Tiger Woods has committed another major PR blunder as thousands, if not millions, of people read an article which he was hoping people would not.
In the December issue of Golf Digest magazine, veteran journalist Dan Jenkins wrote an article titled "My (Fake) Interview With Tiger", with a subheading of "Or how it plays out in my mind".
But Woods did not see the funny side of the jokey piece of fiction and labelled it "a grudge-fuelled piece of character assassination".
Woods took to theplayerstribune.com, hoping that people had not seen the article in question, to launch his complaint at the article, but only served to make tens of thousands of people that had no intention of reading the article to check it out.
Woods, writing on the site set up by former New York Yankees baseball star Derek Jeter, said: "Did you read Dan Jenkins' interview with me in the latest Golf Digest? I hope not. Because it wasn't me."
The 14-time major winner seemed to continually mistake the parody for written fact, referring to the piece as a 'fabricated interview' among others.
Woods added: "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-fuelled piece of character assassination. Journalistically and ethically, can you sink any lower?
"Whether it's misreported information or opinions I think are way off base, I let plenty of things slide. But this time I can't do that. The sheer nastiness of this attack, the photos and how it put false words in my mouth just had to be confronted."
However, 84-year-old journalist Jenkins hit back at Woods on Twitter, by saying: "My next column for Tiger: defining parody and satire. I thought I let him off easy."
My next column for Tiger: defining parody and satire. I thought I let him off easy: http://t.co/E7e9imSKwO
— Dan Jenkins (@danjenkinsgd) November 18, 2014
