Tiger Woods Biography
BIRTH DATE: December 30, 1975
BIRTH PLACE: Cypress, California, USA
BIRTH NAME: Eldrick Tont Woods
NICKNAMES: Tiger
NATIONALITY: American
HEIGHT: 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
EYE COLOR: Brown
ZODIAC SIGN: Capricorn
SOME PERSONALITY TRAITS: Ambitious, patient, personal fulfillment, materialistic, excessive perfectionism
HOBBIES & OTHER INTERESTS: Golf, tennis, basketball, sailing
MAIN OCCUPATIONS: Professional golfer
BECAME FAMOUS FOR: At age 18, Tiger Woods became the youngest winner of the US Amateur Competition
INFLUENCE: Tiger Woods was influenced by his father who devoted all his energy and talent to become the best golfer player
SPOUSES: Model Elin Nordegren (October 5, 2004 married)
CHILDREN: Sam Alexis (born in 2007), Charlie Axel (born in 2009)
TIGER WOODS FAMOUS QUOTES:
"My main focus is on my game."
“No matter how good you get you can always get better and that's the exciting part”
“I'm trying as hard as I can, and sometimes things don't go your way, and that's the way things go.”
“A child born to a black mother in a state like Mississippi...has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.”
TIGER WOODS BIOGRAPHY HIGHLIGHTS, FACTS AND FIGURES
Tiger Woods is an American professional highest-paid golfer in the world. Being the World No 1 in golf history, Tiger Woods (born 1975) is the youngest man ever and the first man of color to win the Masters Tournament of golf. Woods has won fourteen professional major golf championships, the 2nd highest of any male player, and 71 PGA Tour events. Tiger Woods has more career major wins and career PGA Tour wins than any other active golfer. He is the youngest player to achieve the career Grand Slam, and the youngest and fastest to win 50 tournaments on tour. Below you can find out more about Tiger Woods life and career!
TIGER WOODS EARLY LIFE AND FAMILY
Tiger Woods, born Eldrick Woods on December 30, 1975, in Cypress, California, is the only son of Earl and Kultida Woods. Wood began his career at early age. When Tiger was three he shot a 48 over nine holes at the Navy Golf Club in Cypress, California, and when he was five, Woods appeared in Golf Digest and on ABC's That’s Incredible. In 1991, Woods protected his title at the U.S. Junior Amateur Championship, becoming the first multiple winner, competed in his first PGA Tour event, at the Nissan Los Angeles Open, and Tiger was named Golf Digest Amateur Player of the Year, Golf World Player of the Year, and Golfweek National Amateur of the Year in 1992. In August of 1996, Tiger Woods decided to quit college in order to play professional golf. Master Tournament is the most coveted honor in the world of golf, and in 1997 Woods makes history as the youngest person ever to win the Masters title. This title is also appreciated because it is the first time this title was honored to a man of color. July 6, 1997 almost passing three months from his astonishing glory Woods wins the Western Open, where critics expressed this astounding success as a mysterious persistence and an extraordinary desire to win. Tiger Woods became a professional golfer in August 1996, with the slogan "Hello world,", and in the same year, Woods signed endorsement deals worth $40 million from Nike, Inc. and $20 million from Titleist.
TIGER WOODS CAREER AND THE BEGINNINGS
Tiger Woods, who became a professional golfer in 1996, stated: “My own focus is my game.” Now, Tiger Woods has an impressive list of multiple achievements, wins, awards and records in the history of men's golf. Woods’ wins include; 71 official PGA Tour events (became third of all time); 14 professional major golf championships; 16 World Golf Championships; the 1997 Masters Tournament and many other. Tiger Woods has 14 major wins - he is second behind a professional golfer of all time Jack Nicklaus.
At age24, Woods became the youngest golfer to achieve the Career Grand Slam, also magazine Golf Digest named Woods as the twelfth best golfer of all time just four years after he turned professional. The next step of Tiger Woods's career was seen remaining him among the top competitors on the tour, but lose his dominating frame. He did not win a major in 2003 or 2004, falling and being the second in the PGA Tour money list in 2003 and fourth in 2004. In 2005, Tiger Woods concentrates more on winning and returns his winning wings, in 2006 Tiger again won in dominating fashion, making only three bogeys, tying the record for fewest in a major. In August 2006, Woods won his 50th professional tournament at the Buick Open—and at the age of thirty years and seven months, he became the youngest golfer to do that. In 2007 Tiger became the third man winning at least five times in three different events on the PGA Tour. The same year, tiger earned his 60th PGA Tour victory at the BMW Championship by shooting a course record 63 in the final round to win by two strokes. In 2008, Woods started his year with a win of eight-stroke victory at the Buick Invitational. At the 2009 Presidents Cup, Tiger Woods had an extremely imposing and equally extravagant performance in which he won all five of his matches at the event.
Today Tiger Woods is considered one of the most charismatic figures in golfing history. The Golfer No1 is better than any other Tour player when he is in top form and avoids bad rounds.
TIGER WOODS PERSONAL LIFE
Being the most paid athlete in the world, and World No1 golf player, his personal life and marriage is one of the most publicized and criticized by media. In November 2003, Tiger Woods engaged Elin Nordegren, a Swedish model and daughter of former minister of migration Barbro Holmberg and radio journalist Thomas Nordegren. They married on October 5, 2004 at the Sandy Lane resort on the Caribbean island of Barbados and live at Isleworth, a community in Windermere, a suburb of Orlando, Florida. Tiger Woods owns homes in Jackson, Wyoming, California, and Sweden. On the June 18, 2007, Elin Nordegren gave birth to the couple's first child, a daughter, Sam Alexis Woods, in Orlando. On September 2, 2008, Tiger Woods announced on his website that he and his wife were expecting their second child. Elin Nordegren had given birth to their second child, a boy named Charlie Axel on February 8, 2009.
On December 11, 2009, Tiger Woods announced his break from professional golf. The golf star is going to spend more time with his family and focus on his marriage. “I have decided to take an indefinite break from professional golf. I need to focus my attention on being a better husband, father, and person”.
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