New "Big Miss" Reveal: Tiger Reluctantly Shares His Sugar Free Popsicles

Seeing as review copies won't be made available, it's hard to gauge the impact of the latest drips from The Big Miss, this time by Naila-Jean Meyers and Julie Bosman writing for the New York Times. They do not say how they acquired their copy of the book or why they opened their story with the popsicle story.

“When we were watching television after dinner, he’d sometimes go to the refrigerator to get a sugar-free popsicle,” Haney writes in his book “The Big Miss,” which comes out March 27. “But he never offered me one or ever came back with one, and one night I really wanted one of those popsicles. But I found myself sitting kind of frozen, not knowing what to do next. I didn’t feel right just going to the refrigerator and taking one, and I kind of started laughing to myself at how hesitant I was to ask Tiger for one. It actually took me a while to summon the courage to blurt out, ‘Hey, Bud, do you think I could have one of those popsicles?’"

Woods said Haney could get a popsicle. But the story is one of several in Haney’s book that offer glimpses into Woods’s personality, which was been walled off to the public throughout his career.

Throughout might be a bit of a stretch.

More interesting to me was this revelation from the Times writers about what they found in the book.

The book does not shy away from the scandal that shook Woods’s career. That scandal and its aftermath make up the bulk of one of the book’s eight chapters. And the book has a number of observations about Woods’s marriage to Elin Nordegren.

I sense more tightness in the Achilles! Or is it swelling?

The original excerpt, which is quite good, can be read here.