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Sports Wars

Tiger vs. The Field - Greatness Realized | 2

Sports Wars

Wondery

Sports, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.53.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Tiger Woods continues to soar. As for his dad, Earl? Not so much. Earl's life keeps spiraling downward, and yet, something hidden in his past will soon unite father and son.

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0:00.0

Tiger Woods feels like he's dreaming.

0:12.9

In fact, he had this exact dream earlier this week, imagining himself on the 18th green

0:19.3

of Augusta National.

0:21.4

In the dream, his name was a top-the-score board as he put it out to win the Masters.

0:28.8

Now, on an overcast Sunday afternoon in April of 1997, he's doing just that.

0:35.9

It's real.

0:37.4

He's sure of it because even in his dreams, he couldn't have imagined the way he'd be

0:42.5

winning golf's most prestigious tournament.

0:46.3

The 21-year-old is playing in his first Masters tournament as a pro and he's leading by an

0:52.6

astounding 12 strokes.

0:56.4

Apparently, he didn't dream big enough.

1:00.2

As Tiger lines up a long downhill birdie putt on the final hole, the CBS commentary team

1:07.2

marvel at what they're witnessing.

1:10.1

You know, Jimmy, Tiger Woods has two putts to break the record, which is held by Jack

1:14.9

Nicklaus and Ray Floyd.

1:17.7

And that's a record.

1:18.7

You know, they say records are made to be broken.

1:22.2

Well, 18 under.

1:24.2

If it ever is broken, I want to tell you who's going to break it.

1:27.3

It'll be Tiger Woods.

1:29.7

Tiger addresses the ball and thinks back to Wednesday night's putting lesson from pops.

1:35.2

He can hear Earl's voice in his head telling him to putt to the picture, meaning visualize

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