Eldrick Tont “Tiger” Woods (born December 30, 1975) is an American professional golfer.
Tiger Woods has won 15 Majors.
| Best results in major championships (wins: 15) | |
|---|---|
| Masters Tournament | Won: 1997, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2019 |
| PGA Championship | Won: 1999, 2000, 2006, 2007 |
| U.S. Open | Won: 2000, 2002, 2008 |
| The Open Championship | Won: 2000, 2005, 2006 |
Other facts:
- When Tiger was 15, he became the U.S. Amateur Champion.
- Tiger has described his ethnic make-up as “Cablinasian” (a syllabic abbreviation he coined from Caucasian, Black, American Indian, and Asian).
- Red is his favorite color to wear on the final day of a tournament, Tiger believes that red brings luck.
- He was the world’s first billion-dollar athlete. In 2009, Tiger earned $10 million for winning the FedEx Cup and this took him to the incredible mark of $1 billion in career earnings.
- At just eight years old, Tiger broke 80 on a golf course for the first time, something that some of us have never done.
- In the early years of Woods’ career, he was simply unstoppable. Through his 20’s, he won a staggering 46 times which is 16 more than any other player in PGA Tour history in their 20’s.