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- Professional golf career of Tiger Woods
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- Professional golf career of Tiger Woods
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 ). [13] Woods leads all active golfers in career major wins and career PGA Tour wins.
- Became the only man in the modern era to win four consecutive major titles. That whole rhubarb over whether a “Tiger Slam” was equal to a Grand Slam was just media-generated rubbish.
- Won the 1997 Masters, his first major as a professional, by 12 shots. Woods’s most historic achievement for several reasons: his age (21), his ethnicity, the ridiculous margin of victory and the pressure that comes with the entire world wanting to see if you’re as good as advertised.
- Made the cut at 142 consecutive PGA Tour events, a streak that lasted almost 7 ½ years. This record is slightly fabricated in that Woods was given credit for 14 tournaments at which there was no cut, but why nitpick?
- Broke numerous scoring records to win the 2000 U.S. Open by 15 strokes. Frankly, the last four of these Tigeriffic feats are basically interchangeable.
1. Las Vegas Invitational, 70-63-68-67-64—332 (−27), via playoff vs. Davis Love III. 2. Walt Disney World/Oldsmobile Classic, 69-63-69-66—267 (−21), by one stroke over Payne Stewart. 1997 (4) 3. Mercedes Championships, 70-67-65—202 (−14), via playoff vs. Tom Lehman. 4. Masters Tournament, 70-66-65-69—270 (−18), by 12 strokes over Tom Kite. 5.
His majors victories include the five Masters Tournaments, four PGA Championships, three U.S. Open Championships, and three British Open Championships. With his second Masters victory in 2001, Tiger became the first golfer ever to hold all four professional major championships at the same time.
Feb 23, 2021 · Wins the Las Vegas Invitational for his first PGA Tour victory in his fifth professional tournament. April 1997. Wins the Masters at age 21 with a record score (270) and a record margin of...
