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EARL WOODS:
Please forgive me,

but sometimes I get
very emotional

when I talk about my son.

YOUNG TIGER WOODS:
Daddy! Daddy!

EARL: He will transcend
this game and bring to the world

a humanitarianism which has
never been known before.

THOMAS BONK: You become
the biggest name in golf,

and your dad is the one
who invented you?

GARY SMITH: Tiger was gonna be
this bridge between

all the different races
and tribes of humanity.

JIM RISWOLD: Using Tiger
to expand the golf universe

is a no brainer.

(AUDIENCE APPLAUDS)

How are you handling
all the adulation?

I honestly don't feel
comfortable with it.

BONK: Tiger did not want
any shadows on his brand.

He's not gonna like this shit
at all.

DINA GRAVELL:
He called me, and he said,
"My dad's out again."

And it changed the relationship
with him and his dad.

STEVE WILLIAMS:
With Earl passing,
he had to rely on himself.

PETE MCDANIEL:
Tiger had that ability
to bury something very deep,

but there's a reckoning
and we all will face it someday.

Okay. So, what do you want me
to talk about?

[dramatic music]

male announcer: The following
is a presentation

of HBO Sports.

[helicopter rotors thrumming]

[dramatic orchestral music]

♪ ♪

- 25 days after Tiger Woods
buried his father, Earl,

he went to a military base

where SEALs practice
mountain warfare.

- Ready.
all: Ready!

- Target.

[gunfire]

♪ ♪

- A petty officer working
with Tiger asked him,

"Why is the greatest golfer
running around

playing G.I. Joe?"

And Tiger Woods looked
at him and said, "My dad."

[explosion]
- Go, go, go, go!

- Without his father,
Tiger was left

with an Earl Woods-sized
hole in his life

and would spend
the next few years

searching for something.

[gunfire]

I don't think Tiger Woods even
knows what he wanted to find.

crowd: Tiger! Tiger!
Tiger! Tiger! Tiger!

Tiger! Tiger! Tiger!
Tiger! Tiger! Tiger!

- And from
Windermere, Florida,

the 1999, 2000, and 2006
PGA champion,

Tiger Woods!

[applause]

- And he hammered it.

He hammered it down the middle
with a cut.

What a tee shot.

- Just belt the living
daylights out of it.

[announcers chuckle]

- A number of months
after Earl's passing,

Tiger appeared to be

in a very, very good
frame of mind.

He was at the pinnacle
of the sport,

and he had this aura
of invincibility.

- Tiger is just a shot away...

- On his way
to his own...

- His own universe.
- Exactly.

[cheers and applause]

- His 13th major.

- It's like sometimes
these golfing gods are just--

[chuckles] You know, they seem
to be on his shoulders.

[cheers and applause]

But in reality,
at that point in time,

being Tiger Woods had taken
its toll on Tiger Woods.

- Tiger Woods,
ladies and gentlemen.

[cheers and applause]
crowd: Tiger! Tiger! Tiger!

- He said to me one time,
"Stevie, you know,

"you become this global
sporting icon,

"and you're representing
all these different brands.

"Sometimes you feel
you just can't be yourself

"'cause you've got so many
people depending on you,

"so many people watching you,

so many people
are invested in you."

- He is widely considered
to be the greatest golfer

to ever play the game.

Please welcome Tiger Woods.

[cheers and applause]

- [chuckles]
[cheers continue]

- You ever get sick of it?
You don't get sick of it.

It's nice, wherever you go,
people go crazy.

- Well, it's nice--it's nice
that they are like that...

- Yeah.
- Because I'm certainly one

that's not really
comfortable with it.

- Very rarely is there
a photograph of you,

you know, in your private life.

I thought, "This guy
must have a Batcave."

You have an alter ego.
You play--

- That's good.
- It is good. It is good.

- I think he just wanted
at some point in time,

break all those ties,
get away from that,

go and do something
completely different,

and it was like hitting
a reset button.

[jet engine roaring]

[uneasy music]

♪ ♪

- The allure of Las Vegas
is that feeling

you can escape.

People leave their morals
at the airport

and pick them up
when they leave.

[indistinct chatter]

And as soon as you hit
that tarmac,

everything
is at your disposal.

- Tiger, this way, please.

- We catered to Tiger.

We spoiled him.

We would say,
"You're like a prince

and basically free to do
whatever you want."

[funky music]

- Tiger Woods, what's up, man?
- Come on, man.

What's going on, man?

- Tiger's two
running buddies in Vegas,

Michael Jordan
and Charles Barkley,

they both enjoyed
the good life.

♪ ♪

The nightclubs,
the bottle service.

I mean, women are literally

throwing themselves at them.

- Michael!
- Michael! Michael, Michael!

- In that entourage,
Tiger was a bit of a geek.

- Tiger, looking
right over here.

- Tiger, this way, please.
- Got a good smile.

- It wasn't like
he was, like, mack daddy,

like, Casanova.

You know, those guys really
didn't have to be.

Their hosts did all the work.

We would pick out
the pretty girls and say,

"Hi, would you like to go up

and party
with Michael Jordan?"

- Tiger asked, "What do I say
to these women?"

And Michael, to his
ever-loving credit, goes,

"You tell 'em
you're Tiger Woods."

- Come on, Tiger Woods.

Hey, I need a president, huh?
- We'll go over here.

[dark music]

- I heard rumors
of sexual encounters,

and I remember thinking,

"Wow, he's a man
full of secrets."

But we all--we all kept
our mouths shut.

I know I did.

♪ ♪

We made him feel so safe,

like nobody's going to tell.

- This was Tiger Woods

unchained from the history
of his childhood,

unchained from pronouncements
about being the chosen one.

It was Tiger Woods
unchained from being

a $100-million-a-year brand.

And so time and time
and time again,

he would return to Vegas,

and even after he got married
to Elin,

Tiger didn't really slow down.

His ability to live
a double life,

it started in Vegas.

- We caught up with Tiger
outside Las Vegas

on what was the coldest day
there in more than five years.

Woods was on the set
of his latest commercial

for Nike Golf,
and among other things,

I asked him how married life

with his new bride, Elin,
was going.

- It's been good.
- Yeah?

- It's the same as always,
you know?

- Nothing's changed?
- Nothing's changed.

That's it, I mean,
it's still the same,

same relationship.

- How does she deal
with all the attention?

- It's one thing she had
to get used to.

- Mm-hmm.
- She didn't ask for it.

Back in 2002 when we started

getting pretty serious
about it,

that's one of the things
we had to talk about

is that I'm sorry
it has to be this way,

but it's just--
it kind of comes along

with, you know, what I do.

[cheers and applause]

[gentle music]

♪ ♪

- Tiger would
always talk about

having the white picket fence,

the lovely wife, children,

and some sort of normal life.

It appeared to me that he was
happy being married.

Elin is very sweet,

smart, nice girl,

and I was really happy
he had found that in his life,

and I thought that was,
you know, hopefully for him,

gonna be, you know,
where he wanted to be.

Tiger and Elin
lived five doors down

from my husband and I.

And we became
very good friends.

I remember Tiger told me
that he was gonna be a father.

And he was just elated
to have children.

He really wanted to be
a hands-on dad.

That was really
important to him.

I think it really
lit up his life.

- Elin and I are very excited.

This is far more important
than any game of golf.

This is an opportunity
for us to--

to raise our first child,

and we're looking forward
to it.

- Three years
into their marriage,

Elin had Sam,
their little girl.

Elin always loved children

and always knew she wanted
to be a mom,

always felt like she was
going to be a mom.

She told me
that she envisioned

they would build a happy home
filled with children.

They could be,
as she put it, normal.

♪ ♪

- I'm happier than I've
ever been in my life.

You know, I've got
a wonderful balance between

on the golf course
and off the golf course.

Couldn't ask
for a better year.

- What's harder,
sinking a ten-foot par putt

on 18 with a one-stroke lead

or changing a poop diaper

and not getting anything
on you?

- Number two.
Literally number two.

[laughter]

- The professional athlete

is always concerned
about image,

and Tiger built himself up
to be more than he was.

We all have certain demons
that we have to acknowledge,

and I think, for years
and years and years,

Tiger ignored his,

and that made him susceptible.

- There were so many articles
written when you had a baby

that you were gonna
lose your edge.

Does it bother you
when you start

to see these things written?

It seems people are waiting
for something to happen.

- There is a fascination
in America to see

the top dog
fall off the ladder.

[indistinct shouting]

- No.
Yes!

[cheers and applause]

- It's called the crab
in the barrel mentality.

We're all in a barrel,

and we have crabs trying
to get out of the barrel,

and as soon as they get
up to the top,

one of the other crabs
grabs its leg

and pulls it back down
into the barrel.

So there was
a group of people,

especially in the media,
pulling against him.

These detractors
were plotting,

hoping for his fall.

- I think
the Tiger Woods story

is a big cautionary tale.

[uneasy music]

Be careful about the image
you create of yourself.

Be careful to live lies.

Be very, very careful,

because it could all
come tumbling down.

♪ ♪

The "National Enquirer"
had a history

of just smearing people.

They knew
that the American public

loved to see the failings
of their famous celebrities,

and so they fed that appetite
with a vengeance.

♪ ♪

One evening,
I was at the office

and I got a call to report
to the editor in chief.

There he was

with the biggest smile
I'd ever seen on his face.

He had the biggest scoop
in years:

Tiger Woods.

[indistinct chatter]

Tiger had his trips to Vegas.

He had a wild side.

And he had an insatiable
appetite for women.

[crowd yelling]

And he made
a careless mistake.

There was a restaurant where
Tiger would go with his wife

not far from home,

and at this restaurant
was a hostess,

Mindy Lawton.

And Tiger just couldn't
take his eyes off of her.

- I was shocked.
I was in awe.

[chuckles]

I didn't think it was real.

I didn't think
it was happening to me.

I played it cool.
[chuckles]

- And they had a furiously
eruptive relationship.

Sometimes before they could
even get to the bedroom

of Tiger Woods' home
while his wife was out of town,

they would make love
in the garage

against the golf cart,

and for the squeakiest

and cleanest celebrity
probably on Earth,

that spelled trouble.

♪ ♪

The "National Enquirer"
immediately sent reporters

to track Tiger Woods.

They followed him
into a church parking lot,

where they witnessed him
having sex

with Mindy Lawton.

The reporter took photographs
of them together

and even picked up the tampon

that Mindy had discarded

and kept it in their vault
as proof

that Mindy had been there.

The "National Enquirer"
called Tiger's team

and asked the question,

"What is Tiger Woods'
relationship

with Mindy Lawton?"

and then hung up the phone.

Everyone in the Tiger camp
went into damage control mode.

It was all about,
how can we kill the story?

[ominous music]

The "National Enquirer" knew
that they had Tiger Woods,

but the photographs
were too blurry to run,

so they decided they would
do a catch and kill

and make a deal.

In exchange for silence,

Tiger would appear on
the cover of "Men's Fitness,"

which was owned
by the company

that owned
the "National Enquirer."

The Tiger camp
considered the deal

and considered it favorably.

[camera shutter clicks]

As salacious
as the Mindy Lawton story was,

nothing was ever printed,

and in the eyes of the public,

Tiger Woods remained
Tiger Woods.

[camera shutters clicking]

[indistinct chatter]

- My father's been
instrumental in getting

this foundation started
from the get-go,

and I feel there's really
no better way

to honor what he's done

than to create a statue
like this,

because this basically
is my dad and I.

- Mirror, mirror on the wall,

will we grow up like our daddy
after all?

Tiger became what he loathed
most about his father:

a philanderer.

- All right.
[laughs]

- That boy loved his father
with everything in him,

and that father loved that boy
with everything in him.

They were father-son,
brothers, best friends,

Dr. Frankenstein
and his monster,

and I've always
really wondered

if some part of him feels like

his own journey
to self-realization

and going from being
his father's son to his own man

required going fully
down the rabbit hole

of Earl Woods.

[engine rumbling]

- It's been a whirlwind tour
for Tiger Woods

and his father, Earl Woods,
here at Fort Bragg.

The visit was about Earl Woods
sharing with his son

the pride he had serving
with Special Forces.

Tiger says military training
is not too different

from staying in shape
to play golf.

- It's just very similar,

except for jumping
out of a plane.

I don't--[laughs]

I don't really do that
to get ready for a tournament.

- But he did do that
this week

with the army's
Golden Knights,

not one but two tandem jumps
from 13,000 feet,

and he's got pictures
to prove it.

[dramatic music]

- I think he just loved
that weekend with his father.

Earl was a Green Beret,
and Tiger decided, you know,

"I want to find out a bit more
for myself what that was like,"

and jumping out of airplanes
was just the beginning.

I think he wanted
to be able to say,

"Hey, Pops, you know,
yeah, you're tough.

"I'm tough too,

maybe just one step
tougher than you."

[helicopter rotors thrumming]

- On Tiger Woods'
31st birthday,

he was with the Navy SEALs

as part of his training.

The SEALs would take him
through the kill house,

which is how they practice
clearing rooms.

[indistinct shouting]

And he would go there
to do this

over and over and over.

[gunfire]

I mean, it all
might have started

as chasing Earl's past,

but Tiger was finding
a life that was his.

[cheers and applause]

- I remember after
this tournament one time,

we were driving
back to the house

that we were staying,
and he said to me,

"You know, I think
I'm gonna give up golf

and I'm gonna go and get
in the Navy SEALs."

You know, that stunned me
in my tracks, to be honest.

I actually
couldn't believe it.

But he seemed
incredibly serious,

and, you know,
anyone that's normal

wouldn't go and be
a Navy SEAL,

but this man's
wired differently,

and he's gonna do something
that's gonna test you

to the absolute limit.

- Tiger would go do
this crazy stuff.

They put this hood
over your head.

The hood goes off, and you're
presented with a scenario.

And it could be
three guys on top of you

beating the shit out of you.

[gunshots]

You'd get shot up
with Simunition,

get these huge bruises
on you.

The SEALs love to tell stories

about just lighting him up,

and the guys in charge
were like,

"You can shoot Tiger
wherever you want.

Just don't shoot him
in his hands."

Like, they were
very well aware of, like,

"We don't want to be the guys
that broke Tiger Woods."

Tiger had all sorts
of knee and back issues

from playing golf,

and the Navy SEAL stuff
was devastating on his body.

There was a SEAL who said,

"Injuries are magnets
for more injuries."

And Tiger always seemed

to get kicked
in his left knee.

♪ ♪

[device whirring]

- Tiger was in immense pain
with his knee,

and when they
scope his knee out,

they discover that he's
got no ACL.

[dark music]

You know,
the doctors say to him,

"You're gonna need
major reconstruction there."

But it's Tiger, you know?

"Fuck that, I'm gonna deal
with that later,"

and he kept training.

And of course,
he gets himself

two fractures in his leg.

[soft snapping]

I remember thinking,

"You brought it
upon yourself, so...

self-inflicted."

[jet engine roaring]

The doctors say to him,
you know,

"You're gonna be out
of the game for a while."

But he's got the 2008
U.S. Open looming.

Can he win another major

and be one step closer

to breaking
Jack Nicklaus' record?

Jack's sitting on 18 majors.

Tiger needed to eclipse
that mark to prove

that he is the greatest player
of all time.

- You can finish your career
with 19 majors,

one more than Jack,
or 100 wins.

- 19.

- You can finish your career
with 17 majors,

one fewer than Jack,
or 100 wins.

- 19.

- There wasn't anything
gonna stop him.

You know, two fractures
in his leg and no ACL--

nothing was gonna stop him.

- Welcome to the 108th
U.S. Open Championship,

beautiful Torrey Pines.

For competitive golfer
Tiger Woods,

since his knee surgery,

what do you expect to see
over the four days?

- I think the big issue
is fatigue.

In practice, he was only
playing nine holes per day.

First time out to go 18,
so we'll see how it holds up.

[crowd shouting and cheering]

[ominous music]

- That headed left.

- Oh!

- He grimaced on that one.

Yeah, look at his knee.

You can see him favoring
that knee.

- I could see just the look
on his face,

the agony that he
was going through.

And we all looked
at each other and thought,

"He's got no right playing
in the U.S. Open."

- Now Woods
tied for 27th place.

- Headed way, way right.

- Wow.

He's making friends with all
the gallery here, isn't he?

- What's the feeling like
out here, Roger?

- It's absolute shock, Johnny.

I don't think
anybody can believe

what they're watching here;
I really don't.

- He hits his tee shot
onto the cart path.

He's got cleats on, spikes,

and as he went
to hit the ball,

his foot slipped out.

[soft cracking]

And I heard the crack
in his knee.

I just saw the look
in his eyes.

It was like
he'd just been shot.

♪ ♪

I said to him,
"Hey, Tiger,

"you might be jeopardizing
your career here.

Maybe this is a time to quit."

And I'll never forget,

he looks at me and he goes,

"Stevie, fuck you.
I'm winning this tournament."

[dramatic music]

[crowd shouting]

[cheers and applause]

- How 'bout that birdie?
- Tiger!

- Well, I wasn't gonna bag it.

It's just not my nature.
I don't know how to do that.

- I think that one
might have hurt.

- There's never any excuses.

If the pain hits,
the pain hits.

So be it.
It's just pain.

- Tiger's on this quest

to be the undeniable,
absolute GOAT,

greatest of all time,

and within the context
of Tiger's astounding career,

the 2008 U.S. Open stands out

among all the others.

[crowd shouting]

♪ ♪

- Oh, that's gonna catch
the bank.

- The mental strength,
the physical strength,

everything that he brought...

- Very awkward stance,

and this can't help the left
knee, I wouldn't think.

- There was something
magical going on.

- One time!

[cheers and applause]
- Oh!

- You got to be kidding!
- Oh-oh-oh!

- He knows it too.

- It's the same thing
that would allow

Lennon and McCartney
to write "Eleanor Rigby."

You know, whatever it is,

there's some kind of magic
in the air.

[crowd shouting]

What else could possibly
explain a guy

whose body is falling apart,

and he does contend?

- Nice!

- Absolutely electric
at Torrey Pines.

And a stunner of a day
for Tiger Woods.

Two better at the moment
than Rocco Mediate.

- All right, Rocco,
describe what the last

4 1/2 hours of your life
have been like.

- Oh, my God,
it was unbelievable,

and it was so much fun.

I can't wait till tomorrow
to see what happens.

- Can you beat him tomorrow?
- Who knows?

Who knows what can happen?

But the way I'm striking it,
you never know.

I just got to make
a few more putts.

- Congratulations
on a fabulous day.

- Thanks, thanks.
It was a blast.

That night,
I'm thinking,

"I can't beat him.

I got to have backup."

So I called the devil.

I said, "Devil, listen,

"Think I need some help
tomorrow.

"You know,
I got to play this guy,

and, you know,
he's just the best."

He goes,
"Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah,

you're playing Tiger
tomorrow."

I went, "Yeah."

He goes,
"He's already with me.

Had him since he was a kid."

I went, "Son of a bitch.
All right, thanks."

Hung the phone up.

- What kind of day is it
gonna be for Tiger Woods?

Should be another
interesting quest

for a major championship.

[crowd shouting and cheering]

- Tiger was still hurt,
obviously,

but it didn't affect
the way he played.

- That one bothered him too.

- Yeah, but it's
in the fairway.

- He still played
like he plays,

intense and really good.

- Oh! Aah!
[crowd shouting]

- That one was audible.

- He didn't
hold back at all.

I kept looking at him, going,

"What in the hell
are you doing?"

But I think he thought
he was immortal.

[crowd shouting]

[cheers and applause]

- Another stroke of genius
by Tiger.

- You watch the stuff he did,
and then you go,

"Well, of course
he's immortal,

broken leg or not."

[chuckles]

[indistinct shouting]

When you stand around him,

there's something going on

that you're not
used to feeling,

that feeling of,
you can't hide

and you're playing with
the best player in the world.

[soft dramatic music]

♪ ♪

[wild cheers]

- Expect anything different?

- Unbelievable.

I knew he'd make it.

The stuff he pulled
that week,

it was remarkable.

But nothing surprised me,
not one thing.

At all.

- And in one of the most
remarkable performances,

Tiger Woods perseveres

and wins a third
U.S. Open Championship.

- If you wish for something

so, so fervently
and it happens,

that sounds like
a happy ending,

but it's not always.

At his core,

Tiger has this view
of the world

that only sort of
a young boy has,

of conquering.

He conquered the world.

The problem
with conquering the world

is that the world
is gonna want its revenge.

[driving rock music]

♪ ♪

- For the last ten years,

I have stayed quiet
about this story,

but at this point,
I have nothing left to lose.

My name hasn't lost
the stigma at all.

It's always been
Rachel Uchitel, comma,

Tiger Woods' mistress.

♪ ♪

I was running one of the clubs
in New York City.

I probably hosted
every famous athlete

or celebrity
you can think of.

- What's good, Drake?

- They come for the best night
of their lives,

and I'm the person
that is going

to facilitate that for them.

This is how I met Tiger Woods.

One night, I was working
at the club,

and I saw Tiger
sipping his drink,

sitting by himself,
talking to nobody.

I was surprised it was him,
to be honest with you.

I was just surprised
that that was Tiger Woods.

I went over to him
to make sure that he was okay,

see if he needed anything.

He grabbed me and asked me
a few more questions,

and then as they went to leave,

he took my phone number.

And the car probably
hadn't even got

to the light at the corner;
he started texting me.

He said something like,
"When can I see you again?"

It was intimidating.
I mean, this was Tiger Woods.

I knew he was married.

I knew that he had
responsibilities.

But he said, "I want you
to fly to Orlando,

and then I will come
see you there."

That was the first night
I had sex with him.

[sighs]

And I remember thinking
with him,

"How am I ever gonna be

with a mere mortal ever again?"

[chuckles]

Because, you know,

so many people put him
on such a pedestal,

and here he was in my bed,

and he was...

my Tiger.

[gentle music]

We really enjoyed
being with each other.

He would refer to it
as "plugging in."

He would tell me
that when he saw me,

he felt like he could plug in
and get recharged.

♪ ♪

Tiger had issues sleeping,

and he would have
to take Ambien.

I would sometimes just
sit next to him for hours

while he would
fall asleep next to me.

And when he got up,

I think that he allowed
himself to be a little kid.

I mean,
it sounds kind of odd.

He would eat cereal,

and he would
watch his cartoons.

And he was like a fountain.

He just wanted to talk
and talk and talk.

♪ ♪

He told me a lot
about his childhood, his dad,

and that he was sick
of trying to hide who he was.

But he was so scared
of the real Tiger

not living up to the Tiger

that everybody else
thinks he is.

One day, I did ask him

why he didn't check in
at home with Elin.

He said, "She doesn't
ask questions like you.

She's not like you."

And it occurred to me
that he wanted to have someone

to check in with.

I asked him
a million questions,

and he wanted to give
every single detail

that he hadn't
been able to say

in years or ever.

♪ ♪

One day when he was dropping
me off at the airport,

I said, "I'm gonna miss you.

"It's really hard for me

to just get back on a plane
and go home."

And he told me,

"You need to learn

"how to compartmentalize
your feelings.

"Push them off to the side

and think
about something else."

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

[cheers and applause]

- You know, I mean,
anytime you're off that long,

there's always some wonder
if you can continue

this incredible magic,
the incredible pace

when he won that U.S. Open
last year.

Well, this will be
another great example

of why Tiger is Tiger.

- When he comes back
in 2009

after his knee surgery,

he was a winning machine.

[crowd shouting]

- Again!

A big hole.

- It feels good to be back
in contention again,

to feel the rush,
and it's been a while,

but it kind of felt good.

- If you made
a map of the world

and especially
the United States

and just put pins for where
Tiger was winning,

this guy's everywhere.

- Tiger on his way
to winning

for the fourth time
this year.

- Really a good,
positive stroke.

Get in there.
Yes!

- Pretty close to paranormal,
isn't it?

Is that a good word for him?

- That is in the ionosphere
and just left of the hole.

- Oh, look at this shot.
- Oh, what a shot.

- [laughs]

- That's certainly
a strong way to finish.

- 70 wins, and he's 33?

That's frightening.

- It's an unbelievable year

not only
'cause he wins so much

but because he's doing it
in the middle

of this extreme balancing act
in his private life.

- Congratulations
going out this morning

to Tiger Woods
and his wife, Elin.

Woods' website confirming
the birth of their son,

Charlie Axel Woods.

- Can you see yourself
giving the kind of time

to your kids that your parents
gave to you?

- As best I can.

I want my kids
to know their father.

- How do you think that would
affect your...day job?

- Family always comes first.

Always has been in my life
and always will.

Elin and I, you know,

we have to work on that
as a team.

- If you talk about
Tiger Woods' greatest gifts,

certainly one of them
is the ability

to compartmentalize.

[crowd shouting]

- Well, look out.

- Oh!

- Well, that's why
he's world's number one.

- I mean, to move from
dominating a golf tournament

to being married
and having children

and then moving from woman
to woman to woman to woman--

in many ways,
Tiger was living

four, five, six, seven
different lives at a time.

- Come on, Tiger Woods.

- It becomes like a drug,

and you're looking
for that next hit.

Tiger kept having
another hit and another hit.

In the beginning,
he was bright-eyed,

"Ooh," and big smile.

But I saw a change in him
through time.

And towards the end,

there was a sadness about him.

Maybe that adrenaline rush
had left him

and he needed to go
to that next level.

I do know that he called
a madam.

- Every couple of months,

he requested to have
multiple girls.

Could be up to, you know,
ten girls at a time.

He had a particular type
that he liked:

young, college cutie,
girl-next-door type,

preferably blonde.

- Vegas is providing
every opportunity he wants

to sample everything
and anything he wants,

including the highest
of high-end escorts.

We're talking
five- and six-figure weekends

with these girls.

- He was into role-playing.

We would go and get
tons of girls,

and he would dress up
into a suit.

We were like little puppets.

- I think there's
a real danger

in trying to equate
Tiger's behavior

with seeking a thrill.

This is one troubled man.

And much like alcohol,
much like drugs,

much like gambling,

sex is a form of pain relief,

more than he got
from winning a major

or from going in a kill house
with the SEALs.

Sex stops the pain
for a period of time.

[intense swirling voices]

- Tiger Woods,

like so many powerful,
wealthy celebrities,

felt that he could get away
with anything.

And unfortunately,
that wasn't the case.

- Tiger.
[indistinct chatter]

- Come on, Tiger Woods.
- You're good, brother.

- The "National Enquirer"
had been tracking Tiger Woods

ever since
the Mindy Lawton story.

They knew about his trips
to Vegas,

his nightclubs near his home,

and when
the "National Enquirer"

found out about Rachel Uchitel,

they were watching,

waiting for that one moment

to catch them in the act.

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- Open it up.
- Come on, guys, relax.

- Open it up.
- Tiger!

- And welcome Tiger Woods
to the Australian Masters.

We're delighted that he's
such a fan of Melbourne,

and, Tiger, we wish you
the best for this week.

- Thank you.

- I got a call from Tiger
in November,

saying that he could not
play the Australian Masters

unless I came there.

He says, "I can't sleep.

"I can't win
if you're not here.

So will you come?"

This man that everybody
wanted a piece of

only wanted me.

That's the biggest
"I love you" you could hear.

♪ ♪

Tiger's team had booked me
a separate room

on a different floor,

but I wanted to go
straight to Tiger's suite.

I never knew that anybody
had any inkling

about my comings or goings.

I never thought to look
over my shoulder.

We were really brazen
with what we thought

that we could get away with.

♪ ♪

- The "National Enquirer"

had sent a reporter

to the Crown Casino
in Melbourne,

and the reporter
got into an elevator

with Rachel Uchitel,

followed her
to the top floor,

watched as she walked
to Tiger's suite,

and that's when
the "National Enquirer"

called and said, "You were
going to see Tiger Woods."

- We did everything
to try and stop that story.

We made every threat,

we made every denial,

and at the end of the day,
the story was gonna run.

[uneasy music]

♪ ♪

- When Tiger got back
to Florida,

he sits down with Elin,
his wife, and he says,

"Look, there's a story coming
from the 'National Enquirer.'

It's all garbage,
and I can prove it."

So he gives her his phone,
and it's Rachel Uchitel.

- We had an extensive
30-minute conversation,

Elin and I, convincing her
that I was not having

a sexual relationship
with Tiger.

We talked about
how I knew Tiger,

how I knew his friends,

how and why
I was in Australia.

- Elin was already inclined
to believe

that the tabloid media,
you know, was hurtful,

not to believe them,
that they were bad.

So she sort of was inclined
to go along with all of that.

- The story came out,
and nobody looked at it.

Between this stupid story
and the phone call with Elin,

I remember thinking,
"Oh, my God,

we're gonna slide
right over this."

♪ ♪

Two days later,
it was Thanksgiving.

Tiger and I texted
throughout the day,

saying that we have a lot
to be grateful for.

We'd gotten away unscathed

in what could have been
a complete nightmare.

And then I get this text
message from Tiger saying,

"You were the only one
I ever loved."

I remember just feeling

that things had never
been better between us.

And then he told me
he was taking an Ambien

and going to sleep.

When I got
another text from him,

I was kind of surprised.

What came through
was something like,

"When am I gonna
see you again?"

And then the phone rang.

I answered,
saying something like,

"Hey, babe, I thought
you went to sleep."

And instead of Tiger's voice,
it was Elin.

And she said,
"I knew it was you."

[tense music]

[line beeping]

[touch-tones beeping]

- All right, okay.

[birds chirping]

[helicopter rotors thrumming]

- We interrupt
regular programming right now

for breaking news that will
rock the world of sports.

Tiger Woods,
the world's greatest golfer,

has been injured in a crash.

- His SUV ran afoul
of a fire hydrant and a tree

in the wee, small hours
of the morning

right outside his house.

- A local police chief
now says Woods' wife

had to smash a window
of the car to get him out

and that Woods was
in and out of consciousness,

lying in the street
when police arrived.

- I just remember
I was sitting at work,

and this big story breaks.

Tiger Woods
was in a car accident.

- This is basically
how it all went down here.

This is Tiger's house
right here.

- I was very confused.

Why would he have
a car crash in Isleworth,

a neighborhood where I think
the speed limit

doesn't go past
25 miles an hour?

And then that sort of set in
as panic

because I called
his cell phone

and it did not have
a voice mail.

It had been shut off,

and that's when I realized
something was really wrong.

- Tiger Woods,
who was hospitalized

after smashing his SUV
into a tree,

declined to meet
with investigators

for a second time today.

- Woods admitted to taking
Vicodin and Ambien

for injuries and to sleep
but refused to say

whether they were involved
in his crash.

- Further silence
from Tiger Woods.

People are asking,
"Is he hiding something?"

- In the days
before the car accident,

these two tabloids came out
with cover-page stories

alleging Tiger Woods
has been having

an extramarital affair

with a New York party hostess
named Rachel Uchitel.

- I didn't want to believe
that Tiger had done that.

I didn't want to believe
that he had succumbed

to his primal nature.

So we just had to wait

for all the details
to come out.

- Websites
are quoting friends

as saying that
what really happened

is, they got in a little
da-da-da-da-da

in the house over this report
that he was having an affair,

and then all of a sudden,
out comes the wife

with a golf club.

- Even though the reporting
was sketchy,

you had a lot of people
who just couldn't get enough.

- One of the things spoken
in Black households often

was, when something
would happen,

somebody older than you
would say,

"Hope he's not Black.

Hope he's not Black."

Because you knew it would
give fuel and fodder

to those people who wanted
to see you as something

much less than them.

It was gonna be used
against you.

All those people
who really didn't like him

and were trying to find reasons
to bring him down

and reasons to say
he wasn't this and wasn't that,

now they're gonna
have their moment.

[electricity crackling,
whooshing]

- Is there another woman
in the Tiger den?

- A new day brings a new name

and a whole new slew
of problems for Tiger.

- Once one woman
was discovered,

many more followed.

[dramatic orchestral music]

♪ ♪

- There were more
"New York Post" covers

dedicated to the Tiger scandal
than 9/11.

♪ ♪

It was a feeding frenzy.

- A waitress calling him
a tiger in bed.

A Hooters girl.

A porn star.

Will it ever end?

- It's time to find out
how many women

have now been linked
to Tiger Woods.

Let's go the Tiger Woods
tote board.

- The total number of women

rumored to have hooked up
with Tiger Woods

is up to 11.

- 11!
[cheers and applause]

- My first thought was,

look at how the country

is taking delight
in his failure.

- Like, America couldn't
have loved Tiger Woods

more than they did
five years ago.

Found out the man liked pussy,

everybody lost
their goddamn mind.

[laughter and applause]

Tiger had sex with 15 women,
and they were all white,

so Tiger don't need
marriage counseling.

He need
diversity training, huh?

- It was great American
entertainment.

Doesn't get any better
than that.

[chuckles]

[sirens wailing]

- Jamie Jungers is the first

of Tiger Woods'
alleged mistresses

to speak out
in a live interview.

You came here today,
you said,

because you wanted to clear up
some of the information

that's been out there
about you, like this headline,

"Tiger paid me."

Never paid you for anything,
you said.

- Nothing, I didn't even
get a birthday card.

I got nothing
out of this relationship

but a broken heart.

- You loved him?
- I did.

- When this hit the tabloids
and everything came out,

it seemed like everybody
was focused on the sex part.

But that's not
what busted him.

Ultimately, what took
Tiger down was emotions.

These weren't girls that he
was just hooking up with once

and then tossing away.

He had relationships
with these girls.

- You know, we would cuddle,
hug, whatever it may be,

and he always, you know, had
his hand intertwined with mine,

saying, you know,
"We will always be together."

- So many girls came out

because Tiger obviously
hit the heart

and played
with girls' emotions.

- Are you still
in love with him?

- Yes.
[camera shutters clicking]

I always will be.

- He must have done something

to make them feel
very special,

and they were jealous;
they were hurt.

They wanted to be "the one,"

and they found out
there was more than one.

♪ ♪

- Hey, Rachel.
Ooh.

- Damn.

- So this is why Tiger
want to leave the wife?

- Did you love Tiger?

- Think about
all the other girls.

- Excuse me, guys.

No, I can't make
any comment, you guys.

- Are you a fan of the song
"Ooh, Baby, I Like It Raw"?

I think you should get a test.

STDs are a problem out there.

- This story was so huge.

That was the end of my life
as I knew it.

[somber music]

There now were probably
45 to 50 paparazzi

outside of my apartment,

telling me that I was
a home-wrecker,

that I was a whore,

saying, "I hope
you get AIDS and die."

- Do you feel sorry
for Tiger's wife, Rachel?

- Anything you want
to say to her?

- I regret
that he was married

and I regret the mistakes
that I made.

- Rachel, do you guys respect
that Tiger was married?

Why do women cheat
with married men?

- But people came at me
like they wanted to blame me

for the fact
that a married man

cheated on his wife.

And it was like
I was the only one

that was responsible
for Tiger's actions.

- Rachel--how do you say it?

- "You-ka-tell."
- "You-ka-tell."

- "You could tell"
she's a hooker.

- "You could tell" she's--
is that a putan?

- "You could tell"
she's a putan, yeah.

[laughter]

- My name was getting
dragged through the mud.

- Hey, so, Rachel, did Tiger
live up to his name, Tiger?

- What's the nature of your
relationship with Tiger Woods?

- Smile for me, Rachel.

- Please let me
get through here.

In the meantime,

none of the people
around Tiger

would answer my phone calls.

It made me really start
to question

every single thing
that Tiger and I had.

Finally I said,
"You know what?

"I want out of this.

I need to say what happened."

But before I could tell
my story to the media,

Tiger called me.

It was the first time
that I spoke to him

since the accident.

He told me that his lawyers
were going to call

about a settlement
of confidentiality.

He said to me,

"Get as much as you can."

And I think, to him,

that was his only way to...

to love me at the time, yeah.

♪ ♪

- Good morning,
and thank you for joining me.

Many of you in this room
are my friends.

Many of you
have cheered for me

or you worked with me.

Now every one of you

has good reason
to be critical of me.

I have let you down personally

and professionally.

My behavior has caused
considerable worry

to my business partners.

I hurt my wife,

my kids,

my mother,

and kids all around the world
who admired me.

I know I have
bitterly disappointed

all of you.

I have made you question
who I am

and how I could have done
the things I did.

I'm embarrassed that I have
put you in this position.

For all that I have done...

I am so sorry.

[somber music]

- When he came out
and he apologized,

I think that was a bad move
on his agent's part.

I think I would have had him
read a statement:

"Whatever's going on
between my wife and I,

"that's my business.

"It's not yours.

"And if I lost some fans
or endorsements,

so be it."

♪ ♪

I felt real sadness.

I felt sadness for Tida.

As much pride as she took
in her son,

how she loves Tiger,

I knew it was very hard
for her.

And then I felt
for his children.

They were too young really
to know what was going on,

but eventually they were
gonna find out

some negative stuff

that no child should ever
have to read or hear about.

But the main person
I felt sad for was Elin,

because he had hurt her
mightily.

- Elin, how are you?

Do you still love Tiger, Elin?

What do you think
of his 14 mistresses?

Will you ever forgive him?

- Elin felt downright hunted

by the paparazzi.

Worse, she felt like
her children were hunted.

- How are the kids, Elin?

Has Tiger seen the kids, Elin?

- You know, to think
of how she told me

at the beginning she felt like

it was her and Tiger cocooned

and joined,
"us against the world"...

[indistinct chatter]

- Elin, the whole world wants
to know how you're holding up.

- To then all of a sudden
have it be

the world all closing in
on her

for a scandal not her making.

- Man, it was freezing
today in New York.

It's like a phone call
between Tiger Woods

and his wife out there.
[laughter]

She was like, "Look, Tiger,
it's either me or her...

"or her or her or her or her,

"not the Perkins waitress,
but the other one,

or her or her."

- As the scandal was still
kind of unspooling,

Elin moved with the children
to a rental house

not far from their home
so she could just kind of

get out of Tiger's space
and think.

But it all kind of just became
too much,

and she just sat down
amid the kind of moving boxes

with their stuff.

It was just sitting there,
and Sam came over

and said, you know,
"What's wrong, Mommy?"

And Elin told her, you know,
"Mommy's got a boo-boo."

And Sam said, you know,
"Well, where?

I'll kiss it and make it
feel better."

And...
[chuckles]

Elin said,
"It's in Mommy's heart."

♪ ♪

What she went through

and how she tried to shelter
her kids from that,

it was--it was real.

She was so blindsided
by her whole life

being suddenly exposed
as a lie,

and that was shattering.

- Tiger Woods reportedly
is working out

a big-money settlement,
ending his five-year marriage.

- The details of the divorce
may never be known,

though some estimate Elin
may receive upwards

of $100 million.

- Can anybody explain
these divorce settlements?

Can anybody make sense
of these fucking things?

Tiger Woods' wife,
$250 million.

Dude, there is an epidemic
of gold-digging whores

in this country.

[laughter]

- Elin's story
too often got warped

into "gold-digging,
scorned woman."

[camera shutter clicking]

- Ms. Nordegren,
are you happy with the divorce?

- But she would say something
really telling,

that "money can't put
my family back together."

♪ ♪

- After six weeks of rehab

at Pine Grove treatment center
in Mississippi,

known for treating
sexual addiction,

Tiger is out of rehab,
back at home in Florida.

- When Tiger returned,

I knew that he was
in a poor mental frame,

and I went down to see him.

Obviously, paparazzi
trying to get photos.

So he had his house
all boarded up.

Just as private
as he could be.

Tiger was quite aloof
that day,

and it didn't bother me

because I understood
what he was going through.

He's been out of the game.

He's been crucified
in the media.

You know,
what's he gonna do next?

Is he gonna walk away
from the game?

There's a lot of uncertainty.

So I laid it all out
on the table for him

and asked
what he wanted to do.

And he said to me,

"I'm going to play
in the 2010 Masters."

[thunder rumbling,
rain pattering]

- How will you explain this
to your children

when they're old enough
to understand?

- I will have
that sit-down talk.

I take full ownership of it.
I did it.

No one else did it.
It was just me.

And that's the responsibility
that I will have.

I will talk to my kids

for however long
they want to talk about it.

That is a conversation
that will need to be had.

- Tiger, you've been a master
of control your entire life.

How did things
get so out of control?

- Going against
your core values,

losing sight of them.

I felt entitled, and that
is not how I was raised.

- The Masters is a demanding
stage on its own,

let alone for a return
of this magnitude.

How do you know you're
mentally prepared for this?

- Well, I'm excited
to get back and play.

[tense music]

I miss the game,

but still,
playing is one thing,

but the public, I am
a little nervous about them.

It would be nice to hear
a couple claps here or there.

♪ ♪

- We are not unaware

of the significance
of this week

to a very special player,
Tiger Woods.

It is not simply the degree
of his conduct

that is so egregious here.

It is the fact that he
disappointed all of us

and, more importantly,
our kids and our grandkids.

Our hero did not live up
to the expectations

of the role model we sought
for our children.

Is there a way forward?

We at Augusta hope and pray

that our great champion

will begin his new life
here tomorrow

in a positive, hopeful,
and constructive manner.

But certainly, his future
will never again be measured

only by his performance
against par

but measured by the sincerity

of his efforts to change.

- One of the things that I
never got over in Augusta

is the feeling
that there's this thin

undercurrent of racism
right below the surface.

It was not the place
of the tournament

to chastise
a former champion,

especially a champion
of color.

Do you think that they
would have done that

to Fred Couples?

Do you think they would have
done that to Nick Faldo?

I felt like it was
a public whipping.

[applause]

- Ladies and gentlemen,
the 2010 Masters

has now officially begun.

Have fun.

- Yeah, basically.

Basically, it was
a public whipping.

What Billy Payne
did at Augusta,

to sit there
and scold Tiger,

it was disgusting.

Tiger's family, his wife,

they had a right

to be angry,
disappointed, upset,

not the chairman
of some damn golf club.

Who the hell are you?

[dramatic music]

- Now to the long-anticipated
return of Tiger Woods,

his first pro tournament since
he left the game in scandal.

♪ ♪

- I was on the first tee
when he came out that morning.

There was embarrassment
and humiliation

off the charts.

I cannot imagine
all of that emotion

being bottled up inside you.

The players
are looking at him.

The fans are looking at him.

The television's
looking at him,

which means the world
is looking at him.

[indistinct shouting]

[applause]

- Good tee shot
on the first hole,

and I don't care who you are,
Tiger Woods or whoever.

The first tee shot
is nerve-racking.

But so far, it looks like
business as usual.

- Oh, look
at that thing turn.

- I sense he loves that.

Oh, that's an incredible
golf shot.

- Oh, my goodness.

- I think Tiger loves
and craves and needs

that competitiveness
that comes with the game.

But I'm not sure
it was the best way

for him to cope
with everything.

- A lot has happened
in my life

over the past five months,

and...

I'm here at the Masters
to play and compete.

And nothing's changed.

I'm trying to go out there
and win this thing.

- It seemed like he was
trying to just sort of

put it behind him
and keep moving forward.

But as his friend,
I could feel that something--

something was not right.

- Oh, there it is.

[cheers and applause]

- I knew that deep down,
Tiger was incredibly sad,

lost, broken up,

and very vulnerable.

After the crash,
I remember just thinking,

"This is when he probably
needs his friends the most."

I tried to reach out,

but he had
shut his phone off.

I thought, you know,
maybe in a couple weeks

as things died down,
maybe he'd reach out,

but the longer it went on,

I realized I had been
completely cut out of his life.

He grew up in an environment

where feelings
were not discussed,

and I think
he doesn't understand

how to deal
with complex emotions.

Instead of having to actually
process something like that,

I think it was more easy
to cut people out of his life.

Years of friendship,
and all of a sudden,

never heard from Tiger again.

It felt like my friend
had died.

Just to be sort of discarded
like that,

there was a lot of hurt
that went along with that.

- After such a long
and difficult absence

from the game, can you put
this week in perspective

for us, for you?

- Yeah, I finished fourth.
Not what I wanted.

I wanted to win
this tournament,

and I didn't get it done.

I didn't hit the ball
good enough,

and I made too many mistakes
around the greens.

You know, consequently,
you know, I'm not there.

- Any idea after this
performance this week

when we might see you again?

- No, I'm gonna take
a little time off

and kind of
reevaluate things.

- Thank you for your time,
and thank you for being here.

- Thanks, Peter.
Appreciate it.

[somber music]

- After the Masters,

Tiger took a little bit
of a break away from the game

just to, you know,
get his mind free

as well as deal
with some niggling injuries.

As a caddie for Tiger Woods
and a great friend of his,

you know,
I wanted to deeply respect

what he was going through.

But I still didn't know when
he was gonna be playing again.

You know, I was just expecting
a phone call at any moment,

saying, "Oh, I'm playing
next week," you know?

"Get your shit together
and get over here."

There was a lot of uncertainty.

So when a friend
that I'd caddied for before

called me and asked me
could I caddie for him,

I ran that by Tiger,

and he said,
"Absolutely, no problem."

But then a couple days
before the tournament,

Tiger changed his mind.

He had his agent call,
and he said,

"If you go and caddie
for your friend,

that'll be the end of your
time caddying for Tiger."

And I thought,
"Well, there's just no way

the guy is gonna fire me."

But a couple days
after the tournament,

I got the phone call to say
that that was--

you know, our time has ended.

You know, and I believed
in my own heart, you know,

I gave it 100%
when I caddied for Tiger

for the entire time
that I was with him,

and then, you know,
for him to fire me

over that kind of thing,
I found that pretty unusual.

- Sometimes
we all need changes,

and this was a change,
and as I told you guys earlier,

I was at peace with it,

and it was a decision
and direction I wanted to go,

and that's it.

- When he fired me,

I thought he was firing me
as a golf caddie,

not firing me as a friend.

[cheers and applause]

- He adds another major
to the tally.

- And a thanks
to Steve Williams.

They have been
a tremendous partnership.

- I mean, Tiger was
the best man at my wedding.

I didn't think we'd have
no communication

for the rest of our life.

I mean, that just didn't
even enter my mind.

[applause]

To this day, I find that
a hard pill to swallow.

Someone that you spend
13 years with,

give all your time
and all your effort,

you know, the guy
can't even speak to you.

- I felt that
it was time for me

to go in a different direction
in my professional life.

As far as personally,

life goes forward,
and I just keep moving forward.

- Tiger's sacrificed so much

in order to become
the greatest player.

He certainly had
the mental strength

to block out whatever
he needed to block out,

but that ability
made it possible

to shut off his friends
and family,

and at the end of the day,
his only focus was to win.

It was quite sad really,
I mean,

but that was just
the reality of it.

[uneasy music]

♪ ♪

- It's a pleasure to watch
greatness in action, isn't it?

As we look at Tiger,
we often wonder

what's going through his mind.

What we wouldn't give
to know his thoughts.

[indistinct shouting]

- That's pretty good.

That's quality control,
ladies and gentlemen.

[cheers and applause]

- In 2013,
Tiger was winning at a clip

that called to mind
his prime years.

- Tiger Woods sends a message

with a win in his first
tournament of the season.

- And all of a sudden,

everybody breathed
a sigh of relief.

Fans seemed to have forgotten

they had humiliated him,

because now he was back
to being the machine.

On a really elemental level,

people weren't even looking
at Tiger as a person.

They were looking at him
as a performer.

[crowd shouting]

- Get in there!
Get in there!

- Go in!
Go in!

- How 'bout this one?

How 'bout that one?

- That would have been
the best four of all time.

- Tiger Woods number one
in the world again.

- 2013 became
this dominant period.

And Nike came out
with this ad,

"Winning takes care
of everything."

- In your career, this is
the quickest you've gotten

in one season
to four victories.

How would you describe the way
you're playing golf right now?

- I'm getting better.

- [chuckles]
That's it?

- That's it.

[applause]
- Tiger!

- He's asked so often
about whether or not

he's back to the form
of 2000,

those historic, epic years.

- His game looks good,
and his putting is fantastic,

and his irons are really good.

Looks pretty much a done deal.

Is it gonna cut?

Wow.
- And he went down in pain.

- He is down.

[somber music]

♪ ♪

- It was
an extraordinary sight.

We know that he has a high,
high tolerance for pain.

I mean, the guy won
the U.S. Open on a broken leg.

So you can only imagine
how excruciating

the pain must have been
for him to fall to his knees

in the way that he did
at that tournament.

[indistinct shouting]

- Oh, he's hurting right now.

- Yeah, there is
something wrong.

- His swing was violent.

Like, frighteningly violent.

Think of the number
of repetitions that it took

to perfect that swing.

- [laughs]

- He started doing it
when he was just a baby,

and the body
can only stand so much.

[camera shutters clicking]

- Since you've won
your last major,

you've gotten a little older.

You've had the injury.
You've had the divorce.

What's been
the most significant?

- Probably your first point,
I'm older.

[chuckles]
Father Time's undefeated.

We all, you know,
eventually start losing

some of the things we're able
to do when we're younger.

- He told us
that during this time,

his back would spasm.

One time, he fell to his knees
and he was like a pill bug.

He couldn't get up.

He had to have his daughter,
Sam, call for help.

That's when he realized,

"I can only control
so much of this for so long.

"But everybody else still
wants to see golf's god,

"and I can't give them that,

because I'm just a man."

And I think that recognition
broke him mentally.

- Uh-oh.
- Wow.

- Uh-oh.
- Wow.

That was unbelievable.

- For me,
I remember thinking,

what has Tiger done
to Tiger Woods?

I mean,
he was wrecking himself.

Mental strength, that was
always his greatest skill.

And then all of a sudden,
he's got the chipping yips.

- How did Tiger Woods
shoot his worst round

as a pro on the PGA Tour?

Chipping was a disaster.

The scorecard
was almost surreal.

- Golf is all about
confidence.

You've got to trust how you're
gonna strike the golf ball.

- Tiger chipping again.

We're all gonna
pay attention.

- You sort of have
this feeling

that he could chip it closer
with his eyes closed.

- If you lose
that confidence,

your career is on a slippery
slope downhill.

- He doesn't know
what the problem is.

I feel he's as confused
as he's ever been.

- Watching Tiger struggle,

it was like, "Wow."

It was--

you know, this wasn't
the Tiger that I knew.

When he was a kid,

he could make any shot
he wanted to.

- Go in. Go in! Go in!

- I remember one time
when I was at his house,

and Earl and Tida
and me and Tiger

are in the living room,
and I'm talking with them,

and all of a sudden, this ball
comes over my shoulder.

He's hitting them
over the couch,

over my shoulder,
over the glass table,

and stopping them
before the fireplace.

Okay, he did one, right?

I'm thinking,
"Okay, that was luck."

Does it again,
does it again, does it again.

He used to be able to do
all these crazy shots.

- From one bunker to another.

[crowd groans]

- But it was just...
[imitates explosion]

Crash and burn.

- Tiger Woods has not won
a major since 2009?

- '08.
- '08.

- '08.
- Mm-hmm.

- How 'bout Jack Nicklaus?
- What about him?

- He has 18, and you're at 14.
- I'm at 14, correct.

- So I'm struggling
to understand

why you're not playing
like you used to play.

- I've had three
back operations.

- Yeah.

- And that's taken
its toll on me.

- When you look at losing it,

it must be terribly hard
for you to accept this.

- It's been terribly hard
not to be able to do

the things that it would take
for me to get to that level.

And that is simply
just practicing.

[gentle music]

- Tiger Woods has pulled out

of golf's first major
of the year, the Masters.

He said he's just not
tournament ready,

due to his troublesome back.

The 14-time major winner
won his first major

at the Masters 20 years ago.

♪ ♪

- At the 2017 Masters,

we knew something serious
was up.

Tiger came to the champions
dinner at Augusta,

and he was sitting there
with Jack Nicklaus.

And you could visibly see
he was in so much pain

from his back into his legs,
he couldn't sit still.

Poor bugger.

You know, and he said to Jack,
"I think I'm done."

♪ ♪

"My career is finished."

- What are you going to do
if you're Tiger Woods

and you're in your early 40s

and the thing that's made
your whole life possible

and defined your whole life,

that gets taken away from you?

The entire identity
of Tiger Woods

is bound in his golf,

and to that degree,

there's only one path
to the end line of his golf,

which is undisputably,
undeniably

the greatest of all time.

So if he's got to leave golf

and can't really say
he's worn the mantle

of the greatest of all time,

then really, where is he?

Because that has been
his entire identity,

and that is just--

had to be untenable for him,
I would think.

[engine revving]

[siren chirps]

[indistinct
police radio chatter]

- 10-4.

[indistinct
police radio chatter]

- Go ahead and stand
with your feet together

and your arms
down by your side.

Okay, don't begin
until I tell you to, okay,

but when I tell you to,
I want you to close your eyes

and tilt your head backward,
and you're gonna recite

the entire English alphabet
in a slow, nonrhythmic manner,

meaning you're not
gonna sing it, okay?

Do you understand
the instructions?

- Okay, what were
the instructions?

- Not to sing
the national anthem backwards?

Okay, sir,
what I want you to do

is go ahead and place your
hands behind your back, okay?

[tense music]

♪ ♪

- Troubling new headline
for Tiger Woods.

- Legendary golfer
was arrested overnight.

- Five drugs in his system,
Xanax, Ambien, painkillers.

- If you take
an opioid pain reliever,

and he's had back surgeries,
too often, a patient like that

ends up addicted to opioids.

- Don't get behind the wheel.
Don't endanger my family.

This was another bad decision
by Tiger Woods.

[engine revving]

- It's painful
to watch that tape.

- Go ahead and stand
on that yellow line

and then face the front
of the room.

- But it's also revealing.

- Turn around.

- Here,
one of the most powerful,

one of the wealthiest athletes
in the history of sports

is in a holding cell
for having five different

prescribed drugs
in his system.

- Okay, you may begin.

- Today is May 29, 2017.

I have arrested and charged
Eldrick "Tiger" Woods.

- Tiger Woods has spent
most of his life

with a camera pointed at him.

- Tiger!
[camera shutters clicking]

[overlapping chatter]

- The second that camera
is pointed at you...

- You want to try
to control the image

to the degree you can,
knowing that often, you can't.

[overlapping chatter]

But on that night,

Tiger is still being filmed.

- [whistles]
Watch. Look.

I'm gonna need two samples
of your breath.

- And even though
he's deeply impaired...

- Blow.
[device beeps]

Good, there you go.

Keep going,
keep going, keep going.

- It's some of the most
truthful moments of his life,

because he realizes
it's all over

and there was no way
to hide from it.

- Seeing his mug shot there,
it's not the Tiger Woods

a lot of us
are used to seeing.

- That picture,
he should look at it.

- He's completely lost touch
with his image.

- His golf career,
it's virtually nonexistent.

He's never gonna dominate
and win again.

- It's at a point now
where the next press release

Tiger Woods should release
should be, "I'm retiring."

- Tiger Woods is finished.

- I remember thinking,

"Wow, is this how it ends?"

This is how it ends

after everything.

After all the pontifications
and pronouncements

about Tiger being
the chosen one,

this once-in-a-
multigenerational athlete

who had been inspiring
people in ways

people had never been
inspired before,

he was just a guy in need
of a hell of a lot of help.

This is the tragic ending
that no one wants to write.

- Okay, Mr. Woods,
got to read you your rights.

Okay.

- You have the right to remain
silent and not answer...

- I'd seen it on the news,
but I didn't watch it.

People were telling me,
"You got to see the video.

It's horrible. It's awful.
He looks so bad."

And, "He's done.
He's a mess."

And I just thought,
I didn't really want to see it.

There was just this
fiercely protective nature

that I had with him.

But then I watched the video
just by myself.

- Oh.

- He had referred
to Orange County,

and that took my mind back home
to Southern California,

to our childhood...

[indistinct chatter]

To thinking about that jovial,
funny, quirky kid.

- Oh, my God!

I mean, he had so much fun

and sweetness in him.

[laughter]

But he ended up

on the street alone
and on his own.

- And I just thought,
"I really hope

he can reflect back
and remember the real him."

[gentle music]

♪ ♪

[camera shutters clicking]

- Are you looking forward
to the hearing, Mr. Woods?

Will it impact
your golf career?

- In 17CT-9620,

the defendant
will be pleading guilty

to the charge
of reckless driving.

Mr. Woods,
are you entering this plea

freely and voluntarily?

- Yes.

- The defendant must complete
the DUI school

and any and all
recommended treatment.

He must enroll for that
within 30 days.

- Everyone will face
a reckoning.

I don't care who you are.

And Tiger's reckoning
came hard.

He was in the depths,

and I think he had to do
a lot of soul-searching,

and it started
by looking at his past.

- Daddy.

Daddy.

♪ ♪

- We can't dictate to him

what he can be
and what he cannot be.

So as a consequence,

what we do is, we participate
with him in golf,

and if it was bowling,

we would participate
with him in bowling.

Each and every one of us
has our own life to live,

and he has a choice
to live his life

the way he wants
to live his life.

- Tiger was constructed,
there's no question about it,

and Earl drew up the specs.

A perfect golfing machine

built from the outside in.

The outside was
the more important thing,

how you show your talent.

Crushing the ball,
crushing opponents,

success.

- He played mind games on me,

almost every shot I hit,

until I--until I grew up
and accepted it,

and then it was nothing.

- In the meantime, maybe
something was left out inside.

- For Tiger's whole life,

the development of the machine
took precedence.

It wasn't until the recovery

that he entered
after the arrest

that Tiger really had to go
through the human development.

Sort of this growth period
that for most of us

happens pretty early on.

Here he was in his
early 40s saying,

"Well, the machine
got me here.

I have to evolve
into something else."

- The first step was to go
into treatment.

He got clean.

He got healthy.

And he crawls out of that hole.

I mean, if you look back
on how deep into the throes

of drug addiction he was,

just to become
a functional adult

is the comeback
of all comebacks.

[birds chirping]

- Tiger had had
back fusion surgery

to just be able to resume
an ordinary life.

And as he started
to feel better physically,

he obviously started
thinking about golf.

- Post-back fusion surgery,

I was able to bend over and
start rotating without pain.

And so I was given the okay
to start chipping.

All of a sudden,
the thought came back

that, you know, I might
be able to do this again.

Next you know,

I started to piece together
a golf swing.

- Woods posted
this video on Monday,

dropping his biggest hint yet

that he's ready
to step back up to the tee.

- Who would have thought
ten months ago

that he would
even swing again?

- Just seeing him
at this level,

man, how do you not
be excited?

- All of a sudden,
everybody was wondering,

"Will he play golf again?"

I ended up writing an open
letter to Tiger saying,

"I hope you can come back

"but not for the reasons
you might think.

"I don't want you to come back
so that you can

"pass Jack's major record.

"I want you to come back
so that you find the joy

that led you to the game
in the first place."

- Today is perhaps

the most highly anticipated
round of golf.

For the first time
in 301 days,

Tiger Woods is playing
competitively

for the world to witness.

[cheers and applause]

- Oh, yeah.
- Wow.

- And he loves this one.

[cheers and applause]

- This week
is a big step for me.

To come out here
and to be able to do

what I've been doing
with the guys,

that--that's so exciting.

You have no idea
how exciting that is.

I hadn't been able
to play fun golf like that

in such a long time,

and honestly, I miss
playing golf for fun.

- Tiger Woods playing
alongside Kevin Na.

- He has this little
short one for birdie.

- Oh, man.
- Wow.

Pick it up.

You got to let it get
to the bottom

of the hole first, though,
Kevin.

[laughter]

- Tiger got a kick
out of that one.

- Oh, that's good.

- All right, Tiger
from just over two feet.

[laughter]

- Now, would you have ever
seen Tiger do that

a few years back?
- No.

- I don't care
what situation he was in.

- For all these years,
he had been so hyper-focused

on the results.

He didn't want to fraternize
with the people

that he was gonna be
trying to beat.

But now
when I watch him play golf,

I see him enjoying
the camaraderie

with his competitors.

[crowd cheering]
- Go, Tiger!

- I see him connecting
with fans

in a way
he never did before.

♪ ♪

I see a real, genuine sense
of gratitude

for this second chance.

crowd: Tiger! Tiger!
Tiger! Tiger!

Tiger! Tiger! Tiger! Tiger!

- I'm very lucky.

I'm grateful
to have been given

the opportunity
to have a life

and then on top of that,

blessed to even have
the opportunity to play golf.

Because I wasn't.
I wasn't able to.

I was just laying down.

That's all I could do
is lay down.

A lot of times,
I couldn't move.

I would be helped,
you know, up

out of--off the floor,
out of the bed

and had to be carried
around the house.

You know,
these are tough times,

and to live months
upon months like that,

it was not fun.

But now to be
on the good side of it,

the neat thing for me
is to be able

to share it with my kids.

For so long,
all my kids knew

was my soreness and pain.

They'd never seen me
win golf tournaments.

They don't know
what it's like.

You know, and I said,

"Hey, I'm just getting started
here, okay, guys?

Dad's not done yet."

♪ ♪

- Round one of the Masters
today at Augusta National.

So many story lines to track,
including Tiger Woods.

- He almost lost the ability
to play the game.

Wasn't sure two years ago

if he was going to play
tournament golf again.

Now that he's back,

he understands
his place in the game.

- Tiger now is
the voice of history

amongst the players
here at Augusta National

because, you know,
it's 22 years removed now

from the '97.

- It's exciting for me
to be part of,

and hopefully, I can be part
of it come Sunday afternoon.

- Tiger, do you feel like
you need to win here again?

- Well, I don't really
need to win again.

But I really want to.

[applause]

- When he walked out
to the first tee,

I think we all thought,
"There's no way.

There's no way
he can win another major."

Because of what we saw
five years ago,

there's no way physically.

I mean, technically,
there was no way

he could win another major.

- No, no, no.

- And that one
is leaking left.

He knows it too.

[crowd gasps]
- Oh, my God.

- He will be hard-pressed
to make his par

from where he is.

- See if he can
manufacture a shot.

- Down, ball.

[crowd murmuring]

[cheers and applause]
- He can.

- There are signs,
subtle signs,

of the way Tiger
used to play golf.

- One thing I've learned
from 20 years of Tiger Woods

is, do not underestimate
Tiger Woods.

That is not the way to bet.

After playing Augusta
for so many years,

he figured out
how to play the golf course.

- Try and land it
in the middle of the green.

[cheers and applause]

- That's Masters experience
right there.

- On every hole,
he figured out,

This is the safest place
to hit it."

It's a little bit
conservative for him.

You know, he wasn't
going out there

and stepping
on people's necks.

But this was
a different Tiger.

He's older Tiger.

[crowd shouting]

[cheers and applause]

- Anybody enjoying this?

- Yes, sir.

- I kept telling myself,

"I've been
in this position before.

"You have a lot
of holes to play.

"Hang in there
until the last couple holes,

"and then we'll see
where we are.

Just keep hanging in there."

[cheers and applause]

- Right now,
everybody's talking

about that leaderboard.

There are some huge names,

and right behind
sits Tiger Woods.

[cheers and applause]

- There's a whole generation
of tour pros

that grew up
idolizing Tiger,

but they never played him
at his peak,

never saw the shots that they
only can see on YouTube now.

And there were some pros
who said,

"I can't wait
to get into the hunt

with Tiger on a Sunday
in a major."

The fuck you do.

You have no idea
what you're getting into.

[dramatic percussive music]

- Our leader,
Francesco Molinari.

♪ ♪

[crowd groans]

- That was just so weak.

- With Tiger Woods
on the prowl,

the guys just crumbled.

- Now Koepka...

can make this thing
interesting.

[crowd groans]

- And Finau.

He really has
an opportunity.

- Get in!
[crowd groans]

- Ugh.

- Let's go, Tiger!
- Can Woods take advantage?

[crowd murmuring]

[cheers and applause]

- Tiger Woods
has the lead.

The impossible
has become possible.

- Suddenly, we're back
to watching Tiger.

You know, everybody's emotion
went...[imitates crunching]

You know, to the roof.

[cheers and applause]

- Down towards the cup
for Tiger.

[cheers and applause continue]

This might be the shot
that seals it all.

♪ ♪

Incredibly play

at exactly the right time.

[cheers and applause continue]

- For Tiger Woods
to come back

after an 11-year drought
is just a Cinderella story.

- I don't know
if it means anything,

but, you know,
the solar cycles of the sun

are every 11 years...

- Wow.

- So maybe the sun of golf
has returned.

The patrons are 20 deep,

and many thousands more
walking up 18

in readiness.

On the nose.

[cheers and applause]

[uplifting music]

♪ ♪

- When he was
coming up the fairway,

hoping to win his 15th
major championship,

I knew what to expect.

A lot of people would spin it

like he was
a different man now,

he's the conquering hero,

but these are the same people

that when he was riding high,

they were pulling
for him to fall,

and when he fell,

they jumped on him
with both feet.

And when he rose again,
all of a sudden,

he is a virtuous man now,

which to me is bullshit.

He's a human being

with frailties
like everyone else.

The problem is, we always try

to make him out to be
more than he is,

and that goes all the way
back to Earl.

[applause]

- This is the minute

that millions around the world
have waited for.

♪ ♪

Waited for years.

Many doubted
we'd ever see it,

but here it is.

The return to glory.

[cheers and applause]

♪ ♪

- Please forgive me,

but sometimes
I get very emotional

when I talk about my son.

♪ ♪

My heart fills

with so much joy

when I realize

that he'll transcend
this game.

This is my treasure.

Please use it wisely.

♪ ♪

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