Chris Walters wears well the moniker "Pacman" as opponents who were devoured during his summer of dominance will attest. Walters, 10, won nine of 15 events in his age division of the junior tournaments conducted in 1997 by the North Texas Section of the PGA of America. He is an example of that next generation of undiscovered talent to which Earl Woods refers-a generation Woods believes will follow his famous son's footsteps toward making golf more inclusive.

	Danyeil and Chris Walters

"Chris is so competitive," says his mother, Gayle, who chauffeurs Chris and his older brother, Danyeil, to tournaments in and around North Texas. "Everybody wants to play him."

The Walters family, from the Dallas suburb of Grand Prairie, care and share in the Woods family mold. Father Gary, a five-handicap "when I have time to play a lot" taught his boys to play at an early age. Danyeil, a junior varsity player at South Grand Prairie High School, got serious about the game a couple of years ago.

"I just found out what the game could do for me," he said. "I was sitting around one day reading about scholarships in Golf Digest. That's when I decided to give up everything else and concentrate on playing golf."

Tiger's visit to Dallas in conjunction with the 1997 GTE Byron Nelson Classic gave the Walters boys free instruction and great memories. Said Danyeil, "It was neat to have Tiger show me what I was doing wrong. It was overwhelming."

	Randy Taylor

Three years ago, Randy Taylor didn't know a balata from a banana. Now he wears logoed golf shirts and khaki pants. Far away from the asphalt playground, he is Tiger Woods.

"I didn't know why Tiger wanted to play golf, but I found out," said Taylor after a teacher talked him into joining the Bridgeport (Conn.) Board of Education Academic Golf Program. Taylor, 15, was immediately hooked. "I liked it from the start," said the Bridgeport native. "I could hit it pretty far and that was exciting."

When Woods gave an exhibition at Randall's Island last summer, Taylor timidly approached his idol, received words of encouragement and a smile. He was also one of two recipients of a Nike scholarship to attend a week-long golf camp in Windsor, Conn.

His schoolwork improved dramatically, a fact he attributes to golf. "Just like in school, there's a lot of thinking in golf," said Taylor, who spends a lot of time at the range pounding balatas and reenergizing on bananas-just like you know who.

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