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Tiger Woods - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Tiger Woods— Golfer —Woods in 2. Personal information. Full name. Eldrick Tont Woods. Nickname. Tiger. Born(1. December 3. 0, 1. Cypress, California.
Height. 6 ft 1 in (1. Weight. 18. 5 lb (8. Nationality United States.
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Residence. Jupiter Island, Florida. Spouse. Elin Nordegren (2.
Children. Sam Alexis, Charlie Axel. Career. College. Stanford University (two years)Turned professional.
Current tour(s)PGA Tour (joined 1. Professional wins. Number of wins by tour. PGA Tour. 79 (2nd all time)European Tour.
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Japan Golf Tour. 2Asian Tour. PGA Tour of Australasia.
Other. 16. Best results in major championships(Wins: 1. Masters Tournament. Won: 1. 99. 7, 2. U. S. Open. Won: 2. The Open Championship. Won: 2. 00. 0, 2. PGA Championship.
Won: 1. 99. 9, 2. Achievements and awards.
PGA Tour. Rookie of the Year. PGA Player of the Year. PGA Tour. Player of the Year. PGA Tourleading money winner. Vardon Trophy. 19.
Byron Nelson Award. Fed. Ex Cup Champion.
For a full list of awards, see here)Eldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods[5] (born December 3. American professional golfer who is among the most successful golfers of all time. He has been one of the highest- paid athletes in the world for several years.
Following an outstanding amateur and two- year college golf career, Woods turned professional at age 2. By April 1. 99. 7 he had already won his first major, the 1.
Masters in a record- breaking performance, winning the tournament by 1. He first reached the number one position in the world rankings in June 1. Through the 2. 00.
Woods was the dominant force in golf, spending 2. August 1. 99. 9 to September 2. June 2. 00. 5 to October 2. From December 2. 00.
April 2. 01. 0, Woods took leave from professional golf to focus on his marriage after he admitted infidelity, but he and his wife Elin Nordegren eventually divorced. His many extramarital indiscretions were revealed by several different women, through many worldwide media sources.[8] This was followed by a loss of golf form, and his ranking gradually fell to a low of No.
November 2. 01. 1.[9][1. He ended a career- high winless streak of 1.
Chevron World Challenge in December 2. After winning the Arnold Palmer Invitational on March 2. No. 1 ranking once again, holding the top spot until May 2. Woods had back disc surgery in April 2. By March 2. 9, 2.
Woods had fallen to #1. Tour title win in 1. Woods has broken numerous golf records. He has been World Number One for the most consecutive weeks and for the greatest total number of weeks of any golfer. He has been awarded PGA Player of the Year a record eleven times,[1. Byron Nelson Award for lowest adjusted scoring average a record eight times, and has the record of leading the money list in ten different seasons. He has won 1. 4 professional major golf championships, the second highest of any player (Jack Nicklaus leads with 1.
PGA Tour events, second all time behind Sam Snead, who had 8. He has more career major wins and career PGA Tour wins than any other active golfer. He is the youngest player to achieve the career Grand Slam, and the youngest and fastest to win 5. Additionally, Woods is only the second golfer, after Jack Nicklaus, to have achieved a career Grand Slam three times.
Woods has won 1. 8 World Golf Championships, and won at least one of those events in each of the first 1. Woods and Rory Mc. Ilroy are the only golfers to win both The Silver Medal and The Gold Medal at The Open Championship.
Background and family. Woods with his father Earl in 2. Woods was born in Cypress, California, to Earl (1. Kultida (Tida) Woods (born 1. He is the only child of their marriage; however, he does have two half- brothers, Earl Jr. Kevin (born 1. 95.
Royce (born 1. 95. Earl Woods and his first wife, Barbara Woods Gray.[1. Earl, a retired lieutenant colonel and Vietnam War veteran, was of mostly African American, as well as Caucasian, and possible Native American and Chinese, ancestry.[1. Kultida (n. Г©e Punsawad), originally from Thailand (where Earl had met her on a tour of duty in 1.
Thai, Chinese, and Dutch ancestry.[1. He refers to his ethnic make- up as "Cablinasian" (a syllabic abbreviation he coined from Caucasian, Black, American Indian, and Asian).[1. Woods' first name, Eldrick, was coined by his mother because it began with "E" (for Earl) and ended with "K" (for Kultida). His middle name Tont is a traditional Thai name. He was nicknamed Tiger in honor of his father's friend Col. Vuong Dang Phong, who had also been known as Tiger.[1. Woods has a niece, Cheyenne Woods, who played for Wake Forest University's golf team and turned professional in 2.
LPGA Championship.[1. Early life and amateur golf career. Woods grew up in Orange County, California. He was a child prodigy, introduced to golf before the age of two, by his athletic father Earl, a single- figure handicap amateur golfer who had been one of the earliest African- American college baseball players at Kansas State University.[2. In 1. 97. 8, Tiger putted against comedian Bob Hope in a television appearance on The Mike Douglas Show. At age three, he shot a 4. Cypress Navy course, and at age five, he appeared in Golf Digest and on ABC's That's Incredible.[2.
Before turning seven, Tiger won the Under Age 1. Drive, Pitch, and Putt competition, held at the Navy Golf Course in Cypress, California.[2. In 1. 98. 4 at the age of eight, he won the 9–1. Junior World Golf Championships.[2. He first broke 8.
He went on to win the Junior World Championships six times, including four consecutive wins from 1. Woods' father Earl wrote that Tiger first defeated him at the age of 1. Earl trying his best.
Earl lost to Tiger every time from then on.[3. Woods first broke 7. Woods' first major national junior tournament was the 1. Big I, when he was 1. Woods was paired with pro John Daly, then relatively unknown, in the final round; the event's format placed a professional with each group of juniors who had qualified.
Daly birdied three of the last four holes to beat Woods by only one stroke.[3. As a young teenager, Woods first met Jack Nicklaus in Los Angeles at the Bel- Air Country Club, when Nicklaus was performing a clinic for the club's members. Woods was part of the show, and impressed Nicklaus and the crowd with his skills and potential.[3. Earl Woods had researched in detail the career accomplishments of Nicklaus, and had set his young son the goals of breaking those records.[3. While attending Western High School in Anaheim at the age of 1. Woods became the youngest ever U.
S. Junior Amateur champion (a record which stood until it was broken by Jim Liu in 2. He was named 1. 99. Southern California Amateur Player of the Year (for the second consecutive year) and Golf Digest Junior Amateur Player of the Year. In 1. 99. 2, he defended his title at the U.
S. Junior Amateur Championship, becoming the first multiple winner; competed in his first PGA Tour event, the Nissan Los Angeles Open (he missed the 3. Golf Digest Amateur Player of the Year, Golf World Player of the Year, and Golfweek National Amateur of the Year.[3. The following year, Woods won his third consecutive U. S. Junior Amateur Championship; he remains the event's only three- time winner.[3. In 1. 99. 4, at the TPC at Sawgrass in Florida, he became the youngest- ever winner of the U. S. Amateur Championship, a record he held until 2. Danny Lee.[3. 9] He was a member of the American team at the 1.
Eisenhower Trophy. World Amateur Golf Team Championships (winning), and the 1. Walker Cup (losing).[4. Woods graduated from Western High School in 1. Most Likely to Succeed" among the graduating class.
He had starred for the high school's golf team under coach Don Crosby.[4. Woods overcame difficulties with stuttering as a boy.[4.
This was not known until he wrote a letter to a boy who contemplated suicide. Woods wrote, "I know what it's like to be different and to sometimes not fit in.
I also stuttered as a child and I would talk to my dog and he would sit there and listen until he fell asleep. I also took a class for two years to help me, and I finally learned to stop."[4. College golf career. Woods was recruited very heavily by college golf powers, and chose Stanford University, the 1. NCAA Division I champions.
He enrolled at Stanford in the fall of 1. Annual William H. Tucker Invitational, that September.[4. He declared a major in economics, and was nicknamed "Urkel" by college teammate Notah Begay III.[4. In 1. 99. 5, he successfully defended his U.
S. Amateur title at the Newport Country Club in Rhode Island[3. Pac- 1. 0 Player of the Year, NCAA First Team All- American, and Stanford's Male Freshman of the Year (an award that encompasses all sports).[4. At age 1. 9, Woods participated in his first PGA Tour major, the 1.
Masters Tournament, and tied for 4. At age 2. 0 in 1. U. S. Amateur titles[5. NCAA individual golf championship.[5. In winning the Silver Medal as leading amateur at The Open Championship, he tied the record for an amateur aggregate score of 2. He left college after two years and turned professional. In 1. 99. 6, Woods moved out of California, stating in 2.
Professional career. Woods became a professional golfer in August 1. Nike, Inc. and Titleist that ranked as the most lucrative endorsement contracts in golf history at that time.[5.
Woods was named Sports Illustrated's 1. Sportsman of the Year and PGA Tour Rookie of the Year.[5. In April 1. 99. 7, he won his first major, the Masters, becoming the tournament's youngest- ever winner.[6.
Two months later, he set the record for the fastest- ever ascent to No. Official World Golf Rankings.[6. After a lackluster 1. Woods finished the 1. PGA Championship, a feat not achieved since 1. In 2. 00. 0, Woods achieved six consecutive wins, the longest winning streak since Ben Hogan did it in 1.
One of these was the 2. U. S. Open, where he broke or tied nine tournament records in what Sports Illustrated called "the greatest performance in golf history," in which Woods won the tournament by a 1. At age 2. 4, he became the youngest golfer to achieve the Career Grand Slam.[6.