The Man Who Made Tiger Woods Rich, Hughes Norton has Agreed to signed a contract deal for charlie woods.
Then, Woods sacked Norton as his legal representative two years after they had signed the original agreement. Then he was sacked by Mark McCormack from IMG. Norton then vanished from sight for 25 years.
A new book, Rainmaker, deftly explores what transpired between then and now. George Peper, a former editor of Golf Magazine, contributed to the writing. This narrative is tough to stop once you start reading it. Dollar signs and other agreements are exposed. It’s the insider information that golfers have been dying to know.
Norton went to Cypress, California, to meet the Woods family after returning from a business trip to Los Angeles. Tiger was just thirteen. Since it would have violated NCAA regulations and it was obvious that Tiger was going to college, Norton made no offers of money or deals. However, since Tiger’s future was a member of Earl Woods’ favorite subjects, talking with him about it was simple.
Norton was certain that Tiger would be something exceptional, just like Tiger’s father was, even if several of his coworkers thought it was crazy for him to spend so much time with another person so young. His mother had to force him to remove over 100 trophies from his room because he had established himself conquering throughout numerous junior competitions.
Norton maintained contact with the Woods family after that first introduction, and since the father Woods attended his son to all the major junior competitions, he finally hired Earl Woods as a junior talent scout for IMG. Earl might have identified one or two more prospects, but Norton’s primary motivation was his knowledge that the Woods family required additional funds to cover Tiger’s extensive travel expenses. The sole manner in which he could assist was by hiring Earl Woods.
Everything came together the night before Woods became a professional, just before the Greater Milwaukee Open in 1996. Norton received offers with various escalating conditions from Titleist for $20 million and Nike for $40 million. At that point, Norton was the forehead
