{"id":44895,"date":"2015-12-30T20:59:24","date_gmt":"2015-12-30T20:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44895"},"modified":"2015-12-30T21:03:16","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T21:03:16","slug":"tiger-woods-at-40-the-14-time-major-champions-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44895","title":{"rendered":"Tiger Woods at 40: The 14-time major champion’s legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tiger Woods at 40: The 14-time major champion’s legacy<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

BBC Sport<\/a>
\n2015-12-30<\/p>\n

Iain Carter<\/a><\/strong>, Golf Correspondent<\/p>\n

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\nMasters 2001: Woods seals ‘Tiger’ slam<\/small><\/p>\n

Imagine Earl Woods<\/a> choosing to put a baseball bat rather than a golf club into the hands of young Eldrick, his toddler son.<\/em><\/p>\n

How different would golf be if Tiger Woods<\/a>, who turns 40 on 30 December, had chosen to play something else?<\/p>\n

As the ailing 14-time major champion struggles to swing a club again, he can celebrate this landmark birthday by reflecting that no-one has had a bigger impact on the game…<\/p>\n

…Woods was golf’s poster boy. He was different – a black man in an overwhelmingly white sport – and he became the inspiration for the players who populate the top of the current world rankings.<\/p>\n

“What Tiger Woods has done for golf, I’m not sure anyone would do again,” four-time major champion Rory McIlroy<\/a> told the BBC.<\/p>\n

“Not just how unbelievably talented he was, but what he stood for, where he came from. He brought a whole new demographic into golf and sort of made golf cool again for kids.”…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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