Tiger Woods

A detailed Summary of Tiger Woods

Tiger Woods was too young to notice the racism around him. He didn't

understand that in this world, people were judged by the color of their

skin. He couldn't speak out about it; he couldn't voice his opinions, or

come up with possible solutions because he was too young. Tiger faced

many racial ordeals throughout his life, mainly because he was half-Thai

and half-black. He broke into the sport of golf as one of the youngest.

He not only wanted to be the best black golfer; he wanted to be the

est golfer. The only way Tiger dealt with racism was to let his clubs do

all the talking for him. The book starts off with Earl Woods, Tiger's

father, during the Vietnam War. A sniper almost took out Earl but his

friend saved him. Later on that day, he gets in a predicament with a

bamboo viper, and once again, his friend saves him. The friend's name

was Nguyen Phong, and he was good in combat; he was a tiger in combat.

Nguyen Phong had the nickname of "Tiger". Earl vowed that if he ever had

ther son, he would call him "Tiger". After the war, back in the United

reading about how Tiger started at a really young age and practiced

next son Tiger to repay his friend Nguyen Phong for saving his life. I

r. I really liked this book because I did not know where Tiger got his

everyday to perfect his game. Tiger is a good example of that if you put

played tournaments and racked up his victories, he even played for

John Strege wanted others to get to know Tiger. He wrote this book to

Approximate Word count = 773
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)

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