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Woods quickly becomes an important, and valuable part of the Stanford team, making a name for him in NCAA division golf. .
Tiger, now 19, plays the Masters, his first professional major championship. He is the only amateur to make the cut but finishes a disappointing 42nd. "Stanford suspends Tiger from the golf team for a day for writing Masters diaries for Golf World and Golfweek magazines. It's deemed to be a promotion of a commercial publication, by the director of legislative services for the NCAA. Meanwhile, his father intimates that Tiger might leave school early if such annoying NCAA scrutiny continues or if he achieves a level of performance in which collegiate golf is no longer a viable environment for him."# .
Woods continues to dominate in NCAA play and earns First-Team All-America honors. He is also named Stanford's Male Freshman of the Year. Woods ties for fifth at the NCAA Championships. Tiger, 19, still involved with the amateur USGA side of golf successfully defends his U.S. Amateur Championship. "He becomes the first male since Bobby Jones to win a USGA title in five consecutive years."# .
Tiger Woods" Influence.
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Tiger now known across the country as the young junior amateur who is burning up the standings starts to attract a following wherever he goes. He draws crowds which in earlier years could only have been imagined, people came out in record numbers to try to capture a piece of the magic and this magic was deemed "Tigermania".
Riding the wave of the newly coined phrase "Tigermania", 14,694 purchase tickets to attend the NCAA Championships along with 225 media credentials, an increase of 80 from the previous year. Not only was Tiger drawing fans, he was drawing the media, which fueled his competitive fire and would make the entire country sit up and take notice. "Tiger, the only golfer in the 156-player field to break par, wins his first and only NCAA individual championship.
