The Visionary
The future, and what is barely possible, reads round the next corner.
Tiger Woods reads as The Visionary because he reordered golf around a new idea of what a golfer could be. His 15 major championships and record 683 weeks at world number one compelled the professional game to rethink training intensity, physical conditioning, and commercial ambition.
“There's a misconception about what drives you, and then this is what Tiger says. Here's the major misconception that people have gotten all wrong. It's what was posted on my wall about Jack's records. It was not the majors, okay? That one was on there, but it was the first time he broke 40.”
“Woods see only the positive of the father son relationship and the accomplishments of the son, Merchant explained. But Tiger's greatest fan without question was his mother. She went to all the tournaments. She walked around the fucking golf courses everywhere he played. She wore the hat. Talk about worship.”
“Listen to this. He joined Jack Nicholas at the post tournament press conference. The great thing is my game is starting to come around, Tiger said. I'm starting to understand how to play the game of golf a little better than I had before. And then Nicholas says, whoa, I had never seen this kind of playing before. How old are you?”
“Injured his shoulder on one joke when he collided with a partner, and so at 31 years old, he's like, all right, maybe I'll just switch careers. He says he was going to take concrete steps to qualify to join the Navy SEALs. But Haney pointed out that Tiger was 31 and the age limit for Navy SEALs was 28.”
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