Tiger Woods has slammed golf writer Dan Jenkins for writing a parody piece about him in Golf Digest's December issue.
Jenkins wrote a fake Q&A session called "My (Fake) Interview With Tiger - or how it plays out in my mind" in which he asked and answered questions all by himself. Jenkins imagined asking Woods why he hadn't fired his agent Mark Steinberg.
Woods, in Jenkins' fake interview, answered, "I'll probably get around to it. I like to fire people." He also asked Woods about being a bad tipper in the fake chat, to which the golfer answered, "So let 'em go find a better job."
Well, yesterday, Woods fired back at Jenkins in an article he wrote for The Player's Tribune, which read:
"Did you read Dan Jenkins' interview with me in the latest Golf Digest? I hope not. Because it wasn't me. It was some jerk he created to pretend he was talking to me. That's right, Jenkins faked an interview, which fails as parody, and is really more like a grudge-fueled piece of character assassination."
"Journalistically and ethically, can you sink any lower? ... This concocted article was below the belt. Good-natured satire is one thing, but no fair-minded writer would put someone in the position of having to publicly deny that he mistreats his friends, takes pleasure in firing people and stiffs on tips - and a lot of other slurs, too."
After reading Wood's article, Jenkins took to Twitter and wrote:
"My next column for Tiger: defining parody and satire. I thought I let him off easy."
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