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| Eldrick (Tiger) Woods, now
29 years of age, has had an unprecedented career since becoming a professional
golfer in the late summer of 1996. He has won 61 tournaments, 46 of those
on the PGA TOUR, including the 1997, 2001, 2002 and 2005 Masters Tournaments,
1999 and 2000 PGA Championships, 2000 and 2002 U.S. Open Championships,
and 2000 and 2005 British Open Championships. 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.
Woods won 11 tournaments in 2000, nine on the PGA TOUR, one on the PGA European Tour and the PGA Grand Slam. In addition, Woods and David Duval won the 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. Tiger increased his record total on the PGA TOUR career money list to $45,142,737 through 2004, and had won $55,992,856 worldwide. His nine PGA TOUR victories in 2000 equaled the fifth highest total ever and were the most since Sam Snead won 11 in 1950. He had eight PGA TOUR victories in 1999, and 11 victories worldwide while winning $7,681,625. In 2000, Woods matched the record of Ben Hogan in 1953
in winning three professional major championships in the same year. Hogan
won the Masters, U.S. Open and British Open. Tiger also became the first
since Denny Shute in 1936-37 to win the PGA Championship in consecutive
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Created by Kevin Keena
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