高尔夫球界的“森林之王”

赵木子

明星档案:

Height: 6-2

Weight: 180 1bs

Born: December 30, 1975,Cypress, California

Year turned professional: 1996

College: Stanford University

泰格•伍兹（Tiger Woods）的字面意思就是“森林老虎”，霸气十足的名字似乎注定了他在高尔夫球场上不可动摇的地位。一个黑人、一个高尔夫球霸主、一个广告商的宠儿、一个身价最昂贵的体育明星，连迈克尔•乔丹都崇拜的人……他是如何成长成为高尔夫球之王的呢？

Practice, practice, practice! Thats how Tiger Woods became a championship golfer. He started playing golf when he was very young, and by the time he was 6 years old he was an amazing golfer. His father, Earl, was his coach.

When Tiger was just a baby, his dad made a driving range in his garage with carpet and a net. Tiger would sit in his high chair and watch his dad practice.

When he was 9 months old, his dad sawed off a golf club to make it very short, and Tiger could strike the ball into the net. When he was 18 months old (just a year and a half), he began going to the golf course with Dad. He hit buckets of balls on the driving range.

When he was 4 years old, they hired a coach for him. When he was 6, he began entering junior contests.

Tiger listened to tapes to improve his confidence in himself. His dad helped him to learn to focus in spite of distractions. He stood in front of Tiger and said, “Im a tree”, and he would have to hit the ball over his father. Earl would jingle the coins in his pocket to distract him, or roll a ball in front of him and Tiger learned to concen-trate oｎ the game.

Even though it sometimes made him angry, the training helped him. Once a walkie talkｉｅ made a loud noise during Tigers swing at the ball. He said he never heard the radio because he was so focused on hitting the ball.

He cannot stand to lose. He does not be-come angry, but he goes out and practices even harder to not make the same mistakes.

In the year 2000, when he was 24 years old, he won four major golf tournaments; the U.S. Open, and U.S. Amateur and the British ｏｐen and British Amateur.

He is so much better than any other golfers that some say he is the greatest golfer to ever play the game.

练习，练习，再练习！这就是泰格•伍兹成为高尔夫球冠军的秘密。他从很小的时候起便开始打球，6岁时的他已是一名让人刮目相看的高尔夫球手。父亲厄尔是他的教练。

泰格还是个婴儿的时候，父亲便在车库里用地毯和护网围出了一块高尔夫球练习场，而泰格则坐在高脚椅上观看。

泰格9个月大时，父亲将普通球棒锯短以便儿子能用棒将球打入网内。而在18个月大（一岁半）时，泰格已经开始随父亲前往真正的高尔夫球训练场了。他在训练场上打了无数桶球。

泰格4岁时，家里为他请了专门的高尔夫球教练。6岁时，泰格开始参加青少年高尔夫球比赛。

泰格通过边打球边听磁带来增强自信心。父亲帮助泰格学会了在干扰面前集中注意力。他站在泰格前面说“我是一棵树”， 泰格的球必须越过父亲这棵树。泰格打球时，父亲还会将口袋的硬币弄得叮当响、或是在他面前滚球来分散泰格的注意力，而泰格便这样渐渐学会了比赛时要全神贯注。

尽管这种训练有时也惹恼了泰格，但泰格还是从中获益匪浅。一次在他挥球时，步话机发出了极大噪音，可泰格说他根本没听见步话机的声音，因为他太专注于击球了。

泰格受不了失败，但他在失败后并不生气，而是走到场地上更努力地训练以免犯同样的错误。

2000年，在泰格24岁时，他赢得了四场重要的高尔夫球赛：美国公开赛、美国业余赛、英国公开赛、英国业余赛。

正是因为泰格有着比其他任何高尔夫球选手更为优异的成绩，有人说他是有史以来最伟大的高尔夫球手。