David Carr analyzes Tiger's relationship with the media and reveals this episode:

Rob Tannenbaum wrote a piece about Mr. Woods for TV Guide in 2001. The magazine had agreed not to make race a subject of the interview, but Mr. Woods brought it up independently. Even that was not allowed.

“His handler walked over and the interview ended immediately,” Mr. Tannenbaum said. “Tiger just got up and left the room, and no amount of explaining that I had not breached the agreement was going to get Tiger to come back and sit down.” (Mr. Tannenbaum wrote up what he had, including Mr. Woods’s father, Earl Woods, saying he hoped his son didn’t marry anytime soon: “Let’s face it, a wife can sometimes be a deterrent to a good game of golf.”)

“Doing a story on him was not an enjoyable journalistic experience, to say the least,” Mr. Tannenbaum said by phone. “The thing that it most reminded me of was the few times when I have had an assignment in Eastern European countries, and it was almost as if an attaché from Moscow had been assigned to me.”