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...recent demonstration of racial insensitivity in the sports world occurred in the field of golf. Since the PGA tour remains such a lily-white enclave, perhaps it was only a matter of time before someone associated with the game made an asinine remark about the sport's new phenom, Tiger Woods. Last week, Woods won the PGA's Masters Tournament, setting records for being the youngest Masters winner in history, as well as winning with an 18-under-par score and a 12-stroke lead. However, Woods' unofficial record is being labeled the first black golfer to win a major...
...responding to Darren Kilfara's piece entitled "A Tiger Primer: What Did and Didn't Happen at the Masters" (April 16). While Mr. Kilfara's original premise to temper Tigermania was sound, his attempt to diminish young Mr. Woods' accomplishments was unfounded...
...high. I, too, tuned into the Masters, as I do every year, Mr. Kilfara. Woods ran away from the greatest field in the world and broke the long standing tournament records posted by two of golf's greatest legends, Jack Nicklaus and Raymond Floyd. In Mr. Kilfara's eyes, "Tiger played mediocre golf for most of Sunday's final round." I rebut: an aggregate 69, three under par, on Sunday at Augusta National in front of the largest gallery and television audience in history is nothing short of amazing. Sorry he bored you, Darren. Perhaps Sunday collapses like Greg Norman...
What history holds for Tiger I cannot predict, but what happened Sunday, in the eyes of any sports historian, was a benchmark for the ages. --Peter J. Atkinson 17 Handicap
...Tiger Woods is black, but he doesn't have to be golf's Jackie Robinson. He is also Asian, Native American and young. But more than any of that, he is a stupendous golfer. Bill Clinton and Nike executives aside, I'm convinced his headline of choice would have been: "Woods Shoots Lowest Score Ever at the Masters." And that...