Review of Tiger Woods Heart Of A Champion

Introduction

In case you’ve been sealed in a coffin on a deserted island on the coast of New Zealand, Tiger Woods is the world’s latest 18-hole sensation. Woods has been a golfing phenomenon since early childhood, appearing sinking puts on the Mike Douglas Show in 1977, when he was barely out of the womb, Tiger has gone on to become one of the most wealthy, popular and talented golfers in history.

Video

Awful. Ratty beyond belief. Get out your VHS, it wipes the floor with this sub-par disc. (excuse the sub-par humor)

Audio

Voice over man crackles and crumbles in what is allegedly a Dolby 2.0. It seems more like badly recorded mono. As crap as the picture, at least this DVD keeps up a level of consistency.

Features

Not extra features as such, just excerpts from the program re-organized: interview footage with mom, dad, coach… etc. plus snatches of Tiger’s technique… golf technique that is. Some not uninteresting statistics and biographical facts for the obsessives, but not a lot else. And, as I said, some what presumptuous to refer to these as ‘extras’, but nevermind.

Conclusion

Few would deny that Woods, child protégé turned multi-millionaire, is something of a golf genius, to what extent is no doubt open for some (boring) debate. Sadly, he also seems totally transparent as a personality. Which makes constant media attention on his life positively beguiling. What, exactly, is there to attend to? Except the purchase of his latest mansion in the Hamptons or yet another PGA victory. Calm, but not exactly Zen, Tiger Woods seems simply dull, concentrated, like the world’s wealthiest snooker player. God forbid he possessed an iota of playfulness.

Wood’s obvious talent self-evident, the narrator’s insistence on brown-nosing even Wood’s most mundane of accomplishments is simply beyond comprehension. Particularly given the fact that the producers seem to have chosen the most boring man imaginable to deliver such staid narration. Also, its hard to know who exactly this program is aimed at: too golfy and rubbish for the casual video vulture, too rudimentary and patronizing for enthusiasts. One must assume this is a disc designed for the keen amateur. However, the shoddy production, muddled, confusing structure and extremely tedious sub-ESPN convention (its even still paragraphed by commercial break-ups, masquerading as chapter stops.)

Its limited appeal recognized, this disc probably won’t even cut the mustard for golf fiends, being such a flimsy mix and match piece of generic programming.