Tiger Woods The Rise And Fall (2010)

Presenter and journalist Jacques Peretti directs a one-off documentary analysing the rise and fall of the flawed golf genius. Meeting the people who really know Tiger's story, Jacques attempts to try and understand his behaviour.

He investigates the making of Tiger, how corporate America influenced the brand and the man, what drove him to become the world's first billion-dollar sporting icon, and why it all came crashing down.

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/tiger-woods-the-rise-and-fall/episode...

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From the moment he was born Tiger was subjected to the immense ambitions of his father, a Vietnam veteran who envisaged great things for his son, basing his methods for success on a bizarre mix of psychological experiments designed for the military and an intensive training regime that saw the young prodigy putting for up to eight hours straight. In later life Woods would speak of experiences not entirely dissimilar to those of characters in The Manchurian Candidate, citing periods where he had “black out moments”, unable to recall taking the shot but fully aware of his having been there. What sounds like tabloid media fantasy is made to sound disconcertingly probable by Peretti who ensures degrees of credibility in securing the anecdotes and reflections of his childhood coach who confirms these assertions.

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