HBO’s new documentary Tiger explores the life and career of legendary golfer Tiger Woods, whose meteoric rise into super-stardom was matched by a dramatic fall from grace after his serial infidelity came to light in 2009. A national sensation, Woods was on TV hitting a golf ball from the age of 2 with the fierce encouragement of late father Earl Woods, with whom Tiger had an intensely close relationship until his death in 2006. In the years that followed Tiger’s cheating scandal, the end of his marriage to model Elin Nordegren, and a brief stint at a rehab facility for sex addiction, the public grappled with how Tiger had seemingly changed from the sweet young golf prodigy growing up in the spotlight to a brash superstar with an untold number of mistresses. And many began to point the finger at Tiger’s father Earl, who had his own history of infidelity, as a possible reason for why this change came about. According to another man from Tiger’s childhood, however, Earl was hardly the only bad influence.