The recent documentary on HBOMax about Tiger was pretty good. Most of it is about stuff that most of us already heard about over and over years ago, but it reminded me that his father did him no favors with regard to building him up to be the next Ghandi in the world.
It made me ponder what Tiger's life/career might've been like had he had a different father. Would he have been even better than he was? Maybe not as good? Did Earl's incredibly unrealistic expectations of his son, many that went far beyond golf, help Tiger or hinder him?
Earl was many things to Tiger, good examples in many ways that helped launch his son's belief in himself as a golfer. But Earl's example as a husband to Tiger's mother?
Father teaches son, "do as I say, not as I do."
Son listens, but also OBSERVES.
Later on, son becomes his father.
It's a tale old as time itself, but it generally doesn't garner much attention unless it happens to be about arguably the greatest sports icon in the history of the sport he represents.
