Born Eldrick Woods on December 30, 1975, in Cypress, California, Tiger Woods was the youngest man ever, and the first man of color, to win the Masters Tournament of golf. In 2001 he became the first golfer since Bobby Jones in 1930 to hold the four major Grand Slam titles simultaneously.

On April 13, 1997, Tiger Woods made golfing history when he won the prestigious Masters tournament of golf. The win was a record breaker in many ways. Woods, at age twenty-one, was the youngest person ever to win the Masters Tournament. He beat the competition with a record-breaking score of 270 for seventy-two holes. He secured the win with a twelve-stroke lead, the largest victory margin in the history of the tournament. Woods, a man of ethnic complexity, further distinguished himself as the first non-white to win the Masters, and in doing so he helped to dissolve many stereotypical notions and attitudes regarding minorities...