Tiger Woods

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Tiger Woods
— Golfer —

Woods at a Chevron World Challenge charity event (2011)
Personal information
Full name Eldrick Tont Woods
Nickname Tiger
Born (1975-12-30) December 30, 1975
Cypress, California
Height 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Weight 185 lb (84 kg; 13.2 st)
Nationality  United States
Residence Jupiter Island, Florida
Spouse Elin Nordegren (2004–2010)
Children Sam Alexis (b. 2007)
Charlie Axel (b. 2009)
Career
College Stanford University (two years)
Turned professional 1996
Current tour(s) PGA Tour (joined 1996)
Professional wins 106[1]
Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour 79 (2nd all time)
European Tour 40 (3rd all time)[2][3]
Japan Golf Tour 2
Asian Tour 1
PGA Tour of Australasia 1
Other 16
Best results in Major Championships
(Wins: 14)
Masters Tournament Won: 1997, 2001, 2002, 2005
U.S. Open Won: 2000, 2002, 2008
The Open Championship Won: 2000, 2005, 2006
PGA Championship Won: 1999, 2000, 2006, 2007
Achievements and awards
PGA Tour
Rookie of the Year		 1996
PGA Player of the Year 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2013
PGA Tour
Player of the Year		 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2013
PGA Tour
leading money winner		 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 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
FedEx Cup Champion 2007, 2009
(For a full list of awards, see here)

Eldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods (born December 30, 1975)[4][5] is an American professional golfer who is among the most successful golfers of all time. Currently the World No. 1, he has been one of the highest-paid athletes in the world for several years.

Woods turned professional in 1996, and by April 1997 he had already won his first major, the 1997 Masters in a record-breaking performance, winning the tournament by 12 strokes. He first reached the number one position in the world rankings in June 1997. Through the 2000s, Woods was the dominant force in golf, spending 264 weeks from August 1999 to September 2004 and 281 weeks from June 2005 to October 2010 as world number one. From December 2009 to early 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.[6] This was followed by a loss of golf form, and his ranking gradually fell to a low of No. 58 in November 2011.[7][8] He ended a career-long winless streak of 107 weeks when he captured the Chevron World Challenge in December 2011.[8] After winning the Arnold Palmer Invitational on March 25, 2013, he ascended to the No.1 Ranking once again.

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 other golfer. He has been awarded PGA Player of the Year a record eleven times,[9] the 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 14 professional major golf championships, the second highest of any player (Jack Nicklaus leads with 18), and 79 PGA Tour events, second all time behind Sam Snead, who had 82 wins.[10] 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 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 18 World Golf Championships, and won at least one of those events in each of the first 11 years after they began in 1999. Woods is the only golfer to win both The Silver Medal and The Gold Medal at The Open Championship.

Background and family

Woods with his father Earl in 2004

Woods was born in Cypress, California, to Earl (1932–2006) and Kultida (Tida) Woods (born 1944). He is the only child of their marriage, but does have two half-brothers, Earl Jr. (born 1955) and Kevin (born 1957), and a half-sister, Royce (born 1958) from the 18-year marriage of Earl Woods and his first wife, Barbara Woods Gray.[11] 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.[12] Kultida (née Punsawad), originally from Thailand (where Earl had met her on a tour of duty in 1968), is of mixed Thai, Chinese, and Dutch ancestry.[13] He refers to his ethnic make-up as "Cablinasian" (a syllabic abbreviation he coined from Caucasian, Black, American Indian, and Asian).[14]

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.[15]

Woods has a niece, Cheyenne Woods, who played for Wake Forest University's golf team and turned professional in 2012, making her pro debut in the LPGA Championship.[16]

Early life and amateur golf career

Woods at age 2 on The Mike Douglas Show. From left, Tiger Woods, Mike Douglas, Earl Woods and Bob Hope on October 6, 1978.

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.[17] In 1978, Tiger putted against comedian Bob Hope in a television appearance on The Mike Douglas Show. At age three, he shot a 48 over nine holes over the Cypress Navy course, and at age five, he appeared in Golf Digest and on ABC's That's Incredible.[18] Before turning seven, Tiger won the Under Age 10 section of the Drive, Pitch, and Putt competition, held at the Navy Golf Course in Cypress, California.[19] In 1984 at the age of eight, he won the 9–10 boys' event, the youngest age group available, at the Junior World Golf Championships.[20] He first broke 80 at age eight.[21] He went on to win the Junior World Championships six times, including four consecutive wins from 1988 to 1991.[22][23][24][25][26]

Woods' father Earl wrote that Tiger first beat him when he was 11 years old, with Earl trying his best. Earl lost to Tiger every time from then on.[27][28] Woods first broke 70 on a regulation golf course at age 12.[29]

Woods' first major national junior tournament was the 1989 Big I, when he was 13 years old. 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.[30] 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.[31] Earl Woods had researched in detail the career accomplishments of Nicklaus, and had set his young son the goals of breaking those records.[29]

While attending Western High School in Anaheim at the age of 15, Woods became the youngest ever U.S. Junior Amateur champion (a record which stood until it was broken by Jim Liu in 2010).[32] He was named 1991's Southern California Amateur Player of the Year (for the second consecutive year) and Golf Digest Junior Amateur Player of the Year. In 1992, 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 36-hole cut); and was named Golf Digest Amateur Player of the Year, Golf World Player of the Year, and Golfweek National Amateur of the Year.[33][34]

The following year, Woods won his third consecutive U.S. Junior Amateur Championship; he remains the event's only three-time winner.[35] In 1994, at the TPC at Sawgrass in Florida, he became the youngest-ever winner of the U.S. Amateur Championship, a record he held until 2008 when it was broken by Danny Lee.[36] He was a member of the American team at the 1994 Eisenhower Trophy World Amateur Golf Team Championships (winning), and the 1995 Walker Cup (losing).[37][38]

Woods graduated from Western High School in 1994 at age 18, and was voted "Most Likely to Succeed" among the graduating class. He had starred for the high school's golf team under coach Don Crosby.[39]

College golf career

Woods was recruited very heavily by college golf powers, and chose Stanford University, the 1994 NCAA Division I champions. He enrolled at Stanford in the fall of 1994 under a golf scholarship, winning his first collegiate event, the 40th Annual William H. Tucker Invitational, that September.[40] He declared a major in economics, and was nicknamed "Urkel" by college teammate Notah Begay III.[41] In 1995, he successfully defended his U.S. Amateur title at the Newport Country Club in Rhode Island[36] and was voted Pac-10 Player of the Year, NCAA First Team All-American, and Stanford's Male Freshman of the Year (an award that encompasses all sports).[42][43]

Woods participated in his first PGA Tour major, the 1995 Masters Tournament, and tied for 41st as the only amateur to make the cut. At age 20 in 1996, he became the first golfer to win three consecutive U.S. Amateur titles[44] and won the NCAA individual golf championship.[45] In winning the Silver Medal as leading amateur at The Open Championship, he tied the record for an amateur aggregate score of 281.[46] He left college after two years and turned professional. In 1996, Woods moved out of California, stating in 2013 that it was due to the state's tax rate.[47][48][49]

Professional career

Main article: Professional golf career of Tiger Woods
Woods in 2001

Woods became a professional golfer in August 1996, and immediately signed deals with Nike, Inc. and Titleist that ranked as the most lucrative endorsement contracts in golf history at that time.[50][51] Woods was named Sports Illustrated's 1996 Sportsman of the Year and PGA Tour Rookie of the Year.[52] In April 1997, he won his first major, the Masters, becoming the tournament's youngest-ever winner.[53] Two months later, he set the record for the fastest-ever ascent to No. 1 in the Official World Golf Rankings.[54] After a lackluster 1998, Woods finished the 1999 season with eight wins, including the PGA Championship, a feat not achieved since 1974.[55][56]

In 2000, Woods achieved six consecutive wins, the longest winning streak since 1948. One of these was the 2000 U.S. Open, where he broke or tied nine tournament records in what Sports Illustrated called "the greatest performance in golf history."[57] At age 24, he became the youngest golfer to achieve the Career Grand Slam.[58] At the end of 2000, Woods had won nine of the twenty PGA Tour events he entered and had broken the record for lowest scoring average in tour history. He was named the Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year, the only athlete to be honored twice, and was ranked by Golf Digest magazine as the twelfth-best golfer of all time.[59][60]

Woods at the 2004 Ryder Cup

Woods' victory in the 2001 Masters Tournament made him the first player to hold all four major professional golf titles at the same time.[61] Following a stellar 2001 and 2002 in which Woods continued to dominate the tour, Woods' career hit a "slump".[55][62] He did not win a major in 2003 or 2004. In September 2004, Vijay Singh overtook Woods in the Official World Golf Rankings, ending Woods' record streak of 264 weeks at #1.[63]

Woods rebounded in 2005, winning six official PGA Tour money events and reclaiming the top spot in July after swapping it back and forth with Singh over the first half of the year.[64]

In 2006, Woods began dominantly, winning his first two PGA tournaments but failing to capture his fifth Masters championship in April.[65][66] Following the death of his father in May, Woods took a nine-week hiatus from the tour and appeared rusty upon his return at the U.S. Open, missing the cut at Winged Foot.[67] However, he quickly returned to form and ended the year by winning six consecutive tour events. At the season's close, with 54 wins and 12 majors wins, Woods had broken the tour records for both total wins and total majors wins over eleven seasons.[68]

Woods at the 2006 Masters Tournament

Woods continued to excel in 2007 and the first part of 2008. In April 2008, he underwent knee surgery and missed the next two months on the tour.[69] Woods returned for the 2008 U.S. Open, where he struggled the first day but ultimately claimed a dramatic victory over Rocco Mediate, after which Mediate said, "This guy does things that are just not normal by any stretch of the imagination," and Kenny Perry added, "He beat everybody on one leg."[70][71][72] Two days later, Woods announced that he would miss the remainder of the season due to further knee surgery, and that his knee was more severely damaged than previously revealed, prompting even greater praise for his U.S. Open performance. Woods called it "my greatest ever championship."[73][74][75] In Woods' absence, TV ratings for the remainder of the season suffered a huge decline from 2007.[76]

Woods competing at the third annual Earl Woods Memorial Pro-Am (July 1, 2009)

Upon Woods' much-anticipated return in 2009, he performed well, including a spectacular performance at the 2009 Presidents Cup, but failed to win a major, the first year since 2004 that he had not done so.[77][78][79] After his marital infidelities came to light at the end of 2009 and received massive media coverage, Woods announced in December that he would be taking an indefinite break from competitive golf. In February 2010, he delivered a televised apology for his behavior. During this period, several companies ended their endorsement deals with Woods.

Woods returned to competition in April at the 2010 Masters Tournament, where he finished in a tie for fourth place.[80] He followed the Masters with poor showings at the Quail Hollow Championship and the Players Championship, where he withdrew in the fourth round citing injury.[81] Shortly afterward, Woods' coach since 2003, Hank Haney, resigned the position; he was replaced in August by Sean Foley. The rest of the season went badly for Woods, who failed to win a single event for the first time since turning professional, while nevertheless finishing the season ranked No. 2 in the world.

Woods' performance continued to suffer in 2011, taking its toll on his ranking. After falling to No. 7 in March, he rebounded to No. 5 with a strong showing at the 2011 Masters Tournament, where he tied for fourth place.[82][83][84] Due to leg injuries incurred at the Masters, he missed several summer events; in July he fired his longtime caddy Steve Williams, replacing him temporarily with friend Bryon Bell.[85][86] After returning to tournament play in August, Woods continued to falter, and his ranking gradually fell to a low of #58.[8] He rose to No. 50 in mid-November after a third-place finish at the Emirates Australian Open, and broke his winless streak with a victory at December's Chevron World Challenge.[8][87]

Woods began his 2012 season with two tournaments (the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship and the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am) where he started off well, but struggled on the final rounds. Following the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship, where he was knocked out in the second round by missing a 5-foot putt,[88] Woods revised his putting technique and tied for second at the Honda Classic, with the lowest final round score in his PGA Tour career. After a short time off due to another leg injury, Woods won the Arnold Palmer Invitational, his first win on the PGA Tour since the BMW Championship in September 2009. Following several dismal performances, Woods notched his 73rd PGA Tour win at the Memorial Tournament in June, tying Jack Nicklaus' record for most PGA Tour victories;[89] a month later, Woods surpassed Nicklaus' record with a win at the AT&T National.[90]

2013 would bring a return of Woods' dominating play. He won the Farmers Insurance Open in January 2013 by four shots for his 75th PGA Tour win. It was the seventh time he had won the event.[91] In March, he won the WGC-Cadillac Championship, also for the seventh time, giving him his 17th WGC title and first since 2009.[92] Two weeks later, he won the Arnold Palmer Invitational, winning the event for a record-tying 8th time. The win moved him back to the top of the world rankings.[93] To commemorate that achievement, Nike was quick to launch an ad with the tagline "winning takes care of everything".[94]

On April 13, 2013, Woods was up for disqualification from the 2013 Masters Tournament over claims he took an illegal drop after his third shot on the par-5 15th hole bounced off of the pin and into the water. After further review, Woods was assessed a two-stroke penalty for the drop and not disqualified.[95] He finished T4 in the event. Woods won The Players Championship in May 2013, his second career win at the event, notching his fourth win of the 2013 season. It was the quickest he had ever gotten to four wins in any season in his professional career.

Woods had a poor showing at the 2013 U.S Open as a result of an elbow injury sustained at The Players Championship. In finishing at +13, he recorded his worst score ever as a professional and finished 12 strokes behind winner Justin Rose. After a prolonged break because of the injury, during which he missed the Greenbrier Classic and his own AT&T National, he returned at the Open Championship at Muirfield. Despite being in contention all week and beginning the final round only two stokes behind Lee Westwood, he struggled with the speed of the greens and could only manage a 3-over-par 74 which left him tied for 6th place, five strokes behind eventual winner Phil Mickelson. Two weeks later, Woods returned to form at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, recording his 5th win of the season and 8th win at the event in its 15 year history. His second round 61 matched his record score on the PGA Tour and could easily have been a 59 were it not for some short missed birdie putts on the closing holes. This gave him a seven stroke lead which he held on to for the rest of the tournament. Woods would never contend at the PGA Championship at Oak Hill Country Club and would come short of winning a major for the 5th full season, only contending in two of the four majors in 2013.

Honors

Woods driving in 2007

On August 20, 2007, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver announced that Woods would be inducted into the California Hall of Fame. He was inducted December 5, 2007 at The California Museum for History, Women and the Arts in Sacramento.[96][97]

He has been named "Athlete of the Decade" by the Associated Press in December 2009.[98] He has been named Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year a record-tying four times, and is the only person to be named Sports Illustrated's Sportsman of the Year more than once.

Since his record-breaking win at the 1997 Masters Tournament, golf's increased popularity is commonly attributed to Woods' presence. He is credited by some sources for dramatically increasing prize money in golf, generating interest in new audiences, and for drawing the largest TV audiences in golf history.[52][99][100][101][102][103]

Endorsements

Woods has been called the world's most marketable athlete.[104] Shortly after his 21st birthday in 1996, he began signing endorsement deals with numerous companies, including General Motors, Titleist, General Mills, American Express, Accenture, and Nike, Inc. In 2000, he signed a 5-year, $105 million contract extension with Nike. It was the largest endorsing deal ever signed by an athlete at that time.[105] Woods' endorsement has been credited with playing a significant role in taking the Nike Golf brand from a "start-up" golf company earlier in the past decade, to becoming the leading golf apparel company in the world, and a major player in the equipment and golf ball market.[104][106] Nike Golf is one of the fastest growing brands in the sport, with an estimated $600 million in sales.[107] Woods has been described as the "ultimate endorser" for Nike Golf,[107] frequently seen wearing Nike gear during tournaments, and even in advertisements for other products.[105] Woods receives a percentage from the sales of Nike Golf apparel, footwear, golf equipment, golf balls,[104] and has a building named after him at Nike's headquarters campus in Beaverton, Oregon.[108]

Woods visiting aircraft carrier USS George Washington in the Persian Gulf before participating in the 2004 Dubai Desert Classic

In 2002, Woods was involved in every aspect of the launch of Buick's Rendezvous SUV. A company spokesman stated that Buick was happy with the value of Woods' endorsement, pointing out that more than 130,000 Rendezvous vehicles were sold in 2002 and 2003. "That exceeded our forecasts," he was quoted as saying, "It has to be in recognition of Tiger." In February 2004, Buick renewed Woods' endorsement contract for another five years, in a deal reportedly worth $40 million.[105]

Woods collaborated closely with TAG Heuer to develop the world's first professional golf watch, released in April 2005.[109] The lightweight, titanium-construction watch, designed to be worn while playing the game, incorporates numerous innovative design features to accommodate golf play. It is capable of absorbing up to 5,000 Gs of shock, far in excess of the forces generated by a normal golf swing.[109] In 2006, the TAG Heuer Professional Golf Watch won the prestigious iF product design award in the Leisure/Lifestyle category.[110]

Woods preparing for a photo shoot in 2006

Woods also endorses the Tiger Woods PGA Tour series of video games; he has done so since 1999.[111] In 2006, he signed a six-year contract with Electronic Arts, the series' publisher.[112]

In February 2007, along with Roger Federer and Thierry Henry, Woods became an ambassador for the "Gillette Champions" marketing campaign. Gillette did not disclose financial terms, though an expert estimated the deal could total between $10 million and $20 million.[113]

In October 2007, Gatorade announced that Woods would have his own brand of sports drink starting in March 2008. "Gatorade Tiger" was his first U.S. deal with a beverage company and his first licensing agreement. Although no figures were officially disclosed, Golfweek magazine reported that it was for five years and could pay him as much as $100 million.[114] The company decided in early fall 2009 to discontinue the drink due to weak sales.[115]

According to Golf Digest, Woods made $769,440,709 from 1996 to 2007,[116] and the magazine predicted that by 2010, Woods would pass one billion dollars in earnings.[117] In 2009, Forbes confirmed that Woods was indeed the world's first athlete to earn over a billion dollars in his career (before taxes), after accounting for the $10 million bonus Woods received for the FedEx Cup title.[118][119] The same year, Forbes estimated his net worth to be $600 million, making him the second richest "African American" behind only Oprah Winfrey.[120]

In July 2011, Woods appeared on a 15-second Japanese television commercial, endorsing a heat back rub by Kowa Co., the Vantelin Kowa rub. Details of the deal, which was made in late 2010, were not disclosed.[121]

In October 2012, it was announced that Woods had signed an exclusive endorsement deal with Fuse Science, Inc, a sports nutrition firm.[122]

Tiger-proofing

Early in Woods' career, a small number of golf experts expressed concern about his impact on the competitiveness of the game and the public appeal of professional golf. Sportswriter Bill Lyon of Knight-Ridder asked in a column, "Isn't Tiger Woods actually bad for golf?" (though Lyon ultimately concluded that he was not).[123] At first, some pundits feared that Woods would drive the spirit of competition out of the game of golf by making existing courses obsolete and relegating opponents to simply competing for second place each week.

A related effect was measured by economist Jennifer Brown of the University of California, Berkeley who found that other golfers played worse when competing against Woods than when he was not in the tournament. The scores of highly skilled (exempt) golfers are nearly one stroke higher when playing against Woods. This effect was larger when he was on winning streaks and disappeared during his well-publicized slump in 2003–04. Brown explains the results by noting that competitors of similar skill can hope to win by increasing their level of effort, but that, when facing a "superstar" competitor, extra exertion does not significantly raise one's level of winning while increasing risk of injury or exhaustion, leading to reduced effort.[124]

Many courses in the PGA Tour rotation (including Major Championship sites like Augusta National) have added yardage to their tees in an effort to reduce the advantage of long hitters like Woods, a strategy that became known as "Tiger-Proofing". Woods said he welcomed the change, in that adding yardage to courses did not affect his ability to win.[125]

Playing style

Woods practicing before 2004 Ryder Cup at Oakland Hills Country Club in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

When Woods first joined the professional tour in 1996, his long drives had a large impact on the world of golf.[126][127] However, when he did not upgrade his equipment in the following years (insisting upon the use of True Temper Dynamic Gold steel-shafted clubs and smaller steel clubheads that promoted accuracy over distance),[128] many opponents caught up to him. Phil Mickelson even made a joke in 2003 about Woods using "inferior equipment", which did not sit well with Nike, Titleist or Woods.[129][130] During 2004, Woods finally upgraded his driver technology to a larger clubhead and graphite shaft, which, coupled with his clubhead speed, made him one of the Tour's lengthier players off the tee once again.

Despite his power advantage, Woods has always focused on developing an excellent all-around game. Although in recent years he has typically been near the bottom of the Tour rankings in driving accuracy, his iron play is generally accurate, his recovery and bunker play is very strong, and his putting (especially under pressure) is possibly his greatest asset. He is largely responsible for a shift to higher standards of athleticism amongst professional golfers, and is known for putting in more hours of practice than most.[131][132][133]

From mid-1993, while he was still an amateur, until 2004, Woods worked almost exclusively with leading swing coach Butch Harmon. From mid-1997, Harmon and Woods fashioned a major redevelopment of Woods' full swing, achieving greater consistency, better distance control, and better kinesiology. The changes began to pay off in 1999.[134] From March 2004 to 2010, Woods was coached by Hank Haney, who worked on flattening his swing plane. Woods continued to win tournaments with Haney, but his driving accuracy dropped significantly. Haney resigned in May 2010 and was replaced by Sean Foley. [135]

Mike "Fluff" Cowan served as Woods' caddy from the start of his professional career until March 1999.[136] He was replaced by Steve Williams, who became a close friend of Woods and is often credited with helping him with key shots and putts.[137] In June 2011, Woods fired Williams and replaced him with Woods' friend Bryon Bell, on an interim basis. Joe LaCava, a former caddy of both Fred Couples and Dustin Johnson, was hired by Woods shortly after.[138]

Equipment

As of 2013 Northwestern Mutual World Challenge :[139][140]

  • Driver: Nike VRS Covert 2.0 (9.5-degree; Mitsubishi Diamana White Board 73X shaft)
  • Fairway Woods: Nike VR_S Covert 15° 3-wood and Nike VR_S Covert 19° 5-Wood with Mitsubishi Diamana Blueboard 103x shaft
  • Irons: Nike VR Pro Blades (2-PW) (Tiger will put his 5 Wood or 2 Iron in the bag depending upon the course setup and conditions). All irons are 1-degree upright, have D4 swingweight, standard size Tour Velvet grips and True Temper Dynamic Gold X-100 shafts.
  • Wedges: Nike VR Pro (56 and 60-degree; True Temper Dynamic Gold S400 shafts)
  • Putter: Nike Method 001
  • Ball: Nike ONE Tour D (with "Tiger" imprint)
  • Golf Glove: Nike Dri-FIT Tour glove
  • Golf Shoes: Nike TW '14
  • Driver club cover: Frank, a plush tiger head club cover created by his mother. Frank has appeared in several commercials.[141]

Other ventures

Tiger Woods Foundation

The Tiger Woods Foundation was established in 1996 by Woods and his father Earl, with the primary goal of promoting golf among inner-city children.[142][143] The foundation has conducted junior golf clinics across the country, and sponsors the Tiger Woods Foundation National Junior Golf Team in the Junior World Golf Championships.[144][145] As of December 2010, TWF employed approximately 55 people.[146][147]

The foundation operates the Tiger Woods Learning Center, a $50 million, 35,000-square-foot facility in Anaheim, California, providing college-access programs for underserved youth.[144][146][148] The TWLC opened in 2006 and features seven classrooms, extensive multi-media facilities and an outdoor golf teaching area.[144] The center has since expanded to four additional campuses: two in Washington, DC; one in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and one in Stuart, Florida.[148]

Woods giving a speech at We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial (January 2009)

The foundation benefits from the annual Chevron World Challenge and AT&T National golf tournaments hosted by Woods.[146] In October 2011, the foundation hosted the first Tiger Woods Invitational at Pebble Beach.[149] Other annual fundraisers have included the concert events Block Party, last held in 2009 in Anaheim, and Tiger Jam, last held in 2011 in Las Vegas after a one-year hiatus.[146][150][151][152]

Tiger Woods Design

In November 2006, Woods announced his intention to begin designing golf courses around the world through a new company, Tiger Woods Design.[153] A month later, he announced that the company's first course would be in Dubai as part of a 25.3 million-square-foot development, The Tiger Woods Dubai.[154] The Al Ruwaya Golf Course was initially expected to finish construction in 2009.[154] As of February 2010, only seven holes had been completed; in April 2011, The New York Times reported that the project had been shelved permanently.[155][156]

Tiger Woods Design has taken on two other courses, neither of which has materialized. In August 2007, Woods announced The Cliffs at High Carolina, a private course in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Asheville, North Carolina.[157] After a groundbreaking in November 2008, the project suffered cash flow problems and suspended construction.[156] A third course, in Punta Brava, Mexico, was announced in October 2008, but incurred delays due to issues with permits and an environmental impact study.[156][158] Construction on the Punta Brava course has not yet begun.[156]

The problems encountered by these projects have been credited to factors including overly optimistic estimates of their value; declines throughout the global economy, particularly the U.S. crash in home prices; and decreased appeal of Woods following his 2009 infidelity scandal.[156]

Writings

Woods wrote a golf instruction column for Golf Digest magazine from 1997 to February 2011.[159] In 2001 he wrote a best-selling golf instruction book, How I Play Golf, which had the largest print run of any golf book for its first edition, 1.5 million copies.[160]

Personal life

Marriage and children

In November 2003, Woods became engaged to Elin Nordegren, a Swedish former model and daughter of former minister of migration Barbro Holmberg and radio journalist Thomas Nordegren.[161] They were introduced during The Open Championship in 2001 by Swedish golfer Jesper Parnevik, who had employed her as an au pair. They married on October 5, 2004, at the Sandy Lane resort in Barbados, and lived at Isleworth, a community in Windermere, a suburb of Orlando, Florida.[162][163] In 2006, they purchased a $39 million estate in Jupiter Island, Florida, and began constructing a 10,000-square-foot home; Woods moved there in 2010 following the couple's divorce.[163][164]

Woods and Nordegren's first child, a daughter named Sam Alexis Woods, was born in 2007. Woods chose the name because his own father had always called him Sam.[165] Their son, Charlie Axel Woods, was born in 2009.[166]

Infidelity scandal and fallout

On November 25, 2009, supermarket tabloid The National Enquirer published a story claiming that Woods had an extramarital affair with New York City nightclub manager Rachel Uchitel, a claim she denied.[167] Two days later, around 2:30 a.m. on November 27, Woods left home in his Cadillac Escalade SUV and, while still on his street, collided with a fire hydrant, a tree, and several hedges.[168] He was treated for minor facial lacerations and received a ticket for careless driving.[168][169] Following intense media speculation about the accident, Woods released a statement on his website taking sole responsibility for the accident, calling it a "private matter" and crediting his wife for helping him from the car.[170][171] On November 30, Woods announced that he would not be appearing at his own charity golf tournament, the Chevron World Challenge, nor any other tournaments in 2009, due to his injuries.[172]

On December 2, following the release by US Weekly of a voicemail message allegedly left by Tiger for a mistress, Woods released another statement in which he admitted "transgressions" and apologized to "all of those who have supported [him] over the years", while reiterating his and his family's right to privacy.[167][173] Over the next few days, more than a dozen women claimed in various media outlets to have had affairs with Woods.[6] On December 11, he released a third statement admitting to infidelity and apologizing again, as well as announcing that he would be taking "an indefinite break from professional golf."[6]

In the days and months following Woods' admission of infidelity, several companies re-evaluated their relationships with him. Accenture, AT&T, Gatorade and General Motors completely ended their sponsorship deals, while Gillette suspended advertising featuring Woods.[174][175][176] TAG Heuer dropped Woods from advertising in December 2009 and officially ended their deal when his contract expired in August 2011.[174][177] The magazine Golf Digest suspended Woods' monthly column beginning with the February 2010 issue.[178] In contrast, Nike continued to support Woods, as did Electronic Arts, which was working with Woods on the game Tiger Woods PGA Tour Online.[179] A December 2009 study estimated the shareholder loss caused by Woods' affairs to be between $5 billion and $12 billion.[180][181][182]

On February 19, 2010, Woods gave a televised statement in which he said he had been in a 45-day therapy program since the end of December. He again apologized for his actions. "I thought I could get away with whatever I wanted to," he said. "I felt that I had worked hard my entire life and deserved to enjoy all the temptations around me. I felt I was entitled. Thanks to money and fame, I didn't have to go far to find them. I was wrong. I was foolish." He said he did not know yet when he would be returning to golf.[183][184] He announced a few weeks later on March 16 that he would be returning at the 2010 Masters Tournament on April 8.[185]

Woods and Nordegren divorced on August 23, 2010.[186]

Other

Woods meets with United States President Barack Obama in the White House, April 2009.
Woods shoots a handgun during training at a shooting range outside San Diego.

From childhood Woods was raised as a Buddhist, and he actively practiced this faith from childhood until well into his adult professional golf career.[187] In a 2000 article, Woods was quoted as saying he "believes in Buddhism... Not every aspect, but most of it."[188] He has attributed his deviations and infidelity to his losing track of Buddhism. He said, "Buddhism teaches me to stop following every impulse and to learn restraint. Obviously I lost track of what I was taught."[189]

Tiger Woods is registered to vote as an independent.[190] In January 2009, Woods delivered a speech commemorating the military at the We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial.[191][192] In April 2009, Woods visited the White House while in the Washington, D.C. area promoting the golf tournament he hosts, the AT&T National.[193]

Woods underwent laser eye surgery in 1999. Before this surgery, Woods eyesight was minus 11, meaning he was almost legally blind. He considered the surgery a big help in his career and a good alternative to the glasses and contact lenses.[194] He immediately started winning tour events after the surgery. He received money from TLC Laser Eye Centers to endorse them.[195] In 2007, he had a second laser eye surgery when his vision began to deteriorate again.[196]

On March 18, 2013, Woods announced that he and skier Lindsey Vonn were dating.[197]

Career achievements

Main article: List of career achievements by Tiger Woods

Woods has won 79 official PGA Tour events including 14 majors. He is 14–1 when going into the final round of a major with at least a share of the lead. He has been heralded as "the greatest closer in history" by multiple golf experts.[198][199][200] He owns the lowest career scoring average and the most career earnings of any player in PGA Tour history.

Woods victory at the 2013 Players Championship also marked a win in his 300th PGA Tour start.[201] He also won golf tournaments in his 100th (in 2000) and 200th (in 2006) tour starts.[202][203]

Woods has spent the most consecutive and cumulative weeks atop the world rankings. He is one of five players (along with Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, and Jack Nicklaus) to have won all four professional major championships in his career, known as the Career Grand Slam, and was the youngest to do so.[204] Woods is the only player to have won all four professional major championships in a row, accomplishing the feat in the 2000–2001 seasons.

  • PGA Tour wins (79)
  • European Tour wins (40)
  • Japan Golf Tour wins (2)
  • Asian Tour wins (1)
  • PGA Tour of Australasia wins (1)
  • Other professional wins (15)
  • Amateur wins (21)

Major championships

Wins (14)

YearChampionship54 holesWinning scoreMarginRunner(s)-up
1997 Masters Tournament 099 shot lead -18−18 (70-66-65-69=270) 1212 strokes United States Tom Kite
1999 PGA Championship 00Tied for lead -11−11 (70-67-68-72=277) 011 stroke Spain Sergio García
2000 U.S. Open 1010 shot lead -12−12 (65-69-71-67=272) 1515 strokes South Africa Ernie Els, Spain Miguel Ángel Jiménez
2000 The Open Championship 066 shot lead -19−19 (67-66-67-69=269) 088 strokes Denmark Thomas Bjørn, South Africa Ernie Els
2000 PGA Championship (2)011 shot lead -18−18 (66-67-70-67=270) 00Playoff 1 United States Bob May
2001 Masters Tournament (2)011 shot lead -16−16 (70-66-68-68=272) 022 strokes United States David Duval
2002 Masters Tournament (3)00Tied for lead -12−12 (70-69-66-71=276) 033 strokes South Africa Retief Goosen
2002 U.S. Open (2)044 shot lead -03−3 (67-68-70-72=277) 033 strokes United States Phil Mickelson
2005 Masters Tournament (4)033 shot lead -12−12 (74-66-65-71=276) 00Playoff 2 United States Chris DiMarco
2005 The Open Championship (2)022 shot lead -14−14 (66-67-71-70=274) 055 strokes Scotland Colin Montgomerie
2006 The Open Championship (3)011 shot lead -18−18 (67-65-71-67=270) 022 strokes United States Chris DiMarco
2006 PGA Championship (3)00Tied for lead -18−18 (69-68-65-68=270) 055 strokes United States Shaun Micheel
2007 PGA Championship (4)033 shot lead -08−8 (71-63-69-69=272) 022 strokes United States Woody Austin
2008 U.S. Open (3)011 shot lead -01−1 (72-68-70-73=283) 00Playoff 3 United States Rocco Mediate

1 Defeated May in three-hole playoff by 1 stroke: Woods (3-4-5=12), May (4-4-5=13)
2 Defeated DiMarco with birdie on first extra hole
3 Defeated Mediate with a par on 1st sudden death hole after 18-hole playoff was tied at even par

Results timeline

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

LA = Low Amateur
DNP = did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
WD = withdrew
"T" indicates a tie for a place
Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10.

Summary

Tournament Wins 2nd 3rd Top-5 Top-10 Top-25 Events Cuts made
Masters Tournament 4 2 1 11 13 16 19 18
U.S. Open 3 2 1 7 8 14 18 16
The Open Championship 3 0 2 6 9 14 17 16
PGA Championship 4 2 0 7 8 10 16 15
Totals 14 6 4 31 38 54 70 65
  • Most consecutive cuts made – 39 (1996 U.S. Open – 2006 Masters)
  • Longest streak of top-10s – 8 (1999 U.S. Open – 2001 Masters)

World Golf Championships

Wins (18)

YearChampionship54 holesWinning scoreMarginRunner(s)-up
1999 WGC-NEC Invitational 055 shot lead -10−10 (66-71-62-71=270) 011 stroke United States Phil Mickelson
1999 WGC-American Express Championship -031 shot deficit -06–6 (71-69-70-68=278) 00Playoff 1 Spain Miguel Ángel Jiménez
2000 WGC-NEC Invitational (2) 099 shot lead -21−21 (64-61-67-67=259) 1111 strokes United States Justin Leonard, Wales Phillip Price
2001 WGC-NEC Invitational (3) -022 shot deficit -12−12 (66-67-66-69=268) 00Playoff 2 United States Jim Furyk
2002 WGC-American Express Championship (2) 055 shot lead -25−25 (65-65-67-66=263) 011 stroke South Africa Retief Goosen
2003 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship n/an/a n/a2 & 1 n/an/a United States David Toms
2003 WGC-American Express Championship (3) 022 shot lead -06−6 (67-66-69-72=274) 022 strokes Australia Stuart Appleby, United States Tim Herron, Fiji Vijay Singh
2004 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship (2) n/an/a n/a3 & 2 n/an/a United States Davis Love III
2005 WGC-NEC Invitational (4) 00Tied for lead -06−6 (66-70-67-71=274) 011 stroke United States Chris DiMarco
2005 WGC-American Express Championship (4) -022 shot deficit -10−10 (67-68-68-67=270) 00Playoff 3 United States John Daly
2006 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational (5) -031 shot deficit -10−10 (67-64-71-68=270) 00Playoff 4 United States Stewart Cink
2006 WGC-American Express Championship (5) 066 shot lead -23−23 (63-64-67-67=261) 088 strokes England Ian Poulter, Australia Adam Scott
2007 WGC-CA Championship (6) 044 shot lead -10−10 (71-66-68-73=278) 022 strokes United States Brett Wetterich
2007 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational (6) -031 shot deficit -08−8 (68-70-69-65=272) 088 strokes England Justin Rose, South Africa Rory Sabbatini
2008 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship (3) n/an/a n/a8 & 7 n/an/a United States Stewart Cink
2009 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational (7) -013 shot deficit -12−12 (68-70-65-65=268) 044 strokes Australia Robert Allenby, Republic of Ireland Pádraig Harrington
2013 WGC-Cadillac Championship (7) 044 shot lead -19−19 (66-65-67-71=269) 022 strokes United States Steve Stricker
2013 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational (8) 077 shot lead -15−15 (66-61-68-70=265) 077 strokes United States Keegan Bradley, Sweden Henrik Stenson

1 Won on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff
2 Won on the seventh hole of a sudden-death playoff
3 Won on the second hole of a sudden-death playoff
4 Won on the fourth hole of a sudden-death playoff

Results timeline

Tournament199920002001200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013
Accenture Match Play Championship QF 2 DNP R64 1 1 R32 R16 R16 1 R32 DNP R64 R32 R64
Cadillac Championship 1 T5 NT1 1 1 9 1 1 1 5 T9 DNP T10 WD 1
Bridgestone Invitational 1 1 1 4 T4 T2 1 1 1 DNP 1 T78 T37 T8 1
HSBC Champions T6 T6 DNP DNP DNP

1Cancelled due to 9/11
DNP = did not play
QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play
WD = withdrew
NT = No tournament
"T" = tied
Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10.
Note that the HSBC Champions did not become a WGC event until 2009.

PGA Tour career summary

Year Wins (Majors) Earnings ($) Money list rank
1996 2 790,594 24
1997 4 (1) 2,066,833 1
1998 1 1,841,117 4
1999 8 (1) 6,616,585 1
2000 9 (3) 9,188,321 1
2001 5 (1) 6,687,777 1
2002 5 (2) 6,912,625 1
2003 5 6,673,413 2
2004 1 5,365,472 4
2005 6 (2) 10,628,024 1
2006 8 (2) 9,941,563 1
2007 7 (1) 10,867,052 1
2008 4 (1) 5,775,000 2
2009 6 10,508,163 1
2010 0 1,294,765 68
2011 0 660,238 128
2012 3 6,133,158 2
2013 5 8,553,439 1
Career* 79 (14) 109,504,139 1
* As of the 2013 season.

See also

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Further reading

  • Andrisani, John (1997). The Tiger Woods Way: An Analysis of Tiger Woods' Power-Swing Technique. New York: Three Rivers Press. ISBN 0-609-80139-2. OCLC 55124056. 
  • Clary, Jack (1997). Tiger Woods. Twickenham, England: Tiger Books International. ISBN 978-1-85501-954-6. OCLC 40859379. 
  • Feinstein, John (1999). The Majors: In Pursuit of Golf's Holy Grail. Boston: Little, Brown. ISBN 978-0-316-27971-0. OCLC 40602886. 
  • Londino, Lawrence J. (2006). Tiger Woods: A Biography. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-33121-3. OCLC 61109403. 
  • Rosaforte, Tim (2000). Raising the Bar: The Championship Years of Tiger Woods. New York: Thomas Dunne Books. ISBN 978-0-312-27212-8. OCLC 45248211. 
  • Woods, Tiger (2001). How I Play Golf. New York: Warner Books. ISBN 978-0-446-52931-0. OCLC 46992172. 
  • Woods, Earl; McDaniel, Pete (1997). Training a Tiger: A Father's Guide to Raising a Winner in Both Golf and Life. New York: HarperCollins Publishers. ISBN 978-0-06-270178-7. OCLC 35925055. 

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