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Step 1
Begin before you can even make a decision that you want to golf like Tiger Woods. Demonstrate the innate physical abilities and inherent interest for golf that Woods demonstrated beginning at the age of 18 months. Have the good fortune to be born to parents who will support your passion.
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Step 2
Start practicing your golf swing on a daily basis from the age of about four years. Demonstrate a patience for the repetitive nature of doing the same thing over and over again. Make it clear to your parents that it is golf above all things else that you love.
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Step 3
Be fortunate enough to have both a mother and a father who participate in your athletic growth and development. Your parents should have enough of their own senses of self-esteem that they continue to play appropriate parental roles, teaching you self-discipline, emotional stability and an overall perspective.
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Step 4
Begin to work with a swing coach when your abilities playing the game have superseded your parents' ability to teach it. This will vary from person to person and parent to parent. Find a swing coach that both you and your parents trust because trust is crucial for you to learn.
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Step 5
Work with your swing coach year around. Practice every day, addressing all facets of the game, but NOT to the entire exclusion of developing as a youth and adolescent and growing intellectually through schooling. One of Tiger's greatest strengths is his character and overall stability.
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Step 6
Participate in competitive golf beginning at the age of 6 or 7. Learn to compete against those older than you so that you are driven to succeed. However, also find venues where you are successful and come to know the taste of victory. Work on your powers of focusing all your attention to the single act of executing a golf shot.
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Step 7
Become a total athlete by doing strength training and conditioning. Compete at every amateur level. Study the golf swing until you understand it as well as your teachers. Develop your senses so that you have an inherent sense of where the club head is at every moment of a swing. Develop imagination in the execution of difficult shots. Eventually turn pro and devour the sport.
