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Height: 6' 1 Weight: 185 Born: Dec 30, 1975
Victories: 66 Turned Pro: 1996 College: Stanford
Residence: Orlando, FL
Birthplace: Cypress, CA
Family: Wife, Elin; Daughter, Sam Alexis; Son, Charlie Axel

Masters Qualification(s): Masters Champion,US Open Champion,British Open Champion,PGA Champion,US Mid-Amateur Champion,Top 16 last year's Masters,Top 4 last year's PGA Championship,Tour Championship Qualifier from last year.

    Talking Points

  • Nicknamed "Tiger" after a Vietnamese soldier who was a friend of his father.
  • Shot a 48 in nine holes at the age of 3, and featured in Golf Digest at age 5.
  • One of only eight athletes to be named a Wheaties permanent rep, first since Michael Jordan in 1988.
  • Started Tiger Woods Design, a golf course design company, in November 2006, with plans for his first course to be built in Dubai.
  • A total of 50 different players have come in second place to Tiger Woods during his career.
  • An eight-stroke British Open victory lifted him into company of Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player and Jack Nicklaus as holders of career Grand Slams and at the age of 24 was the youngest to do so.
  • Only the second player to win three majors in one season, joining Ben Hogan (1953).
  • 1997 Masters win included a record 72 hole score (270), the largest margin of victory (12), youngest 36- and 54-hole leader (21 years, 3 months, 15 days), largest 54-hole lead (9 strokes) and lowest 54-hole score (-15).

Scores and Stats

1st Round
Hole 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Out 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 In T
Par 4 5 4 3 4 3 4 5 4 36 4 4 3 5 4 5 3 4 4 36 72
Rnd 4 5 4 3 4 4 4 5 3 36 4 4 3 4 3 4 3 4 5 34 70
Tot. 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 -1 -2 -3 -3 -3 -2 -2 -2

Complete hole by hole scores

Eagles Birdies Pars Bogeys 2X Bogeys Other
1 16 46 8 1 0

Full scorecard and statistics

4 victories in 14 starts. Made the cut 13 times.

Average Finish: 13

Complete Masters record and stats

1 victories in 3 PGA Tour event starts. Made the cut in 2 events.

Top 10's: 3 Top 5's: 1 Starts: 3 Earnings: $1317500

World Ranking Points:   Rank:  

Complete PGA record and stats

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Playing catch the leader

Where Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson went, the gallery followed.

Woods finds fight difficult

Tiger Woods abused his surgically repaired left knee in the Masters Tournament's third round. He spent much of Saturday afternoon slapping it, leaning on it and using it to kick the air in frustration. His knee, which he had surgery on last summer after his U.S. Open win, held up under the onslaught. His psyche did not.

Mickelson, Woods put on pretty good show

Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods put on a pretty good show for much of Sunday's final round at the Masters.

Back 9 fireworks in forecast at Augusta National

Phil Mickelson got off the first pump of his enticing head-to-head duel with Tiger Woods, surging into contention in the final round of the Masters.
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