May
18

Tiger Woods Bio

Posted under Player Bio by SwingingKatz

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If you know anything about Golf or even if you don’t there is one name that springs to mind and the face that goes with it. Tiger Woods! I am sure that there have been and there will be for years to come quiz questions “By what name is Eldrick Woods better known?” The answer of course is Tiger Woods. He was nicknamed Tiger after a Vietnamese soldier who was a friend of his father.

Born in Cypress, California on December 30th 1975 Woods talent was spotted very early on by his father Earl who became not only his coach but his mentor and maintained a Father son relationship until his death to cancer in 2006. Earl spotted Tiger had talent and at the age of 2 Tiger Putted against Bob Hope on the “Mike Douglas Show” a year later he shot 48 over nine holes at the age of three!

Tiger studied at Stanford University where he represented them in the sport where he was quickly stamping an authority. By the time he turned professional in 1996 he had already won a number of amateur US golf titles and soon shot to fame when he won the US Masters at the Augusta course in 1997, on his way to that title he set a course record of 270 at the young age of 21. He was also the first African-American to win the competition making a great breakthrough.

Course records are something that Tiger has collected throughout his career, less than a year after breaking the course record at Augusta he broke the Troon single round course record with an astonishing 64 in his first appearance at the British Open which he has won three times already.

His career highlights are by far one of the longest on the PGA Tour website clocking up six PGA victories in 2005 alone including Major wins at the British Open and the US Masters.

Tiger is not only massively popular on the golf course and with fans but a commodity in his own right. With huge sponsorship deals with American Express, Nike and Buick he is the highest paid sportsman on the planet. So much so that his caddy is the highest paid sportsman from New Zealand and he doesn’t even play the sport. Tiger’s earnings in 2005 alone are an estimated $87 million.

In his personal life he married Swedish model Elin Nordegren in 2004 and they are expecting their first child later this year. The couple lives in Jupiter Island Florida. There have been rumors of Tiger taking a break from golf once his first child is born but even Tiger has yet to confirm if this is true or not. He took a few months break after the death of his father and came back in true Woods style winning for his Dad.

Find out more from the Tiger Woods Website.