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Tiger, now 45, dated Dina Gravell-Parr for three years after meeting at Western High School in Anaheim, California In HBO's new documentary 'Tiger,' Dina says they loved each other and had talked about marriage and babies But after a fight with his parents over a secret visit to her house when he was in college, Tiger abruptly broke up with Dina He did so not in person but in a very formal letter, in which he wrote that 'my parents and myself never want to talk or hear from you again' Heartbroken Dina said it was 'awful' and his 'sweetness was stolen...

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Tiger, the new documentary about the rise, fall, and rise of Tiger Woods, is what print journalists refer to as a write-around: a profile of a subject in which the subject does not participate. We certainly hear Woods’s voice in this two-part production, the first installment of which aired on HBO Max on Sunday, with the second to arrive January 17. There are plenty of archival interviews, home movies dating back to his infancy, and flashbacks of his triumphs on the golf course, as well as depictions of lower moments, like his arrest in 2017 for driving under the influence of...

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(CNN)Tiger Woods always wanted us to believe that he was just like the rest of us. "We're all the same; we're all human," Woods told CNN Sport in 2006. And yet, in the same breath, he understood just how different he really was. Asked in the same interview where he could go in the world and not be recognized, he said: "Underwater! That's why I like diving." The world's most famous golfer, one of the most iconic athletes of our lifetime, has never been comfortable with fame; he's endured an almost total lack of privacy from when he was young....

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Nearly every time, I remember, he grimaced. Even when the microphone didn’t pick up the sound, you could imagine the groan knocking against the back of his teeth. It was worst off the tee: The velocity of his follow through, the shift of weight to his left side, the crack, the wince, and then he’d hobble forward or double over. He frequently used his driver as an improvised cane, walking gingerly up the fairways. His week was accompanied by none of the usual accoutrements of his major championship routine — no hitting balls after the round, practice limited to nine...

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Tiger Woods is one of the greatest golfers of all time. Since his much-anticipated debut as a professional in 1996, Woods has won 82 times on the PGA Tour and is second to Jack Nicklauswith 15 major titles. And, he’s Black.  For his fellow competitors and most golf fans, Woods’ skin color has never been a major topic of conversation. It’s insignificant because his accomplishments are viewed as that of a golfer, not a Black golfer. While Woods today is revered for his greatness on the links, he endured all sorts of racism on the golf course before becoming a...

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