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    Why Tiger Woods

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    When people think of golf the first name that pops into people’s mind is Tiger Woods. Tiger has seventy-nine professional golf tournament wins and fourteen majors. Even though Tiger still hasn’t passed Jack Nicklaus’ eighteen major championship people still believe that Tiger Woods is the greatest golfer who ever lived. Tiger’s career hasn’t been all positive, though; the 2008 United States Open being the last major tournament he has won. Because of this slump, Matt Cochran advocated that Tiger Woods would never win a tournament again in his article Why Tiger Will Never Win a Tournament again. Although Tiger woods has a high probability of winning, at least, another professional tournament, Matt Cochran’s persuading article has the reader…

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    Jim Furyk Essay

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    Jim Furyk net worth James Michael Furyk was born on the 12th May 1970 in West Chester, Pennsylvania USA. The world knows him as Jim Furyk, the professional American golfer, making his successful career the main source of net worth. His career as a pro golfer has begun in 1992, and ever since then he has been making new records and standards. Have you ever wondered how rich Jim Furyk is? According to sources it is estimated that Jim Furyk`s total net worth is $50 million, an amount earned…

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    Tiger Woods Case Study

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    1) The high-profile person I selected for the ‘Google Gotcha!’ activity is Tiger Woods. 2) When googling Tiger Woods, I was met with a mix of positive and negative stories. The positive stories where ones that focused on his return to professional golf. Tiger is currently in recovery after multiple surgeries to heal his injured back, knee, elbow, and neck. The positive links are ones either detailing his recovery or anticipating his return to the PGA scene. The more negative and image-hurting…

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    uprising the popularity of golf to America, in response…

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    making the Senior PGA Golf, to when he started playing golf professionally, to how he made golf internationally more famous, this is how he has changed the golfing world. When the Senior PGA Golf Tour started in 1930 and from 1930 to 1979 it wasn’t very popular, the prize purse(prize money) was small and no one really even knew about it. Then Arnold Palmer became eligible and when he played in 1980, the Tour became more popular. When the 1980 U.S. Senior Open came around he has won every…

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    and misses a 3-foot putt. However in the Open Championship he is coming up on that hole again where he lost before. He knew he needed to adjust his golf game to win the hole. So he just relaxed and played his own game of golf and won the hole. His approached changed in the Open championship and he was more confident in his ability. The film takes an interesting turn next. After the final round of the U.S. open there is a three-way tie between Francis and two British golfers, Harry Vardon and his…

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    Jordan Spieth His season is considered one of the best ever seen during the Professional Golfers Association. With a season including five wins, two of them being major championships, Jordan Spieth sure did earn the 2014-2015 title of Player of the Year. In order to attain this amazing season Jordan Spieth had to change his game to be successful on the the PGA Tour. The changes Jordan made included spending more hours of time with his coach perfecting new techniques, working out and getting…

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    a competitive tournament was the Hero World Challenge, which is not an official PGA Tour event. Woods has not played an official PGA Tour event since the 2015 Wyndham Championship. The Torrey Pines South Course is home to the Farmers Insurance Open, where Tiger Woods has won eight times over the years. His last victory…

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    Payne Stewart American athlete Payne Stewart began golfing at the young age of four and was earned a spot on the PGA tour just two years after he graduated college. Stewart became famous on the tour and among fans for his singular style, he dressed in old fashion golf clothing. He had eleven tour victories and three major titles under his belt when he died at age 42 in a plane crash. For Payne Stewart to get into the PGA it took years of practice. Payne Stewart started when he was four, and…

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    Greg Norman Research Paper

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    During the 1996 Masters golf tournament at Augusta, one of the world’s finest golf courses, Greg Norman played one of the greatest eighteen hole games he had ever played. Norman shot an incredible score of 63, which still stand today as a course record. Norman went into the second day of gold with a fifteen stroke lead, only to choke under pressure scoring a 78 the day after shooting such an amazing game. Nick Faldo managed to come from behind and defeating Norman by a five stroke margin winning…

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