His Father's Son: Earl and Tiger Woods Hardcover – October 28, 2010

Tom Callahan would seem to have an advantage no other journalist has...admission to Tiger Woods' inner-circle.His personal friendship with Earl and understanding of his background gives him synapses acutely sensitive to the influences that shaped both men and their relationship.Before anyone offers an opinion about Tiger or Earl, make sure they have read this book. If they haven't, they're just guessing.

What I expected.

Good portrait of Tiger that ends at a particular low point for him. Has a condescending tone to it, probably reflective of the time it was written

This book has nothing new in it. The story about Tiger and Earl before and after the scandal has been covered thousands of times and better than this. There were many typos in the Kindle editon, it is not very well written. This book has the distinction of being the first book to be deleted from my Kindle.

A++++++

This a Christmas gift for my Brother who is still a fan of Tiger Woods. Hope he likes it !!

The book arrived on time and in perfect shape! I love the book and would recommend it to anyone who loves golf AND Tiger Woods.

This book is about a year too early as it was clearly rushed into print to take advantage of the current Tiger publishing craze. Callahan was given a lot of access to the Woods family--and that access is a point of critique throughout the book. It's clear that Family Woods keeps an up-to-the day ledger of who's written what about Tiger--and who will be granted access in the future.Some of Callahan's most titillating material remains just that, especially the one-year estrangement between father and son due to Earl's sexual escapades--or so Callahan leads us to believe. It's also clear that Earl was a BS artist beyond compare as he loved to plant stories with favored reporters about Tiger's exploits on and off the course. His death, sadly for many reporters, stopped at least some interesting news coming out of the Woods camp that wasn't written, edited and delivered by the International Management Group.Finally, the organization of the book is just plain odd: Callahan's book proceeds chronologically based on the majors that Tiger wins. Moreover, his interludes with Ernie Els and other Tiger competition badly fractures the already strained arrangement.Read the book if you're a Tiger junkie. If you're not, wait for the second, revised edition.