高爾夫球界的“森林之王”

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Height: 6-2

Weight: 180 1bs

Born: December 30, 1975,Cypress, California

Year turned professional: 1996

College: Stanford University

泰格?伍茲（Tiger Woods）的字面意思就是“森林老虎”，霸氣十足的名字似乎注定了他在高爾夫球場上不可動搖的地位。一個黑人、一個高爾夫球霸主、一個廣告商的寵兒、一個身價最昂貴的體育明星，連邁克爾?喬丹都崇拜的人……他是如何成長成為高爾夫球之王的呢？

Practice, practice, practice! Thats how Tiger Woods became a championship golfer. He started playing golf when he was very young, and by the time he was 6 years old he was an amazing golfer. His father, Earl, was his coach.

When Tiger was just a baby, his dad made a driving range in his garage with carpet and a net. Tiger would sit in his high chair and watch his dad practice.

When he was 9 months old, his dad sawed off a golf club to make it very short, and Tiger could strike the ball into the net. When he was 18 months old (just a year and a half), he began going to the golf course with Dad. He hit buckets of balls on the driving range.

When he was 4 years old, they hired a coach for him. When he was 6, he began entering junior contests.

Tiger listened to tapes to improve his confidence in himself. His dad helped him to learn to focus in spite of distractions. He stood in front of Tiger and said, “Im a tree”, and he would have to hit the ball over his father. Earl would jingle the coins in his pocket to distract him, or roll a ball in front of him and Tiger learned to concen-trate oｎ the game.

Even though it sometimes made him angry, the training helped him. Once a walkie talkｉｅ made a loud noise during Tigers swing at the ball. He said he never heard the radio because he was so focused on hitting the ball.

He cannot stand to lose. He does not be-come angry, but he goes out and practices even harder to not make the same mistakes.

In the year 2000, when he was 24 years old, he won four major golf tournaments; the U.S. Open, and U.S. Amateur and the British ｏｐen and British Amateur.

He is so much better than any other golfers that some say he is the greatest golfer to ever play the game.

練習，練習，再練習！這就是泰格?伍茲成為高爾夫球冠軍的秘密。他從很小的時候起便開始打球，6歲時的他已是一名讓人刮目相看的高爾夫球手。父親厄爾是他的教練。

泰格還是個嬰兒的時候，父親便在車庫里用地毯和護網圍出了一塊高爾夫球練習場，而泰格則坐在高腳椅上觀看。

泰格9個月大時，父親將普通球棒鋸短以便兒子能用棒將球打入網內。而在18個月大（一歲半）時，泰格已經開始隨父親前往真正的高爾夫球訓練場了。他在訓練場上打了無數桶球。

泰格4歲時，家里為他請了專門的高爾夫球教練。6歲時，泰格開始參加青少年高爾夫球比賽。

泰格通過邊打球邊聽磁帶來增強自信心。父親幫助泰格學會了在干擾面前集中注意力。他站在泰格前面說“我是一棵樹”， 泰格的球必須越過父親這棵樹。泰格打球時，父親還會將口袋的硬幣弄得叮當響、或是在他面前滾球來分散泰格的注意力，而泰格便這樣漸漸學會了比賽時要全神貫注。

盡管這種訓練有時也惹惱了泰格，但泰格還是從中獲益匪淺。一次在他揮球時，步話機發(fā)出了極大噪音，可泰格說他根本沒聽見步話機的聲音，因為他太專注于擊球了。

泰格受不了失敗，但他在失敗后并不生氣，而是走到場地上更努力地訓練以免犯同樣的錯誤。

2000年，在泰格24歲時，他贏得了四場重要的高爾夫球賽：美國公開賽、美國業(yè)余賽、英國公開賽、英國業(yè)余賽。

正是因為泰格有著比其他任何高爾夫球選手更為優(yōu)異的成績，有人說他是有史以來最偉大的高爾夫球手。