Tiger Woods, a phenomenal golfing talent, burst into the American sports scene in 1999 when he got his second big victory at the PGA Championship. That was what got the Tiger Woods Express chuffing. But he has been on our screens for as long as we can remember, starting from “The Mike Douglas Show” in 1978, where a 2-year-old Tiger looked somewhat nervous and reluctant, probably because his father, Earl Woods, wanted him to be on the show and he was too young to bask in the spotlights.
Since then, Woods has grown into a significant American export. However, behind the corporate logos all over his clothes and caps, what is the real person like? Because he has always been “our tiger,” we often forget that there is a real human being of flesh and blood under the logos. Do we know Tiger Woods at all? Yes, we mean behind and beyond the “tragic tiger” narrative. Probably not.
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