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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...
...that's the worst that can be said about him, then in life's par-five Tiger is on the green in two. He is not merely the most accomplished and recognizable athlete alive; he may also be the most uncritically embraced person on earth. Talk to 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...
That influence is already apparent. This summer Tiger has disrupted countless weekend itineraries. Last month 28 million Americans, a 32% increase over last year, watched one of the least dramatic final rounds in the history of the British Open. They 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...
...Tiger has changed since he left school, but he has matured in the glare of intense public scrutiny that has at times proved painful. So Woods has adjusted, in some sense refining his personality in much the way he has his golf swing--purposefully and with great success...
...well-crafted answers with vague platitudes. On the 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...