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Sports Wars

Tiger vs. The Field - Jeff Benedict: The Resilience of Tiger Woods | 6

Sports Wars

Wondery

Sports, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.53.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Jeff Benedict is an investigative journalist and author of more than a dozen books, including a must-read biography of Tiger Woods. He and Dan sit down to discuss the rise, fall, and redemption of Tiger.

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0:00.0

From Wundry, I'm Dan Rubenstein and this is Sports Wars.

0:14.0

For our entire series, we've followed Tiger Woods' life from being a child prodigy early

0:35.3

on under the tutelage of his father, Earl, to Stanford, to storming onto the scene at the

0:40.4

PGA tour, certainly a turbulent time away from the golf course for a number of years' health

0:45.8

issues and then of course his reemergence as a champion on the tour and who better to talk about

0:52.2

Tiger Woods and his life both on and off the course than the co-author of the book Tiger Woods

0:57.7

as well as an author of a number of books about sports and science and really life, humans,

1:03.4

business, Jeff Benedict, welcome to the show. How are you?

1:07.2

Doing well, really happy to be here.

1:16.7

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1:26.1

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1:36.9

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1:41.4

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1:46.8

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1:52.1

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1:57.0

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2:10.2

All right, so you've written a ton about sports, you've written books about sports, and certainly

2:14.9

you've, I assume, for a period of your life dedicated all of your time to all things Tiger Woods.

2:22.1

Was there anything surprising to you? Was there anything even going in knowing about Tiger Woods

2:27.1

that was almost a through line of who Tiger Woods at least appears to be? First of all, it was,

2:33.5

it was three full years of time spent, and you know, to be honest, it was full of surprises.

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