EXCLUSIVE: After landing film rights earlier this year to the Kevin Cook book The Tiger Slam , chronicling the rise of golfer Tiger Woods, and onboarding King Richard ‘s Reinaldo Marcus Green to direct, Amazon MGM Studios has found a writer for the adaptation in Alex Convery .

No stranger either to Amazon or to remarkable true stories from the world of athletics, Convery comes to the project following his work on Air , the Black List-nominated spec on Nike’s bid to sign a young Michael Jordan, which Ben Affleck directed for the studio to critical acclaim.

Published in December 2024, The Tiger Slam delivers a gripping, inside-the-ropes account of an astonishing streak of victories that left Woods’ rivals scrambling to keep up. The book specifically hones in on a historic ru

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