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All-American: Venus & Serena

Tiger Woods | E1 The Messiah

All-American: Venus & Serena

SiriusXM Podcasts

Sports

3.3570 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Two magazine cover stories about Tiger Woods change the golf rookie's relationship with the media— forever.

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0:00.0

What has been the most difficult adjusting?

0:03.1

For me, the lack of privacy, the loss of privacy.

0:06.6

Oh, it's gone.

0:07.9

I know.

0:09.5

If you were sitting down to watch this Oprah interview in April of 1997, you probably

0:15.6

already knew who Tiger Woods was.

0:18.7

That's because earlier that month, Tiger won the Masters, a super iconic

0:23.4

golf tournament. He was the youngest golfer ever to win it, and the first black American golfer

0:29.2

to do so. After he won, the media went wild. Tiger was everywhere. He was on CNN.

0:36.3

I was all the cheering for you. I think it's kind of crazy because I'm...

0:40.3

Interviewed during the NBA halftime show.

0:42.2

Tiger Woods, he is standing by live with Ahmad Rashad.

0:45.3

And, of course, like any huge star in the 90s, he did a sit down with Oprah.

0:50.0

That's tough because, and also a lot of the bad articles that are written, is that I didn't do anything to them personally.

0:56.9

So why write something bad about me when you don't know me?

0:59.9

And that's not fair.

1:01.7

And unfortunately, a lot of people like to take that angle just because of their own, I guess, selfishness.

1:07.5

Well, you know what happens?

1:08.9

And do you think this to Mr. Woods, I mean,

1:15.4

that especially when you see an article like the GQU article that labels you the Messiah,

1:20.6

you can't be labeled a Messiah without somebody then trying, the Messiah of sports or golf, without then somebody then trying to come along to show how you're not the Messiah. So I think

1:25.9

that's the way the media sets you up.

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