Tiger Woods
Mark Coles looks at the life of Tiger Woods, one of the most successful golfers of all time.
βOne of the greatest comebacks in sporting historyβ.
Thatβs how US journalists reacted to golfer Tiger Woods winning the PGA Tour Championship in Atlanta last weekend.
Having struggled with injury and the fall-out from marital infidelity, Woods hadnβt won for five years.
Many thought he was finished.
This weekend, as the comeback kid joins the US Ryder Cup team in Paris, Mark Coles looks back on Tiger Woodsβ life and career.
We hear from former friends and associates, his first ever golf coach as well as the man who taught him to dive.
Thereβs archive of the young Tiger Woods making his first ever TV appearance age two and his late father, Earl β the man credited with turning his son into one of golfβs greatest ever players.
And βthe Voice of Golfβ - the veteran ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ commentator and player Peter Alliss gives us his unique take on the man many call the greatest athlete of the early twenty first century.
Producers Smita Patel & Darin Graham
Editor Emma Rippon
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- Sat 29 Sep 2018 19:00ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
- Sun 30 Sep 2018 05:45ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
- Sun 30 Sep 2018 17:40ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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