By the time he signed a brand-new five-year, $100 million handle Nike following the “Tiger Slam,” Woods and his dad, who as a teenager he had actually unquestionably called his “best friend” (and vice versa), had actually grown remote.
“Obviously there is far more that I could tell you about their disagreements, but I can’t,” Pete McDaniel stated. “I can’t talk about that. That’s one place I know not to go to.”
Joe Grohman, having a hard time to discover the ideal words, stated of Earl, “I love this guy. Earl was a great, great dad.” He stopped briefly. “I don’t know how to smooth this one over. I assure you that we were not the best role models when it came to honoring your marriage, I assure you.” Taking a beat to believe it over, Grohman sighed. “S–t,” he stated. “He’s not going to like this s–t.”
Earl, he described, utilized to offer personal lessons (at the course where Joe was an assistant pro) to really appealing blonde females, who, when the lesson was over, would sign up with Earl in his Winnebago for mixed drinks. Grohman shrugged guiltily. “And, you know, Tiger was at the course, and I was just every bit as bad.”
So there Tiger was, enjoying the 2 primary male figures in his life, both wed, “chasing skirts and bringing them to the course, and he’s seeing this…To expose him to that, I mean…yeah.”
Parr concurred, “That made a huge impact on his life.” She picked up Tiger was troubled by not simply the unfaithful, however by the reality that his daddy never ever even attempted to conceal his philandering from his child. Tiger enjoyed his mommy a lot, Parr continued, and he was just upset at his daddy.
