Inside Tiger Woods’ life involving speech trauma, sex addiction, religion and £1bn fortune
For more than a decade, Tiger Woods was considered the best golfer in the world – but he didn’t achieve that status overnight. It took the American a lifetime of hard work and determination to even make the PGA Tour, let alone to become an all-time great.
Woods faced numerous obstacles along the way. Most of them were golf related, but he also had to overcome personal difficulties dating back to his childhood.
Before rewriting the history books of the sport, Woods had to overcome a stuttering problem that he had was he was young.
Speaking to 60 Minutes in 2006, Woods described it as “getting lost somewhere between the brain and the mouth”. He said he worked his tail off to overcome the stuttering. It basically came down to practicing.
He recalls taking a class for two years to help him with his stuttering, but in a more obscure way of working on the problem. That challenge became a motivating factor for Woods that pushed him to work harder to achieve his goals – including on the golf course.
