Tiger Woods

Tiger Woods
Tiger Woods (2014)
Personnel
Nation:	United States
Nickname:	tiger
Career data
Professional since:	1996
Current tour:	PGA Tour (since 1996)
Tournament wins:	108 (PGA: 82, others: 25, 2-man team: 2)
Major wins :	(15) ↓
The Masters	1997, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2019
US Open	2000, 2002, 2008
The Open Championship	2000, 2005, 2006
PGA Championship	1999, 2000, 2006, 2007
Awards:	↓
PGA Tour Newbie of the Year	1996
FedEx Cup winner	2007, 2009
PGA Tour money rankings first	1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2013
PGA Tour most wins of the year	1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2013
PGA Tour Player of the Year	1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2013
Vardon Trophy	1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2013
Byron Nelson Award	1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
Golf world number one	1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2013
Laureus World Sports Awards	2001, 2002
World Sportsman of the Year ( L'Équipe )	2000
Associated Press Athlete of the Year ( AP )	1997, 1999, 2000, 2003
AP athlete of the decade 2000–2009	2009

Eldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods (born December 30, 1975 in Cypress , California ) is an American professional golfer and one of the most successful golfers in sports history. With an estimated annual income of about 80 million US dollars , he is one of the highest paid athletes in the world. In his career he has won 15 major tournaments so far and is second in the list of the best behind Jack Nicklaus (18). In addition to Sam Snead , he holds the record on the PGA Tour with 82 tournament victories, and he led the world rankings for a total of 683 weeks.

Origin and life

Woods is the son of Kultida Woods, a native of Thailand, and Earl Woods, a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army . Woods has two half-brothers and one half-sister from Earl Woods' 18-year marriage to Barbara Woods Gary. He came in Cypress , California , at the world and grew a little further north on the US west coast in the metropolitan area of Los Angeles on. He was nicknamed "Tiger" when he was born by Vuong Dang Phong, a friend of his father's who fought with him in the Vietnam War. Woods attended Western High School in Anaheim and studied economics at Stanford University for two years before becoming a professional golfer.

In 1996, together with his father, he founded the Tiger Woods Foundation, which cares for the advancement and support of children and young people in the USA. From October 2004 to August 2010, Tiger Woods was married to former Swedish model Elin Nordegren . The couple has a daughter (* 2007) and a son (* 2009). Since the divorce on August 23, 2010, custody of the children has been with both parents. In mid-March 2013 Woods announced on his Facebook account that he was in a relationship with the ski racer Lindsey Vonn . On May 3, 2015 Vonn announced on her Facebook page that she and Woods had split up.

Woods has ancestors of African American , Native American , Chinese , Thai, and Dutch origins. Woods' popularity is attributed to having increased interest in golf among non-white Americans. Tiger Woods is a practicing Buddhist .

Amateur career

By the age of six months, Woods was mimicking his father's golf swings. Shortly before his second birthday, America marveled at him on the Mike Douglas Show as a kind of diaper- wearing prodigy . Accompanied by his father Earl, he showed full swings and putted together with comedian Bob Hope . When Woods was five years old, he appeared on That's incredible . The Today Show and Good Morning America also reported. By the time Woods was 13, he was featured on every major US television network , NBC , CBS , ESPN and ABC .

Regardless of the early attention paid to himself, Woods developed his playing skills bit by bit. At the age of eight he won his first major amateur tournament, the Junior World Golf Championship for 9-10 year olds. In 1984 it was the youngest age group. As a result, he won this tournament six times, four times in a row between 1988 and 1991. He won the US Junior Amateur title in 1991, 1992 and 1993, making him the youngest and only multiple winner to this day. Over the next three years, he won the US men's amateur title, something that no one before him has achieved either. Here, too, he is the youngest winner so far. From 1994 he played two years for his university, Stanford University , and won the NCAA title there. Then he became a professional.

Professional career

1996–1998: early years and first major win

Woods began his career as a professional golfer in August 1996, signing the highest-value advertising contract in golf history to date, including a $ 40 million contract with sporting goods manufacturer Nike . His first golf tournament as a professional was the Greater Milwaukee Open , which he finished in shared 60th place. In the following three months he won two tournaments and qualified for the season finale, the Tour Championship . Because of his success, he was the Sports Illustrated as the athlete of the year than in 1996, as well as the PGA Tour rookie won the Year. In addition, he began to always wear a red shirt in the finals; a color that he associates on the one hand with his time as a student at Stanford University and on the other as a symbol of aggressive gaming and self-confidence.

Tiger Woods at the 1997 US Open

The following April, Woods won the Masters with a record result of 18 under par (270 strokes) and a record lead of 12 strokes, his first major tournament. Not only was he the youngest Masters ever winner, he was also the first ever African American winner. In total, he set 20 tournament records in this victory and set another six. 1996 saw three more victories and on June 15, 1997, just 42 weeks after starting his professional career, he was first in the world rankings for the first time . A golfer has never achieved this faster. He was also voted Player of the Year on the US PGA Tour ; for the first time a player succeeded in this in his second year as a professional.

In the second half of the 1997 season and especially in the 1998 season, in which he only won one tournament, Woods did not meet the greatly increased expectations. He attributed this performance to profound swing changes that he made with his trainer Butch Harmon .

1999–2002: Dominanz and Tiger Slam

With the victory of the Memorial Tournament in June 1999, a period of dominance began that had probably never existed before in golf. So he ended the season with four tournament wins in a row - including the PGA Championship - and a total of eight wins, the best value since 1974. He was again PGA Player of the Year and for the second time in three years Associated Press Athlete of the Year appointed.

He started the 2000 season where he left off: with the fifth win in a row, which should also start a season full of records. The sixth win came in a memorable way at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am . Despite seven strokes behind with seven holes still to be played, he reached 64 and thus a 2-stroke lead with a series of eagle birdie par birdie. No player had had such a winning streak since Byron Nelson in 1948. When he won the US Open 2000, he broke or shared nine tournament records, including the record of the largest lead in Major history from 1862 by Old Tom Morris with a 15-stroke lead . At the same time, he took the lead in the ranking of career prize money. At the Open Championship 2000, which he won by eight strokes, he set a new major record with a final score of 19 strokes under par. In addition, he had now set or shared the record for the lowest result in all major tournaments and, at the age of 24, became the youngest golfer of all time to achieve the career grand slam , i.e. the victory of all major tournaments.

The third major win in a row at the PGA Championship was uncertain for a long time. So he prevailed only after a three-hole playoff against Bob May and became the only player next to Ben Hogan in 1953 who could win three major tournaments within one season. At the Bell Canadian Open, he won the third tournament in a row and, alongside Lee Trevino in 1971, was only the second golfer to win the US Open, British Open and Canadian Open within one season. At the end of the 2000 season there were 3 consecutive major wins, 9 PGA tournament wins and 27 new or shared records. In 20 tournament starts he reached the top 3 14 times. His average required number of strokes of 67.79 was the lowest in PGA Tour history.

The dominance continued in 2001 as well. Winning the Masters in 2001 marks the only time in the history of the modern Grand Slam that a player holds all four major titles at the same time. Since the title wins did not come about within one season, it was not a real Grand Slam, so it became known as the "Tiger Slam". Surprisingly, Woods did not play for victory in the following three major tournaments, but still ended the season with the most wins (5) on the PGA Tour.

He was only the third player to defend his title at the 2002 Masters. After winning the US Open, which he was the only player to complete under par, hopes for the Grand Slam grew within a season. At The Open Championship , these were nullified by an 81 in the third round in partly unplayable weather conditions. At the PGA Championship he almost repeated the victory of three major tournaments within one season, but had to admit defeat by one stroke after two late bogeys in the final round. Still, he was named Player of the Year on the US PGA Tour for the fourth time in a row .

Tiger Woods at the 2004 Ryder Cup

2003–2004: Swing change

In 2003 and 2004 Woods continued to play with the top of the world, but lost his dominance despite a total of six wins in the two years and could not win a major tournament. In addition, he did not win the money list for the first time since 1998 and finished it in 2003 in second place and in 2004 in fourth place. He also lost the top position in the golf world rankings to Vijay Singh after a record time of 264 weeks, which he spent consistently in first place . The decline in success was attributed on the one hand to the falling out with swing coach Butch Harmon and on the other hand to his marriage. Woods himself saw in the swing changes, which should serve to relieve his operated left knee, the explanation and hoped for a dominant style of play again after the end of this process. He presented Hank Haney as the new swing coach.

2005–2007: resurgence

At the beginning of 2005, Woods won the second tournament of the year, the Buick Invitational, after tied for third place in the Mercedes Championship. In March he followed up with another victory at the Ford Championship and was thus able to regain the top position in the world rankings for two weeks. In April he finally ended his lean period in major tournaments and won the Masters in the playoff for the fourth time, thus securing first place in the world rankings again. In the months that followed, the top position changed between him and Vijay Singh, until Woods finally recaptured it permanently in July. He also won The Open Championship , his 10th major title, that same month . The year 2005 he closed with 5 victories on the PGA tour, including two tournaments of the lavish World Golf Championships , and leader of the money list.

In May 2006 Woods faced the death of his father and mentor Earl. Earl Woods died at the age of 74 after a long battle with prostate cancer . Woods, who had not played a tournament since the Masters in April, only returned after a 9 week break from competition at the US Open . The lack of practice was clearly noticeable to him. For the first time in his professional career he failed at a major tournament on the cut . This ended his shared record of 39 major cuts in a row.

In July he regained his title at The Open Championship . As one of the few he used almost exclusively long irons (the driver was only used once) and was able to hit 92% of the fairways. His final score of 18 strokes under par was just below his six-year-old record.

At the beginning of August Woods won the Buick Open and thus celebrated the 50th tournament victory on the US PGA Tour at the age of 30 years and 7 months as the youngest professional in history. Just two weeks later, he secured the next major title at the PGA Championship . Woods won in a dominant way and only posted three bogeys, which he set the major record. He also set his own tournament record of 18 strokes under par. He finished the season with 6 tournament wins in a row and also won the three most important awards of the PGA Tour (Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Byron Nelson) for the seventh time - a record.

After 11 years as a professional, he had 54 PGA Tour victories and 12 major titles, breaking the old records of 51 PGA Tour victories (Byron Nelson) and 11 major titles (Jack Nicklaus). He also set the record with the fourth Associated Press Athlete of the Year election.

In 2007 Woods began with the third win in a row at the Buick Invitational, which was also the seventh success in a row on the tour. With this victory he became the third player after Jack Nicklaus and Sam Snead , who could win at least five times in three different tournaments. He achieved his second win of the season at the WGC-CA Championship - this was also the third win in a row or sixth win overall at this tournament. He became the first player to win three consecutive tournaments in three different tournaments.

Tiger Woods in July 2007

At the Masters , Woods went into the final round for the 13th time in a major tournament in the last group, but could not win here for the first time under these circumstances and lost to Zach Johnson . His third win of the season was at the Wachovia Championship, the 24th separate tournament that he won. At the US Open he went into the final round in a major tournament in the last group for the fourth time in a row, but again had to be content with the (shared) second place. Woods continued to only win a major tournament if he went into the final round as the leader. With this placement, he broke the $ 70 million mark in career prize money.

He finished the The Open Championship in 12th place and missed the third win in a row. At the beginning of August he outclassed the competition at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational by 8 strokes and won this tournament for the third time in a row or sixth time overall. As the first player ever to achieve three wins in a row (1999–2001 and 2005–2007) in the same tournament in two different periods of time. A week later, he defended his title at the PGA Championship and became the first player to defend the major tournament for the second time (1999-2000 and 2006-2007). In the second round he equalized the place and major round records with 63 strokes. He became the second golfer alongside Sam Snead to win at least 5 PGA tournaments in 8 different seasons.

In the last lap of the BMW Championship, he secured the 60th victory of his PGA career thanks to a lap record of 63 strokes. At the end of the 2007 season, Woods was able to win the THE TOUR Championship with a clear lead of eight strokes - he undercut the course record by six strokes - and became the first two-time winner of this tournament. At the same time he became the first winner of the reorganized FedEx Cup .

With Team USA he won the Presidents Cup 2007 against Team International .

After an eleven-week break from the tournament, the longest of his career to date, he returned to the Target World Challenge in December 2007, set both a new round record and the tournament record and won the tournament by seven strokes.

With an average of 67.79 strokes required per round, he set his own record from the 2000 season and clearly distanced the competition. In addition, he missed Vijay Singh's cash record from the 2004 season by just US $ 38,000. It should be mentioned here that Woods only played 17 tournaments, while Singh needed 29 tournaments for the record.

2008: Injuries shorten the season

At the beginning of the season, Woods secured victory with a clear 8-stroke lead, his 62nd victory on the US PGA Tour at the Buick Invitational, which he drew level with Arnold Palmer . This was the sixth win at this tournament, the sixth time he started a season with a win and it was also his third win in a row on the tour. In the following week Woods won the Dubai Desert Classic thanks to six birdies on the last nine holes, despite a 4-stroke deficit before the final round . He finished the WGC Accenture Match Play Championship with a record result of 8 strokes leading with 7 holes to play and thus secured the 15th World Golf Championship title of his career. After a mixed start, he secured victory over Bart Bryant in a dramatic final round at the Arnold Palmer Invitational with a 7 meter long putt on the last hole . With the seventh win in a row - the ninth win in the last ten tournaments played (a shared second place) - he also drew level with Ben Hogan with 64 titles won on the US PGA Tour . However, he missed a sixth consecutive triumph on the PGA Tour at the WGC-CA Championship, but broke the $ 80 million mark in career prize money. Once again, expectations for the Grand Slam grew. Due to poor putting performance, however, he missed the Masters victory . Nevertheless, he reached second place with three strokes behind the winner Trevor Immelman . On April 15, 2008, he underwent the third arthroscopy in his left knee. In 1994 a benign tumor was removed from him, followed by a second arthroscopy in 2002.

At the US Open 2008 Woods returned after a break of around two months. In a group of the top 3 players in the world with Phil Mickelson and Adam Scott , Woods started the tournament cautiously and was 4 strokes behind the top after the first round. After an increase in performance, he played his way up to the leader Stuart Appleby in the second round . He finished the third round with two Eagles and thus took the lead by one stroke. For the sixth time in the last eight major tournaments, he went into the final round in the last grouping. In the meantime Woods was visibly marked by knee problems and often had to relieve his left knee when he was hit. The accuracy of the blows decreased accordingly. One stroke behind his compatriot Rocco Mediate, he went to the 18th green and forced an 18-hole playoff with a birdie on the following day. Here Woods was already leading with three strokes, but gambled away this lead and went one stroke behind the last green. Again he saved himself with a birdie, so that the winner had to be determined in a sudden death. Woods finally secured the 14th major title of his career on the first extra hole. This was his ninth triumph at a tournament of the United States Golf Association , which he was now level with Bobby Jones in the lead.

Two days later, Woods announced his season end due to injury. It turned out that he had won the US Open despite a torn cruciate ligament in his left knee and a stress fracture in his left shin. Woods also announced that he had spent at least ten months with a torn ligament in his left knee. On the advice of the doctors, Woods underwent an appropriate operation. The way this victory, despite a serious knee injury, went down in history and was described by Woods himself as his greatest major win.

Woods' absence from the US PGA tour was reflected, among other things, in the dramatic drop in audience ratings - on average, they were almost 47% below the comparable prior-year figure with a playing Woods.

2009: return to the PGA tour

Woods at AT&T National (2009)

After more than eight months of injury, Woods made a highly regarded comeback at the WGC Accenture Match Play Championship. He was eliminated here in the second round against Tim Clark . After finishing ninth in the WGC-CA Championship, Woods was able to celebrate his first victory after his comeback at the Arnold Palmer Invitational. Woods went into the final round with a large deficit of 5 strokes, but was able to equalize this and, as in the previous year, clinched victory with a long putt on the last hole and pushed Sean O'Hair into second place. He finished the Masters in 6th place, four strokes behind the winner Ángel Cabrera . Woods secured his second win of the season at the Memorial Tournament when he was able to catch up again in the final lap. It was his third win at this tournament. Shortly afterwards, the AT&T National hosted by Woods saw the third win of the season. At The Open Championship he missed the cut for the third time at a major tournament after one of the weakest major performances of his career. At the beginning of August, the Buick Open saw the next win. After a weak start in 95th place, he was able to follow strong rounds of 9 and 7 under par. Ultimately, he won by a margin of three strokes. The following week he was able to confidently celebrate his 70th victory on the PGA Tour at the WGC Bridgestone Invitational. In the PGA Championship , he took the lead in the first round and held it until the final round. He booked each of his major victories after a guided tour to the final round and never gave it away. For the first time he could not defend this lead and in the end lost significantly with three strokes behind Yang Yong-eun . So this season he went for the first time since 2004 without a major win.

At The Barclays, the first playoff tournament of the FedEx Cup, he finished second, just beaten. The second playoff tournament, the Deutsche Bank Championship, he finished after three weak rounds and a much stronger final round only in a tied eleventh place, whereby he lost the lead in the overall standings of the FedEx Cup . In the third play-off tournament, the BMW Championship, he outclassed the competition and, after a strong performance - he set a new course record in the third round - won by eight strokes, which at the same time regained the overall lead in the FedEx Cup. This was his fifth win in the tournament and also the fifth tournament he could win five or more times. At the last tournament, The Tour Championship , a second place was enough for him to win the FedEx Cup for the second time after 2007.

He won the Presidents Cup with the US team and was the third player in history to win each of his five matches.

In November he played against an inaugural fee of US $ 3.3 million at the JBWere Australian Masters, which he won by two strokes. This was his first win on the PGA Tour of Australasia and also his 38th on the European Tour.

Tigergate: Private Crisis

On November 25, 2009, the tabloid The National Enquirer published an article in which Woods was alleged to have an extramarital relationship. Two days later, around 2:30 in the morning, Woods drove off the road near his home in the Isleworth residential area near Orlando , Florida and hit a fire hydrant . Woods was only slightly injured in the accident, but property damage was worth 3,200 euros . Wood's wife Elin Nordegren , who was not in the car, freed him from the damaged car. As a result, there were allegations in the media against Nordegren that she had assaulted Woods and caused the accident. Further revelations about Woods' personal life seriously damaged his reputation. For weeks after the accident, Woods' marital problems and affairs were the subject of the media. The number of affairs was discussed as well as speculation about the circumstances. Woods did not comment on these reports at first. In December 2009 he announced that he would retire from golf indefinitely in order to take care of his family and his marriage. He said he wanted to repair the damage he had caused by his infidelity and would now focus on "being a better husband, father and human being".

In the aftermath of the events, referred to by some media as Tigergate in reference to the Watergate affair , some sponsors announced their separation from Woods. Accenture and AT&T ended the collaboration entirely. TAG Heuer and Gillette at least suspended their campaigns with Woods. At the end of February 2010, PepsiCo announced that it would not use Woods as an advertising ambassador for Gatorade . However, other companies such as Nike and Electronic Arts remained loyal to Woods and did not renounce him as an advertising partner.

Woods' loss of image was characterized by reports at the end of 2009 that the doctor Anthony Galea was being investigated for passing on doping substances. While Woods is not part of this investigation, Galea's treatment had helped Woods recover from his knee injury the previous year.

On February 19, 2010, Woods gave a high-profile press conference at which he apologized in detail for his behavior. At the same time he declared that he would definitely return to golf, but initially left it open whether this would happen in 2010. Just a few weeks later, on March 16, 2010, he announced his comeback at The Masters in April.

Elin Nordegren, who broke up with Tiger Woods in response to her husband's affairs announcement, filed for divorce in the summer of 2010 , which was consummated in August.

2010: sporting crisis

After a break of more than 20 weeks, Woods returned to the US PGA Tour at the first major tournament of the year, the Masters 2010, in April with huge media interest and was able to achieve fourth place.

Missing the cut, only the sixth of his career, at the Quail Hollow Championship was followed by an injury-related task at the PLAYERS Championship. A few days after the PLAYERS Championship, Woods' longtime swing trainer Hank Haney announced that he had ended the collaboration that had existed since 2003 in friendship at his own request.

He finished the US Open and The Open Championship on the shared 4th and 23rd place. At the Open Championship, he hoped that the first change of his putter in 12 years would improve his performance on the greens. After a lack of success, he reversed the move before the last lap.

As defending champion, Woods experienced a debacle at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational. He finished the tournament, which he had already won seven times and in which his worst placement was a shared fourth place, as a shared 78th among 80 participants. This was the worst tournament result of his career with no round played under par - this happened to him last at the PGA Championship 2003 - and a total of 18 strokes over par. In addition, he again ran the risk of losing the long-standing leadership in the world rankings. However, Phil Mickelson and Lee Westwood did not achieve the required placement.

Woods began working with the successful Canadian golf coach Sean Foley.

He finished the PGA Championship in shared 28th place and, as in the previous year, remained without a win at one of the major tournaments.

In the playoffs of the FedEx Cup , which he barely reached as 112th out of 125 players, Woods barely missed the top 10 and failed for the first time in his career to qualify for a tournament and was eliminated before The Tour Championship .

At the 2010 Ryder Cup , he played in all sessions. In the team with Steve Stricker he was able to get two out of three points and also clearly win his final individual against Francesco Molinari . Ultimately, however, the US team lost just under 13.5 to 14.5 points.

On November 1, Woods was replaced as No. 1 in the world rankings by Lee Westwood after 281 weeks.

At the beginning of December, he showed his strongest performance of the entire year at the Chevron World Challenge, which is part of the PGA Tour Challenge Season and where he traditionally acts as host. What was noticeable here - due to the training with Sean Foley - were the major changes in his entire stroke technique. He also used a new putter permanently for the first time. Although he dominated the competition almost consistently in the first three rounds, he could not win the tournament despite a four-stroke lead at the beginning of the final round. He was able to make up for an interim lead by Graeme McDowell , but was defeated at the first playoff hole.

Thus, the in many ways weakest season of his professional career came to an end. Woods remained without a tournament victory and was only 68th on the list of prize money that he had dominated for years. The statistics of the average strokes required per lap were also significantly worse than in all previous seasons at 70.32.

2011: First progress

After a shared 44th place at the start of the season at the Farmers Insurance Open and shared 20th place at the Dubai Desert Classic , he was eliminated against Thomas Björn for the first time since 2002 in the first round of the WGC Accenture Matchplay Championship. A shared 10th place at the WGC Cadillac Championship was followed by Woods, now only fifth in the world rankings, a shared 24th place at the Arnold Palmer Invitational.

At the Masters , he finished fourth. Although Woods started the final round 7 strokes behind, he was able to take the lead through the best nine holes he has ever played in the Masters. On the back nine holes, however, he missed various birdie chances and an eagle chance and was therefore unable to defend the lead. Ultimately, he achieved a top ten placement at the Masters for the seventh time in a row. After the Masters, a ligament stretch and Achilles tendon problems forced him to take a break for several weeks. Due to an injury, he had to end his comeback at The PLAYERS Championship after nine holes in the first round when he was six strokes above par. Woods also had to cancel his participation in the US Open and the British Open - meanwhile slipped to 17th place in the world rankings - due to persistent injury problems. In addition, Woods announced shortly after the separation from his long-time caddy Steve Williams. With this he had won 13 of his 14 major victories since 1999.

After an injury break of more than three months, Woods, who was no longer in the top 20 of the world rankings as 28th for the first time since 1997, reached a shared 37th place with his childhood friend Bryon Bell as a temporary caddy at the WGC Bridgestone Invitational.

At the PGA Championship , Woods clearly failed with six strokes at the cut and thus also missed the qualification for the playoff tournaments of the FedEx Cup.

At the end of September Woods presented Joe LaCava as his new caddy. LaCava was Fred Couples' caddy for years and most recently for Dustin Johnson .

Woods in October 2011

At the Frys.com Open, a tournament of the PGA Fall Series, he returned after a break of several weeks and finished in tied 30th place. At that time, Woods was only 52nd in the world rankings and therefore not in the top 50 for the first time since October 1996.

In November Woods, who had been without a tournament win for exactly two years, entered the Australian Open and presented himself in strong form. After two laps he took the lead, but had to give it up again with a weaker third lap. In the end he finished third after the best lap of the day.

A wild card awarded by team captain Fred Couples enabled Woods to participate in the Presidents Cup . He was able to score two points for his team, but suffered three defeats at the side of Steve Stricker and Dustin Johnson. With his victory in the individual he put the USA in the lead and made the victory perfect.

At the Chevron World Challenge hosted by him as host, Woods was finally able to record his first tournament victory since November 2009 in December. With a birdie on the last hole of the final round, he was one shot ahead of Zach Johnson . At the same time he improved from 52nd to 21st place in the world rankings.

2012: End of the winless period

At the beginning of the season, Woods competed for the first time at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship and despite sharing the lead at the beginning of the final round, he was only able to achieve a shared third place. After his first appearance since 2002 at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am , which he finished in shared 15th place, he was eliminated in round 2 against Nick Watney at the WGC Accenture Matchplay Championship.

The following week, Woods competed in the Honda Classic for the first time since 1993 - at that time as a 17-year-old amateur - and thanks to the lowest final round of his career, with 62 strokes, he remained well below the standard of 70 strokes Play shared 2nd rank.

At the WGC Cadillac Championship, Woods suffered achilles tendon problem that forced him to retire during the final lap.

At the Arnold Palmer Invitational, a drought of 30 months without a win finally came to an end when he won confidently from Graeme McDowell by 5 shots. This also enabled him to jump to 6th place in the world rankings.

He finished the subsequent Masters only on the shared 40th place, which at this tournament also meant the worst placement of his professional career.

In early June he won the Memorial Tournament hosted by Jack Nicklaus for the fifth time. Despite a 4-stroke deficit at the beginning of the final round, he was able to prevail with three birdies on the last four holes. With this 73rd victory on the US PGA Tour he was now with Nicklaus on rank 2 of the player with the most victories.

At AT&T National, he secured his third win of the season and took the lead in the FedEx Cup for the first time since September 2009. In addition, with 74 PGA Tour victories, he was the only second in the overall victory statistics.

In addition, Woods was able to play his way up to second place in the world rankings thanks to the shared third place at The Open Championship .

During the FedEx Cup playoffs, which he started as a leader, he broke the $ 100 million mark in career prize money. In the overall standings he finished third in the FedEx Cup after the BMW Championship and The Tour Championship .

At the subsequent Ryder Cup in 2012 , he took part in the historic defeat of the US team. Woods did not play in all 5 possible games for the first time. In the team with Steve Stricker, he recorded three defeats in the foursome and two fourballs , with the fourballs only being lost on the last hole. His ultimately insignificant individual against Francesco Molinari only ended in a draw.

2013: return to the top

He started the 2013 season at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship. Here he missed the cut after a rule violation and two penalty strokes. At his first start to the season on the US PGA Tour, he was able to confidently secure his seventh win at the Farmers Insurance Open and his 75th win on the tour. At the same time, it was the seventh time that Woods could start a season on the US PGA Tour with a win. After a first round defeat at the WGC Accenture Match Play Championship and a shared 37th place at the Honda Classic, Woods was able to confidently secure victory at the WGC Cadillac Championship after a performance that was dominant over the entire tournament. It was the first at a World Golf Championships tournament since 2009 and the seventh at the tournament.

With the eighth win at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, Woods was able to displace Rory McIlroy from first place in the world rankings and take the lead for the first time since October 2010. Besides Sam Snead , Woods is now the only player who has ever won the same tournament eight times.

After a shared fourth place at The Masters , he was able to achieve the greatest success since winning the US Open in 2008 with the victory of The PLAYERS Championship . It was also his 78th victory in the 300th tournament start of his career on the US PGA Tour.

Woods celebrated the fifth win of the season at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational. He clearly distanced the competition by 7 strokes. In addition, he set his own lap and course record with 61 strokes in the second round.

In the following week Woods only reached the shared 40th place at the PGA Championship and had to post the fifth consecutive season without a major win after he had already missed the win at the US Open and the Open Championship.

Again he started the Fed-Ex-Cup playoffs as a leader and was able to regain them after a brief loss before the last tournament, the Tour Championship. Due to the shared 22nd place, however, he ultimately fell back to second place in the overall ranking.

For the first time since 2009, Woods was named Player of the Year on the PGA Tour.

In October 2013 Woods secured the US team overall victory at the Presidents Cup with a victory in the final singles against Richard Sterne .

Since 2018: Comeback, first major win since 2008 and PGA Tour title record

This season Woods played more successfully again after a few years with various problems and injuries. At the Valspar Championship in Florida he achieved his first top five result since 2013 in March. At the Open Championship, he finished sixth with five strokes under par, his best result in a major tournament in five years. In the last major of the year, the PGA Championship, he finished second, with Woods only narrowly defeating Brooks Koepka with two strokes. In August he won the TOUR Championship for the third time and won his first tournament since August 2013. This victory was the 80th title on the PGA Tour, so he is only two victories behind Sam Snead.

On April 14, 2019, he won the Masters for the fifth time, it was his 15th major win and the first triumph since 2008 at one of the four major tournaments. For the first time in his career, he managed to win a major tournament with a deficit before the final round. With his win at the Zozo Championship in Japan, he achieved his 82nd success on the PGA Tour, setting the 54-year-old record for Sam Snead.

Records

• Woods, even adjusted for inflation, has by far the highest amount of career prize money in golf. He earned more than $ 120 million on the PGA tour alone (as of October 28, 2019).
• Woods is one of five players who have won all four major tournaments at least once. The others are Gene Sarazen , Ben Hogan , Jack Nicklaus, and Gary Player . Woods was the youngest to reach this "career grand slam" at the age of 24.
• In the statistics of major victories he is second with 15 titles behind Jack Nicklaus (18 major titles), in the victories on the US PGA Tour with 82 titles together with Sam Snead in first place.
• Woods and Nicklaus are the only ones to win all four major tournaments at least three times. He won the Masters five times, the PGA Championship four times and the US Open and the Open Championship three times.
• Woods is the only player who could win the four major tournaments in a row (2000-2001). This became known as the "Tiger Slam".
• Woods won 23.91% of the tournaments he played on the US PGA Tour (82 of 343).
• Woods is the only golfer to have won the US Amateur Championship three times in a row.
• He survived 142 cuts in a row between 1998 and 2005.
• He holds the record for the greatest lead in a major tournament (US Open 2000, 15 strokes); the old record had existed since 1862 and was held by Old Tom Morris .
• At the 2000 Open Championship in St. Andrews, he set a record 19 under par for the lowest score of any major tournament. This record was broken in 2015 by Jason Day (-20, PGA Championship).
• Woods holds the US PGA record for the most consecutive rounds played par or better (52).
• At 67.79 hits per round, he holds the record for the lowest average number of hits. It even reached this value in two seasons, 2000 and 2007.
• At 30 years and 7 months he is the youngest golfer to win 50 tournaments on the US PGA Tour. The same applies to his 60th (31 years and 8 months), 70th (33 years and 7 months) and 80th victory (42 years and 9 months).
• Overall, he was number one in the golf world rankings for 683 weeks and topped it for 281 consecutive weeks (June 13, 2005 to October 31, 2010). He first mentioned them on June 15, 1997.
• He is the only player in US PGA Tour history who has ever made the hat trick twice (three wins in a row) in the same tournament (WGC-Bridgestone Invitational 1999-2001, 2005-2007).
• He is the only player in US PGA Tour history to have won the same tournament seven or more times on the same course. He achieved this at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, the Farmers Insurance Open (formerly Buick Invitational) and the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational.
• As the only player besides Sam Snead he has won the same tournament eight times (Arnold Palmer Invitational & WGC-Bridgestone Invitational).
• He is the only player to have won eight times on the same golf course. He did this at Torrey Pines, Bay Hill and the Firestone Country Club.
• With 18 tournament wins, he holds the record for most successes in the four World Golf Championships , and won at least one title every year from 1999 to 2009.
• He was the only player to hold the title of the three WGC tournaments simultaneously (WGC-CA Championship 2007, WGC-Bridgestone Invitational 2007, WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship 2008).
• As the first and so far only golfer on the US tour, he has won at least eight tournaments in three seasons (1999, 2000, 2006).
• He is the only player to have won seven or more tournaments in four seasons (1999, 2000, 2006, 2007).
• As the only player besides Sam Snead, he has won six tournaments on the US PGA Tour six times within a year (1999, 2000, 2005-2007, 2009).
• He is the only player to have won six different tournaments at least five times.
• He is one of four players who managed a 5-0 record at a Presidents Cup.
• He is the only player who has managed to win five tournaments in a row on the US PGA Tour more than once. He has already done this three times.
• He has been voted US PGA Tour Player of the Year eleven times - more than any other golfer in history (Jack Nicklaus ranks second with eight awards).
• By winning the THE TOUR Championship and the FedEx Cup in 2007, he received a total of 11.26 million US dollars, the highest award ever paid out in the sport.

Major tournaments

competition	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
The Masters	T41 LA	CUT	1	T8	T18	5	1	1	T15	T22	1	T3	T2	2	T6	T4	T4	T40	T4	DNP	T17	DNP	DNP	T32	1
US Open	WD	T82	T19	T18	T3	1	T12	1	T20	T17	2	CUT	T2	1	T6	T4	DNP	T21	T32	DNP	CUT	DNP	DNP	CUT	T21
The Open Championship	T68	T22 LA	T24	3	T7	1	T25	T28	T4	T9	1	1	T12	DNP	CUT	T23	DNP	T3	T6	69	CUT	DNP	DNP	T6	CUT
PGA Championship	DNP	DNP	T29	T10	1	1	T29	2	T39	T24	T4	1	1	DNP	2	T28	CUT	T11	T40	CUT	CUT	DNP	DNP	2	CUT

LA = Low Amateur
DNP = not started
WD = withdrawn
CUT = failed at the cut
“T” = split rank
Green for first place, yellow for top ten placement
Purple = “Tiger Slam” (Tiger Woods held the titles of all four major at the same time Tournaments)

World Golf Championships tournaments

competition	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Accenture Match Play Championship	VF	2	DNP	R64	1	1	R32	R16	R16	1
CA Championship	1	T5	KT 1	1	1	9	1	1	1	5
Bridgestone Invitational	1	1	1	4th	T4	T2	1	1	1	DNP

competition	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Accenture Match Play Championship	R32	DNP	R64	R32	R64	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	VF
Cadillac Championship	T9	DNP	T10	WD 2	1	T25	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	T10
Bridgestone Invitational	1	T78	T37	T8	1	WD 2	DNP	DNP	DNP	T31	DNP
HSBC champions	T6	T6	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP

¹ Canceled because of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001
² Woods gave up injured
DNP = not started
WD = withdrawn
VF, R16, R32, R64 = round in which Tiger Woods lost in match play
"T" = shared rank
KT = no tournament
green for first place, yellow for top ten placement
The HSBC Champions only became a WGC tournament in 2009.

Tournament wins

Major wins (15)

year	competition	54 holes	Win score	head Start	Runner-up
1997	The Masters	9 strokes of leadership	−18 (70–66–65–69 = 270)	12 strokes	Tom Kite
1999	PGA Championship	Guided tour shared with 1	−11 (70–67–68–72 = 277)	1 hit	Sergio García
2000	US Open	10 strokes of leadership	−12 (65–69–71–67 = 272)	15 strokes	Ernie Els and Miguel Jiménez
2000	The Open Championship	6 strokes of leadership	−19 (67–66–67–69 = 269)	8 strokes	Ernie Els and Thomas Bjørn
2000	PGA Championship (2)	1 stroke of guidance	−18 (66–67–70–67 = 270)	Playoff 1	Bob May
2001	The Masters (2)	1 stroke of guidance	−16 (70–66–68–68 = 272)	2 strokes	David Duval
2002	The Masters (3)	Guided tour shared with 1	−12 (70–69–66–71 = 276)	3 strokes	Retief Goosen
2002	US Open (2)	4 strokes of leadership	−3 (67–68–70–72 = 277)	3 strokes	Phil Mickelson
2005	The Masters (4)	3 strokes of leadership	−12 (74–66–65–71 = 276)	Playoff 2	Chris DiMarco
2005	The Open Championship (2)	2 strokes of leadership	−14 (66–67–71–70 = 274)	5 strokes	Colin Montgomerie
2006	The Open Championship (3)	1 stroke of guidance	−18 (67–65–71–67 = 270)	2 strokes	Chris DiMarco
2006	PGA Championship (3)	Guided tour shared with 1	−18 (69–68–65–68 = 270)	5 strokes	Shaun Micheel
2007	PGA Championship (4)	3 strokes of leadership	−8 (71–63–69–69 = 272)	2 strokes	Woody Austin
2008	US Open (3)	1 stroke of guidance	−1 (72–68–70–73 = 283)	Playoff 3	Rocco Mediate
2019	The Masters (5)	2 strokes behind	−13 (70–68–67–70 = 275)	1 hit	Dustin Johnson , Brooks Koepka , Xander Schauffele

¹ win over Bob May in a 3-hole playoff with a one-shot lead: Woods (3-4-5 = 12), May (4-4-5 = 13)
² win over Chris DiMarco with a birdie on the first extra Hole
³ Victory over Rocco Mediate in the 18-hole playoff (tie after 18 holes, victory on the first sudden death hole)

PGA Tour Wins (82)

Legend

Major tournaments (15)

World Golf Championships (18)

FedEx Cup Tournaments (5)

Other PGA Tour Tournaments (44)

No.	date	competition	Win score	head Start	Runner-up
1	Oct 6, 1996	Las Vegas Invitational	-27 (70-63-68-67-64 = 332)	Playoff	Davis Love III
2	Oct 20, 1996	Walt Disney World / Oldsmobile Classic	-21 (69-63-69-66 = 267)	1 hit	Payne Stewart
3.	Jan. 12, 1997	Mercedes Championships	-14 (70-67-65 = 202)	Playoff	Tom Lehman
4th	April 13, 1997	The Masters	-18 (70-66-65-69 = 270)	12 strokes	Tom Kite
5	May 18, 1997	GTE Byron Nelson Golf Classic	-17 (64-64-67-68 = 263)	2 strokes	Lee Rinker
6th	July 6, 1997	Motorola Western Open	-13 (67-72-68-68 = 275)	3 strokes	Frank Nobilo
7th	May 10, 1998	BellSouth Classic	-17 (69-67-63-72 = 271)	1 hit	Jay Don Blake
8th	Feb 14, 1999	Buick Invitational	-22 (68-71-62-65 = 266)	2 strokes	Billy Ray Brown
9	June 6, 1999	Memorial Tournament	-15 (68-66-70-69 = 273)	2 strokes	Vijay Singh
10	4th July 1999	Motorola Western Open (2)	-15 (68-66-68-71 = 273)	3 strokes	Mike Weir
11	Aug 15, 1999	PGA Championship	-11 (70-67-68-72 = 277)	1 hit	Sergio García
12	Aug 29, 1999	NEC Invitational	-10 (66-71-62-71 = 270)	1 hit	Phil Mickelson
13	Oct 24, 1999	National Car Rental Golf Classic Disney (2)	-17 (66-66-66-73 = 271)	1 hit	Ernie Els
14th	Oct 31, 1999	THE TOUR Championship	-15 (67-66-67-69 = 269)	4 strokes	Davis Love III
15th	Nov 11, 1999	American Express Championship	-6 (71-69-70-68 = 278)	Playoff	Miguel Ángel Jiménez
16	January 9, 2000	Mercedes Championships (2)	-16 (71-66-71-68 = 276)	Playoff	Ernie Els
17th	Feb 7, 2000	AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am	-15 (68-73-68-64 = 273)	2 strokes	Matt Gogel
18th	March 19, 2000	Bay Hill Invitational	-18 (69-64-67-70 = 270)	4 strokes	Davis Love III
19th	May 28, 2000	Memorial Tournament (2)	-19 (71-63-65-70 = 269)	5 strokes	Ernie Els
20th	June 18, 2000	US Open	-12 (65-69-71-67 = 272)	15 strokes	Ernie Els , Miguel Ángel Jiménez
21st	July 23, 2000	The Open Championship	-19 (67-66-67-69 = 269)	8 strokes	Thomas Bjørn , Ernie Els
22nd	Aug 20, 2000	PGA Championship (2)	-18 (66-67-70-67 = 270)	Playoff	Bob May
23	Aug 27, 2000	NEC Invitational (2)	-21 (64-61-67-67 = 259)	11 strokes	Justin Leonard , Phillip Price
24	Sept 10, 2000	Bell Canadian Open	-22 (72-65-64-65 = 266)	1 hit	Grant Waite
25th	March 18, 2001	Bay Hill Invitational (2)	-15 (71-67-66-69 = 273)	1 hit	Phil Mickelson
26th	March 25, 2001	The PLAYERS Championship	-14 (72-69-66-67 = 274)	1 hit	Vijay Singh
27	April 8, 2001	The Masters (2)	-16 (70-66-68-68 = 272)	2 strokes	David Duval
28	June 3, 2001	Memorial Tournament (3)	-17 (68-69-68-66 = 271)	7 strokes	Paul Azinger , Sergio García
29	Aug 26, 2001	NEC Invitational (3)	-12 (66-67-66-69 = 268)	Playoff	Jim Furyk
30th	March 17, 2002	Bay Hill Invitational (3)	-13 (67-65-74-69 = 275)	4 strokes	Michael Campbell
31	April 14, 2002	The Masters (3)	-12 (70-69-66-71 = 276)	3 strokes	Retief Goosen
32	June 16, 2002	US Open (2)	-3 (67-68-70-72 = 277)	3 strokes	Phil Mickelson
33	Aug 11, 2002	Buick Open	-17 (67-63-71-70 = 271)	4 strokes	Fred Funk , Brian Gay, Mark O'Meara , Esteban Toledo
34	Sept 22, 2002	American Express Championship (2)	-25 (65-65-67-66 = 263)	1 hit	Retief Goosen
35	Feb 16, 2003	Buick Invitational (2)	-16 (70-66-68-68 = 272)	4 strokes	Carl Pettersson
36	March 2, 2003	Accenture Match Play Championship			David Toms
37	March 23, 2003	Bay Hill Invitational (4)	-19 (70-65-66-68 = 269)	11 strokes	Stewart Cink , Brad Faxon , Kenny Perry , Kirk Triplett
38	July 6, 2003	Western Open (3)	-21 (63-70-65-69 = 267)	5 strokes	Rich beem
39	Oct 5, 2003	American Express Championship (3)	-6 (67-66-69-72 = 274)	2 strokes	Stuart Appleby , Tim Herron , Vijay Singh
40	Feb 29, 2004	Accenture Match Play Championship (2)			Davis Love III
41	Jan. 23, 2005	Buick Invitational (3)	-16 (69-63-72-68 = 272)	3 strokes	Luke Donald , Charles Howell III , Tom Lehman
42	March 6, 2005	Ford Championship at Doral	-24 (65-70-63-66 = 264)	1 hit	Phil Mickelson
43	April 10, 2005	The Masters (4)	-12 (74-66-65-71 = 276)	Playoff	Chris DiMarco
44	July 17, 2005	The Open Championship (2)	-14 (66-67-71-70 = 274)	5 strokes	Colin Montgomerie
45	Aug 21, 2005	NEC Invitational (4)	-6 (66-70-67-71 = 274)	1 hit	Chris DiMarco
46	Oct 9, 2005	American Express Championship (4)	-10 (67-68-68-67 = 270)	Playoff	John Daly
47	Jan. 29, 2006	Buick Invitational (4)	-10 (71-68-67-72 = 278)	Playoff	Nathan Green, José María Olazábal
48	March 5, 2006	Ford Championship at Doral (2)	-20 (64-67-68-69 = 268)	1 hit	David Toms , Camilo Villegas
49	July 23, 2006	The Open Championship (3)	-18 (67-65-71-67 = 270)	2 strokes	Chris DiMarco
50	Aug 6, 2006	Buick Open (2)	-24 (66-66-66-66 = 264)	3 strokes	Jim Furyk
51	Aug 20, 2006	PGA Championship (3)	-18 (69-68-65-68 = 270)	5 strokes	Shaun Micheel
52	Aug 27, 2006	Bridgestone Invitational (5)	-10 (67-64-71-68 = 270)	Playoff	Stewart Cink
53	4th Sept 2006	Deutsche Bank Championship	-20 (66-72-67-63 = 268)	2 strokes	Vijay Singh
54	Oct 1, 2006	American Express Championship (5)	-23 (63-64-67-67 = 261)	8 strokes	Ian Poulter , Adam Scott
55	Jan. 28, 2007	Buick Invitational (5)	-15 (66-72-69-66 = 273)	2 strokes	Charles Howell III
56	March 25, 2007	CA Championship (6)	-10 (71-66-68-73 = 278)	2 strokes	Brett Wetterich
57	May 7, 2007	Wachovia Championship	-13 (70-68-68-69 = 275)	2 strokes	Steve Stricker
58	Aug 5, 2007	Bridgestone Invitational (6)	-8 (68-70-69-65 = 272)	8 strokes	Justin Rose , Rory Sabbatini
59	Aug 12, 2007	PGA Championship (4)	-8 (71-63-69-69 = 272)	2 strokes	Woody Austin
60	Sept 9, 2007	BMW Championship	-22 (67-67-65-63 = 262)	2 strokes	Aaron Baddeley
61	Sept 16, 2007	THE TOUR Championship (2)	-23 (64-63-64-66 = 257)	8 strokes	Mark Calcavecchia , Zach Johnson
62	Jan. 27, 2008	Buick Invitational (6)	-19 (67-65-66-71 = 269)	8 strokes	Ryuji Imada
63	Feb. 24, 2008	Accenture Match Play Championship (3)			Stewart Cink
64	March 16, 2008	Arnold Palmer Invitational (5)	-10 (70-68-66-66 = 270)	1 hit	Bart Bryant
65	June 16, 2008	US Open (3)	-1 (72-68-70-73 = 283)	Playoff	Rocco Mediate
66	March 29, 2009	Arnold Palmer Invitational (6)	-5 (68-69-71-67 = 275)	1 hit	Sean O'Hair
67	June 7, 2009	Memorial Tournament (4)	-12 (69-74-68-65 = 276)	1 hit	Jim Furyk
68	July 5, 2009	AT&T National	-13 (64-66-70-67 = 267)	1 hit	Hunter Mahan
69	Aug 2, 2009	Buick Open (3)	-20 (71-63-65-69 = 268)	3 strokes	Greg Chalmers, John Send Roland Thatcher
70	Aug 9, 2009	Bridgestone Invitational (7)	-12 (68-70-65-65 = 268)	4 strokes	Robert Allenby , Pádraig Harrington
71	Sept 13, 2009	BMW Championship (2)	-19 (68-67-62-68 = 265)	8 strokes	Jim Furyk , Marc Leishman
72	March 25, 2012	Arnold Palmer Invitational (7)	-13 (69-65-71-70 = 275)	5 strokes	Graeme McDowell
73	June 3, 2012	Memorial Tournament (5)	-9 (70-69-73-67 = 279)	2 strokes	Andrés Romero , Rory Sabbatini
74	July 1, 2012	AT&T National (2)	-8 (72-68-67-69 = 276)	2 strokes	Bo Van Pelt
75	January 28, 2013	Farmers Insurance Open (7)	-14 (68-65-69-72 = 274)	4 strokes	Brandt Snedeker , Josh Teater
76	March 10, 2013	Cadillac Championship (7)	-19 (66-65-67-71 = 269)	2 strokes	Steve Stricker
77	March 25.2013	Arnold Palmer Invitational (8)	-13 (69-70-66-70 = 275)	2 strokes	Justin Rose
78	May 12, 2013	The PLAYERS Championship (2)	-13 (67-67-71-70 = 275)	2 strokes	Kevin Streelman, Jeff Maggert, David Lingmerth
79	4th Aug 2013	Bridgestone Invitational (8)	-15 (66-61-68-70 = 265)	7 strokes	Keegan Bradley , Henrik Stenson
80	23 Sep 2018	THE TOUR Championship (3)	-11 (65-68-65-71 = 269)	2 strokes	Billy Horschel
81	April 14, 2019	The Masters (5)	-13 (70-68-67-70 = 276)	1 hit	Dustin Johnson , Brooks Koepka , Xander Schauffele
82	Oct 28, 2019	ZOZO Championship	-19 (64-64-66-67 = 261)	3 strokes	Hideki Matsuyama

European Tour Wins (41)

Legend

Major tournaments (15)

World Golf Championships (18)

Other European Tour tournaments (8)

No.	date	competition	Win score	head Start	Runner-up
1	Jan 25, 1998	Johnnie Walker Classic	-9 (72-71-71-65 = 279)	Playoff	Ernie Els
2	May 24, 1999	Deutsche Bank - SAP Open TPC of Europe	-15 (69-68-68-68 = 273)	3 strokes	Retief Goosen
3	Nov 19, 2000	Johnnie Walker Classic	-25 (68-65-65-65 = 263)	3 strokes	Geoff Ogilvy
4th	May 20, 2001	Deutsche Bank - SAP Open TPC of Europe	-22 (69-68-63-66 = 266)	4 strokes	Michael Campbell
5	May 19, 2002	Deutsche Bank - SAP Open TPC of Europe	-20 (69-67-64-68 = 268)	Playoff	Colin Montgomerie
6th	Feb 5, 2006	Dubai Desert Classic	-19 (67-66-67-69 = 269)	Playoff	Ernie Els
7th	Feb 3, 2008	Dubai Desert Classic	-14 (65-71-73-65 = 274)	1 hit	Martin Kaymer
8th	Nov 15, 2009	Australian Masters	-14 (66-68-72-68 = 274)	2 strokes	Greg Chalmers

All wins at major tournaments and WGC tournaments also count as wins on the European Tour, but are not listed here.

Other professional victories (19)

• 1997 (1) Asian Honda Classic (Asia Tour)
• 1998 (1) PGA Grand Slam of Golf (USA - unofficial tournament)
• 1999 (3) WGC World Cup (unofficial tournament), WGC World Cup: Team (unofficial tournament - with Mark O'Meara ), PGA Grand Slam of Golf (USA - unofficial tournament)
• 2000 (2) WGC World Cup: Team (unofficial tournament - with David Duval ), PGA Grand Slam of Golf (USA - unofficial tournament)
• 2001 (2) Target World Challenge (USA - unofficial tournament), PGA Grand Slam of Golf (USA - unofficial tournament)
• 2002 (1) PGA Grand Slam of Golf (USA - unofficial tournament)
• 2004 (2) Dunlop Phoenix (Japan Golf Tour), Target World Challenge (USA - unofficial tournament)
• 2005 (2) Dunlop Phoenix (Japan Golf Tour), PGA Grand Slam of Golf (USA - unofficial tournament)
• 2006 (2) PGA Grand Slam of Golf (USA - unofficial tournament), Target World Challenge (USA - unofficial tournament)
• 2007 (1) Target World Challenge (USA - unofficial tournament)
• 2009 (1) Notah Begay III Foundation Challenge (USA - unofficial tournament)
• 2011 (1) Chevron World Challenge (USA - unofficial tournament)

Amateur victories (21)

• 1984 (1) Junior World Golf Championships (boys 10 and younger)
• 1985 (1) Junior World Golf Championships (boys 10 and younger)
• 1988 (1) Junior World Golf Championships (Boys 11-12)
• 1989 (1) Junior World Golf Championships (Boys 13-14)
• 1990 (2) Junior World Golf Championships (boys 13-14), Insurance Youth Golf Classic
• 1991 (3) US Junior Amateur Championship, Junior World Golf Championships (boys 15-17), Orange Bowl International Junior
• 1992 (2) US Junior Amateur Championship, Insurance Youth Golf Classic
• 1993 (1) US Junior Amateur Championship
• 1994 (3) US Amateur Championship, Western Amateur, Pacific Northwest Amateur
• 1995 (2) US Amateur Championship, College All-America Golf Classic
• 1996 (4) US Amateur Championship, NCAA Division I Championship, NCAA West Regional, Pac-10 Championship

Amateur Major Victories (3)

year	competition	Win score	Runner-up
1994	US amateur	2 up	Trip Kuehne
1995	US amateur	2 up	Buddy Marucci
1996	US amateur	38 holes	Steve Scott

competition	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996
US amateur	DNQ	R32	R32	1	1	1

DNQ = not qualified
R32, R16, QF, SF = round in which Tiger Woods lost in match play.
Green for first place

World number one

Start date	End date	Weeks	approximate time
June 15, 1997	June 21, 1997	1	7 days
July 6, 1997	September 6, 1997	9	2 months
January 11, 1998	April 11, 1998	13	3 months
May 10, 1998	May 16, 1998	1	7 days
June 14, 1998	March 27, 1999	41	9 months, 13 days
4th July 1999	August 7, 1999	5	1 month, 3 days
August 15, 1999	September 4, 2004	264	5 years, 20 days
March 6, 2005	March 19, 2005	2	14 days
April 10, 2005	May 21, 2005	6th	1 month, 11 days
June 12, 2005	October 31, 2010	281	5 years, 4 months, 3 weeks
March 25.2013	May 18, 2014	60	1 year, 1 month, 3 weeks
total		683	13 years, 1 month

Tournament participation with the US national team

amateur

• Eisenhower Trophy: 1994
• Walker Cup : 1995

professional

• Ryder Cup : 1997, 1999 (winner), 2002, 2004 , 2006 , 2010 , 2012 , 2018
• Dunhill Cup: 1998
• The Presidents Cup : 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2019
• WGC World Cup : 1999, 2000, 2001

PGA Tour career

year	Starts	CUT	WD	Wins (majors)	2.	3.	Top 10	Top 25	Prize money (US $)	Money list rank	Ø strokes (rank)
1996	8th	0	0	2	0	2	5	8th	790.594	24	69.44 †
1997	21st	1	0	4 (1)	1	1	9	14th	2,066,833	1	69.10 (2.)
1998	20th	0	1	1	2	2	13	17th	1,841,117	4th	69.21 (2.)
1999	21st	0	0	8 (1)	1	2	16	18th	6,616,585	1	68.43 (1.)
2000	20th	0	0	9 (3)	4th	1	17th	20th	9,188,321	1	67.79 ‡ (1.)
2001	19th	0	0	5 (1)	0	1	9	18th	5,687,777	1	68.81 (1.)
2002	18th	0	0	5 (2)	2	2	13	16	6,912,625	1	68.56 (1.)
2003	18th	0	0	5	2	0	12	16	6,673,413	2	68.41 (1.)
2004	19th	0	0	1	3	3	14th	18th	5,365,472	4th	69.04 (3.)
2005	21st	2	0	6 (2)	4th	2	13	17th	10,628,024	1	68.66 (1.)
2006	15th	1	1	8 (2)	1	1	11	13	9,941,563	1	68.11 (1.)
2007	16	0	0	7 (1)	3	0	12	15th	10,867,052	1	67.79 ‡ (1.)
2008	6th	0	0	4 (1)	1	0	6th	6th	5,775,000	2	67.65 †
2009	17th	1	0	6th	3	0	14th	16	10,508,163	1	68.05 (1.)
2010	12	1	1	0	0	0	2	7th	1,294,765	68	70.32 †
2011	9	1	1	0	0	0	2	3	660.238	128	70.46 †
2012	19th	2	1	3	1	2	9	13	6,133,158	2	68.90 (2.)
2013	16	0	0	5	1	0	8th	10	8,553,439	1	68.98 (2.)
2014	7th	2	2	0	0	0	0	1	108.275	201	71.65 †
2015	11	4th	1	0	0	0	1	3	448,598	162	71.93
2016	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	-
2017	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	-
2018	18th	2	0	1	2	0	7th	12	5,443,841	8th	69.35 (7.)
2019	12	3	0	1 (1)	0	0	4th	7th	3,199,615	24	70.33 †
2020	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1,755,000	3	65.74
Career**	345	20th	8th	82 (15)	31	19th	198	268	120,459,468 ‡	1	-

As of October 28, 2019 (according to ZOZO Championship)

• CUT = number of missed cuts
• WD = abandonment due to injury or other reasons
• Green for first place, yellow for top ten placement
• ^† Woods did not complete the required 50 laps to be counted for the Ø strokes category. 1996: 41 laps, 2008: 26 laps, 2010: 45 laps, 2011: 27 laps, 2014: 21 laps, 2019: 42 laps
• ^‡ PGA Tour record
• Woods completed 14 PGA tournaments as an amateur from 1992-1996. His best result here was a shared 22nd place at the Open Championship 1996. From August 1996 he officially played as a professional and completed 8 tournaments as such during the season.

capital

According to the US business magazine Forbes, Tiger Woods has assets of around 700 million US dollars (as of December 2015). Woods headed the Forbes ranking from 2001 to 2011. According to Forbes, he was the first athlete to ever earn more than $ 1 billion.

See also

• List of winners in major golf tournaments
• List of world number one in men's golf

Web links

Commons : Tiger Woods  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website
• Tiger Woods Foundation
• Player profile on the PGA Tour
• Player profile on the European Tour
• Collection of articles on Tiger Woods
• Tournament results of the last two years on the Official World Golf Ranking Website (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ forbes.com
2. ↑ web.tigerwoodsfoundation.org ( Memento from November 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ charitynavigator.org
4. ↑ Tiger Woods' marriage divorced after a sex scandal in Spiegel Online on August 23, 2010
5. ↑ Lindsey Vonn and Tiger Woods are a couple. 20 Minuten , March 18, 2013, accessed March 18, 2013 . 
6. ↑ Lindsey Vonn and Tiger Woods separated. Blick =, May 3, 2015, accessed on July 12, 2019 . 
7. ↑ pro-golf.de ( memento of October 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (second paragraph)
8. ↑ golf-mallorca.com
9. ↑ steckbriefe.com ( Memento from January 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
10. ↑ infoplease.com
11. ↑ welt.de
12. ↑ Timeline Tiger Woods ( Memento from April 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
13. ↑ National Enquirer says Tiger's cheating on his wife , November 25, 2009
14. ↑ spiegel.de
15. ↑ Woods crash did $ 3,200 damage to hydrant, tree
16. ↑ Woods wants to improve his human handicap
17. ↑ nzz.ch
18. ↑ fr-online.de
19. ↑ golf.de
20. ↑ tagesspiegel.de
21. ↑ golfdigest.com
22. ↑ telegraph.co.uk
23. ↑ sports.espn.go.com
24. ↑ sports.espn.go.com
25. ↑ espn.go.com
26. ↑ ibnlive.in.com
27. Jump up ↑ Golf: Tiger Woods Anniversary Victory. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . May 13, 2013, accessed May 13, 2013 . 
28. ↑ Woods is Player of the Year! ( Memento from October 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
29. ↑ Tiger Woods wins first tournament in five years. In: Der Tagesspiegel . September 24, 2018, accessed January 16, 2019 . 
30. ↑ Tiger Woods achieves the almost impossible. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine . April 14, 2019, accessed April 14, 2019 . 
31. ↑ [1]
32. ↑ forbes.com
33. ^ Forbes.com: Sports' First Billion Dollar Man