Tiger Woods

Tiger Woods

Personal information

Full name  :  Eldrick Tont Woods
Nickname :  Tiger
Born  :  December 30, 1975(age 43) Cypress, California
Height  :  6 ft 1 in (185 cm)
Weight  :  185 lb (84 kg)
Nationality  :  United States
Residence  :  Jupiter Island, Florida
Spouse  :  Elin Nordegren (m. 2004; div. 2010)
Children  :  2

Career

College Stanford University (two years)
Turned professional  :  1996
Current tour(s)  :  PGA Tour (joined 1996)
Professional wins  :  108

Number of wins by tour

PGA Tour  :  81 (2nd all time)
European Tour  :  41 (3rd all time)
Japan Golf Tour  :  2
Asian Tour  :  1
PGA Tour of Australasia  :  1
Other  :  16

Best results in major championships wins  :  15

Masters Tournament Won  :  1997,2001,2002,2005,2019
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


Eldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods (conceived December 30, 1975) is an American expert golfer. He is commonly viewed as one of the best golfers ever, positioning second in both significant titles and PGA Tour wins, just as holding various records in golf. 

Following an extraordinary junior, school, and beginner hitting the fairway vocation, Woods turned proficient in 1996 at 20 years old. Before the finish of April 1997, he had won three PGA Tour occasions notwithstanding his first major, the 1997 Masters, which he won by 12 strokes in a record-breaking act. He previously achieved the main position on the planet rankings in June 1997, not exactly a year subsequent to turning professional. All through the main decade of the 21st century, Woods was the overwhelming power in golf; he was the top-positioned golfer on the planet from August 1999 to September 2004 and again from June 2005 to Oct 2010. 

Woods took a willful break from expert golf from December 2009 to early April 2010 trying to determine conjugal issues with his alienated spouse Elin. The couple in the long run separated. His many claimed extramarital careless activities were uncovered by a few ladies through overall media sources. Woods' own issues matched with a progression of wounds, medicines by the dubious specialist Anthony Galea (who has been connected to execution improving drugs), and lost golf structure. His arrangement in the Official World Golf Rankings tumbled to No.58 in November 2011. 

Tiger Woods finished a vocation high winless dash of 107 weeks when he triumphed in the Chevron World Challenge in December 2011. After winning the Arnold Palmer Invitational on March 25, 2013, he climbed to the No. 1 positioning indeed, holding the top spot until May 2014; at that point, he had been positioned number one for a record lifetime aggregate of 683 weeks. From 2014 to 2017, Woods was unfit to recover his overwhelming structure, experiencing four back medical procedures in 2014, 2015 and 2017.After tumbling to no. 1199 in the World Golf Ranking in December 2017, Woods' positioning improved in excess of 1,000 places by mid-2018.In September 2018, he won his first competition in five years with a triumph at the Tour Championship and moved to No. 13 in the Official World Golf Ranking. In April, Woods guaranteed his first major in eleven years, winning the Masters for the fifth time. 

Woods has broken various golf records. He has been World Number One for the most continuous weeks and for the best absolute number of long stretches of any golfer. He has been granted PGA Player of the Year a record eleven times and has won the Byron Nelson Award for most reduced balanced scoring normal a record multiple times. Woods has the record of driving the cash list in ten distinct seasons. He has won 15 proficient significant golf titles (trailing just Jack Nicklaus, who leads with 18) and 81 PGA Tour occasions (second record-breaking behind Sam Snead, who won 82). Woods leads every dynamic golfer in profession real successes and vocation PGA Tour wins. He is the most youthful player to accomplish the vocation Grand Slam and is just the second golfer (after Nicklaus) to have accomplished a lifelong Grand Slam multiple times. Woods has won 18 World Golf Championships.