How Tiger Woods changed the game after Augusta 1997

The walk from the ninth green to the 10th tee at Augusta National takes less than a minute, but the significance of that brief period of time on April 10, 1997, cannot be underestimated.

How Tiger Woods changed the game after Augusta 1997

During those few seconds, Tiger Woods came up with the answer to the problems which had seen his first Masters as a professional threaten to unravel.

And in doing so, the 21-year-old kickstarted an extraordinary period of dominance which would produce a total of 14 major championships, the ‘Tiger Slam’, 79 PGA Tour titles and a record 683 weeks as world number one.

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