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1996 HASKINS
COLLEGIATE AWARD BANQUET

Please forgive me,

but sometimes I get
very emotional

when I talk about my son.

Daddy! Daddy!

There it is.

My heart fills with so much joy

when I realize

that this young man is going
to help so many people.

He will transcend this game

and bring to the world
a humanitarianism

which has never
been known before.

The world will be a better place
to live in

by virtue of his existence
and his presence.

This is my treasure.

Please accept it

and use it wisely.

TIGER

Right now, I'd like you to meet Tiger
Woods and his father, Earl Woods.

Tiger? Come here a minute.

Would you like to enter into
a little competition with Mr. Hope?

Tiger?
First can I see you swing?

Maybe we'll try the driver first.

Set up. Hit that ball.

Perfect.

Earl, how old is...
How old are you, Tiger?

- Daddy.
- Two. He's two.

When did he start
with a golf club?

Remember the first time
he picked one up?

- Three months.
- Does he really love golf?

- Do you ever take him out?
- Oh, loves it. He loves it.

How 'bout a putting contest
with Mr. Hope? Can he putt, too?

Oh, yes.

Okay, we'll let him putt
first. He knows.

- Rap it right in there.
- Tap it right in there.

When Tiger came out
with that bag of clubs,

a lot of people
from a lot of corners

saw the potential of greatness.

And I think his father, Earl,
was one of them.

He told me he knew
from the very start

that Tiger was going to be
a legend.

And Earl would say,
"Let the legend grow."

When Tiger was
less than ten months old,

I brought him in the garage,

put him in a highchair,
strapped him in,

and he'd watch me hit balls
into a golf net.

He was totally immersed
in that activity.

So much so
that he had to be fed in there.

'Cause when my wife tried to take
him out of the highchair to feed him,

no way. No.
He said, "Mhm."

So she would have to feed him
between shots.

And he'd go like this...

Between shots.
And it was beautiful to see.

But the level of concentration

at that age was off the chart.

At ten months, I unstrapped him
out of his highchair one day

and he walked over,
set up, and hit the ball.

I said, "Oh my God,
I've got something special."

Good shot.

Earl would take him
to the golf course

and started working with him
on putting.

He worked
from the green back.

That was the secret
to how Earl instructed Tiger.

And his mother, Tida, she was
just as instrumental as Earl was.

Normally the mother take
the kids to the park, but I didn't.

I take Tiger to the golf course.

I had a stroller, the bottle,

so I let him hit the ball a little bit.

And when he get tired,
I give him the bottle,

I put in the stroller,
he go sleep.

- Too hard.
- Too hard, you're right.

Tiger's vocabulary was not that
advanced, as you might imagine.

And when teaching him how
to navigate a golf course,

Earl had to dumb it down.

He had to talk at the level
of a one- or two-year-old.

So when they came upon
a water hazard,

Tiger would say,
"Wawa daddy, Wawa."

And Earl would say,
"Wawa, son. Wawa. Wawa bad."

His name is Eldrick Tiger Woods.

Tiger is only
two and a half years old,

and since he was eight months,
he's been playing golf.

Do you like playing golf?
Yes or no?

Is it a lot of fun?

Yes or no?

Tiger. Tiger, my career
is in your hands right now.

Will you please help me?
Do you like playing golf? Yes or no?

I want to go poo-poo.

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.

Earl would claim that he would
have been just as happy

had Tiger have been
a tuba player,

or guitarist or, you know,
anything other than a golfer.

But trust me,
Earl was a well-versed bullshitter.

Par, par, par.

Okay. You gonna make a par
on the last hole?

Okay, alright, let's go do it.

I think Earl had the master plan
since Tiger started walking.

Tiger had a small stammer
and he didn't speak with you

until he felt comfortable
around the person

and then he would talk freely.

One day, Tiger opened up
and he asked me

to ask his dad if he could play some
other sports besides just golfing.

And I told him I would.

None of the teachers were happy
to see Earl coming in

for a conference
or for anything at all.

They said he was a pain in the ass.

That's what they said,
and I agreed with them.

He was a definite SOB.

So I didn't want to say anything
to aggravate Earl,

but I did say
that I thought it would be nice

if Tiger could play other sports.

But Mr. Woods said he had
to concentrate on his golf.

I know what I'm looking at
and I know what I feel.

The talent is there to be
the best in the history of golf.

The world is ready

for a non-white golfer
to be successful.

I have availed Tiger of this,

and he takes
that responsibility seriously.

Tiger, first thing I gotta ask you,

golf's quite often seen
as an upper class white game.

Do you feel in some ways that you
can help change that if you became

like the next Jack Nicklaus.

Since I'm black, it might be
even bigger than Jack Nicklaus.

I might be even bigger than him,
to the blacks.

I may be sort of like a Michael Jordan
in basketball. Something like that.

1994
U.S. AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP

How about Tiger Woods?

Brent, on paper, Tiger Woods looks like
the prohibitive favorite in his match.

Alright Steve, and of course,
as everyone knows,

if Tiger Woods can win it,

he would become the youngest
Amateur Champion in history.

Breaking both age
and color barriers,

Tiger Woods won
the U.S. Amateur Championship.

In sports, we report tonight on
a new face to watch on the golf tour.

Tiger Woods.

Tiger Woods extended
his streak today.

The nineteen-year-old phenom
successfully defended his crown.

1995 U.S. AMATEUR
CHAMPIONSHIP

What an impressive shot.

Best teenage golfer
in the history of this game.

Certainly well-deserved hoopla

as Tiger Woods goes
for his third straight,

which has never been done before.

He misses this putt,
he's got his work cut out for him.

- Looks good.
- Great speed. It's in!

Are you serious?

Tiger was a cultural phenomenon
as well as a sports one.

Golf is basically a bastion
of caucasian America.

And Tiger was walking into this
white world and just dominating it.

The magazine editors at SI
wanted me

to start peeling the layers away
and seeing what's going on here.

As the army of Tiger continues
to follow him in the fairways,

there's been a lot of speculation
as to when Tiger will turn pro.

Phil Knight, the CEO of Nike, has been
in the gallery every single day.

And a lot of other potential suitors,
as well.

Just seeing all the forces
that were at play here,

I felt that the pressures were already
starting to multiply exponentially

and Tiger was a kid
that was in deep.

It's been awfully hard with
the enormous crowds and demands,

but I've done a very good job I think
and hopefully I'll continue.

Tiger answered my questions,

but wanted to give off
that he was in control

and everything was cool.

You always felt you weren't getting
all the way to the bottom of it.

Now this is nail-biting time
for the Woods contingent.

Good looking shot.

Great shot by Tiger Woods.

If I'd just been reliant on Tiger
at that point,

I would have been
in deep scramble mode.

But Tiger's father, Earl,
he loved to drink,

he loved to talk,
and he just starts saying

that his son's gonna have
this grand effect

on the level of Gandhi,
Buddha, Nelson Mandela,

you know,
basically the Chosen One.

I know that I was personally
selected by God himself

to nurture this young man
and bring him to the point

where he could make
his contribution to humanity.

He was adamant.

Tiger was gonna be
this incredible bridge

between all the different races
and tribes of humanity.

And I'm just kind of sitting
there like, "Holy crap."

This for the championship.

I had a real sense
that there was this looming question.

In order to become
what his father's vision for him was,

to have this large an effect
on our planet and our species,

this boy had to walk into the maw
of this machine of celebrity and fame.

And could he survive that?

Gentleman, congratulations
on a well-played final.

Tiger, a place in golf history.

What does this do as
to your feelings

as to whether you will turn pro
or stay in school?

I really don't know right now.

I just know one thing,
I'm gonna celebrate like hell tonight.

In sports today, the inevitable.

The most talented amateur player
in the history of golf

has decided to turn pro.

Tiger Woods is quitting college
to take his game

and his considerable appeal
on the professional tour

and to accept a multi-million dollar
endorsement from Nike.

In one short week, Woods reinvented
the business side of golf.

He will rewrite the record books
for sports marketing.

When Tiger came to us at Nike,

everyone at the campus was talking
about who's the next Michael Jordan?

That was always the Nike question.

And then lo and behold,
Tiger Woods comes along

and he kinda was
the next Michael Jordan.

One of the first things
we do with a Nike athlete

is get them media trained.

But when we told Earl
about the media training program,

he said, "I've already trained him
how to talk to the media.

We don't need this."

I think Earl was objecting because
someone else besides him

was gonna talk to Tiger
about how to be Tiger.

Earl thought Tiger was his creation.

So Earl was a little nervous
that he's gonna lose some control.

I think Earl just didn't realize
the magnitude

that Nike advertising can bring.

When you make a commercial,

you want to find what makes
that product unique.

Golf was very lily white
and there was some discussion

I brought it up and said,
"Do we want to play the race card?"

Nike's not stupid financially.

Using Tiger to reach
a wider range of golfer

and expand the golf universe
is a no-brainer.

They said,
"Fucking yeah. Let's do this."

Hello world.

There are still courses in the U.S.
I am not allowed to play

because of the color of my skin.

Hello world.

I've heard I'm not ready for you.

Are you ready for me?

Now this is the first time
we can remember

when a company like Nike used racial
discord to help sell its products,

used it as a way to give
a tough new edge

to a very nice young man.

I think it's a message
that has been long awaited.

Because it's very true.

And being a person who is...

I guess how you could say non-white,
I've had to experience that,

and the Nike campaign
is just telling the truth.

The fact that Nike is marketing him
as a black player

tells you that Tiger Woods
is the great black hope for golf.

When this thing happened, I said,
"Well this is wonderful for golf,

but I wonder how great this is
for just a 21-year-old kid."

The bar is now way up here.

After that ad ran,

I felt like, did we put too much
pressure on this young man?

But then I thought to myself,

"This kid is built for pressure."

1997 MASTERS TOURNAMENT
AUGUSTA NATIONAL GOLF CLUB

This is an African American
playing in Augusta.

This is still a place that
for all its glory of golf,

harbors a nice little corner
of prejudice

and an ugly side of America.

I mean, yeah. When you look
at the history of the Masters,

I mean, you know,
it's built on a slave plantation.

And he's going
to blow that up today.

Record throngs showed up to see
golf's legend in the making.

For decades, advertisers and fans
have longed for an American hero.

The question is whether anyone,
no matter how talented,

can live up to such expectations.

The number one attention
from the media was Tiger.

They would call it buzz around him,

but it was way bigger than buzz.

It wasn't just like, "There's
a rumor in the parking lot,

there's a new kid in town."
It was full out, full on.

Can Tiger Woods win the Masters?
He's paired with Nick Faldo.

Faldo and Woods are favorites.

Make a hole please, gentlemen,
young ladies.

When Tiger came out that morning,
he had security guys around him.

There was a genuine aura shift.

The patrons,
all their attention went to him.

The players sensed it. All their
attention, like, here comes Tiger.

Everybody wanted to know,
can Tiger do it?

Fore, please.
Tiger Woods now driving.

Wait a minute, what happened?

Wow, that is as far left
as we've seen anybody hit it.

The look on Tiger's face tells all.

I played with him that day.

We tee off
and we didn't play well at all.

He's over in left trees,
I'm in right trees, whatever it was.

We were in deep shit.

- Left again.
- Woods struggling.

Everybody's gonna choke.

When you play nine holes like that,
and you're kind of out of control,

you lose that confidence
and it's a very fast snowball effect.

But the best golfers in the world have
the ability to forget things quickly.

You've got to go, "Okay yeah,

I've now got to learn to play
in this different environment."

All the pressures,
all the media attention disappear.

You are completely engrossed
in what you're doing.

That's what Tiger was able to do.

Kinda likes it.

And he introduces his ball to the flag.

That's the finest shot
we've seen here today.

That's the momentum,
you need one good break.

Eagle three for Tiger Woods.

That was the moment.
He turned things around.

Kenny, let the record show that
a little after 5:30, Friday April 11th,

Tiger takes the lead for
the first time ever at the Masters.

And then we didn't see him for dust
for the next twelve years.

That was it.

Tiger Woods
has just been brilliant today.

Woods walloping the field
in the third round of the Masters.

A nine shot lead.

This is a culmination
of a lot of hard work,

years and years of training,
dreams.

And it's now turned into reality.

Going in the final round,

it was a foregone conclusion
that Tiger was gonna win.

However, the night
before the final round,

Tiger was restless.
Couldn't sleep.

During the '97 Masters,

I know that Tiger received
some racially-motivated threats.

And during
the tournament itself,

he would hear the n-word from
some of the folks in the gallery.

And as strong as he is mentally,

he wasn't able to block
all of it out.

So he got up, he saw a light
under the door in Earl's bedroom.

And he knocked on the door and went
in and Earl eased all of his fears.

My dad says, "Hey, son,
when you go out there,

it's gonna be
the hardest round of your life.

But if you just be yourself,
stay cool,

it's gonna be one
of the most rewarding rounds."

I don't know how many strokes Woods
is gonna shatter this record by,

but it's apparent he's set
a new standard for golf.

Right now with 12-shot lead,
he's taking everybody else out of play.

You know, walking up eighteen,
I had a little tear in my eye.

It was something
you always dream of.

I knew
that I'd won the tournament,

but still, I still had
to take care of business.

This putt to break the all-time record
at the Masters.

That incredible 12-shot margin.

There it is.
A win for the ages.

We made it. We made it.

Other people now know
what I knew all along.

They were just
too stubborn to see it.

He is just getting aware
that he has this power.

When he is
in full control of this power,

he can then make
a difference in the world.

Look at this.
This is the Daily News in New York.

If this is not a big story, "Tiger
Woods' Awesome 18 Performance,"

This is the New York Post.
This is USA Today.

- This is the Washington Post.
- Little bit of attention.

Tigermania takes the boardwalk
here in Atlantic City tonight

as the 21-year-old golf phenom
eclipses other stars

who turned out here for the grand
opening of the Official All-Star Cafe.

Tiger Woods receiving
a standing ovation

from this crowd
here in Chicago.

He's been referred to
as Michael Jordan in long pants.

After the win, it seemed like
the entire world embraced Tiger.

Unharnessed enthusiasm
for the young legend.

I'm talking about white folks,
black folks,

Asian folks, you name it.
Everybody wanted him to be theirs.

Hey, Tiger.

The reaction to him said
something about this country,

often accused still
of a pervasive racism.

America was thrilled by and for
Tiger Woods.

Glad that such a young man
could reach such heights.

Gladder still if anything,
that a black man could.

It was like white America
almost patting itself on the back.

Like look, this is the promise
that America makes.

That anyone can use the tools
that this country offers

and make it to the highest levels,
regardless of race, color, creed.

Go get 'em, Tiger.

We like to believe
that we're this place without racism,

but that's a great American myth.

He has an amazing opportunity now,
beyond the golf course.

He does have a great opportunity.
He's got a great burden also.

I think the expectations were
enormous for him going into this thing.

They're double that now.

The social burden
will be considerable.

This is a guy
who a lot will be expected of.

He'll be asked
to be a spokesman,

and maybe that's unfair
for somebody who's 21.

A lot is asked of athletes of color
that is not asked of other athletes.

It's a racial society.

It's not just how you play basketball
or how you play baseball,

how you play tennis,
how you play golf.

People thought that Tiger was gonna
introduce this groundswell.

Tiger Woods? Oh, the golf man?
I think he's kinda cool.

I think it's great,
I think it's history.

He's gonna be a role model for anyone
that wants to do good in life.

As an African American,
I know how we are.

We take great pride
in our young people

who accomplish great things.

And we claimed Tiger Woods.
He was ours.

Please welcome Tiger Woods.

- That'll wake you up.
- That will.

Of course you've received
all kinds of adulation.

You also get hate mail. I hear
you insist upon reading it. Why?

It reminds me of what
I have to try and do.

As people know, golf has been
a kind of elitist sport,

and unfortunately,
it's kinda closed its doors...

Wasn't it just six years ago

that Augusta National
even allowed people of color?

A black member? Yeah.

Many of the clubs
still practice that,

and unfortunately, I've had
to deal with that all growing up.

I got kicked off of golf courses
numerous times,

been called some pretty tough words
to my face.

And it's tough.
Golf needed to be shaken up.

You're right about that.

Can we get this straight?
What do you call yourself?

Your father's half black, quarter
Chinese, quarter American Indian,

mother is half Thai, quarter
Chinese, and quarter white.

So does it bother you
to be called African American?

Yeah it does. Growing up,
I came up with this name.

- I'm a Cablinasian.
- A Cablinasian?

Ca - caucasian, bl - black,
in - Indian, Asian. Cablinasian.

I remember
when Tiger Woods was black.

You see, you don't know
what he is now.

After he won the Masters, I'm flipping
through the Sports Illustrated

and I read,
"Tiger Woods is a quarter black."

I'm like, "Damn!
He's down 25% now, man."

But you know, as soon as he gets
in trouble, what will we read?

"Black Golfer Arrested."

TIGER WOODS DESCRIBES
HIMSELF AS 'CABLINASIAN'

People of color had
so much invested in him.

I'd be lying if I said
I wasn't disappointed.

My grandkids are bi-racial.

And somebody asked me,
they said,

"What do you tell them?"

And I tell them they're black.
They're African-American.

They said, "Why?" And I said,

"Because that's how
America is gonna look at them."

And that's the reality of Tiger.

To force Tiger to choose
I think is ridiculous.

Why choose?
Why do you have to choose?

All of that is very much true,
but you go back,

and Tiger Woods will sit there
and tell you

that there were courses
that he couldn't play

as he was coming up
as a youngster.

It wasn't that he couldn't play

because he was Cablinasian
or whatever else he wants to be.

He couldn't play
because he was a black man.

I believe Tiger knew
that there was racism.

He knew that there was
an unlevel playing field,

but was he going to be a messiah?
No way.

Your dad thinks that you're going
to be the most important man

that ever lived,
more so than Gandhi and Jesus.

I think that's just a dad speaking,
a proud father.

Tiger never really saw himself as the
unifying force that Earl saw him as.

That was Earl's dream.

And I don't think he realized the
pressure that he had placed on Tiger.

I hope you got some ripe ones.
Don't eat 'em all up, Tiger.

- You took the biggest one.
- Yes, I want the biggest one.

There is no question
that Earl loved, loved Tiger.

But I think there was always
a grand plan for Tiger.

There's nothing better
than stolen strawberries.

In Earl's head, he really thought
it was the best thing for Tiger.

That he wasn't doing anything
to hurt him. But it was a plan.

And that was the stuff
that would bother me.

Why would you put that
on your kid?

Tiger and I met
in my accounting class.

Tiger was very shy.
He didn't have friends.

He had the highest grade
in the class,

so it kind of became
this competition

and I think I was teasing him
a little bit about it.

And that's kind of how it started.

Just as friends.

You know, growing up,
the boys were so typical.

The football players
were the cool kids.

But Tiger said that he golfed.

And I was like, "Oh, okay."

I didn't even know we had
a golfing team at the school.

The first time that I understood
the magnitude of who he was

was when I went to his house

and saw the shrine
on the wall of him

with all the trophies and pictures
and magazine clippings.

This was like a whole 'nother level
of "Hello, welcome to my home,

and it's all about Tiger Woods."
Like it was just a lot.

On the tee, Tiger Woods.

He had invited me
to go to a tournament.

That was the first time
I saw him play golf.

He became like a completely different
person when he got up there.

He was like in control
and confident.

And I loved that about him.

It was a quality that I thought
was very attractive. I loved it.

I just remember
the people surrounding him.

People were asking
for his autograph.

I'm like, "Who would want
your autograph?

What are you talking about?"

- Here you go.
- Shake his hand. Thank you.

Thank you.

He knew that the fame was
not normal. He always knew that.

I think he definitely saw the bridge

to me being able to give him
a normal life.

DINA'S HOME VIDEOS

Tiger enjoyed going to my house
because it was always loud

and I think the quietness of his house
sometimes drove him crazy.

He knew that he could be himself
and there was no judgement

and no pressure to live up
to all these expectations.

Dina, let's see some leg, baby.
Some leg.

Okay, Tiger, some leg.

I loved taking him
to do new things.

Going to see, you know, a movie,

going bowling for the first time.

Seeing his face. It's like seeing
a kid at Christmas.

I don't know,
it just was so natural with us.

I was in love with him.

And I would tell him all the time,
"Golf is great and it's your passion,

but it's not everything.
There's more to life."

I wanted to protect
that sweetness of him.

Because I could tell he didn't know
what was coming.

That fame, it scared me.

Listen to the crowd.

Tiger's got 152 yards.

They're gonna go nuts
when he hits this thing.

It went in.

It looks like a ticker tape parade.

Every time he went to play,

the gallery was a completely different
scene compared to what I was used to.

His autograph became so wanted
that people were desperate to get it.

People were pushing and shoving,

and he would come away
many days with a golf shirt

that had all the different
Sharpie marks on it.

When you get to know Tiger

and you're a little bit closer to him
than most people,

when you understand
what it is to be Tiger Woods,

what it is to be in his shoes,
to go through what he does,

I think you can't but admire the guy.

And you feel like you want
to protect the guy a little bit.

So working for Tiger was certainly
more than just being a caddie.

You've also got to be
a bodyguard.

Folks, can you hold
the camera please?

A New York Daily News photographer
said that Steve came over

and kicked his camera
after he was taking pictures

during Tiger's practice swing.

Genius, Tiger.

Obviously throughout my time
caddying for Tiger,

I did a couple things that I regret.

But, you just gotta try
and make it as easy as it can be

for Tiger to perform
at the level he wants to

without all the distractions.

Life is always full of goals.
What's yours?

Mine? Ultimately?
To be the best.

You want to be known as the best
to ever play this game?

Yeah, exactly.

Tiger's main focus was to win
major championships.

He always believed he could get better
and he could strive for perfection.

I remember we were driving down
this freeway and he goes,

"Stevie, stop the car.
Stop the car."

And he got the golf club
out of the trunk

and he's swinging
on the side of the road.

Now here's Tiger Woods
on the side of the freeway in Toronto,

swinging a golf club.

He's got this thought in his head,
"If I can just do this."

And he couldn't wait
'til the next day

or 'til he got back to the hotel or
wherever it was, it had to be now.

There is no one would do that.
Just nobody.

I remember I said to Tiger,

"How much better
can your swing actually get?

This is probably as good
as anyone's ever played golf."

And he looks at me and he says,
"You always ask me that question.

I'm gonna be way better
than I am now."

You took a lot of criticism
for changing your golf swing.

You can always become better.

It's almost like it's an obsession.

It is. I'm addicted.
I'm addicted to golf.

Tiger, back then at least,
was obsessed.

He was always practicing.

A lot of the changes, he had
to get stronger to make them.

What are you,
about 20 pounds heavier now

than what you were
when you first came on the Tour?

Yeah. I came on the Tour at 158,
now I'm 180.

And then the gym took over.

And the key here is just to keep
the right arm higher than the left.

You can see the chin gets up,
the back is much straighter.

And it's taken him over a year
to feel comfortable with that,

hitting thousands of balls.

The fascinating thing for me
about Tiger Woods,

he's never satisfied.

The hunger never goes away.

It's this monk-like pursuit
of the goal.

The common goal.

Perfection.

The U.S. Open. Pebble Beach.
It has a very very special ring to it,

and here we are
to decide the championship.

It's a very interesting course in that
it tests every single skill you have.

Now, Colin Montgomery.

He has hit it very high, but
it needs to get up and a little left.

Oh, that ball is
down in the hazard.

Tried to get a little too cute
I think, Mark.

U.S. Open likes to set its courses up
so it tortures the players.

I'm convinced of that. It wants
to see 'em like break down and cry.

That means heavy rough.

The grass is high
on either side of the fairway.

Out of bounds everywhere.

That's a miss.
That's left. That's left.

On the cart path.
Watch this thing go.

I mean, that was
a really hard golf course.

Tiger Woods well back,
getting ready for his shot.

One of the more gut-wrenching shots
in the world.

None of that bothered Tiger.

Be the right club, baby.
Be the right club. Come on.

The ball started at the left side.

It's cutting into the center
of the green. This looks really good.

Oh, my goodness.

Is this really happening?
Double digits.

2000 at Pebble Beach is where
it all came together

and Tiger Woods played, quite simply,
the greatest golf of all time.

You just couldn't take
your eyes off of him.

There was this element that Tiger
brought between the ropes

that no golfer had.

He was wearing a shirt
the color of blood.

He was so hyper masculine.

He strutted around like a toreador.
It was riveting.

Look at that bicep
on his left arm.

This guy bench presses
three hundred plus pounds.

I guess that means
this one's really going far.

That is really deep.
Just a driving machine.

As he was coming down to the last
hole, he was leading by fifteen.

It was absolutely incredible.
And I remember sitting there,

thinking to myself, one day the golfing
record book will be two words

in every category:
Tiger Woods.

And Tiger Woods is the 100th
U.S. Open champion in history.

You have long been
a student of this game.

Your dad taught you
the game of golf.

Today, of course, is Father's Day.

Your dad's not here,
but I'm gonna make a wild guess

and say that I'll bet you
he's watching.

Any thoughts you'd like
to share with him today?

It's not too bad
a Father's Day present, is it?

Earl was a Green Beret.

Did two tours in 'Nam.

Earl was demolition.

So they would send him
behind enemy lines,

not with a gun,
but with C-4, dynamite.

Like the most dangerous job
you could possibly have

is to go behind enemy lines
and blow up a headquarters.

He had the mental fortitude
that it took to survive in Vietnam

and that's how
and why he was able to create

this little assassin
within the ropes.

And he did it
at the Navy Golf Course,

the Bethlehem of golf.

The Navy Golf Course was
only open and available

to active duty
and retired military.

When I first started there,

I was the new, young assistant pro.
I was the new guy.

No one was giving me
the time of day.

Along comes Earl Woods,
introduces himself, shakes my hand.

Nicest guy in the world.

I'm like finally somebody's
being friendly to me in this joint.

Well, we hit it off.

Earl invited me to play
with him and Tiger.

Mind you,
I still don't know who Tiger is,

I think he's Earl's kid, so I'm kind
of checking him out while we play.

Whenever Tiger would go to hit,
Earl would start jiggling his change

and talking to me
like I'm talking right now, loud,

just being completely rude.

That didn't work.

Finally, like on the sixth hole,
I shush Earl. I shush him.

And Earl's like, "Joe,
don't you know what I'm doing?"

He goes, "I'm preparing Tiger

to play through distraction
when he gets to the Tour."

Where's my fade?

Sit down. Sit. Stop. Stop.

I brought this out in him.
His toughness.

I would do all kinds of things
to mess him up,

usually on the golf course.

Man, did he get angry with me.

Step over, that's it.

He could say one word, and that
one word was the release word,

that the whole training was over.

I said, "Tiger,
if you never utter that word,

I promise you
that you will never meet

another person
as mentally tough as you."

He played mind games on me
almost every shot I hit

until I grew up and accepted it
and then it was nothing.

Earl did everything he could
to toughen his boy up.

One of the things that really
made Tiger incredibly strong

was this ability that he had, taught
to him by his father's friend

who was a naval psychological ops
operative basically, a psychologist,

to hypnotize himself.

People say, "Oh, Tiger's in the zone."

But he literally was
in some sort of a trance,

which is an amazing thing that you
would do for a kid that was 13 or 14.

Good try, Dad.

That military training
that Earl passed along to Tiger,

it was something else.

But his mother, she's the one
who made him a complete competitor

because her philosophy was,

"Put your foot
on their throat, son.

You kill them."

I am very tough with him
and he knows it.

Not with dad. Dad only use
the voice and tone.

But I say to Tiger,
"No matter how big you are,

I can beat you,
I can spank you."

And he knows what I mean.

She was very strict.

She said if I ever crossed
the boundaries that she set,

there were always consequences.

Earl and Tida, they had this image
of who he was supposed to be.

And I think
that they were worried about me.

'Cause I certainly didn't fit
into that.

I felt like their plans
were creating this robot.

There was all this preparation
for golf, which is great.

You're gonna be a great golfer.
But he had no life skills.

He had not been prepared for life.

And I was probably
the only person around him

that really kept him in check.

Merry Christmas, Tiger.

Merry Christmas!

I would tell him, "You are gonna want
to get married and have kids

and golf is not gonna be
the most important thing.

I mean, you're gonna have
to find that balance."

He would say,
"I'm in love with you. I want that.

I just want to have
a life with you."

Earl and Tida, they were
very nervous about that.

One time, Tiger lied to them

in saying that he was coming home
from college the next day

when he had actually arrived
the day before

and stayed
at his girlfriend's house.

Tida and Earl,
they were furious.

Tiger called me,
he was so upset.

He called me, like "Joe,
I am in a lot of trouble, you know."

And he told me
what had happened.

I said, "Well I'll go over there,
you know, I'll help you out, Champ.

I got your back on this."

'Cause I was very close
to Earl and Tida at the time.

I go over there
and I was shocked.

Tida was goddamning a lot. Very
loud tone of voice. "Goddamn it."

And Earl was just incensed and
you could just hear it in his voice.

"We don't need this.
She's gonna get pregnant.

You're gonna blow... He's gonna
blow the whole goddamn thing."

And they're ready to just
kick him out of the house.

They were so mad.

And Tiger, you know,
he was spooked. He was spooked.

"Dina, the reason for writing
this letter is to inform you

my parents and myself never want
to talk or hear from you again.

"Reflecting back over
this relationship,

I feel used and manipulated
by you and your family.

I hope the rest of your life
runs well for you.

I know this is sudden
and a surprise,

but it is, in my opinion,
much warranted.

Sincerely, Tiger."

Yeah, it was awful.

I mean, we'd been
in this three year relationship.

And, you know, I thought about,
"Should I drive over there?"

I just wanted to confront him.

I just wanted him to look me
in the face and tell me this.

If it's the truth, then we're good.

Then our relationship was
a whole lie. That's fine.

But I wanna hear it from you.

I replay that day in my head
over and over again.

What happened?
What really triggered all this?

But, you know, I have to... It has
to be that it was just the plan.

It was like a death
and I had to treat it like a death

because I had to just let it go
and pretend like he was gone.

Because honestly, the person
that I fell in love with,

the Tiger that I had known,
had died.

That part of him,
the part of his soul

that I knew
would never treat me that way.

His sweetness was stolen from him.

The new Tiger was here.

And he was all about golf.

In almost complete darkness.

It is very hard to even see the flight
of any ball into the 18th green.

Now Tiger.

This one appears
to be on the line, I think.

Oh no. You can't...
You can't do that!

- I don't believe it.
- Believe it.

What Tiger does
with a golf club is stunning.

It's frightening
how good he is.

Johnny, I have seen
a number of players putt

from the back part of this green,
and the results have not been good.

That's better than most.

How about in?

That is better than most.
Better than most.

I don't think that people had ever
seen anybody like Tiger before.

Tiger's about to give this
quite a big lash.

His swing was so violent
and he had such a torque in his back,

I thought it was just gonna snap
like a twig.

Heaves it on.

That was not just technique.
That's all about strength.

I've never seen anybody
have so much fun

crushing a golf ball,
and just obliterating his opponents.

Tiger in trouble at the 17th.

When Tiger played golf,

there was a hunger
to see him do something

that you've never seen before.

Would you believe it?

People invested themselves
in him as a figure.

as something representing

what they wanted to believe
was good in themselves.

It became this hold he had
on people's sacred imagination.

Earl Woods was
the original evangelist

of the Gospel of Tiger Woods.

He put it out into the world

and found all these other evangelists
who were willing to spread it.

You're the man, Tiger.

Among the fans,

there was just an overwhelming urge
to come see this guy.

People's enthusiasm grew
until it became this monster.

And Tiger knew
he couldn't stop it.

- Tiger, please!
- Step back! Stay back!

I think there's fame
and then there's mania.

Help, Tiger, I'm squished.

Being out in public with Tiger
was absolutely insane.

It was just the most intense,
screaming, crying,

jumping up and down, almost
hyperventilating reaction to him.

Take it easy. Take it easy.

My uncle was also a professional
golfer, so I knew that world.

But this was different.
This was next-level.

As a friend, I know that he wanted
to be a normal kid in many ways,

and that inside, there's a person
who is a little confused

by this crazy world
he's been thrust into.

I guess there's one thing
that I really do miss,

is a sense of privacy.

People are usually trying
to invade my privacy

and sometimes that's tough.

The machine of fame
starts to just wallop Tiger.

Earl sees this piling up on his son
and tries to break the tension.

And Tiger says,
"You don't know what this is like."

And Earl tries to sympathize
with him,

like saying, "You're right.
It must be terrible."

And Tiger just bites his head off.

You're getting a sense
of the pressures

that were gonna start coming
on Tiger and Earl.

The father son relationship
that had been so tight.

Okay. We're rolling, fellas.

Even though Earl taught him the mental
toughness to tackle the game of golf,

I'm not sure that Tiger
was mentally tough enough

to handle the pressures of fame.

And he started looking for ways
to sort of escape.

I remember when he started taking
an intense liking to scuba diving.

That to me just kind of was odd.

But then when I started asking
him more about scuba diving,

I think he said to me, "The fishies
don't know who I am down there."

I thought that there was
so much truth in that statement,

so much sadness
in that statement.

He loved the silence
and the peace

that he could find
at the bottom of the ocean.

He could just be.

JULY 2000

THE BRITISH OPEN
ST. ANDREWS LINKS, U.K.

Quite extraordinary,
the atmosphere,

knowing that he's going to win.

It's as if they're just waiting
for the king to be crowned.

For Tiger Woods, surely,
nothing can go wrong now.

Now please go in.
We don't want any anticlimax.

Oh, well done.

Tiger's form was unmatched to me
at that time.

His win at the U.S. Open
was still just in the mirror behind us

and then he went on and backed it up
at the British Open.

A remarkable back to back wins
in major championships.

The champion golfer for the year,
Tiger Woods.

One of the most unusual things
about working for Tiger,

there was never really
any big celebrations.

As soon as that tournament was over,

the thought was
to the next major championship.

AUGUST 2000

PGA CHAMPIONSHIP
VALHALLA GOLF CLUB, KY

This to win now for Tiger.

Get in the hole.

When Tiger wins the PGA
Championship, that's three in a row.

Everybody starts asking,

"Can Tiger Woods win the Masters next
year, and hold all four trophies?"

Will he be the first ever to win

four consecutive
major championships?

Tiger's going
for his fourth straight major.

Even the unbreakable records
seem to be within Tiger's reach.

I got to the point
where I got sick of hearing it.

Sick of reading about it. It just
dominated golf for that period of time.

And... Yeah.

If Tiger Woods wins
this tournament,

it'll be the greatest achievement
in modern day golf.

2001 MASTERS TOURNAMENT
AUGUSTA NATIONAL GOLF CLUB, GA

The first couple of rounds,
Tiger played remarkable.

And when he arrived
for the final round,

it all came down to him
and one other player.

The guy that he wants
to beat the most.

And the guy that he would least
like to see win the tournament.

His good mate, Phil.

Tiger had grown up in Phil's shadow
in southern California.

Mickelson was
about six-and-a half years older.

And he had all the southern
California records.

Good afternoon to you.

Fill this card and same rule.
Good luck to you.

- Good luck, man.
- Thanks.

Tiger knew that Phil was
the most naturally gifted player

ever to hold a golf club.

Get him, Phil.

But Tiger looked at him
with disdain

because he couldn't fathom
having that much ability

and not putting in the time
to be great.

Phil had
about twenty extra pounds

and Tiger was looking more and more
like Mr. Universe.

And with Tida Woods,
it was personal.

Tida loved to make fun
of Mickelson's body.

Phil's nickname is Lefty,
but Tida called him Hefty.

So Tiger's in this situation where
to prove his alpha dog superiority,

he's gotta beat this guy.

But it's not just enough
to beat Phil.

Beautiful.

You gotta try to humiliate him
at the same time.

Now, on the tee, Phil Mickelson.

Did he cut it enough?
Oh yes he did.

He has been very good with his
tee shots here at thirteen all week.

On the thirteenth hole,
Tiger and Phil are dueling.

And Phil got up and hit this
great drive right down the middle.

Now, Tiger Woods.

Tiger decided that was
gonna be the perfect time

to play a little bit
of a mind game on Phil.

He gets his 3-wood,
which is a smaller club.

That's huge. That's really big.

You thought Mickelson was big?
Put it right by it.

I could sort of sense that
Mickelson was feeling a bit dejected.

He's just hit the best drive he could.

And then Tiger's hit a 3-wood
and whipped it by him.

And Phil says to Tiger,

"Do you always hit
your 3-wood that long?"

And Tiger said, "No, further,
normally further than that."

It's amazing the little games
within a game Tiger would play.

That shot just deflated Phil's ego.
And he couldn't bounce back.

He's looking dangerously
down the left side.

That catches the trees.

If there ever was a must putt,
you're looking at it right now.

Wow.

And now, Tiger Woods can make
his move now on this closing stretch.

And he's pulled it right at the hole.
Look out!

- Was that any good?
- Unbelievable.

Well that should be enough to do it.

Here comes the salute
to an achievement

that's about to be completed unlike
anything this sport has ever seen.

The streak that started
at Pebble Beach. St. Andrews.

- Valhalla.
- Augusta.

And here it is.
This putt for the Tiger Slam.

Get in the hole.

There it is,
as grand as it gets.

And Tiger has his Slam.

He's won all of golf's majors

faster than any other player
in history.

And he just made history again,
signing a new five-year,

one hundred-million-dollar
endorsement deal with Nike.

And he's locked in
with American Express, with Titleist,

for millions and millions of dollars.

Buick, he just signed
a huge contract with them.

He's making a lot of jack
as they say.

Much more than Michael Jordan,
and he was the king.

He can sell just about anything:
cereal, cars, golf clubs.

Now, Tiger's conquering another
kind of golf game, video golf.

- Pick up your controller, Mr. Woods.
- Yes, sir.

When you see the swing here,

versus when you look at video
of your swing, how realistic is this?

- It's almost identical.
- Really?

I just wish I was that big.

As Tiger's bank account swelled,

as he collected jets and yachts

and all the trappings
that this world has to offer,

I think he pushed back from Earl
quite a bit.

What is the relationship
with your father these days?

We're still great friends,
still father son,

but we don't get a chance
to spend much time with each other

'cause I'm so busy.

Tiger became a corporation
trying to make money.

And it needs a steady,
consistent rock at its head.

And that wasn't Earl anymore.

So there became some issues
that arose

that necessitated Tiger
kind of moving away from Earl.

Tiger and I had a very big fight

and he said,
"Well, I have this problem,

and the problem is, I don't know
whether you can handle

being a businessman
and a father at the same time."

Tiger was growing up and I think
that caused disagreements.

Heated.

Obviously there's far more that I could
tell you about their disagreements,

but I can't.
I can't talk about that.

That's one place
I know not to go to.

How would you describe
your relationship with your father?

He is my best friend.

No ifs, ands, or buts about it.
He is my best friend.

But he's much older than you.

That's alright. You can still have
a best friend who's 61.

Tiger absolutely idolized his dad.
He loved his dad.

Golf was their connection,

and they had spent a lot of time
doing that together.

There it is. There it is.

Perfect. Good boy.

He's my best friend.

- But he's your son.
- But he's my best friend.

They were buddies.

But he needed his dad.
He didn't need another friend.

That was forgotten
in that relationship.

And Earl crossed boundaries
that he shouldn't have crossed.

Gosh.

You know, I love this guy.
Earl was a great, great dad,

but...

I don't know how to smooth
this one over.

I assure you that we were not
the best role models

when it came to honoring
your marriage. I assure you.

This is a tough one. Yeah.

Hang on, give me two seconds.
I gotta collect my thoughts.

Shit. He's not gonna like
this shit at all.

Earl had this little Winnebago.

And we'd let him teach
on the range.

And he somehow would teach
very attractive blonde women.

And I never figured out
where he met these women.

And often, you know,
after the lesson,

they'd go into the Winnebago
for cocktails.

And, you know,
Tiger was at the course.

You know, and I was
just every bit as bad.

For a long time,

me and Earl were the two
biggest male figures in his life.

The two closest to him.

And here I am, chasing skirts
and bringing them to the course.

And he's seeing this.
Yeah. Yeah.

And I was married, too, at the time,
and he's seeing this.

You know, to have that kind of
access to this child's development

and expose him to that,
it's just...

Yeah. I mean, yeah.

Yeah. Sorry, Champ. Sorry.

I mean, any child having
to witness that

and know what's happening,
it's not right.

It's just not right.

And that made
a huge impact on his life.

When Tiger and I were still together,

he would travel in the summer
for tournaments with his dad.

And he called me one time,
and I will never forget.

He was sobbing on the phone,
uncontrollably.

I couldn't even understand what
he was saying, he was so upset.

He finally caught his breath
and, you know, said,

"My dad's out again. He met
this girl and they're going out."

The sound of Tiger's voice
was so upsetting.

I wanted to crawl through the phone
and just take care of him.

I've never heard somebody in my life
so upset.

And his dad, I don't think,
really cared that he knew it.

I think that also bothered him.

Like, "Why would you not try
to hide this from me?

Why would you just
let me see this?"

Tiger's mom was a loyal,
good mother,

and he absolutely loved her.

So there was an anger there
with his dad,

but he could never show it.
He could never express it.

He had to keep that in.

And it changed the relationship
with him and his dad.

Did he still idolize him
and love him? Absolutely.

But it changed. It changed.

Now you used to appear more
at tournaments than you used to.

Is it strictly a health thing?

You've had eight bypasses.
You've battled prostate cancer.

No, it isn't health.

If you noticed, Tiger's grown up.

Tiger is handling his life by himself.

And that was the original game plan.

Earl was a human being
with all the foibles and faults.

He had girlfriends,

and they became messy.

It was gonna become public
and Tiger went out of his way

to make sure that nobody knew
what was going on with Earl,

the womanizing, the drinking.

Tiger did not want any shadows
on his brand.

He did not want any shadows
on his foundation.

It drove Earl and Tiger apart

at the very time that they probably
should have been together,

because Earl was finally starting
to show his age and fragility.

What's the most important thing
that he taught you?

Patience and understanding.

What's the most important thing
in raising children?

What's the one bit of advice
that you can give

the fathers
and the mothers out there?

You have to earn their trust
and their respect.

I have a phrase,
that love is a given,

trust and respect are earned.

You have to earn it.

During that period,

I don't think they were able to spend
as much time as they had before.

Tiger had his own life to try to live,
and he moved on.

He is one of my all-time favorite
guys in the world. I just adore him.

He has a god-given talent
that makes grown men weep.

Please welcome Tiger Woods!

Here we go again.

So how are you handling
all the adulation?

As you came in,
the guys were bowing and...

I haven't gotten used to it. I honestly
don't feel comfortable with it.

- You don't?
- No.

Tiger has a really close-knit group
of superstar athlete friends.

One of them, Charles Barkley,

he has advised you
not to get married until you're 30?

Everybody wants to know,
who you dating?

- Who?
- Anybody you want to tell me?

- I am, yes.
- Okay.

When you find the right person,
you know it's the right person.

Elin, she was a nanny
for one of the other players.

I remember straight away,
he was very, very fond of this girl

to the point where I had to learn how
to pronounce her name properly.

'Cause how you say it in Swedish.

he was adamant
that when I say her name,

"No, Steve.
This is how you say it."

So I knew straight away

that, Hey, this girl was
a little bit different

to probably some of the other girls
that he had been with.

Elin told me that he didn't make
a great impression on her at first.

She had her opinions about celebrities
and they were not high.

And she's very shy,

so the idea of kind
of joining that world

was not appealing to her.

And when he asked her out,
I think she turned him down at first.

And then she gradually was convinced
that she should give him a chance.

And so they did go out.

Do you love Tiger, Elin?

She said the hardest part about that
was adjusting to the spotlight

that followed him.

But Tiger was very sweetly
protective of Elin.

She said it felt special.

Ironically, the spotlight that first
repelled her suddenly bonded them.

Sort of, us against the world.

It was just the two of them,

and she believed
it was everything.

I have found a life partner,

a best friend,

and Elin's been incredible for me.

She's brought
joy and balance in my life

and I'm very lucky.

Tiger and Elin were married
October 5th,

on the island of Barbados.

A lavish yet intimate affair they tried
desperately to keep private.

That's Jordan behind.

This is supposed to be an intimate
moment between our family and friends.

Not with the whole world. So,

that part of it
I don't quite understand why.

But, the world has changed
so much.

Gossip sells now.

Elin was fantastic.

Beautiful model,
squeaky clean image.

She made Tiger bulletproof.

You could have sent somebody
from Central Casting and that's her.

She's the wife.

Action.

Tiger certainly has a good
understanding of what sells these days.

Tiger earns an estimated
80 million a year.

Her image, it promotes his brand.

It's exactly the side of him
that he wants you to see.

But there was
a lot of speculation

that she was going
to affect his golf.

People were always trying
to create a way

that's gonna somehow
knock him down off the tree.

He gets married. Is that going
to show a slump in form?

You get the feeling that Tiger's trying
to make a statement here.

This is his opportunity to end
all the criticism on his marriage.

I mean, this guy, he's wired
different than anybody else. Come on.

This is the ball of Tiger Woods.
Lenny, what about this?

Bern, this is extremely difficult.

This is one of the toughest pitches
on the entire place here.

There's a good chance he doesn't
get this inside DiMarco's ball.

Oh, here it comes.

Oh, my goodness.

Oh, wow. In your life have
you seen anything like that?

Thank you.

I want to thank my mom,
my wife Elin

for always being there with me
and for me and just helping me out.

You guys are the best.
Thank you so much.

But also I gotta say
one last thing before I go.

My dad hasn't been feeling
very well this year.

He's just hanging in there.
So, I...

Every year that I've been lucky enough
to have won this tournament,

my dad's been there to give me a hug
and he wasn't there today.

I can't wait to get home and see him,
to give him a big bear hug.

Thank you.

Earl Woods lost his battle with cancer
today at the age of 74.

There was no understating
the impact this one man had

on his very famous son.

When I heard that Earl had passed,

I worried about Tiger
more than anybody.

In Earl's latter years,

I don't know how much
they saw each other

When you don't see a parent
as often as you would like,

there's a sense of guilt
when something happens to them.

And so Tiger had a very,
very heavy burden on him.

You could see it in his face.

Daddy! Daddy!

Woo! Good shot!

Hey, Dad.
I thought that was real good.

Yeah. You're doing very good.

Tiger kept Earl at a distance
at the end.

But that's looking at the story
only this part of it.

You gotta look at the whole thing.

I mean, he was Pops.

Look at what Earl
accomplished with Tiger.

A little kid with buck teeth,
banging on a club in a garage?

I mean, when you start
with something like that

and then you become
the biggest name in golf,

and your dad is the one
that invented you?

That's pretty heavy stuff.

I mean, his Pops meant everything
to Tiger.

In the days following
Earl's death,

there were a lot of later night calls

hearing Tiger cry and he just was
having a very hard time processing.

There was no replacing Earl.

This person who had always been
by his side was gone

and he couldn't
compartmentalize that.

That was sadness on a level
that he had never felt before.

That was grief. And I'm not sure
that he knew how to grieve.

2006 THE BRITISH OPEN
ROYAL LIVERPOOL GOLF CLUB, UK

After the death of his father,

it's been
an emotional rollercoaster.

But Tiger is very good
at shutting everything out.

On the tee from USA,
Tiger Woods!

Good cheer for Tiger Woods.

He is in the same group
as Nick Faldo.

When you go through a loss
like Tiger's,

I think any athlete would say that,

"Well, just get me on my field,
my course."

Because all that thinking,
all that emotion,

it's just not what we're used to.

The golf course is a sanctum.

- Good luck, guys.
- Thanks.

I played with him
for those first two days.

And I remember describing him
in being in golfing zen.

Having to bury my father,
it hurt a lot.

But I still hadn't really
grieved yet.

And for some reason,
it was the most interesting thing,

going out there and playing.

I had this overwhelming
sense of calm.

You know, it was
like my Pop was there.

Soaring into the blue sky.

Oh it's in. It's in.

He doesn't know yet.
Yeah, he knows now.

That is just extraordinary.
It was just a fantastic shot.

Earl provied a lot
of self-confidence for Tiger.

But with Earl passing,

you know, now he had
to rely on himself.

The whole thing was
just a great way

to actually get it out,
get it in the open

and move forward.

He seemed to be
the same Tiger Woods as old.

The crowd loves him.

The crowd appreciates
the skill of this man.

There's his wife.

The man is going to win his
eleventh major here at Hoylake.

Tiger Woods is
the 135th Open Champion.

He is the champion golfer
of the year.

And there's emotion there
because, I'm sure,

he's thinking of his father

and how much his father would
have loved to have been here.

He released all the emotions
that he had,

but still wasn't over.

He suffered from a lot of scars,

and Tiger had that ability
to bury something very deep

and never think about it again.

The human side of Tiger Woods.

You admire him even more.

But I believe there's a reckoning

and we all will face it someday.

That's the way it always happens.

Okay, so what do you want me
to talk about?

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