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Tiger Woods is the Prince Harry of sport.
So says his biographer, world sensation James Patterson, who believes the best golfer in historical past was trapped by his fame… and courted catastrophe when he tried to flee the gilded cage.
‘There’s somewhat parallel with the Royal Household,’ Patterson tells me in an interview about his new best-seller, ‘Tiger, Tiger’.
‘They are not allowed to be actual folks, to be out on this planet,’ he provides. ‘I believe that is in all probability somewhat bit [of the problem] with Harry. [He’s] simply obtained to go on the market and be an actual particular person, you understand?’
Tiger and Harry share one other enormous parallel: each males have, at instances, been used to not doing issues for themselves.
Tiger and Harry share an enormous parallel: each males have, at instances, been used to not doing issues for themselves.
James Patterson, who believes Tiger Woods, the best golfer in historical past, was trapped by his fame… and courted catastrophe when he tried to flee the gilded cage.
Definitely, that is how Woods’s former spouse Elin Nordegren sees it.
When fellow Swede and golf-pro Jesper Parnevik first launched the pair in 2001, Elin was working as an au pair for Parnevik’s household.
The blue-eyed 21-year-old had ambitions to coach as a paediatric psychologist, was a eager beginner kickboxer and even a part-time swimsuit mannequin.
Woods, then 25, was smitten.
However, as a substitute of approaching her for a primary date himself, Woods reasonably awkwardly despatched a member of his back-up crew to do the asking.
‘That is the way in which he is lived his life,’ says Patterson. ‘No matter Woods wanted, whether or not it was room service or a spouse, his first intuition was to say: “Let’s get a supervisor to do this”.’
In keeping with certainly one of Patterson’s sources, Elin was deeply unimpressed to have been approached through proxy, describing the transfer as ‘bizarre and pathetic’.
She already had a boyfriend again residence in Sweden and it was months earlier than she consented to go on a date with Woods.
They tied the knot in 2004 – just for the wedding to break down inside six years in one of many messiest break-ups in sporting historical past, suffering from sordid tales of habit and infidelity.
Patterson, 77, has bought greater than 425 million books – greater than Stephen King or Dean Koontz – has written over 100 thrillers and revealed biographies of Jeffrey Epstein and John Lennon.
Now he has turned his consideration to a sporting legend who gained his first main match aged 21 by a record-breaking margin and remained the world No.1 for greater than a decade.
Definitely, that is how Woods’s former spouse Elin Nordegren (pictured) sees it. When golf-pro Jesper Parnevik launched the pair in 2001, Elin was working as an au pair.
The blue-eyed 21-year-old had ambitions to coach as a paediatric psychologist, was a eager beginner kickboxer and even a part-time swimsuit mannequin.
To inform the story of the disastrous night time in 2009 when Woods’s marriage imploded, Patterson has uncovered reside information broadcasts, the transcript of a 911 name and the preliminary assertion by a Florida freeway patrol officer.
Dramatic stuff. However for readers hoping to delve into each sordid element of what went unsuitable within the golfer’s life, Patterson admits that this isn’t the e-book for them.
‘I do not suppose you have to carry it up each time you discuss concerning the man,’ he informed me.
Nonetheless, Patterson’s account is compelling: simply after 2am on Friday, November 27, 2009, the night time after Thanksgiving, two law enforcement officials answering an emergency name discovered Woods on the bottom in entrance of his automobile, a black Cadillac Escalade, near his residence within the little city of Windermere, Florida.
James Patterson has bought greater than 425 million books.
The automotive had hit a fireplace hydrant at pace after which a tree. Listening to the crash, Elin had run from their home. She shattered at the least one automotive window with a golf membership and dragged her husband out of the wreckage.
By then, she already knew what the world would quickly uncover.
As Patterson tells it, Elin had by no means seen trigger to doubt her husband’s constancy throughout 5 years of marriage. She ignored salacious tales within the media.
‘A whole lot of issues they wrote are fabrications,’ Woods had claimed. ‘Sensationalism sells.’
However when she discovered a tabloid journal deliberate to show a relationship between Woods and a 34-year-old Las Vegas hostess named Rachel Uchitel, Elin demanded to know the reality.
Woods admitted realizing Uchitel, denied any suggestion of an affair and organized for the ladies to speak over the telephone.
Elin, who has two youngsters with Woods, gave the impression to be placated. However, when her husband took an Ambien sleeping capsule and fell asleep following their Thanksgiving dinner, she went by means of his cell phone log for the primary time. A whole lot of calls to Uchitel confirmed up.
Elin’s response was to telephone the mistress and inform her: ‘I do know every part.’
There have been extra messages on the log, together with from a 24-year-old Los Angeles cocktail waitress known as Jaimee Grubbs.
However when she discovered {a magazine} deliberate to show a relationship between Woods and a 34-year-old Las Vegas hostess named Rachel Uchitel (pictured), Elin demanded to know the reality.
There have been extra messages on the log, together with from a 24-year-old Los Angeles cocktail waitress known as Jaimee Grubbs (pictured).
Elin phoned her too, in accordance with Patterson, yelling: ‘You realize who that is, since you’re f***ing my husband!’
After she woke Woods and confronted him, he briefly locked himself within the lavatory, then fled the home and climbed into his Cadillac. He crashed inside 150 yards.
A media frenzy hit Windermere.
‘200 paparazzi,’ bemoaned the mayor, Gary Bruhn. ‘Paparazzi hanging from the timber. They needed to know what golf membership Elin used [to break the Cadillac’s windows].’
Particulars of the opposite medicines Woods might need been on, aside from Ambien and the highly effective pain-reliever Vicodin, are skinny. And police later stated that alcohol was not an element within the crash.
For his half, Woods launched a bland assertion: ‘After a lot soul looking, I’ve determined to take an indefinite break from skilled golf. I have to focus my consideration on being a greater husband, father and particular person.’
However the dam had damaged and, as Patterson notes, ‘an onslaught of porn stars, strippers, escorts and celebration women’ would come ahead to say they’d had intercourse with Woods, leaving Elin ’embarrassed for having been so deceived’.
Woods purchased her a $3 million yacht – as a result of she beloved scuba diving – however she’d made up her thoughts.
They divorced in August 2010, with Elin bagging a reported $100m settlement – and shared custody of their youngsters.
She’d needed extra – in spite of everything, Woods was value at the least six instances that determine – however she settled.
‘Cash does not make you content, however I’ve to be sincere: It’s making some issues simpler,’ she informed Individuals journal.
However for Patterson’s account, the scandal ends there. As an alternative, his e-book chronicles in unrivalled element how Woods rose to dominate {the golfing} world.
His first professional instructor, Rudy Duran, informed Golf Digest journal when Woods was simply six: ‘The child’s not distinctive. He is means past that.’
At 21, Woods turned the youngest golfer to win the Masters. He chalked up the bottom 72-hole rating ever, successful by 12 pictures – the largest margin ever seen.
In his prime, every part Woods did appeared superhuman… even fishing. He used a speargun, holding his breath for as much as 4 minutes as he swam underwater.
Immediately, Woods languishes at No. 874 on this planet – harmed irreparably by a string of non-public setbacks, all by now well-told:
Immediately, he languishes at No. 874 on this planet golf rankings – harmed irreparably by a string of non-public setbacks, all by now well-told:
There was Michelle Braun, the Las Vegas madam who claimed she organised wild intercourse events for Woods.
In keeping with her, the golf legend favored to jet into the desert city on what had been dubbed ‘f***-and-run’ journeys.
‘Each couple of months, he requested to have a number of women,’ Braun alleged in 2021. ‘It could possibly be as much as ten women at a time. He had a specific sort. He favored younger faculty cutie-girl-next-door varieties, ideally blonde.’
In the meantime, a former escort, Loredana Jolie, stated Woods favored to put on a swimsuit and role-play throughout intercourse, with the women appearing as his ‘little puppets’.
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Others have instructed that his mistress Rachel Uchitel additionally acted as a fixer for personal orgies.
A Vegas lodge concierge generally known as ‘Serge’ stated that Uchitel provided no matter was needed ‘from dinner, to nightclubs, to medicine, to ladies’.
He claimed Uchitel was paid a retainer by Woods, in all probability someplace between $10,000 to $15,000 a month plus ideas, for her providers.
One other lady who emerged from the woodwork in 2010 was porn star Veronica Siwik-Daniels, then 33 and recognized on display as Joslyn James.
‘Tiger pursued me and over time I fell in love with him,’ she stated. ‘He informed me he beloved me too.’
She turned pregnant by him twice, she stated – as soon as struggling a miscarriage and later having an abortion.
After which there have been the golf star’s more moderen confrontations with the police – and his ongoing issues with prescription drugs.
In Might 2017, a dishevelled Woods was found asleep on the wheel of his Mercedes exterior Palm Seashore, in a motorbike lane, with the engine nonetheless working.
A breathalyser check discovered no alcohol in his physique, however he admitted to being underneath the affect of treatment, which he blamed on again ache and a sleep problem. In October of that 12 months, Woods pleaded responsible to reckless driving.
In January 2021, he was concerned in one more crash, by which he suffered a damaged leg.
In January 2021, he was concerned in one more crash in Los Angeles (pictured), by which he suffered a damaged leg.
Driving 40mph over the restrict, Woods’s automotive rolled off a suburban Los Angeles street and right into a verge. The primary officer on the scene found him attempting to stuff the airbag again into the steering wheel, as if attempting in his confusion to cover proof of the accident.
An empty and unlabelled drugs bottle was recovered from the automobile.
‘[Woods] has had so many operations [to fix golfing injuries], and I believe he is had a lot ache, and you understand how that works,’ Patterson tells me. ‘Rapidly, you get – I do not wish to say “addicted”, however he actually used [pills] greater than he wanted to.’
Patterson, an avid golfer himself, says he stays optimistic about Tiger’s sporting future.
‘It is not gonna shock me if he wins one other match,’ he says. ‘You realize, simple-minded idiot that I’m, I need folks to have an excellent life. Why not?’
And even when Woods does not regain his peak, his 15-year-old son Charlie entered his first match on the PGA circuit this 12 months, whereas his daughter Sam, 17, has caddied for her father.
The identify Woods may nonetheless dominate golf once more.
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