Chasing Tiger: The Tiger Woods Reader

by Glenn Stout

Tiger Woods has been in the public eye ever since he was 3 years old. Since then, he has pursued his goal of becoming the greatest golfer ever. Along the way, Tiger has stirred up plenty of controversy, showing himself far from immune to gaffes & miscues. Here is a series of profiles, commentary, & dispatches from the sites of some of Tiger's greatest triumphs. We get an unfiltered glimpse of Woods both on & off the golf course. From Jaime Diaz's report on Tiger's first victory at the U.S. Junior Amateur champ. to his late-season slump in 2001, top American & British writers, incl. Frank Deford, Dan Jenkins, Maureen Dowd, Ellen Goodman, Charles P. Pierce, & Tom Boswell offer their unique insights into the most popular athlete in the world today.

213 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

Author of the Jazz Age true crime yarn Tiger Girl and the Candy Kid: America's Original Gangster Couple (2021), NY Times bestseller The Pats: An Illustrated History of the New England Patriots (2018) The Selling of the Babe (2016), Fenway 1912 (2012) and Young Woman the Sea: How Trudy Ederle Conquered the English Channel and Inspired the World (2009) currently set up and in development as a major motion picture for Disney +. (ETA 2021). Since becoming a full-time writer in 1993, Glenn Stout has written, ghostwritten or edited 100 books representing sales in excess of two million copies. Stout is also author of The Cubs, The Dodgers, Nine Months at Ground Zero, Yankees Century, Red Sox Century, and has served as Series Editor of The Best American Sports Writing since its inception. Glenn also consults on a variety of writing projects (books, proposals, Longform narratives). He has won both the Seymour Medal and Ritter Award (twice) by the Society for American Baseball Research, and Yes Se Can! made the 2012 Amelia Bloom list for feminist content. He lives in Vermont.