Tiger Woods revealed himself as a phony long before scandals and books

By TOM SHANAHAN Let me first explain I initially came across Tigers Woods at the 1986 San Diego Junior World. I saw a 10-year-old brat and a pushy father, Earl. More on that later, but this was obviously long before his Shakespearean rise and fall. With that frame of reference, any book on Woods can only supplement my opinion of him and his father – bad guys and phonies – not change it. During the rise, friends sometimes…

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It’s time for Tiger Woods to fade away

By TOM SHANAHAN Tiger Woods missed something called the “secondary cut” on Saturday at Torrey Pines, a San Diego seaside course that has been his home away from home since his junior golf days. The secondary cut wasn’t prime beef. It was fat at the bottom of the leaderboard. Then Woods just faded from the scene as the tournament moved on to Sunday’s final round. Yes, for all you weepy-eyed golf writers and uninformed golf fans who only watch when…

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