Tiger Woods

Born:Dec. 30, 1975, in Cypress, California
Nickname: Tiger, of course. His given name is Eldrick, but he legally changed his name to "Tiger" in the late 1990s.

Tour Victories

71
Tiger Woods wins (view the full list, from first to most recent)
Major Championships


Professional: 14
• Masters: 1997, 2001, 2002, 2005
• U.S. Open: 2000, 2002, 2008
• British Open: 2000, 2005, 2006
• PGA Championship: 1999, 2000, 2006, 2007
Amateur: 3
• U.S. Amateur: 1994, 1995, 1996
Awards and Honors


• 8-time PGA Tour money leader
• 7-time PGA Tour Vardon Trophy winner
• 9-time PGA Tour Player of the Year
• Dozens of Golfer of the Year and Athlete of the Year awards, going back to his amateur days
• U.S. Presidents Cup team member, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2007
• U.S. Ryder Cup team member, 1997, 1999, 2002, 2004, 2006
Quote, Unquote


• Tiger Woods: "Every day on the golf course is about making little adjustments, taking what you've got on that day and finding the way to deal with it."
Trivia


• Tiger Woods became the youngest-ever career grand slam winner in 2000, at age 25, when he won the British Open.
• In 1997, Tiger Woods became the youngest-ever Masters champion at age 21 years, three months and 14 days.

• Woods was the youngest (15) ever to win the U.S. Junior Amateur and the youngest (18) to win the U.S. Amateur.

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Tiger Woods Biography


The world had never before seen a golfing phenom the likes of Tiger Woods. A golfer whose amazing youth and amateur exploits were followed up by equally amazing professional exploits.
Woods was imitating his father's golf swing at age 6 months, while still in his crib. At age 2, he appeared on the "Mike Douglas Show" and putted with Bob Hope. At age 3, he shot 48 for 9 holes, and at age 5 he was featured in Golf Digest.

And then the really impressive stuff started. Woods won the Optimist International Junior tournament 6 times, starting at age 8. He won three U.S. Junior Amateurs, the first to do so. His first of three straight U.S. Amateur titles came in 1994.

He turned pro in late summer 1996 and played 7 tournaments on the PGA Tour, needing to finish in the Top 125 to avoid having to go through Q-School. Woods won twice and posted 5 straight Top 5 finishes.

In 1997, he won the Masters for his first major. Woods won just once in 1998, but in 1999 he began a string of consecutive Player of the Year awards that didn't end until Vijay Singh won the title in 2004.

He won 8 times in 1999, then 9 more times in 2000. Woods' 2000 season is arguably the best ever on the PGA Tour. He became the second golfer to win three professional majors in one year and broke Byron Nelson's more-than-50-year-old scoring average record.

In 2001, when he won the Masters, Woods became the first golfer to hold all four professional majors at the same time.

Tiger Woods holds or shares the record for the low score in relation to par in all four professional majors. He's won the U.S. Open by 15 strokes, the Masters by 12 and the British Open by 8 strokes.

A swing change slowed his winning a bit in 2004, and his record streak of consecutive cuts ended at 142 in 2005. But he roared back with two majors in '05.

Woods took a couple months off in 2006 following the death of his father, and missed the cut in his return at the U.S. Open. But then he won the next two majors and reeled off wins in the next eight tournaments he played.

In 2008, Woods won a dramatic playoff victory in the U.S. Open, then revealed that he was playing with a torn ACL and with a fracture in his leg. He underwent surgery shortly after and missed the next eight months. The 2009 WGC Accenture Match Play Championship marked his return.

The Tiger Woods Foundation, launched by Woods and his father in 1996, has raised millions of dollars to help underprivileged youth get started in golf and succeed in life.