with professional grade products for every industry, Granger, as you covered, car clickgranger.com or just stop on by. All right, cell phone numbers toll for you. You know this, 1,800 636. 866, but as promised, I said we would go back to back, and that's exactly what we're going to do. We are joined right now by an acclaimed golf writer. He's a best-selling author whose books include

Live and Let Die,

The Inside Story of War between the PGA Tour and Live Golf.

His latest book, Rory,

The Heartache and Triumph of Golf's Most Human Superstar,

just dropped yesterday.

It's not available for purchase.

We are joined by Alan Shipnook.

Alan, always good to have you on the show.

Dude, how you doing? I'm delighted to be back. Thanks for having me. Delighted to have you back. Listen, before we talk about your new book, we've got obviously the Masters coming up, and we had the recent events with Tiger Woods. I'm going to spend time on the book, but let me just start there really quickly. What was your reaction to his DUI arrest and his subsequent announcement that he would seek

treatment, which apparently is taking place outside of the U.S.?

It's just a sad story. I mean, I was inside the ropes for every one of Tigers' major

championship victories, and it was the thrill of a lifetime, as it was for every sports fan.

Like, he is given us so many memories and so many unforgettable moments.

And now we're going on, you know, 17 years of him just slowly tarnishing his legacy.

And it's just hard to watch. Like I have empathy for Tiger as a guy who

is clearly battling addiction, but it's also frustrating and it's outrageous that he keeps

endangering himself and the public getting behind the wheel, that it's been so slow to take

ownership of this that he just can't get the help he needs. So it's been so slow to take ownership of this that he he just can't get the

help he needs so it's a positive step that he's admitted a problem and he's getting treatment

but he's been down this road already twice and it hasn't stuck like he needs some major structural

changes and how he's living and it's just it's just a bummer i mean mean, not to have him in, you know, he was Rory McElroy's hero growing up. And he'll never be in the photo when Rory was hosting his first master's dinner last night. You know, there was a gaping absence without Tiger in that photo. And it's just, it's just sad to see this, this unraveling of an incredible legacy i think it's really well

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