Here’s a little piece of trivia. What score did a 21-year-old Tiger Woods shoot at the 1997 Masters, a course record that was only broken in 2020? Stumped? Okay, here’s an easier one: What did Tiger Woods wear that Sunday, the day he became the youngest golfer to earn a green jacket, and more or less changed golf as we know it? The black shoes, the black hat, the black pants, and that instantly iconic red-on-Sunday sweater. It was a perfect outfit—and the image that Nike used on Monday to announce that its relationship with Tiger would end after 27 years. That day, he beat the field by a dozen strokes. Almost as shocking? He made people want to buy golf clothes. (To answer my first question: he shot 270 over the tournament’s four rounds—a legendary 18 under par.)
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