Tiger Woods and David Beckham are both global celebrities at the tops of their games. Woods has transformed golf, while Beckham hasn’t given professional soccer the great American breakthrough it was hoping for. Two new books explain why.
William Echikson’s “Shooting for Tiger: How Golf’s Obsessed New Generation Is Transforming a Country Club Sport” PublicAffairs, $24.95 is less about Woods than about the effect he’s had on his sport, which can be summarized easily: Golf is no longer a white, elite sport. Kids are mad for it. And youth golf has become a subculture all its own.
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