“He says Tiger asked how they kept this up, year after year of stress, the long slog always outlasting the romance of a job title. ‘It’s a life,’ Shea remembers saying. ‘You just do it. You keep practicing.’ The following Sunday, Tiger Woods won the Buick Invitational in a playoff. Three months later, Earl died and everything started to fall apart.” As you can tell by those lines, ESPN’s Wright Thompson has written an amazing piece about the secret history of Tiger Woods.