Cypress, California was a place with few minorities.  Tiger had experienced racism ever since he was young.  Tiger and his father Earl had not been allowed to play on some course because of their color.  On Tiger's first day of kindergarten, a group of older boys tied him to a tree, tautned him with racial slurs, and threw rocks at him.  Although the offenders were caught, Tiger would forever have that in his mind.  His age on the golf course created some controversy as well, but his "monster" growing up was racism.
      If he was allowed to play on a course, the other players would resent him while some course didn't even let him in.  That soon changed, but only because he was who he was, a great golfer.  Tiger still got "the Look" from the white people though before those times passed.
      Tiger Woods was not the first to break the color barrier in golf.  He was the fourth black competitor in the Masters after Lee Elder in 1975, Calvin Peete in 1980, and Jim Thorpe in 1980.  Tiger's apperance in the Masters was the same year as MLB's fiftieth anniversary of Jackie Robinson's breaking the color barier.