, the apple didn’t fall far from
the tree and Tiger himself had some very
public carnal escapades. The film goes
into his “unchained” behavior in Las Ve-
gas and the relationships that resulted, as
well as the dalliance that would eventually
end his marriage to wife Elin Nordegren,
with Rachel Uchitel, a New York night-
club manager, in 2009.
Personal problems, including sex and
substance addiction, injuries, surgeries
and subpar performances would follow,
leading to his fall from golf ’s elite. The
documentary details his years of personal
and professional struggles as well as his
stirring comeback and victory at the 2019
Masters, capped by a touching hug with
his young son Charlie on the 72nd hole,
thus mirroring his own embrace with dad
Earl after he won his first Masters title 22
years earlier.
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