How Tiger Woods made golf cool
It was the year J K Rowling published Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, the Spice Girls were all the rage in the pop world, Trainspotting premiered on Channel 4, Princess Diana was killed in a car accident in Paris and John Major stepped down as prime minister. As for the sporting front, the most significant moment of 1997 was surely no contest as Tiger Woods claimed his first major with an incredible 12-shot victory in the Masters. It was the week a superstar was truly born.