Tiger Woods — the greatest golfer of his generation, and perhaps ever — has by all accounts chosen a strong title for his upcoming memoir. Woods has selected Back as a title, and back to top form in golf he most certainly is.
The title also hints at the physical challenges he’s endured, which often struck his back, although his knees have taken a beating too.
The 2019 Masters champion announced that his book will correct many of the “books and articles and TV shows about me, most filled with errors, speculative and wrong,” according to his statement.
The Woods book is being presented as a “candid and intimate narrative” — but there is nothing in the announcement that indicates whether Woods will address the rumors that he has benefited from performance-enhancing drugs like HGH.
Yet fans and followers of Woods believe he’ll be eager to challenge that false narrative, too. As Golf Magazine wrote in addressing the Woods PED speculation, “Woods emphatically denies that he has ever used performance-enhancing drugs.”
Yet the same article reports 24 percent of 71 players on the PGA Tour that they surveyed believe Woods did take performance-enhancing drugs. Those are just opinions, of course, hardly evidence. And that still leaves 76 percent who believe Woods’s claim. The highly competitive Woods would seemingly want to vanquish all his doubters in the book. It’s a subject a truly candid memoir would probably hit on.
Woods was linked to a controversial sports medicine doctor in 2009, but nothing implicated Woods in the taking of PEDs.
