GENERATION TEE

TIGER WOODS IS ONLY ONE OF A NEW WAVE OF GOLFERS WHO ARE COMING TO THE FOREFRONT ON THE MEN'S TOUR

If you're a golfer, you probably know the feeling. You are about to hit your second shot after a decent enough drive when suddenly another drive comes whistling past, rolling much farther down the fairway. You look back at the group behind you with a mixture of annoyance for the impertinence and admiration for the prowess.

Welcome to the 1997 P.G.A. Tour. It began as the Year of the Tiger, what with Eldrick Woods winning the Masters by an incredible 12 strokes just four months after his 21st birthday. But it has become the Year of the Young Lions. For the...

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