DISAPPOINTING: Early Reviews Of HBO’s Tiger Documentary Are Here, And They’re Not Good

A few weeks ago we posted an article highlighting one of the newly-released trailers for HBO’s upcoming Tiger documentary about Tiger Woods. For anyone who missed it, here’s the trailer:

Tiger (2021): Official Teaser | HBO

From HBO Sports comes a two-part documentary illuminating in sweeping scope and vast detail the rise, fall, and epic comeback of global icon Tiger Woods. Tiger, a new two-part documentary is coming January 2021 to HBO Max.

It goes without saying, EVERY golfer gets hyped about anything Tiger, and after seeing how incredible The Last Dance documentary come out, who wouldn’t want to see a quality retelling of one of golf’s greatest player’s greatest moments.

Unfortunately, early reviews of the 2-part documentary are making it sound like HBO put together a hit piece instead of a story of greatness…

My thing with the doc: it portrays Tiger’s life as a total tragedy.

Guy has 15 majors, 82 wins, kids who adore him, hundreds of millions in the bank, a foundation that’s helped 10 million kids…there have been very dark moments, of course—but not exactly Todd Marinovich here. https://t.co/aDyHLQ6Hl6

— Daniel Rapaport (@Daniel_Rapaport) January 5, 2021

Daniel Rapaport, a Golf Digest staff writer, is among many others who were lucky enough to see Tiger before its January 10th debut and, as the tweet alludes to, was severely disappointed, if not insulted, by the final product, going as far as claiming that it feels as if it was “written by spurned lovers and grudge holders.”

Joel Beall, one of Rapaport’s at Golf Digest, was particularly disappointed is that, while we all reminisce about Tiger’s dominating stretch that lasted approximately a decade starting in the late 90s, some of Tiger’s most recent and career defining achievements, including his first win in five years at the Tour Championship is largely glazed over and that his 2019 Masters triumph is crammed into the finale.

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Simply put, these aren’t glowing reviews that many of us were hoping for after being so amped up after watching the trailers. But in light of the fact that Tiger is still playing in 2021, let’s hope that there’s plenty of Red Sunday moments left so someone else can put together the Tiger documentary the golfing world can fawn over.

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