CHARLIE MULQUEEN: Reliving the day Tiger became a sporting superstar

THE 1997 Masters was the eighth — and most memorable — of my 20 visits to Augusta.

Nick Faldo was the defending champion and was amongst the short-priced favourites for victory.

However, the airwaves and newspapers had been full of a young aspirant to one of golf’s major championships for several months and Augusta National itself was so convinced of Tiger Woods’s credentials that they sent him out in the first round with the Englishman.