Getting up close to Tiger Woods for new HBO documentary

“There are people in the documentary who are in our book, but they weren’t accessible to us for the book,” says Jeff Benedict

CHANGED MAN: Tiger Woods and his son Charlie wait to putt on the 12th at the PNC Championship last month. Tiger Woods is a different person from the star that emerged 20 years ago. Picture: Phelan M Ebenhack/AP

HBO aired the first part of its Tiger Woods documentary last night in the US, a deep dive exploring the intriguing story of one of the planet’s most famous sportspeople.

Jeff Benedict co-wrote the book on which the documentary is based, and he and his co-author Armen Keteyian are executive producers of the documentary.