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...smug. When a young girl in New Orleans last week asked Tiger Woods how much he makes, the world's richest golfer gathered his thoughts, then said, "More than you." Petulant? On occasion. "There isn't enough time in the day or in my life to please everybody," he told TIME last week. "Even if you do that every day for the rest of your life--I guarantee you haven't done enough." He is legendary among his friends as a cheapskate, rarely carrying cash and traveling, one says, "like the Queen." Want more? He makes his bed every...
...people who know him, and rhapsodies flow. "I love Tiger," says fellow pro Hal Sutton. "He has always been cordial with me. He's considerate when I play with him. He's just a great guy." Tiger's agent and friend, Mark Steinberg, says that "as good a golfer as Tiger is, he's an even better person." O.K., so Tiger is Steinberg's meal ticket. But even those who have nothing invested in Woods find it hard not to be effusive. "He is a tremendously well-balanced young man," says South African veteran Gary Player...
...stayed for a glimpse of golfing puissance--and to see a reflection of themselves. In an era defined by placid prosperity and cross-cultural, NASDAQ-obsessed Generation Y geeks who went to Stanford, it is only a minor coincidence that the national icon is a 24-year-old multiracial golfer who "plays around in the market" and could be worth $1 billion by the time he's 30 and was geeky enough to be nicknamed Urkel by his college teammates--at Stanford...
...course, he doesn't play to the crowds, even as they close in on him to be next to greatness. Woods has become the world's most popular athlete by comporting himself with a decorous dullness that is almost quaint. "Tiger has made it cool to be a golfer," says friend and rival David Duval. But Tiger's biggest accomplishment has come in making it cool to be Tiger...
Woods was unprepared for the crush of attention that accompanied his astonishing debut. He had difficulty making friends with other players. "He couldn't walk anywhere without being mobbed," says golfer Lee Janzen. "So he didn't spend any time in the locker room. Most of us didn't even get the chance to see him." The spotlight was blinding, Woods says. "It was a big change in my life. I turned pro, and suddenly, overnight, people knew who I was. I felt uncomfortable with it. There I was enjoying dinner with family and friends, and to have people...