Being EldricK T. Woods

It's been 10 years since the silence around Tiger Woods' adultery has been broken with the loud bang of a golf club shattering glass.
What are the influences in his life that led to this behavior? Can anybody live up to the enormous expectations and standards that were imposed on him by his parents and the public? Would we have had the strength to act differently in his very place? And who besides the former Mrs. Woods has the right to be offended?

11:07 The Sound of Silence

music:
The Sound of Silence – Emma Louise & Husky Gawenda on RocKwiz, 2012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=relfz3ZFsZA&feature=youtu.be&t=27

sources:
Charlie Rose
May 7, 1997
https://charlierose.com/videos/10188

tv documentary
“Tiger Woods: The Rise and Fall”
for Channel 4
written & presented by Jacques Peretti, 2010
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDArL4zYfwg

biography
“Tiger Woods”, 2018
co-written by Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian
ISBN 9781501126420
CNBC interview, March 28, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT7EGvcCcdQ

further reading:
Joe Grohman on Tiger's time at the Naval Golf Club, 2019:
https://www.msn.com/en-au/sport/golf/exclusive-tiger-woods-mentor-tells-how-the-teen-prodigy-endured-sickening-racism-and-was-thrown-out-of-the-golf-club-where-he-would-putt-for-eight-hours-a-day-practicing-until-the-course-turned-dark-to-become-the-greatest-golfer-of-all-time/ar-BBWe575

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