Palm Springs Life Magazine August 2000

ON THE COVER — Who can mistake that profile for anyone else’s? In such a short time Tiger Woods has become an American icon. And this month he comes to the desert to face the warmth of competition at the Battle of Bighorn. On August 28, Woods and challenger Sergio Garcia will face off at Bighorn Golf Club for a live telecast on ABC. The program for the event is included free in this issue. Photography by Allsport.

FEATURES:

Life On The Checkerboard
By Allison Block. Photos by Doug Park.
Meet the Prietos, a Native American family.

Cool Lit 1 — Fiction: Cathedral City
By Gregory Hinton. Illustration by Stuart Funk.
Three provocative excerpts from the novel, Cathedral City, to be published by Kensington Books (June 2001).

Cool Lit 2 — Short Story: "La Fête de la Vie"
By Jacqueline Bachar. Illustration by Stuart Funk.
This year’s winner of the Palm Springs Writers Guild Short Story Contest. Get out the hankies.

Cool Lit 3 — Non-Fiction: The Black Widow of Rancho Mirage
By Arthur Lyons. Illustration by Stuart Funk.
She mates, kills and mates again.

Travel: Not Your Great-Great-Grandfather’s Ireland
By Sarah Hagerty.
How has Ireland changed with the new booming economy? Meet the Nouv O’Riche.

SPECIAL SECTION:

Program for The Upcoming Battle at Bighorn
The unbelievable Tiger Woods vs. the surging Sergio Garcia in a Monday Night Golf telecast on ABC-TV, broadcast live from the desert, August 28. Here are all the details.