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When people think of golf, they think it is a sport for babies. Also, tons of people think golf as a sport that anyone can do without any practice. When I tried golf for the first time, it was harder than it looks. To help myself get better at the sport, I started to watch pro golfers play. My favorite golfer is Tiger Woods. Tiger Woods has been one of the highest paid athletes for many years. Eldrick Tont Woods, better known as Tiger Woods, was born on December 30, 1975 in Cypress California. As a child, Woods had an interest in golf. Nobody can just grab a golf club and a golf ball and be good at it right away. So, he realized that his father, Earl, does a bit of golfing once and a while. Therefore, Earl became Tiger Woods teacher. Earl …show more content…

As he got older, he decided to go to Stanford University. He won a number of amateur U.S golf titles before going professional in 1996. Later that year, he went in the British Open. Woods tied the course record of 64. In the next few years, he gained even more awards such as four U.S PGA titles, three U.S Open wins, three Open Championship wins, and three U.S Masters wins. In 2004, Tiger Woods won one official PGA Tour Championship. A couple months later, Tiger Woods married his longtime girlfriend Elin Nordegren in October of 2004. Returning to his dominate sport, he won six championships in 2005 and was voted the PGA Tour Player of The Year for the seventh time in nine years. As time flew by, winning lots of tournaments, he experienced a great personal loss in 2006. His father died in May after battling prostate cancer. This was a very hard thing for Woods, remembering his dad teaching him to play golf. He thought about how he wouldn't be where he is now if it wasn't for his father. The next season after his loss, he continued to go on the winning streak. His wife gave birth to the couples first child, Sam Alexis Woods, on June 18, 2007. Therefore, Woods took some time off to help

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