EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios has landed movie rights to the Kevin Cook dinner ebook The Tiger Slam: The Inside Story of the Best Golf Ever Performed. Reinaldo Marcus Inexperienced, whose formative story of the rise of Serena and Venus Williams gained the Greatest Actor Oscar for Will Smith with King Richard, will deal with the rise of Tiger Woods from youngster prodigy to one of many best athletes golf has ever produced.
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Scandal and damage has dominated the narrative of Woods’ later years – he simply underwent Achilles surgical procedure – however this film won’t inform that story. The ebook by the previous Sports activities Illustrated senior editor and Golf Journal editor-in-chief Cook dinner focuses on what remains to be thought of the best feat in golf historical past, referred to as The Tiger Slam.
Again in 1997, Woods gained the Masters by the most important margin ever, turning into the primary Black golfer to win a serious within the course of. The recognition of golf soared as his profession flourished and different golfers tried to maintain up. 4 years later, Woods returned to Augusta Nationwide, attempting for an unprecedented fourth consecutive Grand Slam win. The ebook informed the story by way of Woods’ caddie, coach, his idols and opponents, as Woods strove for perfection regardless of obstacles on and off the course that threatened to upend him. His mixture of athleticism, and the strategic genius and fearlessness drummed into him since he was a toddler led to heights many really feel won’t ever be achieved once more in golf.
Cook dinner, whose ebook was revealed by the Simon & Schuster imprint Avid Reader Press, is represented by CAA and David Halpern at David Halpern Literary Administration. Inexperienced is repped by WME and Granderson des Rochers.
