Feature Story: Tiger Woods

This story features Tiger Woods and all the drama and chaos that has surrounded him since his infamous night on Thanksgiving in 2009. The article covers all the details from the night when he crashed his Cadillac Escalade into a tree just outside his drive around 2 in the morning. This all came about because Tiger’s wife Elin Nordergen discovered that Tiger had been cheating on her with another woman after she had read through Tiger’s text messages. The story revolves around Tiger Woods and how he has handled the press and all the negative attention that has come his way since it became known that he had been in the middle of an infidelity scandal. This feature comes across an investigative feature along with historical because there is much to this story that you can never do enough investigating to come across revelations that you had never heard about before. Plus it is historic in a sense because our country has probably never seen such a superstar in the middle of a controversy that the whole country is invested in. The conflict in the feature is how Tiger Woods had been hiding for years all these women he had been cheating on his wife with and yet it had been kept a secret for so long. In addition, the conflict rises dramatically once it became public that Tiger had cheated on his wife, more than a dozen women came out over the next couple of weeks saying that had slept with Tiger while he had been married to Elin. We are still waiting to see how this story resolves because in Tiger’s case it seems that he can’t get back to where he was before this scandal broke on and off the golf course. I believe the main theme from this article proves embarrassment on Tiger’s part, along with sadness and disappointment from the Tiger’s fans and the public audience. We haven’t seen an athlete fall so far from grace so fast. Most athletes who have faced a scandal or a large time off from what they do best, they all were able to come back. However, Tiger still seems far away from where he should be. The author of this feature doesn’t necessarily give his point of view or opinion he mostly just talks about how Tiger is trying to come back into golf after dealing with all this negativity publicity and how he has handled everything that has been thrown his way.This story really grabs my interest because I follow Tiger Woods with a passion. I love the man’s competitive spirit and how he dominates his sport for so long. The story of Tiger’s downfall upsets me because I wanted to see him break Jack Nicklaus record of 18 majors and become known as the world’s greatest golfer. There are so many questions that I still have that I assume I will never figure out an answer for because Tiger has made sure that the majority of the juiciness of what he did and how it all went down will never get out to the public. But I do hope Tiger is able to make his comeback in 2012 and regain his throne as the world’s best golfer again.