Posts tagged Tiger Woods

Steve Williams to support Tiger

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Not exactly a shocker.  Tiger Woods’ caddy Steve Williams has stated that he will continue to support his boss.

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Tiger Humanized

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It’s always sad when our heroes let us down.

It’s also a reminder that they are human and make mistakes.  When someone is so good, so talented at what they do, that everything they touch turns to gold, it becomes difficult to see them as full human beings with flaws and conflicting emotions.  I’m sure we can all think of heroes who have let us down.  Andre Agassi recently confessed that he was abusing meth while competing on the professionally on the tennis circuit.

There are probably too many examples to name, and the truth is that almost everyone of our heroes would let us down if we dig deep enough.  Together, between our heroes and us the fans, we create an image that is impossible to live up to.  This does not excuse his behavior nor should it explain it away.  It’s just a reality that we have deep connections to our heroes and they will eventually let us down.

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Tiger Woods Rulebook to Success

A great article  (here is the orginal article) about becoming successful.

The Tiger Woods Rulebook To Being A Huge Success

Written on 6/25/2008 by Alex Shalman, creator of the Practical Personal Development blog.

If you believe in evolution, you know there wasn’t some superstar golfer caveman from which Tiger Woods evolved centuries later. His talent and subsequent success were not a genetic lottery win — let’s take a look at 12 factors that we can adapt from this legendarygolfer.

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Halloween

I dressed up as Tiger Woods for a Halloween party we had at the apartment.  I edited the background because it was really boring, just a few white walls.

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Tiger Woods, first athlete to a billion

So Tiger’s got another honor.  First athlete to earn 1 billion dollars.  That’s 1,000,000,000, or 1 thousand million.  Crazy.

He has earned it.  He has an amazing track record, legions of fans, has singlehandedly kept the golf industry alive, and even when he doesn’t play, he almost wins the tournament (except for the British Open, or The Open as it is called, where he missed the cut).

As someone who is working toward becoming a scratch golfer, Tiger’s accomplishments seem so unreal.  Don’t get me wrong, the man is not perfect, and he is not a saint.  He is a human being, with an enormous amount of talent, at the right place, and the right time, and has an incredible work ethic to top it off.

It just amazes me that anyone could accomplish what he has.  I think human potential is virtually unlimited, and for the most part untapped, except for a few people who somehow make extraordinary things happen.

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