Tiger Woods (book) Tiger Woods (book) Tiger Woods is a 2018 biography of professional golfer Tiger Woods written by bestselling authors Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian. It is the second book co-authored by Benedict and Keteyian, who published "The System: The Glory and Scandal of Big-Time College Football" in 2013. Prior to writing the book, Benedict and Keteyian read over 20 books previous published about Woods' life, including Woods' own memoir, "The 1997 Masters: My Story". The authors also read articles by Wright Thompson, Gary Smith, Frank Deford and others as they created a timeline of Woods' life that, once complete, was over
Tiger Woods addition to his first major, the 1997 Masters. Woods won this tournament by 12 strokes in a record-breaking performance and earned $486,000. He first reached the number one position in the world rankings in June 1997, less than a year after turning pro. Throughout the 2000s, Woods was the dominant force in golf—he won the 2000 U.S. Open by a record 15-shot margin. He was the top-ranked golfer in the world from August 1999 to September 2004 (264 weeks) and again from June 2005 to October 2010 (281 weeks). Woods took a self-imposed hiatus from professional golf from December 2009