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 Jenkins, who was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in
2011, wrote the piece for Golf Digest and among various topics he
took aim at Woods' reputation as a bad tipper, his failed marriage
and his six-year title drought in the majors.
Woods has rarely taken exception to negative articles previously but
on Tuesday he responded in a column on Derek Jeter's website, The
Players Tribune.
"Did you read Dan Jenkins' interview with me in the latest Golf
Digest? I hope not. Because it wasn't me," Woods wrote in a piece
entitled 'Not True, Not Funny".
"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?"
Woods went on to say he felt he had a good sense of humor and was
"more than willing" to laugh at himself.
"In this game, you have to," he wrote. "I've given lots of
interviews to journalists in all that time, more than I could count,
and some have been good and some not so much.
"All athletes know that we will be under scrutiny from the media.
But this concocted article was below the belt," said Woods, who has
not played since his missed cut at the PGA Championship in August as
he recovers from a back injury.
Jenkins wrote his comments in a column titled 'My (Fake) Interview
With Tiger', followed by an asterisk and the sub-title: 'Or how it
plays out in my mind'.
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In the article, the 84-year-old Jenkins 'questioned' Woods on the
car crash in late 2009 that led to revelations about his multiple
extramarital affairs and the break-up of his marriage.
Q. You haven't talked about it, but after all of those New York Post
front pages during the scandal, what's the moral of your story?
A. That's easy. Don't get caught.
Q. You named your yacht Privacy. Because you're a worldwide
celebrity, do you really expect and demand privacy?
A. I thought about renaming it Serenity, but that pretty much went
out the door when the nine-iron hit the window of the Escalade.
After Woods had published his response, Jenkins tweeted: "My next
column for Tiger: defining parody and satire. I thought I let him
off easy."
(Reporting by Mark Lamport-Stokes in Los Angeles; Editing by Greg
Stutchbury)
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