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By 14-years-old, a young Tiger Woods had already won 5 Junior World Championship Titles… and experienced plenty of discrimination along the way.
Despite the hate, a bigger dream was pushing him to succeed, as he shared in a 1990 interview.
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In that interview with Trans World Sports, a baby Tiger expressed why his biggest ambition was to win the Masters:
“The way Blacks have been treated there, [like] they shouldn’t be there… if I win that tournament it would be really big for us.”
From that point forward, Tiger Woods went on to rule the world of golf.
When Woods began golfing professionally, he immediately changed the landscape of a sport dominated by white men.
And over the course of his decades-long career, Woods has broken countless records.
To name a few, he’s won 81 PGA Tours with the best career scoring average in PGA Tour history.
He became the youngest player to win the Masters at 21.
He’s the only player to have won all four professional major championships back-to-back, a feat now called the “Tiger Slam.”
And he’s led the PGA Money List a record 10 times - the highest paid golfer in history.
Opportunities don’t come easily to us - we often have to create our own.
But when we grab opportunities, we go beyond doing well. We dominate in any field we enter.