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 ? ,/? '-I ? . . v: v , 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 * . **? ? / . f;' .w ,f - * . 1 / . ?* ?; . f ' " 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. 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