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Tiger Woods - 6 Time PGA Player of
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 Eldrick
(Tiger) Woods, now 28 years of age,
has had an unprecedented career
since becoming a professional golfer
in the late summer of 1996. He has
won 52 tournaments, 39 of those on
the PGA TOUR, including the 1997,
2001, and 2002 Masters Tournaments,
1999 and 2000 PGA Championships,
2000 and 2002 U.S. Open
Championship, and 2000 British Open
Championship. 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...Book
Tiger Woods for Your Event
Woods won five times on the PGA TOUR
in 2001 and eight times worldwide.
He won five times on the PGA TOUR
again in 2002 and seven times
worldwide, and was the PGA TOUR’s
leading money winner for the fourth
consecutive year with $6,912,625
($8,417,188 worldwide).
Sports Illustrated selected Woods as
the 1996 and 2000 Sportsman of the
Year. He was the first to win that
award more than once. L’Equipe
(France) selected him as 2000 World
Champion of Champions. The
Associated Press chose Woods as the
Male Athlete of the Year for 1997,
1999 and 2000. He and Michael Jordan
are the only athletes to win that
award three times. He was selected
as Reuters 2000 Sportsman of the
Year.
He was chosen as ESPY Male Athlete
of the Year in 1997 (tied with Ken
Griffey, Jr.), 1999 and 2000. The
founding members of the World Sports
Academy, in voting for the Laureus
Sports Awards, also selected Tiger
as 1999 and 2000 World Sportsman of
the Year.
Woods was selected as 1997, 1999,
2000, 2001, 2002, and 2003 Player of
the Year by the PGA TOUR (Jack
Nicklaus Award), the PGA of America,
and the Golf Writers Association of
America. His adjusted scoring
average in 2000 of 67.79 strokes was
the lowest ever – breaking his
record of 68.43 in 1999 – and earned
the Byron Nelson Award on the PGA
TOUR and the Vardon Trophy from the
PGA of America. He also had an
actual scoring average in 2000 of
68.17 strokes, breaking Nelson’s
record of 68.33 strokes in 1945.
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Tiger Woods for Your Event
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