Time Magazine discusses the current career of Tiger Woods and a new novel that's out called The Swinger.
From the piece...
In their roman à clef about Tiger Woods, Shipnuck and Bamberger thinly disguise as fiction plenty of gossip they've heard over their four combined decades covering the PGA Tour (SI, like TIME, is published by Time Inc.) But, Shipnuck assures me, Bamberger and he pulled that 342 number out of thin air, just to have a little fun.
What's more relevant to the story and to the reader — including, possibly, Woods — is the way Tree approaches his postscandal life. The authors' idealized version of Woods comes totally clean about his past mistakes. There are no staged interviews, no clipped or dodgy answers. Tree lets his guard down, even cracks a few jokes about the absurdity of his situation. He starts enjoying the company of his fellow players and — gasp — the fans. He wins that Masters, his game even gets better, and yes, fans fall for him all over again.
Real life, of course, is much more complicated. But reading The Swinger, you can't help wonder, What if Tiger were more like Tree?
And, talking about Tiger, is his caddy, the one he just let go of, planning on writing a tell-all book? The Huffington Post has more about that possibility, here.
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