He used his toe. Tiger Woods is here now, though, and America's great white bastion is feeling the impact. Like Jackie Robinson in baseball. Woods is only 25 and yet he already ranks with Robinson and Joe DiMaggio and Michael Jordan and Muhammad Ali and the prodigious Babe Ruth. Should Woods win his fourth major championship in a row this weekend, his legend will flourish more and American society, as well as others, will be the better for it.
Tiger is globalization personified.
Not the distressing corporate globalization, though he, unfortunately, encourages this with his Nike logo and gigantesque contract. But the human brand. His heritage is a great mix of ethnic groups that reaches across continents. His supreme success lifts their boats. In his white golf shoes, Jack Nicklaus starred in the game over a stretch of four decades.