Who is Tiger Woods

This is a great book about golf and Tiger Woods. In Search of Tiger Woods is an exceptional audio book.

Tom Callahan has written the seminal book on golfing great Tiger Woods.

Tiger Woods, who has gone out of his way to protect his privacy, has never allowed himself to get close enough to a writer to be properly examined on the page. Callahan, commonly regarded as one of the best all-round sports writers in the country, has followed Tiger around the world of golf for more than seven years, enjoying a certain access to the man and his family. He even went so far as to travel to Vietnam to learn the fate of the South Vietnamese soldier who was Earl Wood's best friend during the war - and his son's namesake.

Tiger is twenty years old when the book opens and twenty-seven when it closes. During those years, Callahan covered Woods at all the Majors, including the Masters, the U.S. Open, and the British Open, culminating in Tiger's heart-stopping race to make history by clinching the string of Majors affectionately nicknamed the Tiger Slam.

Along the way, Tom Callahan hears from everyone who is anyone in the world of Tiger Woods, including Phil Mickelson, Jack Nicklaus, David Duval, Butch Harmon, Ernie Els, and, of course, Tiger's rather ubiquitous mother and father.

As much as we learn about Tiger - how he sees himself in relation to the courses he plays on and the players he has learned from and competed with - we also enjoy a bird's-eye view of golf as it is now with Tiger on the scene, and as it was for centuries before.

You may listen to a sample recording of this great golf audio book here:
In Search of Tiger - Tiger Woods Biography Audio Book.
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Pro's like Tiger Woods have the priviledge to be able to devote their entire day to the sport of golf.

You might not be that lucky... But You still might be able to spare half an hour of so every day to do prectice hitting. 30 minutes are simply not enough time to go to the driving range, unless you live riggt next door.

That's where a practice net comes in handy! The Callaway Quad Net 8 feet is a great helper!

It's no wonder Tiger Woods is a great golf player, he started very early and very successfully. Reading how his carreer developed makes you wonder if he ever had time to be a normal kid, or if golf is really all he has?

Tiger Woods was a child prodigy, he began to play golf at the age of only 2(!). In 1978, he putted against comedian Bob Hope in a television appearance on The Mike Douglas Show.

At age 3, Woods shot a 48 over nine holes at the Navy Golf Club in Cypress, California, and at age five, he appeared in Golf Digest and on ABC's That's Incredible.

In 1984 at the age of 8 he won the 9-10 boys' event, the youngest age group available, at the Junior World Golf Championships.

Then Tiger Woods won the Junior World Championships six times, including four consecutive wins from 1988-1991.

At age 15, he became the youngest ever U.S. Junior Amateur Champion, was voted Southern California Amateur Player of the Year for the second consecutive year, and Golf Digest Amateur Player of the Year 1991. He successfully defended his title at the U.S. Junior Amateur Championship, becoming the first multiple winner, competed in his first PGA Tour event, the Nissan Los Angeles Open and was named Golf Digest Amateur Player of the Year, Golf World Player of the Year and Golfweek National Amateur of the Year in 1992.

In 1993, he won his third consecutive U.S. Junior Amateur Championship, and remains the event's youngest-ever and only multiple winner.

In 1994, Tiger Woods became the youngest ever winner of the U.S. Amateur Championship. He was a member of the American team at the 1994 Eisenhower Trophy World Amateur Golf Team Championships and 1995 Walker Cup. Later that year, he enrolled at Stanford University, and won his first collegiate event, the William Tucker Invitational. At Stanford he majored in Economics and was nicknamed "Urkel" by his college teammates.

In 1995, Tiger Woods defended his U.S. Amateur title, and was voted Pac-10 Player of the Year, NCAA First Team All- American, and Stanford's Male Freshman of the Year (an award that encompasses all sports). He participated in his first PGA Tour major, The Masters, and tied for 41st as the only amateur to make the cut.

At age 20 in 1996, Woods became the first golfer to win 3 consecutive U.S. Amateur titles and won the NCAA individual golf championship. In winning the Silver Medal as leading amateur at The Open Championship, Woods tied the record for an amateur aggregate score of 281.

In November 2003, Tiger Woods became engaged to Elin Nordegren, a Swedish model. They were introduced during The Open Championship in 2001 by Swedish golf star Jesper Parnevik, who had employed her as a nanny. Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegren married on October 5, 2004 at the Sandy Lane resort on the Caribbean island of Barbados and live at Isleworth, a community in Windermere, a suburb of Orlando, Florida. They also have homes in Jackson, Wyoming, California, and Sweden.

In January 2006, Woods and his wife purchased a US$39 million residential property in Jupiter Island, Florida, which they intend to make their primary residence. Woods' Jupiter Island neighbors will include fellow golfers Gary Player, Greg Norman and Nick Price, as well as singers Celine Dion and Alan Jackson.

Early in the morning of June 18, 2007, Elin gave birth to the couple's first child, a daughter, Sam Alexis Woods, in Orlando, Florida. The birth occurred just one day after Woods finished tied for second in the 2007 U.S. Open. Tiger chose to name his daughter Sam because his late father said that Tiger looked more like a Sam.

Tiger Woods became a professional golfer in August 1996. He signed endorsement deals worth $40 million from Nike and $20 million from Titleist. He played his first round of professional golf at the Greater Milwaukee Open, tying for 60th place, but then he won two events in the next three months to qualify for the Tour Championship. For his efforts, Woods was named Sports Illustrated's' 1996 Sportsman of the Year and PGA Rookie of the Year.

He began his tradition of wearing a red shirt during the final round of tournaments, a link to his college days at Stanford and a color he believes symbolizes aggression and assertiveness.

In April 1997, Woods won his first golf major, The Masters, by a record margin of 12 strokes, becoming the youngest Masters winner and the first winner of African or Asian descent. He set a total of 20 Masters records and tied 6 others. He won another three PGA Tour events that year, and on June 15, 1997, in only his 42nd week as a professional, rose to number one in the Official World Golf Rankings, the fastest ever ascent to world No. 1.He was named PGA Player of the Year, the first golfer to win the award the year following his rookie season.

Then Tiger Woods' form faded in the second half of 1997, and in 1998 he only won one PGA Tour event. Woods answered critics of his "slump" and what seemed to be wavering form by maintaining he was undergoing extensive swing changes with his golf swing coach, Butch Harmon, and was hoping to do better in the future.