When Woods won the 2001 Masters, he became the only player to win four consecutive major professional golf titles, although not in the same calendar year. This achievement came to be known as the "Tiger Slam".
What is the Tiger Woods slam? Tiger used the clubs for the four consecutive major victories that make up the “Tiger Slam” – the 2000 U.S. Open, Open Championship, PGA Championship and 2001 Masters – before switching to a new set seven weeks after the '01 Masters. Read More...
Easy to clean. The most blatant reason and advantage in getting black boots is that they're much easier to clean. Actually, maybe that's not right. It may be that if you don't know how to properly clean your boots, they are less noticeably dirty.
Why do players black out their boots? He says: “When a player is out of contract with a brand, they often wear blackout boots because the brand will not give them money anymore. Read More...
The term is often shortened to the colloquial form ump. They are also sometimes addressed as blue at lower levels due to the common color of the uniform worn by umpires. In professional baseball, the term blue is seldom used by players or managers, who instead call the umpire by name.
Do umpires wear blue or black? It's different today, but for the better part of the last 100 years most men went to work in a black or blue suit. Read More...