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Tiger Woods: The Makings of a Champion
Great competitor, top shotmaker, the only player to win the U.S. Amateur three times, a smashing first year on the pro tour at age 20-Tiger Woods is a sports phenomenon. Now discover how he did it and what it cost him in a riveting story that captures the heart and soul of a magnificent American athlete.
-The poignant love story behind his parents' marriage and a soldier's promise to name his son "Tiger"
-A son's talent, a father's ambitions, and the tough mental games geared to either break him or make him a champion
-The truth about college and his decision to go pro
-A revealing close-up of Tiger under pressure, his most dramatic play-offs, and his worst rookie-year mistake
-The big $40 million Nike deal and the hot Titleist contract
-The race card-who played it and why-and how Tiger changed the game forever...
-His journey to the 1997 Masters and a spot on the U.S. Ryder Cup Team
-The poignant love story behind his parents' marriage and a soldier's promise to name his son "Tiger"
-A son's talent, a father's ambitions, and the tough mental games geared to either break him or make him a champion
-The truth about college and his decision to go pro
-A revealing close-up of Tiger under pressure, his most dramatic play-offs, and his worst rookie-year mistake
-The big $40 million Nike deal and the hot Titleist contract
-The race card-who played it and why-and how Tiger changed the game forever...
-His journey to the 1997 Masters and a spot on the U.S. Ryder Cup Team
295 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published November 15, 1996
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March 18, 2016Tiger Woods: The Makings of a Champion by Tim Rosaforte is a non fiction biography of a young boy named Tiger Woods and his relationships with peers and especially, golf. Tiger Woods was basically out of the womb holding a golf club and was a natural from the age of 2. Tiger dominated basically everybody from 6 years old to college, winning very small tournaments to numerous US amatueur titles. Tiger learns how to be one of the best at his age in the world at golf, while maintaining steady grades in pretty hard classes throughout his childhood. Rosaforte does a good job showing how it was for Tiger in his early years before he dominated the PGA tour for years to come. I can connect to this book well because golf is probably my favorite sport and seeing how good Tiger Woods was at a young age makes him one of my biggest role models. I was not pleased that the story started off very slow due to the face Rosaforte introduced Tiger for a long time at the beginning. Other than that, I recommend this book to avid golfers and people who have watched Tiger Woods and have rooted for him for a long time. It is a good book to see how good Tiger Woods was at such a young age.
October 30, 2018
* 4.5/5
Tiger Woods is one of the Prominent Golf Players in the World it's is a thing that I Have to read in this book, His career in sports was probably not enough to mire His Sports but instead He Had Tried to Educate first then after that Study He Was Focusing on Golf and Having a Full Illustrious Star on Sports.
And To his beliefs to Nugen Pong, the South Vietnamese Leader was his goals to defeat the competitive rivals in the Series of Golf, but Unfourtune to Discuss about his Friend Named Butch Hammon yo his secret Conversation between them and some secret Talk they have to plan.
The Biography Is Good, It Will let my Mind will blow this if i Met Tiger Woods and Also the Evidence of the Happenings are Accurate.
Tiger Woods is one of the Prominent Golf Players in the World it's is a thing that I Have to read in this book, His career in sports was probably not enough to mire His Sports but instead He Had Tried to Educate first then after that Study He Was Focusing on Golf and Having a Full Illustrious Star on Sports.
And To his beliefs to Nugen Pong, the South Vietnamese Leader was his goals to defeat the competitive rivals in the Series of Golf, but Unfourtune to Discuss about his Friend Named Butch Hammon yo his secret Conversation between them and some secret Talk they have to plan.
The Biography Is Good, It Will let my Mind will blow this if i Met Tiger Woods and Also the Evidence of the Happenings are Accurate.
January 14, 2023
Enjoyed the book overall. Short chapters for most of the book make it feel like it’s going to take forever to get through but it flows really well.
August 6, 2016
The 'Tiger' stories were a delightful treat. Loved how Tiger got his name. A child sitting in a highchair... still eating baby food, feet couldn't reach the floor, yet already swinging golf clubs like a pro. A ‘zen-like’ natural gift nourished by his father who also played golf, birthing a lore of tangents that made Tiger; not all of which were complaisant influences.
The short chapters facilitated a pleasant reading experience. Many of the golf terms, and there were many, were lost on a non-golfer like myself. But the writing compensated for this shortfall. The pacing was great; one sentence Tiger was walking down a street signing autographs and in the very next sentence, albeit next paragraph he was on the 13th hole hitting a nine-iron to 15 feet. I fell out the chair laughing at the scene of Tiger pulling up to Taco Bell, with mils in his back pocket; a true sign of his natural humble character and spirit. The ‘Birthday Spanking’ chapter was another favorite, as was the quote “…an old head on young shoulders.” There is just so much condensed in this small book. I think I could write a book on this book for all the comments I have about what I read; none more so than elaborating on the sheer volume of work Tiger put into the game…both mentally and physically; to include that ‘Buick’ episode occurring once ‘dad’ moved to the side after being accused of being ‘too supportive’. It warmed my heart to read Tiger expressing how he loved his dad, “he was his best friend,” …one tangent surely apparent in the making of a true champion.
The short chapters facilitated a pleasant reading experience. Many of the golf terms, and there were many, were lost on a non-golfer like myself. But the writing compensated for this shortfall. The pacing was great; one sentence Tiger was walking down a street signing autographs and in the very next sentence, albeit next paragraph he was on the 13th hole hitting a nine-iron to 15 feet. I fell out the chair laughing at the scene of Tiger pulling up to Taco Bell, with mils in his back pocket; a true sign of his natural humble character and spirit. The ‘Birthday Spanking’ chapter was another favorite, as was the quote “…an old head on young shoulders.” There is just so much condensed in this small book. I think I could write a book on this book for all the comments I have about what I read; none more so than elaborating on the sheer volume of work Tiger put into the game…both mentally and physically; to include that ‘Buick’ episode occurring once ‘dad’ moved to the side after being accused of being ‘too supportive’. It warmed my heart to read Tiger expressing how he loved his dad, “he was his best friend,” …one tangent surely apparent in the making of a true champion.
December 14, 2015
This was an awesome book it has a movie to go with it just so yea know. The book starts out with a solider in the middle of the jungle hunkered down in a trench beside another anyway it continues on to one of the men giving his life for the other and the one who survived promised to name his son after this heroic man. His name Tiger. Then it jumps to tiger woods and his life struggle. He had to get through a lot of racial barriers in the game of golf. Before tiger came to the game it was a mostly white man ruled sport.
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