One day,” Tiger Woods called “false” interviews with journalists, one day, saying, “I was released by the murder of the character.”
An extraordinary career on the professional Tiger Woods Golf course made it public. It is not surprising that he has been interviewing thousands of years, including fictional fictional fictional fictional in December.
This fake interview was published in the print edition of Golf Digest by journalist Dan Jenkins in December 2014. The piece was intended as a parody, but for Tiger Woods there was nothing funny about it. In fact, the 15-time major champion demanded a public apology from the media.
The interview was available before publication, and Tiger Woods ran an article about it in The Players’ Tribune titled “Not True, Not Funny.” Woods claimed Jenkins’ article was “below parlance.”
Here’s some of what Tiger Woods had to say about the fake interview:
“Jenkins doctored the interview, but this is an incitement to defamation, not a parody. Can you go any lower in terms of journalism and ethics…?
“This fabricated story was completely unknown to us. Well-intentioned satire is one thing, but no honest writer would put a person in a position where they have to publicly deny treating their friends badly, liking to fire people, cheating out tips, or any other insult.
“The truth is, Jenkins has no idea what I think or feel about what he claims to know, so he must have made it all up. Being disappointed or hurt that I wasn’t more available to him shouldn’t give him the right to launch petty attacks against me.
An article by Dan Jenkins published in December 2014 stated in the title that it was a fake interview (“A (Fake) Interview with Tiger, Or as it unfolds in his mind”). The article featured images of a man resembling Tiger Woods in various poses.
During the “interview,” Jenkins directly addressed Woods’ then-6-year streak of not winning a major. It takes 4 years and 10 months for Woods to win the next major (THE MASTERS, 2019).
However, between the last two major (2008-2019), Woods won 15 PGA tournaments and finished the top 10 with major championships. Jenkins also attributed Woods (with the alleged intention to parody him), such expressions as he likes to dismiss people, that he forgot about his other brand about \ ‘meara, and that he called Sergio Garcia a \ “Crybaby, \” among others.
Dan Jenkins was an important American writer and journalist who died in 2019. He has written more than 20 books, mostly about sports, and is a regular contributor to Sports Illustrated.
Jenkins was also well-known as an amateur golfer. He played golf at Texas Christian University and was inducted into the Texas Golf Hall of Fame in 1993 and the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2012.
