Tiger Woods Biography

Tiger Woods Biography

Tiger Woods Biography

Complete name 

Eldrick Tont Woods 

Moniker 

Tiger 

Conceived 

December 30, 1975 (age 45) 

Cypress, California 

Stature 

6 ft 1 in (185 cm)[1] 

Weight 

185 lb (84 kg)[1] 

Identity 

US 

Home 

Jupiter Island, Florida 

Companion 

Elin Nordegren 

​ 

​(m. 2004; div. 2010)​ 

Youngsters 

2 

Vocation 

School 

Stanford University 

(two years) 

Turned proficient 

1996 

Current tour(s) 

PGA Tour (joined 1996) 

Proficient successes 

110[2] 

Most noteworthy positioning 

1 (June 15, 1997)[3] 

(683 weeks) 

Number of wins by visit 

PGA Tour 

82 (Tied first unequaled) 

European Tour 

41 (third all time)[notes 1][4] 

Japan Golf Tour 

3 

Asian Tour 

2 

PGA Tour of Australasia 

3 

Other 

17 

Best outcomes in significant titles 

(wins: 15) 

Experts 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

Following an exceptional junior, school, and beginner golf vocation, Woods turned proficient in 1996 at 20 years old. Before the finish of April 1997, he had won three PGA Tour events notwithstanding his first major, the 1997 Masters, which he won by 12 strokes in a record-breaking execution. He reached number one in the world rankings for the first run through in June 1997, not exactly a year in the wake of turning genius. All through the primary decade of the 21st century, Woods was the prevailing power in golf. He was the highest level golf player on the planet from August 1999 to September 2004 (264 weeks) and again from June 2005 to October 2010 (281 weeks). During this time, he won 13 of golf's significant titles. 

The following decade of Woods' vocation was set apart by rebounds from individual issues and wounds. He took a deliberate break from proficient golf from December 2009 to early April 2010 trying to determine conjugal issues with his then-wife, Elin. Woods admitted to various acts of unfaithfulness, and the couple ultimately divorced.[7] Woods tumbled to number 58 on the planet rankings in November 2011 preceding climbing again to the No.1 positioning between March 2013 and May 2014.[8][9] However, wounds drove him to go through four back surgeries between 2014 and 2017.[10] Woods contended in just a single competition between August 2015 and January 2018, and he dropped off the rundown of the world's main 1,000 golfers.[11][12] On his re-visitation of customary rivalry, Woods gained consistent ground to the highest point of the game, winning his first competition in quite a while at the Tour Championship in September 2018 and his first major in quite a while at the 2019 Masters.

Woods has held various golf records. He has been the main part on the planet for the most back to back weeks and for the best all out number of long stretches of any golf player ever. He has been awarded PGA Player of the Year a record 11 times[13] and has won the Byron Nelson Award for most minimal changed scoring normal a record multiple times. Woods has the record of driving the money list in ten distinct seasons. He has won 15 professional major golf championships (trailing only Jack Nicklaus, who leads with 18) and 82 PGA Tour events (tied for first record-breaking with Sam Snead).[14] Woods drives all dynamic golf players in vocation significant successes and vocation PGA Tour wins. He is the most youthful player to accomplish the career Grand Slam, and the subsequent golf player (after Nicklaus) to have accomplished a lifelong Grand Slam multiple times. Woods has won 18 World Golf Championships. He was additionally important for the American winning group for the 1999 Ryder Cup. In May 2019, Woods was granted the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the fourth golf player to get the honor.[15] 

Substance 

Foundation and family 

Woods and his father Earl at Fort Bragg, North Carolina in 2004 

Woods was brought into the world in 1975 in Cypress, California,[16] to Earl[17] and Kultida "Tida" Woods.[18] He is their lone youngster and has two stepbrothers, Earl Jr. what's more, Kevin, and a relative, Royce, from his dad's first marriage.[19] 

Kultida (née Punsawad) is initially from Thailand, where Earl had met her when he was on a deployment there in 1968. She is of mixed Thai, Chinese, and Dutch ancestry.[20] Earl was a retired lieutenant colonel and Vietnam War veteran who reported African American, Chinese, and Native American descent.[21][22] Tiger portrays his ethnic make-up as "Cablinasian" (a syllabic abbreviation he instituted from Caucasian, Black, American Indian, and Asian).[23] 

Woods' first name, Eldrick, was authored by his mom since it started with "E" (for Earl) and finished with "K" (for Kultida). His center name Tont is a conventional Thai name. He was nicknamed Tiger to pay tribute to his dad's companion Col. Vuong Dang Phong, who had likewise been known as Tiger.[24] 

Woods has a niece, Cheyenne Woods, who played for the Wake Forest University golf crew and turned proficient in 2012 when she made her expert introduction in the LPGA Championship.[25] 

Early life and beginner golf vocation 

Woods grew up in Orange County, California. He was a youngster wonder who was acquainted with golf before the age of two by his athletic dad, Earl Woods. Baron was a solitary digit handicap novice golf player who likewise was one of the most punctual African-American college baseball players at Kansas State University.[26] Tiger's dad was an individual from the military and had playing advantages at the Navy green close to the Joint Forces Training Base in Los Alamitos, which permitted Tiger to play there. Tiger additionally played at the standard 3 Heartwell green in Long Beach, just as some of the municipals in Long Beach.[27] 

In 1978, Tiger putted against comedian Bob Hope in a TV appearance on The Mike Douglas Show. At age three, he shot a 48 more than nine holes at the Navy course. At age five, he showed up in Golf Digest and on ABC's That's Incredible![28] Before turning seven, Tiger won the Under Age 10 segment of the Drive, Pitch, and Putt rivalry, held at the Navy Golf Course in Cypress, California.[29] In 1984 at eight years old, he won the 9–10 young men's occasion, the most youthful age bunch accessible, at the Junior World Golf Championships.[30] He previously broke 80 at age eight.[31] He proceeded to win the Junior World Championships multiple times, including four successive successes from 1988 to 1991.

Woods' dad Earl composed that Tiger originally vanquished him at 11 years old years, with Earl making an honest effort. Baron lost to Tiger each time from that point on.[37] Woods originally broke 70 on a guideline fairway at age 12.[38] 

At the point when Woods was 13 years of age, he played in the 1989 Big I, which was his first significant public junior competition. In the last round, he was combined with pro John Daly, who was then generally obscure. The occasion's organization put an expert with each gathering of youngsters who had qualified. Daly birdied three of the last four openings to beat Woods by just a single stroke.[39] As a youthful young person, Woods first met Jack Nicklaus in Los Angeles at the Bel-Air Country Club, when Nicklaus was playing out a center for the club's individuals. Woods was essential for the show, and he dazzled Nicklaus and the group with his abilities and potential.[40] Earl Woods had investigated in detail the vocation achievements of Nicklaus and had set his young child the objectives of breaking those records.[38] 

Woods was 15 years of age and an understudy at Western High School in Anaheim when he turned into the youngest U.S. Junior Amateur champion; this was a record that remained until it was broken by Jim Liu in 2010.[41] He was named 1991's Southern California Amateur Player of the Year (for the second back to back year) and Golf Digest Junior Amateur Player of the Year. In 1992, he protected his title at the U.S. Junior Amateur Championship, turning into the competition's initial double cross victor. He additionally contended in his first PGA Tour occasion, the Nissan Los Angeles Open (he missed the 36-opening cut), and was named Golf Digest Amateur Player of the Year, Golf World Player of the Year, and Golfweek National Amateur of the Year.[42][43] 

The next year, Woods won his third continuous U.S. Junior Amateur Championship; he stays the occasion's just three-time winner.[44] In 1994, at the TPC at Sawgrass in Florida, he turned into the most youthful victor of the U.S. Beginner Championship, a record he held until 2008 when it was broken by Danny Lee.[45] He was an individual from the American group at the 1994 Eisenhower Trophy World Amateur Golf Team Championships (winning), and the 1995 Walker Cup (losing).[46][47] 

Woods moved on from Western High School at age 18 out of 1994 and was casted a ballot "Destined to Succeed" among the graduating class. He had featured for the secondary school's golf crew under mentor Don Crosby.[48] 

Woods figured out how to oversee his stuttering as a boy.[49] This was not known until he composed a letter to a kid who examined self destruction. Woods stated, "I understand what it resembles to appear as something else and to now and then not fit in. I additionally stammered as a kid and I would converse with my canine and he would stay there and tune in until he nodded off. I additionally took a class for a very long time to help me, and I at last figured out how to stop."[50] 

School golf vocation 

Woods was intensely enlisted by school golf powers. He chose Stanford University, the 1994 NCAA champions. He enlisted at Stanford in the fall of 1994 under a golf grant and won his first university occasion, the 40th Annual William H. Exhaust Invitational, that September.[51] He chose a significant in financial matters and was nicknamed "Urkel" by school teammate Notah Begay III.[52] In 1995, he effectively guarded his U.S. Beginner title at the Newport Country Club in Rhode Island[45] and was casted a ballot Pac-10 Player of the Year, NCAA First Team All-American, and Stanford's Male Freshman of the Year (an honor that includes all sports).[53][54] 

At age 19, Woods took an interest in his first PGA Tour major, the 1995 Masters, and tied for 41st as the simply beginner to make the cut; after two years, he won the competition by 12 strokes. At age 20 out of 1996, he turned into the primary golf player to win three successive U.S. Novice titles[55] and won the NCAA singular golf championship.[56] In winning the silver award as driving novice at The Open Championship, he tied the record for a novice total score of 281.[57] He left school following two years to turn proficient in the golf business. In 1996, Woods moved out of California, expressing in 2013 that it was because of the state's high expense rate.[58] 

Proficient vocation 

Woods turned pro at age 20 in August 1996 and promptly signed advertising deals with Nike, Inc. and Titleist that positioned as the most worthwhile support contracts in golf history at that time.[59][60] Woods was named Sports Illustrated's 1996 Sportsman of the Year and PGA Tour Rookie of the Year.[61] On April 13, 1997, he won his first major, the Masters, in record-breaking design and turned into the competition's most youthful champ at age 21.[62] Two months after the fact, he set the precedent for the quickest rising to No. 1 in the Official World Golf Rankings.[63] After a dreary 1998, Woods completed the 1999 season with eight successes, including the PGA Championship, an accomplishment not accomplished since Johnny Miller did it in 1974.[64][65] 

Woods was seriously nearsighted; his visual perception had a rating of 11 diopters. To address this issue, he went through successful laser eye surgery in 1999,[66] and he quickly continued winning visit occasions. In 2007, his vision again started to break down, and he went through laser eye a medical procedure a second time.[67] 

In 2000, Woods won six back to back occasions on the PGA Tour, which was the longest series of wins since Ben Hogan did it in 1948. One of these was the U.S. Open, where he broke or tied nine competition records in what Sports Illustrated called "the best presentation in golf history", wherein Woods won the competition by a record 15-stroke edge and procured a check for $800,000.[68] At age 24, he turned into the most youthful golf player to accomplish the Career Grand Slam.[69] At the finish of 2000, Woods had won nine of the twenty PGA Tour occasions he entered and had broken the record for least scoring normal in visit history. He was named the Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year, the lone competitor to be respected twice, and was positioned by Golf Digest magazine as the twelfth-best golf player ever. 

At the point when Woods won the 2001 Masters, he turned into the solitary player to win four back to back significant expert golf titles, albeit not in a similar schedule year. This accomplishment came to be known as the "Tiger Slam."[71] Following a heavenly 2001 and 2002 in which he kept on overwhelming the visit, Woods' vocation hit a slump.[64][72] He didn't win a significant in 2003 or 2004. In September 2004, Vijay Singh overtook Woods in the Official World Golf Rankings, finishing Woods' record dash of 264 weeks at No. 1.[73] 

Woods bounced back in 2005, winning six PGA Tour occasions and recovering the best position in July subsequent to trading it to and fro with Singh over the primary portion of the year

Woods started predominantly in 2006, winning his initial two PGA competitions yet neglecting to catch his fifth Masters title in April.[75] Following the passing of his dad in May, Woods took a break from the visit and seemed corroded upon his return at the U.S. Open at Winged Foot, where he missed the cut.[76] However, he immediately got back to shape and finished the year by winning six sequential visit occasions. At the season's nearby, Woods had 54 complete successes that included 12 majors; he had broken the visit records for both absolute successes and all out majors prevails upon eleven seasons 

Woods kept on dominating in 2007 and the initial segment of 2008. In April 2008, he went through knee medical procedure and missed the following two months on the tour.[78] Woods returned for the 2008 U.S. Open, where he battled the primary day at the end of the day guaranteed a sensational abrupt passing triumph over Rocco Mediate that followed a 18-opening season finisher, after which Mediate said, "This person does things that are simply not ordinary in any way shape or form," and Kenny Perry added, "He beat everyone on one leg."[79] Two days after the fact, Woods reported that he would miss the rest of the period because of extra knee medical procedure, and that his knee was more seriously harmed than recently uncovered, provoking much more prominent applause for his U.S. Open execution. Woods called it "my most noteworthy ever championship."[80] In Woods' nonattendance, TV evaluations for the rest of the period experienced an immense decay 2007. 

Woods had an eagerly awaited re-visitation of golf in 2009, when he performed well. His rebound incorporated an awesome execution at the 2009 Presidents Cup, yet he neglected to win a significant, the main year since 2004 that he had not done so.[82] After his conjugal disloyalties became known and gotten gigantic media inclusion toward the finish of 2009 (see further subtleties underneath), Woods reported in December that he would be taking an uncertain break from serious golf.[7] In February 2010, he conveyed a broadcast conciliatory sentiment for his conduct, saying "I wasn't right and I was foolish."[83] During this period, a few organizations finished their underwriting manages Woods.[84] 

Woods got back to rivalry in April at the 2010 Masters, where he completed tied for fourth place.[85] He followed the Masters with lackluster displays at the Quail Hollow Championship and the Players Championship, where he pulled out in the fourth round, refering to injury.[86] Shortly afterward, Hank Haney, Woods' mentor since 2003, surrendered the position. In August, Woods hired Sean Foley as Haney's substitution. The remainder of the period went severely for Woods, who neglected to win a solitary occasion unexpectedly since turning proficient, while by the by completing the season positioned No. 2 on the planet. 

In 2011, Woods' presentation kept on misery; this negatively affected his positioning. Subsequent to tumbling to No. 7 in March, he bounced back to No. 5 with a solid appearing at the 2011 Masters, where he tied for fourth place.[87] Due to leg wounds brought about at the Masters, he missed a few summer stops on the PGA Tour. In July, he terminated his long-lasting caddy Steve Williams (who was stunned by the excusal), and supplanted him on a break premise with companion Bryon Bell until he recruited Joe LaCava.[88] After getting back to competition play in August, Woods proceeded to vacillate, and his positioning bit by bit tumbled to a low of #58.[9] He rose to No. 50 in mid-November after a third-place finish at the Emirates Australian Open, and broke his winless streak with a triumph at December's Chevron World Challenge.[9][89] 

Woods started his 2012 season with two competitions (the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship and the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am) the place where he got going admirably yet battled on the last adjusts. Following the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship, where he was taken out in the second round by missing a 5-foot putt,[90] Woods reexamined his putting method and tied for second at the Honda Classic, with the most reduced last round score in his PGA Tour vocation. Before long off because of another leg injury, Woods won the Arnold Palmer Invitational, his first win on the PGA Tour since the BMW Championship in September 2009. Following a few horrid exhibitions, Woods scored his 73rd PGA Tour succeed at the Memorial Tournament in June, tying Jack Nicklaus in second spot for most PGA Tour victories;[91] a month later, Woods outperformed Nicklaus with a success at the AT&T National, to trail only Sam Snead, who aggregated 82 PGA visit wins.[92] 

The year 2013 brought an arrival of Woods' overwhelming play. In January, he won the Farmers Insurance Open by four shots for his 75th PGA Tour win. It was the seventh time he had won the event.[93] In March, he won the WGC-Cadillac Championship, additionally for the seventh time, giving him his seventeenth WGC title and first since 2009.[94] Two weeks after the fact, he won the Arnold Palmer Invitational, winning the occasion for a record-tying eighth time. The success moved him back to the highest point of the world rankings.[95] To remember that accomplishment, Nike rushed to dispatch a promotion with the slogan "winning deals with everything".[96] 

During the 2013 Masters, Woods confronted exclusion after accidentally conceding in a post-round meeting with ESPN that he had taken an illicit drop on the standard 5 fifteenth opening when his third shot had bobbed off the pin and into the water. After further review of TV film, Woods was evaluated a two-stroke punishment for the drop however was not disqualified.[97] He completed tied for fourth in the occasion. Woods won The Players Championship in May 2013, his subsequent vocation succeed at the occasion, indenting his fourth success of the 2013 season. It was the snappiest he had gotten to four successes in any season in his expert vocation. 

Woods had a terrible display at the 2013 U.S. Open as a consequence of an elbow injury that he supported at The Players Championship. In completing at 13-over-standard, he recorded his most exceedingly terrible score as an expert and completed 12 strokes behind winner Justin Rose. After a delayed break in light of the injury, during which he missed the Greenbrier Classic and his own AT&T National, he returned at the Open Championship at Muirfield. Regardless of being in conflict throughout the week and starting the last round just two strokes behind Lee Westwood, he battled with the speed of the greens and could just deal with a 3-over-standard 74 that left him tied for sixth spot, five strokes behind possible winner Phil Mickelson. After fourteen days, Woods got back to shape at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, recording his fifth success of the period and eighth win at the occasion in its 15-year history. His second cycle 61 coordinated his record score on the PGA Tour and could undoubtedly have been a 59 were it not for some short missed birdie putts on the end openings. This gave him a seven-stroke lead that he clutched for the remainder of the competition. However, at the PGA Championship at Oak Hill Country Club, Woods never was in conflict, making 2013 his fifth full season where he didn't win a significant; he was in dispute in just two of the four majors in 2013. 

After a moderate beginning to 2014, Woods supported a physical issue during the last round of the Honda Classic and couldn't complete the competition. He pulled out after the thirteenth opening, refering to back pain.[98] He hence contended in the WGC-Cadillac Championship but was obviously in torment during a large part of the last round. He had to skip the Arnold Palmer Invitational at the finish of March 2014,[99] and after undergoing back medical procedure, he declared on April 1 that he would miss the Masters for the first run through since 1994.[100] Woods returned at the Quicken Loans National in June, anyway he said that his assumptions for the week were low. He battled with essentially every part of his game and missed the cut. He next played at The Open Championship, challenged at Hoylake, where Woods had won eight years earlier. Woods discharged a splendid 69 in the first round to place himself in conflict, however shot 77 on Friday and in the long run completed 69th. Regardless of his back agony, he played at the 2014 PGA Championship where he neglected to make the cut. On August 25, 2014, Woods and his swing mentor Sean Foley headed out in different directions. In the four years under Foley, he won multiple times however no majors. He had recently won eight majors with Harmon and six with Haney. Woods said there was as of now no schedule to discover a substitution swing coach.[101] 

On February 5, 2015, Woods pulled out from the Farmers Insurance Open after another back injury.[102] Woods expressed on his site that it was inconsequential to his past medical procedure and he would enjoy a reprieve from golf until his back healed.[103] He returned for the Masters, completing in a tie for seventeenth. In the last round, Woods harmed his wrist after his club hit a tree root. He later expressed that a bone jumped out of his wrist, however he changed it once again into the right spot and completed the round.[104] Woods at that point missed the cut at the 2015 U.S. Open and Open Championship, the first run through Woods missed the cut at sequential majors, completing close to the lower part of the leaderboard both times.[105] He completed tied for eighteenth at the Quicken Loans National on August 2.[106] In late August 2015, Woods played very well at the Wyndham Championship completing the competition at 13-under, just four strokes behind the victor, and tied for tenth place.[107] Woods offered just a short remark on the theory that he was all the while recuperating from back medical procedure, saying it was "only my hip" yet offering no points of interest 

Woods had back a medical procedure on September 16, 2015. In late March 2016, he declared that he would miss the Masters while he recuperated from the surgery;[109] he had likewise missed the 2014 Masters because of a back problem.[110] "I'm totally gaining ground, and I'm truly content with how far I've come," he clarified in an articulation. "Be that as it may, I actually have no schedule to re-visitation of serious golf."[111] However, he went to the Masters Champions Dinner

After a moderate beginning to 2014, Woods supported a physical issue during the last round of the Honda Classic and couldn't complete the competition. He pulled out after the thirteenth opening, refering to back pain.[98] He along these lines contended in the WGC-Cadillac Championship but was obviously in agony during a large part of the last round. He had to skip the Arnold Palmer Invitational at the finish of March 2014,[99] and after undergoing back medical procedure, he reported on April 1 that he would miss the Masters for the first run through since 1994.[100] Woods returned at the Quicken Loans National in June, anyway he said that his assumptions for the week were low. He battled with practically every part of his game and missed the cut. He next played at The Open Championship, challenged at Hoylake, where Woods had won eight years earlier. Woods discharged a splendid 69 in the first round to place himself in conflict, yet shot 77 on Friday and in the end completed 69th. In spite of his back torment, he played at the 2014 PGA Championship where he neglected to make the cut. On August 25, 2014, Woods and his swing mentor Sean Foley headed out in different directions. In the four years under Foley, he won multiple times yet no majors. He had recently won eight majors with Harmon and six with Haney. Woods said there was as of now no plan to discover a substitution swing coach.[101] 

On February 5, 2015, Woods pulled out from the Farmers Insurance Open after another back injury.[102] Woods expressed on his site that it was random to his past medical procedure and he would enjoy a reprieve from golf until his back healed.[103] He returned for the Masters, completing in a tie for seventeenth. In the last round, Woods harmed his wrist after his club hit a tree root. He later expressed that a bone jumped out of his wrist, however he changed it once again into the right spot and completed the round.[104] Woods at that point missed the cut at the 2015 U.S. Open and Open Championship, the first run through Woods missed the cut at sequential majors, completing close to the lower part of the leaderboard both times.[105] He completed tied for eighteenth at the Quicken Loans National on August 2.[106] In late August 2015, Woods played very well at the Wyndham Championship completing the competition at 13-under, just four strokes behind the victor, and tied for tenth place.[107] Woods offered just a concise remark on the hypothesis that he was all the while recuperating from back medical procedure, saying it was "only my hip" yet offering no particulars 

Woods had back a medical procedure on September 16, 2015. In late March 2016, he declared that he would miss the Masters while he recuperated from the surgery;[109] he had additionally missed the 2014 Masters because of a back problem.[110] "I'm totally gaining ground, and I'm truly content with how far I've come," he clarified in an articulation. "Yet, I actually have no schedule to re-visitation of serious golf."[111] However, he went to the Masters Champions Dinner on April 5, 2016.[112] For the first run through in quite a while profession, he missed each of the four majors in a single year because of issues with his back. In October 2016, he disclosed to Charlie Rose on PBS that he actually needed to break Jack Nicklaus' record of 18 significant titles.[113] Woods went through back a medical procedure in December 2016 and went through the following 15 months off the Tour. He made his re-visitation of serious golf in the Hero World Challenge.[114] 

Woods' back issues kept on obstructing him in 2017. He missed the cut at the Farmers Insurance Open in January and pulled out of an European Tour occasion in Dubai on February 3. On March 31, Woods declared on his site that he would not play in the 2017 Masters Tournament despite being cleared to play by his primary care physicians. Woods said that in spite of the fact that he was content with his restoration, he didn't feel "competition ready."[115][116] Woods in this way told companions, "I'm done".[117] On April 20, Woods reported that he had gone through his fourth back a medical procedure since 2014 to lighten back and leg torment. Recuperation time needed as long as a half year, implying that Woods would spend the remainder of the year without playing any expert golf.[118] Woods got back to serious golf at the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas. He shot rounds of 69-68-75-68 and completed tied for ninth spot. His reality positioning went from 1,199th to 668th, which was the greatest bounce on the planet rankings in his profession.

On March 11, 2018, he completed one-shot back and tied for second at the Valspar Championship in Florida, his first top-five completion on the PGA Tour since 2013.[119] He then tied for 6th with a score of five under standard at the 2018 Open Championship.[120] At the last major of the year, the 2018 PGA Championship, Woods completed second, two shots behind the winner Brooks Koepka. It was his best outcome in a significant since 2009 (second at the 2009 PGA Championship) and moved him up to 26th on the planet rankings. His last round of 64 was his best ever last round in a major.[121][12] 

Woods got back to the victor's hover for the 80th time in his PGA Tour vocation on September 23, 2018, when he won the season-ending Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club for the subsequent time and that competition for the third time. He shot rounds of 65-68-65-71 to win by two strokes over Billy Horschel.[122] 

On April 14, 2019, Woods won the Masters, which was his first significant title win in quite a while and his fifteenth significant in general. He completed 13 under standard to win by one stroke over Dustin Johnson, Xander Schauffele and Brooks Koepka.[123] At age 43, he turned into the second most seasoned golf player actually to win the Masters, after Jack Nicklaus who was 46 when he prevailed in 1986.[124] In August 2019, Woods reported through web-based media that he went through a knee medical procedure to fix minor ligament harm and that he had an arthroscopic strategy during the Tour Championship. In his assertion, Woods additionally affirmed that he was strolling and expects on voyaging and playing in Japan in October.[125] 

Woods played in his first 2020 PGA Tour event at the Zozo Championship in October 2019, which was the first-since forever PGA Tour occasion played in Japan. Woods, who played a profoundly publicized skins game earlier in the week at a similar course as the Championship, held at any rate a portion of the lead after each round of the downpour deferred competition, giving him a three stroke triumph over Hideki Matsuyama.[126] The win was Woods' 82nd on Tour, tying him with Sam Snead for the most triumphs unequaled on the PGA Tour 

Supports 

During the primary decade of his expert vocation, Woods was the world's most attractive athlete.[134] Shortly after his 21st birthday in 1996, he marked support manages various organizations, including General Motors, Titleist, General Mills, American Express, Accenture, and Nike In 2000, he marked a 5-year, $105 million contract expansion with Nike, which was the biggest underwriting bundle endorsed by an expert competitor at that time.[135] Woods' support has been credited with assuming a critical part in taking the Nike Golf brand from a "fire up" golf organization prior in the earlier decade to turning into the main golf attire organization on the planet and a significant part in the hardware and golf ball market.[134][136] Nike Golf is one of the quickest developing brands in the game, with an expected $600 million in sales.[137] Woods has been depicted as "a definitive endorser" for Nike Golf,[137] frequently seen wearing Nike gear during competitions, and even in commercials for other products.[135] Woods gets a rate from the deals of Nike Golf clothing, footwear, golf gear, golf balls,[134] and has a structure named after him at Nike's central command grounds in Beaverton, Oregon 

Woods additionally supported the Tiger Woods PGA Tour series of computer games; he has done as such since 1999.[141] In 2006, he marked a six-year contract with Electronic Arts, the arrangement's publisher.[142] 

In February 2007, Woods, Roger Federer and Thierry Henry became envoys for the "Gillette Champions" showcasing effort. Gillette didn't uncover monetary terms, however a specialist assessed the arrangement could add up to somewhere in the range of $10 million and $20 million.[143] 

In October 2007, Gatorade announced that Woods would have his own image of sports savor beginning March 2008. "Gatorade Tiger" was his first U.S. manage a drink organization and his initially permitting understanding. Albeit no figures were formally disclosed, Golfweek magazine announced that it was for a very long time and could pay him however much $100 million.[144] The organization chose in late-summer 2009 to suspend the beverage because of feeble sales.[145] 

In October 2012, it was declared that Woods had marked a select underwriting manage Fuse Science, Inc, a sports nutrition firm.[146] 

In 1997, Woods and individual golfer Arnold Palmer initiated a common argument against Bruce Matthews (the proprietor of Gotta Have It Golf, Inc.) and others in the work to stop the unapproved offer of their pictures and asserted marks in the memorabilia market. Matthews and related gatherings counterclaimed that Woods and his organization, ETW Corporation, submitted a few demonstrations including penetrate of agreement, break of suggested obligation of sincere trust, and infringement of Florida's Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act.[147] Palmer additionally was named in the counter-suit, blamed for abusing the equivalent permitting understanding related to his organization Arnold Palmer Enterprises. 

On March 12, 2014, a Florida jury decided for Gotta Have It on its break of agreement and other related cases, dismissed ETW's counterclaims, and granted Gotta Have It $668,346 in damages.[148] The grant may wind up surpassing $1 million whenever interest has been figured in, however the decision might be bid. 

In August 2016, Woods reported that he would look for another golf gear partner[149] after the information on Nike's exit from the hardware industry.[150] It was declared on January 25, 2017, that he would sign another club bargain with TaylorMade.[151] He added the 2016 M2 driver alongside the 2017 M1 fairway woods, with irons to be specially designed sometime in the not too distant future. He likewise added his Scotty Cameron Newport 2 GSS, a club he used to win 13 of his 15 majors.[152] Also, in late 2016, he would add Monster Energy as his essential sack support, supplanting MusclePharm.[153] 

Amassed riches 

Woods has showed up on Forbes' rundown of the world's most generously compensated athletes.[154][155] According to Golf Digest, Woods made $769,440,709 from 1996 to 2007,[156] and the magazine anticipated that Woods would pass a billion dollars in income by 2010.[157] In 2009, Forbes confirmed that Woods was for sure the world's first expert competitor to procure over a billion dollars in his profession, subsequent to representing the $10 million extra Woods got for the FedEx Cup title.[158] The same year, Forbes assessed his total assets to be $600 million, making him the second richest person of color in the United States, behind only Oprah Winfrey.[159] In 2015, Woods positioned 10th in Forbes' rundown of world's most generously compensated competitors, being the top among Asian Americans or the fourth among African Americans.[160] As of 2017, Woods was viewed as the most generously compensated golf player in the world.[161] 

Tiger-sealing 

From the get-go in Woods' vocation, few golf industry experts communicated worry about his effect on the intensity of the game and the public allure of expert golf. Sportswriter Bill Lyon of Knight Ridder asked in a section, "Isn't Tiger Woods in reality terrible for golf?" (however Lyon at last reasoned that he was not).[162] At first, a few savants expected that Woods would drive the soul of rivalry out of the sport of golf by making existing courses outdated and consigning adversaries to just seeking runner up every week. 

A connected impact was estimated by University of California economist Jennifer Brown, who found that different golf players scored more terrible while contending with Woods than when he was not in the competition. The scores of exceptionally talented golf players are almost one stroke higher when playing against Woods. This impact was bigger when he was on series of wins and vanished during his all around pitched droop in 2003–04. Earthy colored clarifies the outcomes by taking note of that contenders of comparative expertise can expect to win by expanding their degree of exertion, yet that, when confronting a "genius" contender, additional effort doesn't essentially raise one's degree of winning while at the same time expanding danger of injury or fatigue, prompting diminished effort.[163] 

Numerous courses in the PGA Tour revolution (counting significant title locales like Augusta National) have added yardage to their tees with an end goal to diminish the benefit of long hitters like Woods, in a technique that got known as "Tiger-proofing".[164] Woods said he invited the change, in that adding yardage to courses didn't influence his capacity to win.