Tiger Woods

Hall of Fame

VANITY FAIR NOMINATES

BECAUSE no one has ever won the Masters more precociously (at the age of 21), decisively (by 12 strokes), or momentously (Woods is the first person of color to win a major P.G.A. event, breaking a racial barrier 50 years more durable than the one Jackie Robinson demolished). BECAUSE, as someone of African, Asian, Caucasian, and Native American lineage, he embodies a new, polyglot America yet refuses to be pigeonholed. BECAUSE he promises to be the greatest golf player and richest athlete ever but remains gracious, modest, real. BECAUSE if he measures up to his potential as an athlete and leader, there is simply no limit to the impact he can have on his sport, his culture, his country, his world.

DAVID MARGOLICK