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Why We Can't Stop Watching Tiger

I was 13 years old when I’d decided that I was on the side of Tiger Woods, and that I would stand against any opposition that might come his way. Woods was 21 and in his second year on the PGA Tour. He had just won the 1997 Masters, making him the youngest golfer to do so. And, as the winner of the Masters, he got to choose the menu for the Masters Champions Dinner the following year. In anticipation of the dinner, a reporter asked Fuzzy Zoeller, a tour veteran well past his prime —he won the Masters in 1979—what he’d thought of Woods.