Victory Impresses Locals
B> JEROME RICHARD , ?
Chronicle Sports Wnier
? . ? ; -Tig^r "Woods roared into golfing
-lpr^ -with his come-from-behind. 2
Up Victory over Trip Kuehne in the
Amateur last Sunday, but his
victory means more to black golfers
?ip. Wln$ton-Salem than the mile
?sjQQes the 18-year-old from Cypress,
?Cajif.i accomplished by winning the
?world's most prestigious amateur
?golf tournament.
? "? . Woods, whose real first name is
?EMricfc. ;became the first black man
?tCvtyin the U.S. Amateur. He is also
?the youngest person to ever win the
? event and is the first person to win
both the U.S. Junior and U.S. Ama
? teur. His rally from six strokes down
in the match-play event is the biggest
comeback victory ever in the 99-year
history of the event and gave him
automatic berths in the Masters, the
?U.S. Open and the British Open.
Unprecedented achievements
are becoming ordinary' for Woods.
? ' who will be a freshman at Stanford
in the fall. He was, at 15, the
* youngest winner of the U.S. Junior
Xmaieur, which he won three con
jciitivL years starting in 1991 ? a
feat never before accomplished or
duplicated. Those accomplishments
have left an impression on local
goffers. " f'm happy he won," said
Robeji Scales, a tutor in the Winston
l ake Senior Golf Association's
After School Tutorial Program. "It
p its him in an elite crowd with Nick
? ; ' \v ?
!aus and some others and it mav
serve a^ an incentive for youngsters
toiget involved with golf to see if
they like it or not." v
> Winston Lake Golf Course
assisiaii pro Jim Payne feels Woods
x 'Ctprv .will have an influence on the
> ? *ung p avers at his course.
? "I i.ave heard the kids that play
here in the Junior Golf Association
talk ahiout Tiger, so I think his victo- .
ry .will have an impact on them and
- their attitude toward ^golf." he said.
< At ;imes during the 36-hole title ;
witch at the TPC Sawgrass Stadium
Course. Woods played like nothing
hi ire. Mian a weekend hacker as he
. h .shot, after shot anywhere but the
. to fall six shells behind
kuehne an Oklahoma State junior
Jioni MoKinney, Texas, after the-1
It. st 13 holes. Woods drew within
f< ir *h??ts aftef the morning round
K iorv rallying to win six of the last
10 \He finished with a 68 in the
altemooii round. Kuehne shot a 74.
H've never been 6 down and
won. said Woods. 19-1 in match
play this year. "But you've always
got to keep positive. I knew if 1 just
hung in. there, sooner of later those
Pufls ucre going to go tn Andthev
did. Crming back from 6 down
Woods took the lead for theft?
time by putting off the fringe for a
birdie from 12 feet on the treacher
ous par- 3 132-yard No. 17 island
. hole He just missed the water *ur
roundme the green on his tee shot.
The victory was sealed on No.
18 when Kuehne," needing a long
* putt tor a birdie, sent the ball six feet *
past the cup and missed coming
back. He then conceded the hole to
Woods, who was ready to putt from ?
four feet for par. Four-time Forsyth*
County Invitational champion Lester
Kjmber know*; the pressure Woods *
w^s under, especially at the 17th
w&en Woods switched from a 9-iron
to!a pitching wedge when the wind
started to swirl. The only thing
between Woods and the disastrous
water s'lrrounding the green was the
batkspin Woods put on the ball that
kept i from sliding into the water.
"fcverv thing was on him at the
17th." said Kimber. "The golf purist
could understand what he was going
through. You have to stand up and
be counted sometimes and he did
that on tHe 17th. He went for the
jugular. You practice for moments
, lik ; that."' Kimber has bent over
many a treacherous four- or five-foot
nun with, a title on the line, and
^h h's victories aren't on the
.S. Amateur, he can nev- ,
relate to tfie pressure
? .Woods was i?n(jer
"Tfie levels of competition are
different. You can be nerv6us and
feel the pressure at my level, but to
be under his kind of pressure,
well...," Kimber said chuckling as
his voice trailed off.
Black males have traditionally
shunned golf and migrated to sports
such as football and basketball. The
consensus among golfers inter
viewed by the Chronicle for their
, reaction to Woods' victor !iat it
would inspire blacks to learn more
about the game, much like Arthui
Ashe did for tennis.
"The kids have been talking ^
about Tiger all morning " Hill Mid
dle School teacher Harden Wheelei
said Monday. "But it's been mostK
white kids. 1 don't think black kids
have been exposfcd to golf and the
"interest level is not as high Probably
most of the black kids' attention Avas
on the football game (Sunday). Golf
needs to be exposed to more black
' kids." Wheeler thinks Woods' victo
ry will do just that.
"Anytime you have a role
model, it vyill stimulate interest and 1
think Tiger will do that like Arthur
Ashe did for tennis among blacks."
Wheeler said. "1 got my Godson.
Eric Wilson, involved in the Junior
Golf Association and now 1 can't
keep him a^'ay from the golf1 course.
He is wearing me out. 1 think black
kids think golf is ;? ; iss\ sport, but
they see Tiger have -<i<vess and pull
in the big bucks ajy.i : ill turn some
heads." Scales views ?\ ixkJs' victor)
, in terms of exposure- 1
iv"ln the past, blacks have never
been exposed to golf because of the
lack, of courses ainlrole models, and]
at the same timeVr'L ;us traditional
ly been suited to \\ males instead
1 1 black males. ii , tid^ " " ^ hsR-1
changed and 1 H V 'ger's win will
attract black >:sters to the
? game." ' I
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Miller Time: Tables Are Turned, Now It's
Miller's Turn to Push Dominique Dawes
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ?
Dominique Dawes has been push
ing Shannon Miller for the last two
years. ;Now it's Miller's turn to
push for a while.
Dawes of Gaithersburg,
? Md., became the first gymnast to
sweep the national championships
since Joyce Tanac Schroeder in
1969, finishing 1-2 with Edmond's
Miller the entire weekend.
"She made history." said
Steve Nunno, one of Miller's
coaches. "Dominique Dawes was
just on fire all weekend, and she
just would not be deterred. Shan
non helped push Dominique as
Dominique has pushed Shannon."
Dawes' sw^ep was anriounced
as the first by an American gym
nast. but Schroeder pointed out to
USA Gymnastics that she had
been' there first, sweeping the 1969
AAU Nationals.
Dominat/ng never entered
Dawes" mind.
"1 tried to treat every event
like the first event and, not be too
overwhelmed by everything
around me. (But)-I thought about it
before the last event, and I was a
? ' ' ??? /
bit nervous," she said.
Miller, winner of five
Olympic and seven World Cham
pionship medals, said that her
1^92 Ol mpic teammate took
advantage of her mistakes.
, "I've been on top a long
time, since the (1992) Olympics,
?coaches posed the challenge of
tumbling back anil forth without
hitting a wall.
Miller now plans to take a
break from competition. She said
she will head back into the gym
and work at making her routines
more difficult
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" Shannon helped push Dominique as
Dominique has pushed Shannon . "
; ?? ? Steve Nunno
and it shows I can make mis
takes," Miller said*
Dawes and Miller were 1-2
in the all-around and finished the
unique finish with respective
sweeps in the vault, uneven bars
and balance beam, then the floor
exercise.
Dawes clinche^ her sweep
with an up-and-back tumbling pass
to open her floor exercise that
helped earn her a 9.925." She
learned how to do the pass while
working in a small gym where her
Dawes also isn't satisfied.
She figures she has to learn a real
release move from the uneven bars -
and pump up the difficulty in her
routines before the world team tri
als qualifying meet in October.
"I could' ve had a better dif
ficulty on the bar. I don't really .
have a real release on the bars,"
Dawes said 1
The women's performance
overshadowed the men's individ
ual event finals even though all
around champion Scott Keswick
added golds in the still rings and
high bar to his collection.
Keswick, 24, of UCLA,
won his first' national title Thurs
day and had chances in five of the
six individual finals Saturday. He
medaled in three, winning the still
rings with a score of 9.625 and the
high bar with a 9.525.
But even he admitted this
year's event finals weren't as
exciting as 1993 with the men's
field hit by injuries and a stomach
virus that claimed several competi
tors, including Bill Roth of Tem
ple, who had finished second in
the all-around.
A stomach virus forced
Roth to pull out of three events.
He tried to defend his title in the/
vault but stumbled into the judge's
table on the landing of his second
vault and finished fourth.
"It's been a long summer.
After the all-around, it's not easy
to get back in the gym,'* Keswick
said. "Wejlid have some great
performances, but the level was
not where it could've or should've
been.'* . f
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