Tiger Woods speaks of family first in NZ television interview

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A New Zealand TV channel will broadcast on Tuesday a recent interview with Tiger Woods in which he said his family comes first.

A New Zealand TV channel will broadcast on Tuesday a recent interview with Tiger Woods in which the world's best golfer said his family comes first.

In a trailer for the interview, conducted in Australia last month before Woods on Friday admitted to infidelity in his marriage, sports broadcaster Murray Deaker asks the golfer: "Family first and golf second. Always be like that?"    

"Always," Woods replied.

The interview, for the pay-television Sky network, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, was arranged by Woods' New Zealand caddie Steve Williams. 

Local media reported on Sunday that the broadcaster had intended to show the interview on Dec. 25, but brought it forward after Woods on Friday said he would be taking an "indefinite break" from the game. 

In the trailer Deaker said it was "the last interview he (Woods) did before his life blew up in his face". 

"We have to be conscious of the fact it was conducted before all this blew up," Deaker told the Sunday Star Times newspaper. "And given what we now know, everyone will draw their own conclusions to his answers."