Tiger Man !!

This time, I wanna introduce you a famous golf player ----Tiger Woods.

There are superman, batman, spider man..

Why not call him Tiger man ?

OK.. just joking...




Tiger Woods was born Eldrick Woods on December 30, 1975, in Cypress, California.


Woods started as a young golf wunderkind who grew up to become a master player.


I think the environment he grew up in is a important factor of his success. Because he is the son of an African American Army Officer father and a Thai mother, he learned to play as child. His father, Earl, served as his teacher and mentor. Around the age of eight, Woods showed off his skills on such television shows as GOOD MORNING AMERICA .





Furthermore, he studied at Stanford University
and won a number of amateur of U.S. golf titles before
turning professional in 1996.
After that, he won so many awards and earned a lot of money from different Open competitions. Such
as the U.S. Open, the British Open, the Western
Open, the Open Championship and so on. So, he became the most famous and successful golf player.








OK. Let me tell you something not so serious.

Woods married his longtime girlfriend, Elin Nordegren, a Swedish model and former nanny, in October.

His wife gave birth to the couple's first child, Sam Alexis Woods, on June 18, 2007. After taking some time off to welcome his daughter, he won the World Golf Championship and US PGA Championship in August 2007.

There was an unhappy event happened in early 2008, Golf Channel anchor Kelly Tilghman was suspended for two weeks for saying young players who wanted to challenge Tiger Woods should " lynch him in a back alley." This is a very impolite and crude comment which annoyed many people but not Tiger Woods. Woods did not call for punishment of Tilghman. We can see that Tiger Woods is such a kind and munificent man.

In fact, I don't know anything about golf or Woods before. I think golf is a game that only the super rich person can afford so I never interested in it.
But why I know him ?
I remember that in 2001, it was the first time that Tiger Woods came to China. Because he was invited to take part in a golf competition in my City -- Shenzhen.
And there were many photos and articles about him those days.

Unfortunately, Tiger Woods will miss the rest of season because his left knee requires more reconstructive surgery, his Web site announced Wednesday (June 18, 2008)
Woods also revealed he suffered a double stress fracture in his left tibia weeks before the U.S. Open tournament, ignoring doctors' advice to take six weeks off to let it heal.

Tiger man~!! GOD BLESS U..!!!