Tiger Woods Research Paper

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Tiger Woods was an American golfer who enjoyed one of the greatest amateur career in history of the gone and became the dominant player on the professional Circuit in the late 1990s and in the 2000s. In 1997 Woods became the first golfer of either African American or Asian descent to win the Master Tournament, one of the most- prestigious events in the sport. Woods became the first player to win consecutively the four major tournaments of golf- the Masters. Woods was the child of an African American father and a Thai mother. At age 15, he became the youngest winner of the U.S. Junior Amature Championship. Woods won another 13 majors and was named the PGA player of the year 10 times over the next 12 years, but he struggled to regain his top form after personal problems surfaced in 2009.
One thing that separates Tiger from most golfers is his ability to set goals. Although many young athletes play sports to please their parents and coaches. Or to impress their friends, Tiger had always been self- motivated. One goal Tiger set when he was in junior high school was to take more control over his career. Both him and his father knew that if he wanted to be professional golfer someday, he also nee3ded to learn how to manage his own affairs.When he was in elementary school his father scheduled his
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With a gallery of 3,000 people watching his every move, Tiger took a smooth backswing and then turned his body back toward the ball, snapping his wrists hands. He smashed a High drive that seemed to hang forever above the mansions that line the terraced hillside above Riviera. With that swing Tiger Woods officially became the youngest golfer ever to appear in a PGA event, the 1992 Los Angeles Open. While the rest of his sophomore classmates at Western High School were studying geometry and Julius Caesar, sixteen-year- old Tiger was taking on the pros of