Tiger_Woods,_And_His_Influence_On_Golf

Tiger Woods, And His Influence On Golf Tiger Woods’ Influence 3 The PGA (Professional Golfer’s Association) and the game of golf have both grown quite substantially in popularity in the last ten or so years. One could attribute this occurrence to the fact that the newest generation of golfers has grown in numbers from previous years, and the one factor which can be attributed to this amazing increase would no doubt be the young phenom known world wide as Tiger Woods. On December 30, 1975 Eldrick "Tiger" Woods is born to Kultida and Earl Woods of Cypress, California. “He is nicknamed Tiger in honor of Earl's Vietnam combat buddy, Nguyen Phong, with whom Earl lost touch after the war. Earl had nicknamed Phong "Tiger" for his unblinking bravery.”# Earl Woods was of African American decent, while Kultida was a native of Thailand; these two rich ethnic backgrounds would later shape Tiger into the strong activist for equal rights that he is today. “Earl -- a retired lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army”#, and an avid golf enthusiast decides to get his only child involved in the sport he had grown to love, and do it at an tiger, woods, golf, tour, pga, woods’, years, one, influence, first, amateur, young, year, world, win, now, earl, pro, ncaa, won, two, three, championship, after, under, strokes, par, out, make, junior, golfer, child, become, wins, tournament