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Tiger Woods
Personal information
Full nameEldrick Tont Woods
NicknameTiger
Born (1975-12-30) December 30, 1975 (age 48)
Cypress, California
Height6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Weight185 lb (84 kg; 13.2 st)
Sporting nationality  United States
Residence Windermere, Florida
Spouse Elin Nordegren (2004–2010)
ChildrenSam Alexis (b. 2007)
Charlie Axel (b. 2009)
Career
College Stanford University (two years)
Turned professional1996
Current tour(s) PGA Tour (joined 1996)
Professional wins98 [1]
Highest ranking 1 (June 15, 1997) [2]
(683 weeks)
Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour 71 ( 3rd all time)
European Tour 38 ( 3rd all time) [3] [4]
Japan Golf Tour 2
Asian Tour 1
PGA Tour of Australasia 1
Other 16
Best results in major championships
(wins: 14)
Masters TournamentWon: 1997, 2001, 2002, 2005
PGA ChampionshipWon: 1999, 2000, 2006, 2007
U.S. OpenWon: 2000, 2002, 2008
The Open ChampionshipWon: 2000, 2005, 2006
Achievements and awards
PGA Tour
Rookie of the Year		1996
PGA Player of the Year1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
PGA Tour
Player of the Year		1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
PGA Tour
leading money winner		1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
Vardon Trophy1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009
Byron Nelson Award1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
FedEx Cup Champion 2007, 2009
(For a full list of awards, see here)

Eldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods (born December 30, 1975) [5] [6] is an American professional golfer whose achievements to date rank him among the most successful golfers of all time. Formerly the World No. 1, he is the highest-paid professional athlete in the world, having earned an estimated US$90.5 million from winnings and endorsements in 2010. [7] [8]

Woods has won 14 professional major golf championships, the second highest of any male player ( Jack Nicklaus leads with 18), and 71 PGA Tour events, third all time behind Sam Snead and Nicklaus. [9] He has more career major wins and career PGA Tour wins than any other active golfer does. He is the youngest player to achieve the career Grand Slam, and the youngest and fastest to win 50 tournaments on tour. Additionally, Woods is only the second golfer, after Jack Nicklaus, to have achieved a career Grand Slam three times. Woods has won 16 World Golf Championships, and won at least one of those events in each of the first 11 years after they began in 1999.

Woods held the number one position in the world rankings for the most consecutive weeks and for the greatest total number of weeks of any other golfer. He has been awarded PGA Player of the Year a record ten times, [10] the Byron Nelson Award for lowest adjusted scoring average a record eight times, and has the record of leading the money list in nine different seasons.

From December 2009 to April 2010, Woods took leave from professional golf to focus on his marriage after he admitted infidelity. His multiple infidelities were revealed by several different women, through many worldwide media sources. [11]

In October 2010, Woods lost the world number one ranking; his ranking gradually fell to a low of #58 in November 2011. [8] [12] He snapped a career-long winless streak of 107 weeks when he captured the Chevron World Challenge in December 2011. [12] As of January 9, 2012, he is ranked #25. [13] He remains winless on the PGA Tour since September 2009.

  1. ^ This is calculated by adding Woods' 71 PGA Tour victories, 8 regular European Tour titles, 2 Japan Tour wins, 1 Asian Tour crown, and the 16 Other wins in his career.
  2. ^ "Week 24 1997 Ending 15 Jun 1997" (pdf). OWGR. Retrieved December 20, 2018.
  3. ^ These are the 14 majors, 16 WGC events, and his eight tour wins.
  4. ^ 2009 European Tour Official Guide Section 4 Page 577 PDF 21[ dead link]. European Tour. Retrieved on April 21, 2009.
  5. ^ Sounes, Howard (2004). The Wicked Game: Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, and the Story of Modern Golf. Harper Collins. pp. 120–121, 293. ISBN  0-06-051386-1.
  6. ^ Divorce decree August 23, 2010. Retrieved September 28, 2010.
  7. ^ "Tiger Woods stays top of sport earnings list". BBC News. July 21, 2010.
  8. ^ a b "Westwood becomes world number one". BBC News. October 31, 2010.
  9. ^ "Tracking Tiger". NBC Sports. Retrieved June 3, 2009.
  10. ^ Kelley, Brent (October 20, 2009). "Woods Clinches PGA Player of the Year Award". About.com: Golf. Retrieved December 2, 2009.
  11. ^ Cite error: The named reference legend was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  12. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference chevron was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  13. ^ officialworldgolfranking.com, Official World Rankings for January 9, 2012
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