• [10][11] On his return to regular competition, Woods made steady progress to the top of the game, winning his first tournament in five years at the Tour Championship in September
  2018 and his first major in 11 years at the 2019 Masters.

• [55][56] At age 19, Woods participated in his first PGA Tour major, the 1995 Masters, and tied for 41st as the only amateur to make the cut; two years later, he won the tournament
  by 12 strokes.

• 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.

• One of these was the U.S. Open, where he broke or tied nine tournament records in what Sports Illustrated called “the greatest performance in golf history”, in which Woods
  won the tournament by a record 15-stroke margin and earned a check for $800,000.

• [15] In an interview with Golf Digest in November 2021, Woods indicated that his full-time career as a professional golfer was over, although he would continue to play “a
  few events per year”.

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

• By the end of April 1997, he had won three PGA Tour events in addition to his first major, the 1997 Masters, which he won by 12 strokes in a record-breaking performance.

• [40] When Woods was 13 years old, he played in the 1989 Big I, which was his first major national junior tournament.

• [114] For the first time in his career, he missed all four majors in one year due to problems with his back.

• Since his record-breaking win at the 1997 Masters, Woods has been the biggest name in golf and his presence in tournaments has drawn a huge fan following.

• Woods, who played a highly publicized skins game earlier in the week at the same course as the Championship, held at least a share of the lead after every round of the rain-delayed
  tournament, giving him a three stroke victory over Hideki Matsuyama.

• But at the PGA Championship at Oak Hill Country Club, Woods never was in contention, making 2013 his fifth full season where he did not win a major; he was in contention in
  only two of the four majors in 2013.

• [83] Woods competing at the third annual Earl Woods Memorial Pro-Am (July 1, 2009) Woods had a much anticipated return to golf in 2009, when he performed well.

• [77] Following the death of his father in May, Woods took some time off from the tour and appeared rusty upon his return at the U.S. Open at Winged Foot Golf Club, where he
  missed the cut.

• On March 31, Woods announced on his website that he would not be playing in the 2017 Masters Tournament despite being cleared to play by his doctors.

• On March 11, 2018, he finished one-shot back and tied for second at the Valspar Championship in Florida, his first top-five finish on the PGA Tour since 2013.

• [124] On April 14, 2019, Woods won the Masters, which was his first major championship win in eleven years and his 15th major overall.

• [123][11] Woods returned to the winner’s circle for the 80th time in his PGA Tour career on September 23, 2018, when he won the season-ending Tour Championship at East Lake
  Golf Club for the second time and that tournament for the third time.

• [78] However, he quickly returned to form and ended the year by winning six consecutive tour events.

• [94] The year 2013 brought a return of Woods’s dominating play.

• 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.

• [122] At the last major of the year, the 2018 PGA Championship, Woods finished second, two shots behind the winner Brooks Koepka.

• Woods returned to play in his first professional tournament since his 2021 motor vehicle crash at the 2022 Masters Tournament.

• He also 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.

• [72] Woods at the 2004 Ryder Cup When Woods won the 2001 Masters, he became the only player to win four consecutive major professional golf titles, although not in the same
  calendar year.

• [63] On April 13, 1997, he won his first major, the Masters, in record-breaking fashion and became the tournament’s youngest winner at age 21.

• [9] Woods competed in only one tournament between August 2015 and January 2018, and he dropped off the list of the world’s top 1,000 golfers.

• [96] Two weeks later, he won the Arnold Palmer Invitational, winning the event for a record-tying 8th time.

• [8][91][full citation needed] 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.

• [108] In late August 2015, Woods played quite well at the Wyndham Championship finishing the tournament at 13-under, only four strokes behind the winner, and tied for 10th
  place.

• Despite his back pain, he played at the 2014 PGA Championship where he failed to make the cut.

• He reached number one in the world rankings for the first time in June 1997, less than a year after turning pro.

• [71] 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.

• It was his best result in a major since 2009 (second at the 2009 PGA Championship) and moved him up to 26th in the world rankings.

• Recovery time required up to six months, meaning that Woods would spend the rest of the year without playing any professional golf.

• 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.

• [76] Woods began dominantly in 2006, winning his first two PGA tournaments but failing to capture his fifth Masters championship in April.

• He is tied for first in PGA Tour wins, ranks second in men’s major championships, and holds numerous golf records.

• His comeback included a spectacular performance at the 2009 Presidents Cup, but he failed to win a major, the first year since 2004 that he did not do so.

• He is also the second golfer (after Nicklaus) to achieve a career Grand Slam three times.

• [106] Woods then missed the cut at the 2015 U.S. Open and Open Championship, the first time Woods missed the cut at consecutive majors, finishing near the bottom of the leaderboard
  both times.

• [59] He left college after two years in order to turn professional in the golf industry.

• In late March 2016, he announced that he would miss the Masters while he recovered from the surgery;[111] he had also missed the 2014 Masters due to a back problem.

• Woods practicing in a bunker prior to the start of the 2014 Quicken Loans National Woods had a poor showing at the 2013 U.S. Open as a result of an elbow injury that he sustained
  at The Players Championship.

• [139] Woods’s endorsement has been credited with playing a significant role in taking the Nike Golf brand from a “start-up” golf company earlier in the previous decade to
  becoming the leading golf apparel company in the world and a major player in the equipment and golf ball market.

• At age 20 in 1996, he became the first golfer to win three consecutive U.S.

• [16] He returned to the PGA Tour for the first time since the car crash at the 2022 Masters.

• He next played at The Open Championship, contested at Hoylake, where Woods had won eight years prior.

• He has been the number one player in the world for the most consecutive weeks and for the greatest total number of weeks of any golfer in history.

• [86] Woods returned to competition in April at the 2010 Masters, where he finished tied for fourth place.

• Woods at a Chevron World Challenge charity event (2011) In 2011, Woods’s performance continued to suffer; this took its toll on his ranking.

• [43] 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.

• [129][130] On December 23, 2020, Woods had microdiscectomy surgery on his back for the fifth time.

• [144] Woods preparing for a photo shoot in 2006 Woods also endorsed the Tiger Woods PGA Tour series of video games; he has done so since 1999.

• In January, he won the Farmers Insurance Open by four shots for his 75th PGA Tour win.

• Junior Amateur; he remains the event’s only three-time winner.

• [80] Woods returned for the 2008 U.S. Open, where he struggled the first day but ultimately claimed a dramatic sudden death victory over Rocco Mediate that followed an 18-hole
  playoff, 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.

• [39] Woods first broke 70 on a regulation golf course at age 12.

• In October 2016, he told Charlie Rose on PBS that he still wanted to break Jack Nicklaus’s record of 18 major titles.

• This gave him a seven-stroke lead that he held onto for the rest of the tournament.

• Despite being in contention all week and beginning the final round only two strokes behind Lee Westwood, he struggled with the speed of the greens and could only manage a
  3-over-par 74 that left him tied for 6th place, five strokes behind eventual winner Phil Mickelson.

• Woods has the record of leading the money list in ten different seasons.

• Junior Amateur Championship, becoming the tournament’s first two-time winner.

• Woods won The Players Championship in May 2013, his second career win at the event, notching his fourth win of the 2013 season.

• “[81] Two days later, Woods announced that he would miss the remainder of the season due to additional knee surgery, and that his knee was more severely damaged than previously
  revealed, prompting even greater praise for his U.S. Open performance.

• [127] Woods played in his first 2020 PGA Tour event at the Zozo Championship in October 2019, which was the first-ever PGA Tour event played in Japan.

• Following the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship, where he was knocked out in the second round by missing a 5-foot putt,[92] Woods revised his putting technique and tied
  for second at The Honda Classic, with the lowest final-round score in his PGA Tour career.

• [134] He was named Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year[135] a record-tying four times, and is one of only two people to be named Sports Illustrated’s Sportsman of the
  Year more than once.

• He has won 15 professional major golf championships (trailing only Jack Nicklaus, who leads with 18) and 82 PGA Tour events (tied for first all time with Sam Snead).

• Following several dismal performances, Woods notched his 73rd PGA Tour win at the Memorial Tournament in June, tying Jack Nicklaus in second place for most PGA Tour victories;[93]
  a month later, Woods surpassed Nicklaus with a win at the AT&T National, to trail only Sam Snead, who accumulated 82 PGA tour wins.

• [26] Woods has a niece, Cheyenne Woods, who played for the Wake Forest University golf team and turned professional in 2012 when she made her pro debut in the LPGA Championship.

• [30] Before turning seven, Woods won the Under Age 10 section of the Drive, Pitch, and Putt competition, held at the Navy Golf Course in Cypress.

• [84] After his marital infidelities came to light and received massive media coverage at the end of 2009 (see further details below), Woods announced in December that he would
  be taking an indefinite break from competitive golf.

• Woods called it “my greatest ever championship.

• [65] After a lackluster 1998, Woods finished the 1999 season with eight wins, including the PGA Championship, a feat not achieved since Johnny Miller did it in 1974.

• [104] Woods stated on his website that it was unrelated to his previous surgery and he would take a break from golf until his back healed.

 

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