The high price a young Tiger Woods paid to win — and the love he ...

In his new book, “Project Tiger: The Birth of Genius and the Price of Greatness,” Gavin Newsham zeroes in on the golf legend’s early years to understand both his athletic accomplishments and personal turmoil. “Tiger’s complex and painful trade-offs in the pursuit of greatness helped him rise to unparalleled achievement,” he writes, but “his success somehow dehumanized and, ultimately, immiserated him,” Here, an excerpt. Amidst the rising tide of his college golf career at Stanford, Tiger Woods’s personal life took a dramatic turn with the abrupt end of his four-year relationship with his first true love, Dina Gravell, one of the few people...