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...take naps in the afternoon, or anything like that," says Kite. "But I am trying to line up Pampers as an official Ryder Cup sponsor." Seriously, Kite says he's thrilled with the young makeup of his team, and of the tour. "They're really bringing new excitement to golf. The galleries are larger, younger, more exuberant. And it's not just Tiger the fans are following...
...cyclical nature of the game. "When I won the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach in '92," says Kite, "it was, 'Oh, no, another 40-year-old wins a major.' There just weren't a lot of 20-year-olds out there at the time." Indeed, golf history seems as well-ordered as Sunday afternoon groupings: Hogan, Nelson and Snead, all born in 1912; Palmer, Player and Nicklaus, winning 10 of 16 majors (1960-63); Watson, Kite and Crenshaw, turning pro one right after the other...
...next threesome up on the tee remains to be seen, but clearly Woods will be one of them. In a way, he is responsible for the esprit de kiddie corps. "There's definitely a Tiger effect," says CBS golf announcer Jim Nantz. "Once the other young golfers saw Tiger bypass the customary apprenticeship, they thought, 'Hey, I can do that too.'" Leonard said as much after his British Open victory: "Having seen Tiger do so well, having seen Ernie do so well, maybe I thought it was O.K. to go out and win a tournament like this being...
Leonard is also part of the Texas golf tradition handed down from Byron Nelson and Ben Hogan to Jimmy Demaret to Lee Trevino to Kite and Ben Crenshaw. Growing up in Dallas, Justin was so golf-mad that he wrote school papers on Nicklaus, Player and Palmer and practiced his short game inside the house. He recalled one hole as "up the stairs, around the dining room table and over the dog." The enormity of his desire was somewhat mitigated by his small stature, but Leonard delighted in beating opponents who far outdrove him. Because Leonard rarely loses his composure...
Growing up in Johannesburg, Els showed promise in tennis, rugby and cricket, as well as golf. When Els at 14 beat Mickelson for the Junior World Golf championship, his father, who owned a trucking company, decided to scrap the tennis court in the backyard and build a putting green. Following high school, Els spent two years in the army, then turned pro. But it wasn't until after a post-party car accident that Els decided to take golf seriously. "I wasn't living right and just felt like it was time to get focused, stop the bull...