(born 1975) Already believed by many to be the greatest player to have played golf, regularly breaking records for lowest scores on the world’s courses, and at the age of twenty-four becoming the youngest player to win a career Grand Slam—1997 Masters, 1999 PGA tournament, 2000 US Open, the 2000 British Open (two years earlier than Jack Nicklaus achieved this feat). He has brought record numbers of viewers to televised golf, and, as the son of an African American father and a Thai mother, has opened up the sport to previously excluded or uninterested minorities. Now largely competing against himself, he sets new goals to achieve: tournaments without making a bogey; the first Grand Slam in a single year; and Nicklaus’ achievement of eighteen major career victories.