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House Bill 9245




    Florida House of Representatives - 1997                HR 9245

        By Representative Starks






  1                         House Resolution

  2         A resolution honoring Eldrick "Tiger" Woods,

  3         winner of the 61st Masters Golf Tournament.

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  5         WHEREAS, on Sunday, April 13, 1997, professional golfer

  6  Eldrick "Tiger" Woods provided the nation and the world with a

  7  genuinely transcendent moment in the history of sports, and

  8         WHEREAS, just days before the 50th anniversary of

  9  Jackie Robinson's historic breaking of Major League Baseball's

10  color barrier, 21-year-old Tiger Woods of Orlando became the

11  first man of color to win a major golf championship with a

12  record-setting victory at golf's most prestigious tournament,

13  the Masters, and

14         WHEREAS, Sunday's victory at the Masters Tournament was

15  the culmination of an explosive entry into the world of

16  professional golf which began only nine months ago and which

17  has captivated the attention of the sports world, and

18         WHEREAS, in winning the Masters Tournament, Tiger Woods

19  broke the standing scoring record at the Masters by shooting

20  an 18-under-par 270, and also, at age 21, became the youngest

21  Masters Tournament champion in history, and

22         WHEREAS, Tiger Woods so overpowered the field of

23  competition at the Masters Tournament that he finished with a

24  12-shot margin over second-place finisher Tom Kite, thus

25  setting a record for the widest margin of victory at the

26  Masters, and

27         WHEREAS, his score of 270 also set a Masters record low

28  score for 72 holes, and

29         WHEREAS, of the fifteen tournaments in which Tiger

30  Woods has participated since becoming a professional in August

31  1996, he has finished first in four of those tournaments, with

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  1  total PGA tour earnings in that nine-month period of

  2  $1,756,944, and

  3         WHEREAS, rarely, if ever, has the world of golf seen

  4  the advent of a new talent of this magnitude, and

  5         WHEREAS, the impact upon and implications for the world

  6  of golf and the world of sports of Tiger Woods' ascendency to

  7  such a superior level of achievement at such a young age is

  8  truly nothing short of phenomenal, and

  9         WHEREAS, Tiger Woods' victory at the 61st Masters Golf

10  Tournament firmly establishes him as the preeminent

11  professional golfer in the world today and as a new and

12  inspiring standard for athletes, minorities, and the youth of

13  the world, NOW, THEREFORE,

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15  Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of

16  Florida:

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18         That the House of Representatives of the State of

19  Florida hereby extends its sincere congratulations to Eldrick

20  "Tiger" Woods for his record-setting victory at the 61st

21  Masters Golf Tournament and applauds him for his inspirational

22  accomplishments in the world of professional sports.

23         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution

24  be presented to Eldrick "Tiger" Woods as a tangible token of

25  the sentiments expressed herein.

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