Player Profile

Personal Information

Tiger Woods Player Profile

Full Name: Elderick Tont Woods

Nickname:  Tiger

Born:  December 30, 1975 (Age 36) Cypress, California

Height: 6ft 1in. (185cm)

Nationality:  United States

Residence:  Jupiter Island, Florida

Spouse: Elin Nordergren (2004-2010)

Children: Sam Alexis born 2007,  Charlie Axel born 2009

Career

College: Stanford University

Turned Profressional: 1996

Current Tour: PGA Tour

Profressional Wins: 98

Number of Wins By Tour

PGA Tour: 71 (3rd of all time)

European Tour: 38 (3rd of all time)

Japan Golf Tour: 2

Asian Tour: 1

PGA Tour of Australasia: 1

Other: 16

Best results in Major Championships

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

Tiger Woods Current Records

Tiger Woods owns the lowest career scoring average in PGA Tour history.

Tiger Woods has earned more career earnings than any other player on the PGA Tour

Tiger Woods is one of fiver players to have won all four major championships (Masters, US Open, The Open Championship and PGA Championship) in his career. The other four players being Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Jack Nicklause and Gary Player.

Tiger Woods is the only player to have won all four profressional major championships in a row, accomplishing this amazing feat in 2000-2001 season. This became known as the Tiger Slam.

Tiger Woods set the all-time record for the most consecutive cuts made with the streak reaching 142 in 2005 at the EDS Byron Championship. The previous record was 113 cuts made in a row set by Byron Nelson. To some this is one of Tiger’s most amazing accomplishments as he beat the previous record by such a large margin and may not be beaten for a considerbale amount of time.

Tiger Woods has won an astonishing 27.3% of his profressional starts on the PGA Tour. This stands at 71 wins out of 260 starts which is an incredible achievement.

Tiger Woods is the only golfer to have won the U.S Amateur three consecutive times.

Tiger Woods Awards

Tiger has won the PGA Player of the year a record 10 times.

Tiger has won the PGA Tour Player of the Year a record ten times.

Tiger has won the PGA Tour Money Leader a record nine times.

Woods has won the Vardon trophy a record eight times.

Tiger has been the recipent of the Byron Nelson Award a record nine times.