Eldrick "Tiger" Forest (innate December 30, 1975) is an American golfer who is considered one of the greatest golfers of all time. Around 2005, at the age of Xxix, he reached the milestone of winning a tenth major golf championship, placing him third on the all time list behind Jack Nicklaus and Walter Hagen. Including his trio U.S. Amateur Championship wins he & Bobby Jones are the simply linksman to win baker's dozen majors prior to age Xxx. He has won more times on the PGA Tour than any other active golf player & he holds a PGA Tour record for virtually all sequentially tournament cuts manufactured by having 142.

Wood, world health organization is of mixed race, is credited with prompting the major surge of interest in the game of golf, especially among racial minorities and immature humans in the United States. Background and family
Wood is from either the comfortable social background. He was natural within Cypress, California. His father, Earl Wilderness, occurs as Vietnam War veteran and the retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, of mixed African American, Caucasian, and Native American ancestry. He is at present a chair of his boy's sympathetic Tiger Forest Foundation (understand division Charity and youth projects below). Wilderness' mother Kultida Wilderness is originally from either Thailand, and has mixed Thai and Chinese ancestry.

Forest' actual given title is Eldrick. He was given a nickname Tiger at birth fallowing the Vietnamese war comrade of his father's & became usually known by that title. Per period he was achieving national prominence within amateur golf game, he was universally known as Tiger Wilderness.

Inside 2004, Woods became engaged to Elin Nordegren, a Swedish model. It were introduced by Swedish golf game star Jesper Parnevik, who got listed her as a nanny. It married around a sunset ceremony at the Sandy Lane Hotel & Golf Club in Barbados amid armed security before some 200 personal & friends in October 5, 2004. It presently make their range in Windermere, a suburb of Orlando, Florida.

Amateur career
Forest was the child prodigy who began to play golf at age trine. Patch however the little kid, he demonstrated his golf game skills within the television appearance by owning Mike Douglas. Around 1984 he won a 9-10 boys' event at a Junior World Golf Championships. He was sole eight years old, however 9-10 was a immature age bracket at that instance. He went in to win the U.S. Junior Amateur title in 1991, 1992 and 1993. He remains a youngest ever winner & a simply multiple winner. He followed this sustaining threesome consecutive U.S. Amateur titles the next three years. By having his number one Me Amateur winside in 1994, a season that he graduated senior high school, he became a immature human ever to win that event. His 5 USGA Championships prior to age Twenty qualify him for consideration when a greatest golf player ever under age Xx. He attended Stanford University and won one NCAA individual championship. Forest decided to leave Stanford when 2 years because he believed he was ready to succeed as a office.

Professional career
Wilderness became the broker golfer within August 1996 playing his first spherical of sales person golf at a Greater Milwaukee Open (GMO). He won 2 cases in the deuce-ace months of the 1996 year that he played as a agency. A as punishment April he won The Masters by a record margin of Dozen shots, & he has been by far a greatest profile linksman in the globe since so. In the summertime of 1997 Forest attend first in the Official World Golf Rankings for the first period.

Wilderness formed the close friendly relationship by using leading PGA Tour broker Mark O'Meara, who was almost twenty years his senior. O'Mearthe acted as a wise man to him for a instance, & them men won the World Cup together. the inspiration of working closely sustaining a brilliant immature talent was widely take to be a catalyst for O'Meara's have career month around 1998, while he won a lone ii majors of his career.

Despite suggestions that a more players would lone exist as competing for 2nd place from either nowadays in, Forest' form began to fade around the 2nd half of 1997, & in 1998 he just won when on the PGA Tour. At this period he was working inside modifications to his swing to adapt to a maturation of his physique, & to location concerns that the highly vigourous & pliable swing he experienced utilized in his youth may are causal agents for him back problems in the long term & truncate his career. Wood was careful to refrain from utilizing this as an excuse & instead responded to questions just about his vacillating form using reminders that he was however super immature, & was hoping to wash better later.

Around June 1999, Wilderness won a Memorial Tournament. This was the beginning of a sustained period of dominance of men's golf game. He won seventeen PGA Tour cases witharound two calendar years, & 32 in 5, both of people accomplishment that hadn't been rivaled for many decades, & golf game around Outdoors' era is usually seen when getting good deal other depth than within earliest periods. He won seven away from eleven major championships starting by owning a 1999 PGA Championship & finishing with a 2002 U.S. Open. His 2001 Masters win marked a sole instance anyone got ever won 4 sequentially majors, a exploit which became called the Tiger Slam. He broke Old Tom Morris' record for the largest triumph margaround ever in the major championship, which got stood since 1862, with his 15-shot win in the 2000 U.S. Open. In the 2000 British Open he placed the record for last score to par, -Xix, in any major tournament & holds at least a part of the record altogether 4 major championships for moo score to par. His adjusted scoring norm of 67.79 witharound 2000 was a lowest in PGA TOUR history, exceeding his 68.43 typical around 1999. His actual scoring norm of 68.Seventeen withinside 2000 was a lowest in PGA TOUR history, exceeding a 68.33 typical by Byron Nelson inside 1945.

A next phase of Forest' career saw him remain among a top rival on the tour, however lose his dominating edge. He did nin winside the major even within 2003 or 2004, & fell to 2nd in the PGA Tour money names in 2003 & to for on 2004. Within September 2004, Woods' record streak when the world's top-ranked golfer - 264 sequentially weeks - come to an prevent at a Deutsche Bank Championship after Vijay Singh won the tournament & overtook Wilderness in the rankings. There are no 1 has held a first ranking extra number weeks than Wilderness. At as much as this period Outdoors let it exist as known that he was when more working in changes to his swing, & hoped that once a adjustments were complete he would make their way back to his better.

Initially of the 2005 PGA Tour year, Forest returned to his winning ways. In 6 March he won the Ford Championship at Doral and returned to number one in the Official World Golf Rankings, but good fortnight late, Singh displaced him again. In 10 April, Woods broke his "drought" around the majors by winning the 2005 Masters in a tie-breaking playoff, which too assured him of giving to first in the Globe Rankings again. Singh & Outdoors swapped the First position many days across the next few months, however by early July Forest got established a real benefit, propelled farther by a triumph in The (British) Open Championship for his 10th major.

Up to now, Forest has won 46 official money cases on the PGA Tour and 15 more office titles. He is one of simply 5 players (along by owning Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player) in the history of golf to have won whole tetrad sales person major championships inside his career. By owning his win in a 2005 Open Championship, he became lone the 2nd golf player, fallowing Nicklaus, to use at times won totally foursome majors further than another time. At a 2003 TOUR Championship, he placed an everthing-period record for virtually all sequentially cuts made with 114 (passing Byron Nelson's previous record of 113), & extended this mark to 142 prior to it endways Could 13, 2005 at a EDS Byron Nelson Championship. A streak began within 1998[http://www.pgatour.com/story/8469590]. Numbers of commentators assume this one of a virtually all remarkable golf game accomplishments ever, given a marginside by which he broke a old record (& against great deal stronger fields than people in Nelson's day) & given that in a period of a streak, the next hanker streak by a second streaming video player was ordinarily merely in the 10s or even 20s.

Forest won the "World Sportsman of the Year" award at a Laureus World Sports Awards in 200& 2001. He is the simply deuce-period winner as an human of Sports Illustrated magazine's "Sportsman of the Year" award (1996, 2000).

An interesting fact just about Tiger is that he universally wears the red shirt on the final around of each tournament where he plays. Based on data from his mother's religion, a colour red symbolizes power. He as well puts tape in his middle & annualry, non for medical reasons, however for superstitious notion.

Woods' golf game
After Outdoors burst onto a golf game scene, one of a items which mass produced a large impact in fans was his hanker camping. Even so, he refused to update his technology when more players caught as much as him when you took a 2002-2003 seasons on the PGA Tour. within a period of 2004, Wilderness eventually upgraded his driver technology &, when of 2005, he is back in his place when one of the super yearn hitters on the PGA Tour. Despite his length benefit, he has universally focused in getting an first-class everthing-well-rounded game. His camping is typically precise, his approach play exact, his recovery & bunker play for instance brilliant, & his putting is ordinarily dependable. He is largely responsible the shift to higher standards of strenuosity amongst broker golfers, & is known for putting within other hours of practice than virtually all.

Early inside his sales person career Outdoors worked by using a leading swing coach Butch Harmon, but since he has been coached per less-heralded Hank Haney. He was taking part withinside the media spat using Harmon, world health organization besides works as a golf game broadcaster, whenever Harmon suggested that he was in "denial" just about a problems inside his game, however it publicly patched higher their differences.

Although he is considered magnetic, Wilderness' approach is au fond cautious. He aims for consistency: although he is better than any more golf player whenever he is around form, his dominance comes non from either with right cycles that come better than a more leading agents' bests, however from either with fewer bad cycles. He plays fewer tournaments than virtually all agents (twenty or even twenty a single a year in comparisin a average twenty 5 to thirty), & focuses his efforts on brace oneself for & competing in a majors & the virtually all prestigious of the more tournaments.

Major Championships
Wilderness' major championship victories are when follows:

The Masters (known in Smashing Britain when a America Masters)(1997, 2001, 2002, 2005) US Open (2000, 2002) The Open Championship (known in Northward America when a British Open) (2000, 2005) PGA Championship (1999, 2000)

By using his triumph around the Masters inside 2001, he became the simply human to st& held completely tetrad agency majors at it used to be that, although this did non occur in a calendar month, and is so non recognized by a bit of as a confessedly Grand Slam. A accomplishment has been nicknamed "The Tiger Slam".

Wood holds at least the part of the record for last-place 72-hole score inside relation to par altogether tetrad majors, & at least the part of the great-72 holes record around both of the babies. A "to par" & "low 72-holes" records are non universally a equivalent because when virtually all championship links course have a par of 72, or even even 288 for iv cycles, a bit of have a par of 71 or Seventy: The Masters: -Eighteen (270), 1997 (straight-out to-par & moo 72 holes record) US Open: -Twelve (272), 2000 (straight-out to par record) Woods shares a moo 72-holes record sustaining Jack Nicklaus, Lee Janzen, and Jim Furyk. The Open Championship: -Nineteen (269), 2000 (straight-out to-par record) Greg Norman holds the moo 72-holes record at 267. PGA Championship: -Eighteen (270), 2000 (to-par record divided by using Bob May) David Toms holds the moo 72-holes record at 265.

A above performances stand likewise given him a record triumph margaround in 2 majors: The Masters: Xii strokes, 1997 US Open: Fifteen strokes, 2000 (record for completely majors)

Tiger as well is one of a couple of players to keep close at h& finished inside the Top Five and Top 10 altogether Foursome Majors in a year. He has done this twice, number 1 within 2000 and then in 2005.

Results

DNP = did non play
WD = withdrew
CUT = missed a half way cut
"T" indicates the tie for the place.

PGA TOUR career summary

Month	Majors	More wins	PGA TOUR wins	Earnings ($)	Money names rank
1996	0	Two	2	[http://www.pgatour.com/players/results/149765/1996 790,594]	[http://www.pgatour.com/stats/leaders/r/1996/109 24]
1997	1	Three	4	[http://www.pgatour.com/players/results/149765/1997 2,066,833 ]	[http://www.pgatour.com/stats/leaders/r/1997/109 1]
1998	0	One	1	[http://www.pgatour.com/players/results/149765/1998 1,841,117]	[http://www.pgatour.com/stats/leaders/r/1998/109 4]
1999	1	7	8	[http://www.pgatour.com/players/results/149765/1999 6,616,585]	[http://www.pgatour.com/stats/leaders/r/1999/109 1]
2000	Three	6	9	[http://www.pgatour.com/players/results/149765/2000 9,188,321]	[http://www.pgatour.com/stats/leaders/r/2000/109 1]
200One	1	Four	5	[http://www.pgatour.com/players/results/149765/2001 6,687,777 ]	[http://www.pgatour.com/stats/leaders/r/2001/109 1]
200Two	2	Three	5	[http://www.pgatour.com/players/results/149765/2002 6,912,625 ]	[http://www.pgatour.com/stats/leaders/r/2002/109 1]
2003	0	Five	5	[http://www.pgatour.com/players/results/149765/2003 6,673,413 ]	[http://www.pgatour.com/stats/leaders/r/2003/109 2]
2004	0	One	1	[http://www.pgatour.com/players/results/149765/2004 5,365,472]	[http://www.pgatour.com/stats/leaders/r/2004/109 4]
2005*	2	Four	6	[http://www.pgatour.com/players/results/149765 9,913,024]	[http://www.pgatour.com/stats/leaders/r/2005/109 1]
Career*	10	36	46	[http://www.pgatour.com/stats/leaders/r/2005/110 55,055,760]	[http://www.pgatour.com/stats/leaders/r/2005/110 1st]

* Updated 10 October 2005

Wood was merely the office for in a single third of the 1996 year. Additionally to his PGthe Tour wins, he has win a total of cases on agent tours outside N America, & many agent cases which were non a portion of an official tour schedule.

Wood makes virtually all of his income from either endorsement contracts & is the greatest earning sportswoman in the globe. Inside 2005, Forbes estimated his annual income at $87 million [http://www.forbes.com/lists/2005/53/WR6D.html].

PGA Tour wins

1996 Las Vegas Invitational, Walt Disney World/Oldsmobile Classic 1997 Mercedes Championships, The Masters, GTE Byron Nelson Golf Classic, Motorola Western Open 1998 BellSouth Classic 1999 Buick Invitational, Memorial Tournament, Motorola Western Open, PGA Championship, WGC-NEC Invitational, National Car Rental Golf Classic/Disney, The Tour Championship, WGC-American Express Championship 2000 Mercedes Championships, AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, Bay Hill Invitational, Memorial Tournament, U.S. Open, The Open Championship, PGA Championship, WGC-NEC Invitational, Bell Canadian Open 2001 Bay Hill Invitational, The Players Championship, The Masters, Memorial Tournament, WGC-NEC Invitational 2002 Bay Hill Invitational presented by Cooper Tires, The Masters, U.S. Open, Buick Open, WGC-American Express Championship 2003 Buick Invitational, WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship, Bay Hill Invitational presented by Cooper Tires, 100th Western Open presented by Golf Digest, WGC-American Express Championship 2004 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship 2005 Buick Invitational, Ford Championship at Doral, The Masters, The Open Championship, WGC-NEC Invitational, WGC-American Express Championship

Major championships come shown around bold.

Other professional wins
1997 Asian Honda Classic (Asian Tour) 1998 Johnnie Walker Classic (co-sanctioned by Asian Tour and PGA European Tour), PGA Grand Slam of Golf (United States - unofficial event) 1999 Deutsche Bank Open-TPC of Europe (PGA European Tour), World Cup of Golf: individual (unofficial event), World Cup of Golf: team (unofficial event - with Mark O'Meara), PGA Grand Slam of Golf (United States - unofficial event) 2000 Johnnie Walker Classic (co-sanctioned by Asian Tour and PGA European Tour), World Cup of Golf: team (unofficial event - with David Duval), PGA Grand Slam of Golf (United States - unofficial event) 2001 Deutsche Bank-SAP Open TPC of Europe (PGA European Tour), Williams World Challenge (United States - unofficial event), PGA Grand Slam of Golf (United States - unofficial event) 2002 Deutsche Bank-SAP Open TPC of Europe (PGA European Tour), PGA Grand Slam of Golf (United States - unofficial event) 2004 Dunlop Phoenix (Japan Golf Tour), Target World Challenge (United States - unofficial event)

National team appearances
Amateur Eisenhower Trophy: 1994 Walker Cup: 1995 Professional Ryder Cup: 1997, 1999, 2002, 2004 Dunhill Cup: 1998 The Presidents Cup: 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005 WGC-World Cup: 1999, 2000, 2001

Charity and youth projects

Tiger Outdoors has constituted many large-hearted & youth projects.

A Tiger Outdoors Foundation: A Tiger Outdoors Foundation was established within 1996 by Tiger Forest & his father Earl. It focuses in projects for babies. Ab initio these comprised golf game clinics (aimed especially at deprived babies), & the grant program. Farther activities added since so include university scholarships, an association sustaining Target Home at St. Jude Hospital around Memphis, Tennessee; a Run Something character development program, which got got concluded 1 million participants by 2003; & the Tiger Forest Learning Center. Tiger Forest Learning Center: This occurs as 35,000 square foot (3,000 one thousand²) training facility ascribable open inside Anaheim, California in 2005. These are potential to become utilized by many yard students both season, by owning the day program for grades Four to 6 & an fallowing school program for grades 7 to 12. There may likewise exist as summertime software download, weekend & community outreach computer program & low learning software online. A center's internet site states, "Our mission is to provide an interactive enrichment program that will improve individual aptitude in reading, math, science and technology". A centre might feature extensive multi-multimedia system facilities & an outdoor golf game teaching region. Tiger Jam: An annual fundraising concert. 2005's Tiger Jam VIII was headlined by Stevie Wonder and Counting Crows. Target World Challenge: An annual off-season charity golf game tournament. A event besides carries generous prize money, however Wood donates his winnings to his foundation. Tiger Forest Foundation National Junior Golf Team: An 18 member team which competes in the annual Junior World Golf Championships.

Controversy
Early around Forest' career a little total of golf game experts expressed concern just about his impact on the fight & so the public appeal of sales person golf. This issue was virtually all large around around 2001-02 whenever he was at his virtually all dominant back level. "The question has been asked, seriously, and more than once: Isn't Tiger Woods actually bad for golf?" - commented Bill Lyon of Knight-Ridder, before running in to argue that he wasn't [http://www.tigertales.com/tiger/bad0816.html ]. At a start, a bit of despised that Outdoors may cause completely spirit of competition away from the game of golf game, by obsoleting existent courses, & getting there is no competition. Still, Wood was unable to keep higher a winning streak, & a increases inside television ratings & prize money which develop occurred since Outdoors arrived on a golf game scene keep close at hand discredited the veto look at of his impact on the game. When of 2005 these are there are no protracted heard. A mainstream review is that Forest' profits is one of a virtually all caring items that has ever happened to golf.

Wilderness has as well been mentioned within relation to certain wider arguing, including a debate just about a role of sport in the aspirations of Western youth, especially African U.s. youth, which a bit of assume to become unhealthy. Clarence Page of the Chicago Tribune decried the "racially charged, money-linked sports obsession" fueled by the "fixation in which the riches and fame of such sports heroes as Michael Jordan have caused a wildly disproportionate number of young black Americans, in particular, to focus on the brass ring of professional sports at the expense of more realistic and productive career paths." Wilderness dropped away from Stanford when deuce years to pursue his golf game career. Site wrote, "That works out fine for his bank account, but, for too many others it only reinforces the wrongheaded notion that academics should take a back seat to athletics." Others watch a inclusion of Forest therein debate when incompatible, arguing that his independent responsibility was to produce a right guide for his have career, that he got the backing of his parents, world health organization come for certain non feckless, & that subsequent cases indicate he timed his entry to agency golf fittingly. Every bit mentioned above he has funded university scholarships & is founding the learning centre.

A bit of militant use criticised him in certain sociable & environmental issues. the bit of one criticisms concern golf game generally, & a mention of Wilderness occurs as device to attract publicity by utilising a title of a top celebrity. Specific criticisms of items he has done personally use involved people of his endorsement of an SUV (the 2002 Buick Rendezvous) deemed second-virtually all-dangerous per Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, and of mutual funds which don't meet certain militant' ethical investment criteria. A publicity which militant come respire to attract for their views just about an human come proportionate to the single's fame, therefore it can be considered that this blackball publicity says little just about Forest' home ethics relative to victims of more linksman, or even of members of the general public.