By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — This was in the winter of ’97. Tiger Woods was a pro only a few months but long enough to win a tournament that let everyone know of his coming greatness. He was in the interview tent at Riviera for the Nissan/L.A. Open, where there were so many people trying to get in that seats had to be assigned.
A woman reporter from one of those TV gossip programs, the type that deal with celebrities and hearsay, was asking Tiger about his social life. When he dismissed her inquiry, saying, “I don’t talk about those things,” she screamed out, “But you have to. We need to know.”
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