Eldrick
(Tiger) Woods, now 28 years of age, has had an unprecedented career since becoming
a professional golfer in the late summer of 1996. He has won 53 tournaments, 40
of those on the PGA TOUR, including eight major championships: the 1997, 2001,
and 2002 Masters Tournaments, the 1999 and 2000 PGA Championships, the 2000 and
2002 U.S. Open Championship and the 2000 British Open Championship. In February
2004, he successfully defended his tile at the World Golf Championships-Accenture
Match Play Championship. Tiger has now won a stunning 9 of the 16 World Golf Championship
events he has entered. With his second Masters victory
in 2001, Tiger became the first ever to hold all four professional major championships
at the same time. He is the career victories leader among active players on the
PGA TOUR, and is the career money list leader. The year 2000 was one of
the most dominating performances in all of individual sport competition. Woods
won 11 tournaments in 2000, nine on the PGA TOUR, one on the PGA European Tour
and the PGA Grand Slam. In addition, Tiger and David Duval won the World Golf
Championships-World Cup team title for the United States. He earned $9,188,321
on the PGA TOUR ($11,034,530 worldwide) and broke the PGA TOUR record of $6,616,585
which he set in 1999. |
