Astonishing new book labels Tiger Woods ‘pathological narcissist’

Tiger Woods was something of a cheapskate, claims a new book written by Curt Samson. The book claims how Woods’ personality hardened and changed dramatically by 2007, when his game and health began to struggle, along with his off-course issues in his personal life, reports golfmagic.com. 

“All of his human relationships were transactional,” Garrity says of Woods in the book. “If you couldn’t help him achieve his goals, he had no use for you. He’d walk past and look right through you.”
The book also explains how Haney was forced into paying for his own accommodation while travelling with Woods, despite him earning more than $700 million in prize money, sponsorships and investments between 2004 and 2010. 

Sampson also refers back to Woods’ string of extramarital affairs that led to a personal and professional fall from grace. 

“He fell from such a high place that he was halfway to earth before we mere mortals even recognised him as one of us,” writes Sampson.

Sampson then reflects on Woods’ monumental comeback victory at The Masters earlier this year, claiming it was a win that coincided very much with a change in his personality to one that had become much more measured and respectful.

The author places Woods’ defeats and triumphs in the context of historic comebacks by other notable golfers such as Ben Hogan.

Meanwhile, Tiger Woods was expected to pick his first President’s Cup team as captain last night.

Zach Johnson was already in bed when he got a text message around midnight on Tuesday. Another from the same person greeted him at day’s break Wednesday. Both were from Tiger Woods.

“He’s fully invested,” Johnson said of Woods’ role as captain for the U.S. in the upcoming Presidents Cup at Royal Melbourne in Australia.

Johnson would know. He’s one of Woods’ three vice-captains for the December 12 to 15 bout with the Internationals, along with Fred Couples and Steve Stricker, who will captain the U.S. in next year’s Ryder Cup.

Seems Woods likes to talk all things team when it comes to these annual contests the Stars & Stripes partake in. And the frequency of the calls and texts has increased of late, as Woods was expected to make four captain’s picks yesterday to fill out his squad.

But Woods’ frequent communication goes back a few years. Johnson learned about Woods’ appetite for team play beginning in 2014 when he and others on the Ryder Cup team started getting texts from Woods, who was across the Atlantic in Florida nursing injuries.

The same scenario played out in 2015 at the Presidents Cup in South Korea, when Johnson and others on the team received tons of texts from Woods. The phone didn’t go silent when Woods was a vice captain at the 2016 Ryder Cup and the 2017 Presidents Cup, and even when he played in the 2018 Ryder Cup.

“He’s very thoughtful and cerebral,” said Johnson, who spoke at media day Wednesday for the upcoming RSM Classic at Sea Island Golf Club.

“He started texting us in 2014 and then he really got into it in 2015. And in 2016 at the Ryder Cup, he worked. I remember (in 2016), I’d get these late evening texts and calls and you’d listen to him process things.”

Woods talked strategy like no other, Johnson said, as he considered various pairings, what time certain players would play, what the temperature would be, how the course was playing and would play, who can chip off tight lies, who the best bunker players were.

Basically, Johnson said, he thinks of everything. The same is true as he approached his four discretionary selections.

Johnson danced around when asked whom Woods would pick, only saying, with a smile, that the captain was impressed by a guy named Tiger Woods, who won the Zozo Championship in Japan two weeks ago. Yes, Woods could pick himself. But whatever his picks will be, Johnson is confident they will be the right choices.