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Drive : the lasting legacy of Tiger Woods / Bob Harig.
Van Pelt Library GV964.W66 H367 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harig, Bob, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Woods, Tiger.
- Golfers--United States--Biography.
- Golfers.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 309 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Lasting legacy of Tiger Woods
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2024.
- Summary:
- "Bob Harig's latest deep-dive into Tiger Woods' thrilling career, as seen through his iconic 2019 Masters comeback and win. In April of 1997, the world of golf was forever changed. At the age of 21, a young Tiger Woods won the most prestigious golf tournament in the world, the Masters, by a record of 12 strokes. Woods became the youngest golfer ever to win the Masters and the first African or Asian-American player to win a major. History had been made--and would continue to be made over the next 15 years. Woods transformed the game, turning golf geeks into keen observers, casual golf fans into ardent followers and even indifferent sports fans into curiosity mavens. He will undoubtedly be known for the raw numbers: 82 PGA Tour titles, 15 major championships, and according to Forbes, a billionaire who amassed more than $110-million in official PGA Tour earnings. Woods has proven to be a complicated figure through his decades in the spotlight. Plagued by marital scandal, a DUI arrest, and severe back injuries that resulted in what even he believed would be a career-ending spinal fusion surgery in 2017, Woods' career finally seemed to be coming to an end. That all changed through 2018 and into 2019 as Woods returned slowly from the surgery. In 2019, on the same course where he won for the first time in 1997, Tiger Woods made history once again, winning the Masters one final time. The 2019 Masters brought together all the qualities that ultimately make up someone who has been an enduring figure for 30 years. In this captivating and emotional portrait of one of the most famous figures in sports, Bob Harig brings readers the true story of the grit and perseverance of Tiger Woods in the final years of his career. Drive will show that Woods' true legacy is one of resolve and redemption"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The legacy
- The 40
- The cut streak
- The stress fractures
- The scandal
- The eighty five
- The Bahamas
- The doctor
- The comeback
- The coronation
- The admirers
- The speech
- The twelfth
- The victory
- The ZOZO
- The septuple
- The crash
- The Masters (again)
- The golden bear
- The Swilcan bridge
- Ranking Tiger Woods Major Victories.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Harig, Bob. Drive
- ISBN:
- 9781250288752
- 1250288754
- OCLC:
- 1407096789
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