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This book tries to understand why sportspersons make the most popular role models

In South Korea, when the young woman golfer Se-Ri Pak shot to fame in 1998, winning both the United States Open and the Ladies PGA, two of the five major tournaments of international golf, – and that too, in her rookie year – a wave of interest was set in motion.

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