Tiger Woods The Makings Of A Champion
Tim Rosaforte, who is a senior writer for Sports Illustrated, writes this book, which is 240 pages and is based on Tiger Woods development from toddler to PGA Champion. Tim has known Tiger since 1990 where he witnessed Tiger at age 10 winning a National Tournament in Florida. Tim shows his knowledge in the game of golf by telling us the reader about Tiger’s tournaments and quotes from Tiger and his father Earl about his play. Tim has also written another book called Heartbreak Hill, which is also based on golf that I have not read yet. I think Tim showed his good writing abilities in this book and it showed because it almost seemed like you were right there with him watching this amazing young golfer which has progressed to the best golfer in the world.
This book is 45 chapters and the 45 chapters range from Tiger being strapped into a highchair at age 1 and watching his dad pound balls into a net to winning the PGA Championship. The Tiger Woods story is something else. Tiger watched his dad pound balls into a net at age 1 and at age 3 was swinging the golf club like he was a pro. At age 5 he was hitting a three with a fade or draw to perfection. It was truly something. He was featured on talk shows and putted for the crowds at age 3 and beat some of the professionals in a putting contest. Tiger kept a goal chart on his wall and he was telling everyone he wanted to be the best player ever to play the game. Tiger just kept on progressing through High School and played in the summers on the National Junior Golf Tournament. He traveled all over the US to play in tournaments. Which in most cases won the majority of them. Then he had a decision to make on college. He was also very talented in the classroom as well. Schoolwork came first before golf to Tiger and he was a 3.8 student. Then he had a choice to make on college. Was it Stanford or UNLV? Tiger had a tough decision but chose Stanford because that is where his heart and mind told him to go. In the long run this was probably one of the best decisions Tiger has made in his lifetime.
On April 21st, 2010, an American golfer whose achievements made him a legend found himself behind a podium, defending his actions in front of a crowd of family, friends, and a public whom he had shocked. In 2009, Tiger Woods experienced the biggest blow to his career in the form of a car crash and infidelity scandal. Not only was he married with two kids, but he was easily identifiable as a positive role model for children across the world. His actions challenged the core of American morals and raised feelings of contempt among the public. These next 14 minutes of speaking in defense would be Tiger’s only chance to set things straight, his only chance to rebuild his life. Over the course of his speech, Tiger utilized the four rhetorical techniques for self-defense as cited by Ware and Linkugel in the article, “They Spoke In Defense Of Themselves: On The Generic Criticism Of Apologia”. By expressing denial, bolstering, differentiation, and transcendence, Tiger made a plea for forgiveness in his Apologia speech.
...ions that I thought I would do if I were put in his position. I could not relate relate to everything like his mother leaving, drug problems, pregnant girlfriends, and living in some much poverty. Despite all that I feel like I understood why he did the things he did and the choices he made. It was a great way to learn of how someone else grew up and struggled through life to accomplish something most people take for granted everyday.
Reading this book has gave me even more motivation to complete all of my goals in life. Bill Strickland never gave up on his dream and never let anything come in his way and stop him from completing his dream. No matter how hard is life was or if he had any obstacles in his way he still managed to be very successful in life. Bill has gone through some hard times while he was living in the ghetto at a young age, but after all the chaos he has dealt with he has become a very successful man and helped the lives of
Golf is a sport of fun shots, and frustration shots. One of the best players ever to play the sport was Jack Nicklaus. Nicklaus had many accomplishments in golf and even though I will not mention all of his accomplishments I will mention some of the most important. Jack won six Masters Tournaments, the Masters is the biggest golf tournament of the whole year, and he won his sixth Masters at the age of forty-six! He won seventy-three PGA tour wins and eighteen majors, meaning that he won either the U.S. open, the Open Championship, the Masters Tournament, or the PGA Championship eighteen times! Jack even won PGA tour player of the year five times! Jack’s accomplishments are very good but we have to start at the beginning.
Tim travels all around the country to tell people about his books. Tim travels with athletes also. “Tim Green will come to schools to teach success to young students and children,” (TimGreenBooks.com). Tim will read his stories to his students, as well as the professional athlete Tim is working with to make the book more interesting for the students. The novels Tim writes can relate to young students because of the topic of sports. He makes many books that children as well as teens can relate to. In the book First Team by Tim Green, Mac says to Brock, “First team! That’s what I was saying bro. You and me. Forever. First team!” (Green 327) This shows how Tim’s works can relate young kids because a lot of them participate in sports and a lot of them struggle to start and prove themselves to their coaches. This way, the children will want to read his books more because it can help them figure out what to do to get better. The online article, Discover Tim Green, said, his inspiration in writing sports books comes from his career in football. Hopefully, this will teach young people to use their prior knowledge to have a great future and to be
Season of Life by Jeffery Marx is a motivational book that I recommend for anybody. I really liked this book because this book is more about life than it is about football and it teaches you how to really become a man.
man. Finally, he uses the book to compare the Vietnam conflict to the American Revolution.
Tiger was 11-months old when he first started swinging a sawed off golf club in
When I started golfing, it wasn’t serious at all, it was just something to go and have a great time with. My dad and I would go out on the course and spend the day out there, but it wasn’t just playing golf: we would eat snacks that we bought from the store, we would obviously play
Golf is defined as a game in which clubs with wooden or metal heads are used to hit a small, white ball into a number of holes, situated at various distances over a course having natural or artificial obstacles. The object is to get the ball into each hole in as few strokes as possible (2017 Dictionary.com LLC). It is a very popular sport throughout the world and it is only increasing in popularity. It is a game that takes time and effort to master, but can prove to be a great, relaxing sport that anyone of all ages can play.
Parks launched a writing career during this period, beginning with his 1962 autobiographical novel, The Learning Tree. He would publish a number of books throughout his lifetime, including a memoir, several works of fiction and volumes on photographic
Thesis: Professional golfer Tiger Woods is a modern-day tragic hero because his flaw of excessive pride directly led to the destruction of both his personal relationships and his professional career. Tiger took complete responsibility for his actions, but it came too late and by then he ended up suffering consequences that were excessive compared to his errors.
You need to be brought up in the right environment, exposed to the way the game works, and the correct technique involved. In Tigers case his father showed him how to play from the age of two. In the case of a businessmen, his father might have told him about the stock market etc also from a young age, this way their education begins early.
Golf. A sport that started out with just a wooden stick and ball, is now a very well know game by many people all around the globe. The sport that also just started out as a way to mess around has become a job for some of the people and is making some golfers millions of dollars each year. A sport that many people spend their whole lives playing or watching used to not be exactly what is today. Even though golf is a very well known sport now, golf has been around for hundreds of years and is played by people all over the world. The sport of golf has been dated all the way back to years before 1,000 and has kept growing exponentially ever since. According to the International Golf Federation, they have 144 different countries a part of the organization, leaving out 51. The game of golf is played at many different levels all the way from junior tournaments, all the way to professional events. The evolution of the sport of golf is made up of a couple main things. These two main things are how golf got its start, and what has changed about the game.
The fall of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, fell to North Vietnamese force on 30 April 201. This event marked the end of the Vietnam War. On this day Vietnam encounters the largest exodus of immigrants as Vietnam governed by the communist regime. Lan Cao in her novel Monkey Bridge reflects the struggle of the Vietnamese Americans immigrants in America. Lan Cao was born in Vietnam in 1961 and moved to live in America when she was thirteen years old as a result of the Vietnam War. Her novel Monkey Bridge published in 1997, it is a semi-autobiographical story of a mother and her daughter who leave Vietnam and settled in the United States. It considers to be the first novel by a Vietnamese American about the war experience. Monkey Bridge has two narrators. Mai one and a half generation Vietnamese American teenager, who run off to America when Saigon falls in 1975, and her mother, Thanh, who manages to join her daughter a few months later. Mai aims to help her mother to overcome her past. On the other hand, Thanh fells that by keeping her daughter away from the truth of their shameful history, she can protect her from having the same pain and sorrow that she once had. Thanh’s inability to achieve reconciliation with her past and her inability to assimilate in the new world leads her to commit suicide, leaving a message for her daughter to tell her the truth about her past.