Tiger Woods did not take kindly to a satirical interview Dan Jenkins published in the latest edition of Golf Digest, and he wants to let everyone know about it.
Woods took to Derek Jeter's The Players' Tribune on Tuesday, sharing his distaste for the piece.
"Jenkins faked an interview, which fails as parody, and is really more like a grudge-fueled piece of character assassination," Woods wrote. "Journalistically and ethically, can you sink any lower?"
The piece took aim at Woods in several ways, suggesting the former world No. 1 is cheap, likes to dismiss people who work for him and treats his friends poorly.
"All athletes know that we will be under scrutiny from the media. But this concocted article was below the belt," Woods wrote.
Jenkins hasn't held Woods in regard for years, thought not to care for the 14-time major winner who has not given Jenkins much face time in his two-plus-decade career in the golf spotlight.
"Frustration or resentment because I have not been more available to him should not give him a license for an underhanded attack on me as an athlete, as a professional and as a person," Woods said.
However, this isn't the first time Jenkins has parodied Woods, albeit it is typically not in the form of a fake interview, even if advertised on the magazine's December cover as such. The publication has been more vocal in its critiques of Woods, he feels, since parting ways with the magazine as a playing editor in 2011.
"Funny they didn’t think this poorly of me when I worked with the magazine," Woods said.
Woods, who will return from back ailments at his Hero World Challenge on Dec. 4, wrote that he's accustomed to what he feels are incorrect reports or vicious columns -- a certain 2013 column by Golf Channel analyst Brandel Chamblee about his handling about a rules situation at that year's Masters comes to mind -- but that this Jenkins piece went too far in his view.
"The sheer nastiness of this attack, the photos and how it put false words in my mouth just had to be confronted," he said.
Perhaps all true, but Woods' retort merely lends more curiosity to a print piece plenty of people may have missed were it not for this response. At the outset of Woods' condemnation, he asked his audience if they had caught Jenkins' most recent work. He then says he hopes not. Many will now that he's broached the subject of the line between satirical humor and a vicious hit-piece, however fake it was.
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