1 comments about Tiger Woods.

1. Everyone is in a feeding frenzy to learn more about Golf's new sensation, Tiger Woods. Jack Clary satisfies this hunger by producing this wonderful picture book outlining Tiger's career from his earliest days to his winning of the 1997 Masters Championship. If you are a follower of Eldrick Woods' career, you won't find anything new in terms of his accomplishments. What then, distinguishes this book from the plethora of texts written about this golf prodigy after his Master's Win?

   Clary provides us with outstanding photographs of Tiger along with exciting prose giving us an interpretation of his golfing skills. Of greatest interest is the author's detailed description of Tiger at the Masters. We are taken through round by round of the play. Clary gives a brief summary of what Woods did at each hole. You almost feel as if you are there as our author tells you the story through words augmented with the color photographs. When you walk on the course with Woods, you feel that you are in the presence of a person who will totally change how golf is played.

   The Master's description alone is a reason to have this book in your personal library. Clary did an excellent job in bringing you into the game and in enabling you to develop a great appreciation for one of Golf's greatest players.

No comments about A BIOGRAPHY OF TIGER WOODS..

No comments about Mick Kinane: Big Race King.

No comments about Seve.

No comments about The Jack Fleck story: : the legacy of "the playoff of the century" and the "Greatest upset in sport history!".

No comments about Lee Sobre Tiger Woods/ Read About Tiger Woods (I Like Biographies! (Bilingual)).

No comments about Cooper Henderson and the Open Road: The Life and Works of Charles Cooper Henderson, 1803-1877.

No comments about Staying the Course.

No comments about A Golfer's Life.

5 comments about Raising the Bar : The Championship Years of Tiger Woods.

1. I was genuinely distracted from the content as I found myself reading every page "looking for more typos, inaccurate facts, etc". Many are noted in previous reviews....Butch Harmon is referred to as Bruce....David Duval is later called Davis....etc. I do not know the publishing process but I would think an author should have a vested interested in proofing his product....as well as many others. It is obviously an effort to cash in (the book itself had interesting facts, if you can trust themmmmm)......but also seemed disjointed and like it was slapped together without connection between chapters....bottom line - an inferior quality product given it is a 24 dollar hardcopy new book......wait for the next revision......



2. I have seen Tim Rosaforte on the Golf Channel and read an excerpt in Golf Digest so I was looking forward to this book. There were so many errors and typos--misspellings, wrong words, one whole section out of place--that it was hard to concentrate on the text. Many of the quotes were simply taken from Golf Channel interviews and shows. There was little evidence of research. It was clear that this book was designed to make money by capitalizing on Tiger's celebrity and was rushed to print while we were still talking about the 2000 season. Do publishers have editors and proofreaders any more? Save your money.



3. Boring. Boring. Boring.

   I almost gave up on the book after about 30 pages, but it was given to me as a gift and I like to finish that which I start.

   If this book had to be written (?) then it should have been written by someone who could at least hold your attention, if not excite.

   Tim Rosaforte shows little writing talent and one wonders what he is doing to raise his own bar. His readers and Tiger deserve better.

   Having read John Feinstein and having grown up with the writings of Jim Murray perhaps my bar is set too high.

   To anyone who wants to take a chance on this book I recommend the public library.




4. I enjoyed the book simply because I enjoy reading just about anything about Tiger. That said, I must say I was rather disapointed in this particular read. Not much original thought or insight to be found here. I was rather amused at the author's efforts to use every arcane and obscure golf term he could think of. He was a bit like a "name dropper" but in this case, he used "golf jargon" rather than celebrities. I also found I extremely difficult to follow the sequence of events. The chronology did not always work out. (I do wonder why publishers do not use editors anymore???? If I had one I certainly would not be misspelling so many words). Often times I found one event or one bit of information referred to differently, even in the same paragraph. All in all, I have read better.



5. Rising The Bar is a book about a famous golfer named Tiger Woods by Tom Rosaforte. This book follows Tiger as he makes his professional golf career. Tiger was 2 when he started picking up the game of golf. He would watch his father when he would go golfing. When Tiger was 12 he won his first state golf tournament and by the time he was 19 he was in the Junior PGA (professional golf association). By the time Tiger reached the age of 23 he won his first professional golf title.

   This book is a very easy book to read, even though it's a big book. Tim uses very easy words to understand. This book follows Tiger through every championship starting from his first one.

   I would recommend this book to people who like sports and seeing people do well even though they weren't expected too. I'm the kind of person that likes books that shows how good people do coming from a not so good background. I give this book *** because if follows every detail of Tiger starting when he was a kid.