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...British Open, he went salmon fishing in Ireland with O'Meara. The week after his triumph, Tiger scuba-dived in the Bahamas. Like Jordan, he will place a friendly wager on just about anything--but forget about getting him to pay up. Kelly Manos, one of Woods' childhood golf partners, won $20 from Tiger the last time they played together, in 1995. Manos hasn't seen the cash: "Whenever I ask him about it, he always says, 'I'll play you for it.'" As a betting man, he can get excited when discussing the stock market, reveling in a couple...
From the start, his life was dotted with feats of genius that even now seem incomprehensible. At 10 months, having spent his infancy watching his dad hit golf balls in the family garage in Cypress, Calif., Tiger picked up one of Earl's clubs and smacked a ball into the practice net--left-handed. He won a putting contest against Bob Hope at two. By six he was playing and beating 18-year-olds...
...course there were struggles. At six, Woods developed a speech impediment that took two years of special reading classes to correct. "I couldn't even read out loud to myself," he told an audience last week in New Orleans at a golf clinic for inner-city youths, one of five he will give this year on behalf of the Tiger Woods Foundation. The speech impediment still prevents him from speaking foreign languages--though he reads Spanish and understands spoken Thai, his mother's native tongue...
...seemed to understand everything in life. Everything we talked about he absorbed." Tiger dabbled in team sports, but "the only [other] sport I truly loved competing in was track and cross-country. For some reason I loved it--I'm sorry, I liked it. I loved golf." He was nearly as assiduous as a student. "I never had to ask Tiger to practice," says Earl, "and I never had to ask him if he had his homework done...
...trail of Tiger Woods took TIME to New Orleans, where the youngest winner of golf's grand slam was conducting a clinic for local kids. On hand were assistant managing editor Dan Goodgame, staff writer Romesh Ratnesar and photographer Herb Ritts, who flew from Los Angeles for the shoot. "I've worked with just about everybody, from Presidents to rock stars," says Ritts, "and Tiger lived up to his reputation. He was a very cool guy, very easy and humble. He was very in the moment. We hit it off very well." Before meeting up with Woods in New Orleans...