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Eldrick “Tiger” Woods<\/a>, a prodigy since the time he was a toddler, delivered on his destiny of golf greatness with a jaw-dropping 12-stroke victory in the Masters Tournament on this day in history, April 13, 1997.<\/p>\n

“A win for the ages!” broadcaster Jim Nantz enthused, as the gallery erupted when Woods’ final putt dropped in the 18th hole.\u00a0<\/p>\n

His 12-shot victory over second-place finisher Tom Kite remains the greatest margin in the history of the storied golf tournament<\/a>.<\/p>\n

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY, APRIL 12, 954, BILL HALEY RECORDS \u2018ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK,\u2019 ROCK’S FIRST NO. 1 HIT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

He is still the youngest winner in Masters history.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Woods shot an incredible 18-under,\u00a0which\u00a0stood as the lowest-ever score in the Masters until it was surpassed by Dustin Johnson in 2020 (-20).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Golf Digest called the win by the 21-year-old phenom “the dawn of dominance” and an “epic victory that shook the game.”<\/p>\n

Woods tore up all four rounds, including a scintillating 65 (7-under) third round on Saturday that put him in a commanding position entering the final found.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Tiger\u2019s Grrrreat!” beamed the front-page headline of local newspaper Augusta Chronicle Sunday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The final round proved a coronation, not a competition.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Woods, who turned pro only seven months earlier, laid waste to a field of the greatest golfers in the game.<\/p>\n

“There\u2019s a new era about to dawn at the most magical setting in golf,” CBS announced as it opened its final-round broadcast.<\/p>\n

TEXAS TECH CHEERLEADER IDENTIFIED AS MASTERS FAN WHO WENT VIRAL DURING TOURNAMENT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Woods, the network noted, “had power and grace like the game has never seen before.”<\/p>\n

For nearly two decades he’d been groomed for this moment.<\/p>\n

Woods was famously given a golf club the moment he could walk by his father Earl Woods, a U.S. Army Green Beret<\/a> officer who served in Vietnam.<\/p>\n

Tiger proved a natural. He shocked a national TV audience by driving golf balls at age 2 in front of Bob Hope on “The Mike Douglas Show.”<\/p>\n

He dominated amateur golf as a teenager, winning a record three consecutive U.S. Junior Championships (1991-93), then adding an NCAA golf title<\/a> (1996) while playing for Stanford, among many other honors.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Woods turned pro in September 1996 and won two PGA Tour events<\/a> before year-end. Sports Illustrated named him its “Sportsman of the Year” for 1996 and again in 2000.<\/p>\n

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY, MARCH 22, 1934, MASTERS TOURNAMENT TEES OFF FOR FIRST TIME IN AUGUSTA, GEORGIA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

His innate ability, coupled with the demands of a driven father and his own quest for excellence, gave Tiger’s ascendancy as a professional an air of inevitability witnessed by millions in the final round of the 1997 Masters.<\/p>\n

Woods, with an insurmountable lead, was followed across the final several holes by an electrified gallery entranced by the greatness unfolding in front of their eyes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“A rhapsody of total appreciation and awe at a virtuoso performance like Augusta has never seen,” Nantz said as Woods\u00a0stepped onto the 18th green to secure his crown.<\/p>\n

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY, APRIL 7, 1963, JACK NICKLAUS WINS FIRST OF RECORD SIX MASTERS TOURNAMENTS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“It is here that I left my youth behind and became a man,” Woods wrote to the host committee at Augusta National<\/a> Saturday night, the words read on air as he played his final putt.<\/p>\n

“For that, I will eternally be in your debt.”<\/p>\n

The popularity of golf soared in the wake of Woods\u2019 masterful Masters.<\/p>\n

“Woods\u2019 dominant performance, and his mass appeal, had an immediate effect” on the sport, notes Masters.com, the website of Augusta National.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“The final round of the Masters had garnered its highest rating ever, and television ratings leaped whenever he played a tournament. His first tournament after the Masters was the GTE Byron Nelson Golf Classic outside Dallas, which he won. The tournament sold out for the first time.”<\/p>\n

It was the first of what would become 15 wins in major tournaments by Woods, his assault on Jack Nicklaus\u2019 record 18 major titles thwarted by a series of personal scandals and injuries in later years.<\/p>\n

“Woods\u2019 win happened half his life ago, but the roars it triggered will never fade,” Masters.com wrote in 2017, in a 20th-annivesary retrospective of the landmark moment in global sports history.<\/p>\n

“Today \u2026 most of us remember the winning moment as if it just happened. Tiger shook the golf world.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/lifestyle\/this-day-history-april-13-1997-tiger-woods-21-dominates-masters-record-12-stroke-win <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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