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Navy Golf Course
Cypress, California
Summer 1978
A call comes in to the sports desk at CBS Los Angeles.
Jim Hill picks up. Hill, a six-foot-two Black man who played eight NFL
seasons at defensive back, has only been on the sports desk at Channel 2 for
a couple of years.
“My name is Earl Woods,” the caller announces. “And my son Tiger is
getting ready to revolutionize the sport of golf.”
It’s not the first time Hill has heard a dad brag about a son’s athletic
ability. “Well, what else is interesting about this story?” he asks.
“You’ve got to see him to believe him,” Earl says, then adds, “I’m a
former Green Beret. Get your butt down here.”
“Here” is Cypress, California. The Orange County city of forty thousand
is twenty-five miles southeast of Los Angeles. Hill is intrigued enough to
assemble a camera crew to film the demonstration Earl sets up at Cypress’s
Navy Golf Course.
“How much do you practice?” Hill asks the toddler.
“A whole lot,” Tiger answers.
Using three custom clubs that his father has had cut down to child size,
Tiger hits balls and sinks putts, one after the other. Hill is suitably
impressed.
“This young man is going to be to golf what Jimmy Connors and Chris
Evert are to tennis,” Hill declares.
Soon after Tiger’s appearance on Channel 2, a national TV show seeks
him out. The Mike Douglas Show, a talk show newly relocated to Los
Angeles from Philadelphia, is looking for local talent. The host sees Hill’s
piece on Tiger, and soon the producers book him for the season’s premiere
week in their new Hollywood location.
On Friday, October 6, 1978, Tiger and Earl—dressed in coordinating
red-and-white outfits—arrive on the soundstage at CBS Television City’s
Studio 43 and greet Mike Douglas as well as beloved comedian Bob Hope
and legendary actor Jimmy Stewart, who is cohosting with Douglas for the
week.
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