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Twenty-five years ago, Tiger Woods achieved the greatest feat in golf history: the “Tiger Slam.” Now, for the first time, the award-winning author of Tommy’s Honor delivers a riveting account of Tiger at his most brilliant—dominating the game in a way we will never see again.
In 1997, as every schoolchild knows, Tiger Woods won the Masters by the largest margin in history, becoming the first Black player to win a major championship. Four years later, the world watches with breathless anticipation as he returns to Augusta National, aiming for a milestone no other golfer has ever achieved: four professional Grand Slam triumphs in a row.
In The Tiger Slam, Kevin Cook delivers a gripping, inside-the-ropes account of an astonishing streak of victories that left Woods’s rivals scrambling to keep up. Readers will hear from many of golf ’s biggest names—Tiger’s caddie, his coach, his opponents, his idols, and others, all offering fresh insight into the electrifying highs of his victories and the obstacles on and off the course that threatened his relentless pursuit of perfection.
We join Tiger at the beginning of his Slam: the 2000 US Open at Pebble Beach. In a notoriously grueling tournament designed to bring golfers to their knees, who could even dream of winning by a record margin of fifteen strokes? Tiger could. We follow him to the hallowed grounds of St. Andrews a few weeks later for the 2000 Open Championship, where he transforms his game to meet the singular demands of the links. Still only twenty-four, he leaves the Old Course as the youngest player ever to complete a career Grand Slam.
We proceed with Tiger to the 2000 PGA Championship at Valhalla, where he fights a spectacular Sunday duel with a player he grew up idolizing, ending with a playoff that changes the course of golf history. Finally, we return to legendary Augusta National, site of his record-breaking first major championship, to see if he can be the first to sweep all four majors. Dogged by reports of an early-season slump, facing a supposedly “Tiger-proofed” course, golf’s superstar tees off against his two fiercest adversaries in an unforgettable final round.
The Tiger Slam is the epitome of greatness in sport, a feat as exhilarating today as it was twenty-five years ago. In fact, it’s even more so, now that we know we’ll never see its like again—such dominance is unthinkable in modern golf’s era of parity. Kevin Cook invites us to close our eyes and remember a young champion at the peak of his powers: unmatched raw strength, single-minded focus, strategic genius, and utter fearlessness. The Tiger Slam takes readers behind the scenes in the thrilling months when Tiger Woods took an ancient game to new heights.
While most research on inequality focuses on impoverished
communities, it often ignores how powerful communities and elites
monopolize resources at the top of the social hierarchy. In
Privilege at Play, Hugo Ceron-Anaya offers an intersectional
analysis of Mexican elites to examine the ways affluent groups
perpetuate dynamics of domination and subordination. Using
ethnographic research conducted inside three exclusive golf clubs
and in-depth interviews with upper-middle and upper-class golfers,
as well as working-class employees, Ceron-Anaya focuses on the
class, racial, and gender dynamics that underpin privilege in
contemporary Mexico. His detailed analysis of social life and the
organization of physical space further considers how the legacy of
imperialism continues to determine practices of exclusion and how
social hierarchies are subtlety reproduced through distinctions
such as fashion and humor, in addition to the traditional
indicators of wealth and class. Adding another dimension to the
complex nature of social exclusion, Privilege at Play shows how
elite social relations and spaces allow for the resource hoarding
and monopolization that helps create and maintain poverty.
A new biography uncovering the life of golf superstar, Tiger Woods, featuring original interviews and reporting.
What makes Tiger tick? How did Tiger Woods become the greatest of all time? And how did he fall so spectacularly?
Before the age of twenty-five, Tiger Woods had risen to phenomenon status: twice named Sportsman of the Year by Sports Illustrated, champion of more than thirty professional tournaments and the youngest player to win all four Grand Slam tournaments.
In vivid, dramatic scenes, Tiger, Tiger taps into the transformative moments of Wood's life, both on and off the course.
The Cairngorms became Scotland's second National Park in 2003 and
is the largest in the British Isles, with an area of 1467 square
miles. This book looks at the 11 golf courses located there.
This book looks lightheartedly at golf and golfers, and includes
some verse and cartoons illustrating many aspects of this wonderful
game. The cartoons and the poems can be looked at and enjoyed
individually and, perhaps, shared with others where you think the
depictions might be particularly appropriate. Most golfers will be
able to recognise, relive and smile at many of their own golfing
experiences.
This book looks lightheartedly at golf and golfers, and includes
some verse and cartoons illustrating many aspects of this wonderful
game. The cartoons and the poems can be looked at and enjoyed
individually and, perhaps, shared with others where you think the
depictions might be particularly appropriate. Most golfers will be
able to recognise, relive and smile at many of their own golfing
experiences.
GOLFLAND describes each one of Scotland's golf courses. It is the
detailed, definitive guide to the country's courses. It's the first
book of its kind in more than a decade, an ambitious celebration of
Scotland's embarrassment of golfing riches. Useful and informative,
it is a practical reference work. Beautifully designed, with
stunning photography by David Cannon, it is also a highly desirable
gift. GOLFLAND is an appropriate name for a book about the courses
of Scotland, the country recognised as the birthplace of the game.
Scotland is a mecca for golf tourists worldwide, who come to play
its most celebrated courses, such as Carnoustie, Muirfield and the
historic links of St Andrews. Yet for all of Scotland's most
distinguished courses, like those which host The Open, there are
hundreds of others, some known to aficionados, some so far-flung as
to be familiar to only a few. GOLFLAND records and celebrates them
all. If you are planning a trip to Scotland or simply want to
explore the richness of the country's golfing landscape, GOLFLAND
is essential. For dreaming about some future game, or else
remembering one played long ago, it is equally invaluable. GOLFLAND
will answer almost all the questions you might have about Scottish
golf courses. GOLFLAND is also the answer to a commonly asked
question: what is the perfect gift for the golfer in my life?
'You drive for show, you putt for dough'. This old saying is
familiar to all golfers and Bob Rotella, one of the foremost
authorities on golf today, is a firm believer in its truth. In
Putting out of Your Mind he reveals the unique mental approach that
great putting requires and helps golfers of all levels master this
essential skill. Much like Golf Is Not a Game of Perfect and Golf
Is a Game of Confidence, Putting out of Your Mind is a resonant and
informative guide to achieving a better golf game. While most
golfers spend their time trying to perfect their swing so they can
hit the ball further, Rotella encourages them to concentrate on
their putting, the most crucial yet overlooked aspect of the game.
Great players are not only aware of the importance of putting, they
go out of their way to master it. And of course mastery begins with
an understanding of the attitude needed to be a better putter.
Rotella's mental rules, which have helped some of the greatest
golfers in the world to become champion putters can now work for
golfers everywhere. With everything from true-life stories from
some of the greats to dozens of game-changing practice drills,
Putting out of Your Mind is the new bible of putting, and is sure
to bring about immediate results for anyone who plays the game.
Written by a New York Times bestselling author and reporter who “knows the world of professional golf…like few others” (The Wall Street Journal) comes “the most insightful and evenhanded book written yet about one of the signature athletes of the last twenty-five years” (Booklist, starred review) detailing Tiger Woods’s remarkable comeback and his journey back into winner’s circle.
Tiger Woods’s long descent into a personal and professional hell reached bottom in the early hours of Memorial Day in 2017. Woods’s DUI arrest that night came on the heels of a desperate spinal surgery, just weeks after he told close friends he might never play tournament golf again. His mug shot and alarming arrest video were painful to look at and, for Woods, a deep humiliation. The former paragon of discipline now found himself hopelessly lost and out of control, exposed for all the world to see. That episode could have marked the beginning of Tiger’s end. It proved to be the opposite.
Instead of sinking beneath the public disgrace of drug abuse and the private despair of a battered and ailing body, Woods embarked on the long road to redeeming himself. In The Second Life of Tiger Woods, Michael Bamberger, who has covered Woods since the golfer was an amateur, draws upon his deep network of sources inside locker rooms, caddie yards, clubhouses, fitness trailers, and back offices to tell the true and inspiring story of the legend’s return. Packed with new information and graced by insight, Bamberger’s story reveals how this iconic athlete clawed his way back to the top.
This is a “gripping” (Kirkus Reviews) and intimate portrait of a man who has spent his life in front of the camera but has done his best to make sure he was never really known. Here is Tiger, barefoot, in handcuffs, showing a police officer a witty and self-deprecating side of himself that the public never sees. Here is Tiger on the verge of tears with his children at the British Open. Here is Tiger trying to express his gratitude to his mother at a ceremony at the Rose Garden. In these pages, Tiger is funny, cold, generous, self-absorbed, inspiring—and real.
The Second Life of Tiger Woods is not only the saga of an exceptional man but also a celebration of second chances. Bamberger’s bracingly honest book is about what Tiger Woods did, and about what any of us can do, when we face our demons head-on.
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