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Editorial Review:
Tiger Woods has proven himself a sports hero of gigantic proportions. His prowess in the game of golf is now, simply, legendary. To celebrate his superstardom and becoming the youngest professional golfer to complete golf's Career Grand Slam in 2000. Triumph Books' sports editors have collected the very best action photographs, quotes, and comments to create an unrivalled tribute to this 25-year old phenomenon which every fan will want.
Tiger Woods: The Grandest Slam Reviews:
Better than Fiction 
2009-11-04 - In this collection of articles, written immediately after the 2000 "Tiger Slam," key sports writers of the time attempt to put into some perspective the full meaning of Tiger Wood's incredible run of four major titles in 294 days. At the time he accomplished this history-making feat, while there was a great deal of fuss over what to call it -- this book demonstrates that there were not enough superlatives in the English language to capture the immensity of what this 24-year old "golf magician" had accomplished. And in light of what has transpired since, there may still not be enough to capture it. Woods at the time became a veritable force of nature, unto himself. Even today, in 2009, his star still burns brightly.
In a sport where winning a single major tournament can often define the rest of a career, and where most of the top pros measure success not by how many major tournaments they win, but by how many times they finish in the top ten, or even in the top one hundred, Tiger, at the tender age of 24, had begun a rampage of superior golf successes that redefined the parameters of the profession itself, causing the "gods of golfdom" to attempt to "Tiger proof" most of the major golf courses. They did this shamelessly, even as Tiger continued to rewrite professional golf's record books.
While the book is long on statistics, the full truth about Tiger's success comes through only in the subtext. There it is easy enough to see that the secret to Tiger's success lies not just in his superior preparation, his cautious approach of avoiding bad rounds, his superior analytical skills, and steel-like resolve and commitment to winning, but also in how deeply he gets into the heads of his opponents: Their suspicion, which throughout a tournament becomes a growing seed of self-doubt is: that this guy has another gear, one that can quickly accelerate at any time to warp speed. This is a gear that does not appear on my control panel? He can hit this gear at any time. And once he does, its "Katy barred the door;" the game is over. That is a helpless and a hapless feeling, that around the 16th hole of most of the major tournaments, slowly creeps into the heads of Tiger's opponents.
This book thus is mostly a photo journal with reprints of commentary by the key sports writers of the time. They all struggle to find words to place the successes of this "young phenom" into some kind of context and into a normalized perspective that is graspable by normal minds. Arguably they fail at this task because once they have placed Tiger's bust on the monument on the Mount Rushmore of professional golf, he then simply moves the whole mountain. Even today, his rampage continues. This is a case of life mimicking art. Tiger's Wood's life as a golf professional is better than fiction. Amen. Three stars.
Just a collection of AP articles 
2002-09-08 - This is a collection of articles and photos from the press covering Tiger Woods during the 4 continous major wins in 2000-2001. Though worth a reading, would recommend only for Tiger fans.
