Tiger Woods in the Vanity Fair February 2010


Tiger Woods appears shirtless on the cover of the February issue of Vanity Fair, photographed pre-scandal by Annie Leibovitz. There is a full portfolio inside and never-before-seen photos of a raw, unguarded Woods, according to a press release. "When Tiger Woods finally fell from his pedestal-the car crash, the angry wife, the tales of kinky extramarital sex, the link to a controversial sports doctor-it was one of the greatest recorded drops in popularity of any nonpolitical figure," Pulitzer Prize winner Buzz Bissinger, author of Friday Night Lights reflects on Woods's downfall and what his future may hold. "In the end it was the age-old clash of image versus reality.. He deluded himself into thinking he could be something that he wasn't: untouchable. The greatest feat of his career is that he managed to get away with it for so long in public, the bionic man instead of the human one who hit a fire hydrant."