7231: Tiger Woods — The Building and Breaking of Golf’s Greatest Prodigy | pplpod

Tiger Woods was engineered from birth to dominate golf. His father put a club in his hands before he could walk, trained him with military psychological techniques, and produced the most dominant golfer in history. Then the machine broke. Scandal, injury, surgery, and public humiliation dismantled the image, but Woods kept coming back.

This episode traces Woods from his father’s structured childhood program through his record-shattering career, the 2009 scandal that ended his marriage, and the improbable 2019 Masters victory that proved his resilience.

  • He won his first Masters by twelve strokes at age twenty-one, the largest margin in tournament history
  • He held all four major championship trophies simultaneously, dubbed the Tiger Slam
  • His 2009 scandal and subsequent divorce became one of the most publicized personal crises in sports history
  • He won the 2019 Masters after multiple back surgeries, completing one of sports’ greatest comebacks

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