TIGER WOODS GOLF PROFESSIONAL

Of the twenty events he entered, he finished in the top three fourteen times. By the end of Woods' 2000 campaign, he had won three consecutive majors, nine PGA Tour events, and had set or tied 27 Tour records. Three weeks later, he won his third straight start on Tour at the Bell Canadian Open, becoming only the second man after Lee Trevino in 1971 to win the Triple Crown of Golf (U.S., British, and Canadian Opens) in one year.

TIGER WOODS GOLF PROFESSIONAL

He joined Ben Hogan (1953) as the only other player to win three professional majors in one season. However, Woods played the last twelve holes of regulation seven under par, and won a three-hole aggregate playoff over May with a birdie on the first hole and pars on the next two. Woods's major championship streak was seriously threatened at the 2000 PGA Championship, when Bob May went head-to-head with Woods on Sunday at Valhalla Golf Club. At 24, he became the youngest golfer to achieve the Career Grand Slam. Open and Jason Day's в€’20 at the 2015 PGA Championship). He led by a record ten strokes going into the final round, and Sports Illustrated called it 'the greatest performance in golf history.' In the 2000 Open Championship at St Andrews, which he won by eight strokes, he set the record for lowest score to par (в€’19) in any major tournament, and Woods at one time held at least a share of that record in all four major championships (since eclipsed by Rory McIlroy's в€’16 at the 2011 U.S. Open records with his 15-stroke win, including Old Tom Morris's record for the largest victory margin ever in a major championship, which had stood since 1862. At his next tournament, the Buick Invitational, he finished tied for second, breaking the streak, but earned enough money to put him at the top of the PGA Tour's career money list, a position he has held ever since. His six consecutive wins were the most since Ben Hogan in 1948. He extended his win streak to six at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am in February with a memorable comeback-trailing by seven strokes with seven holes to play, he finished eagle-birdie-par-birdie for a 64 and a two-stroke victory.

Picking up where he had left off in 1999, Woods started 2000 with his fifth consecutive victory and began a record-setting season. Woods was voted PGA Tour Player of the Year and Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year for the second time in three years. He completed his 1999 campaign by winning his last four starts - including the PGA Championship - and finished the season with eight wins, a feat not achieved since 1974. In June 1999, Woods won the Memorial Tournament, a victory that touched off one of the greatest sustained periods of dominance in the history of men's golf. He answered critics of his 'slump' and what seemed to be wavering form by maintaining he was undergoing extensive swing changes with his coach, Butch Harmon, and was hoping to do better in the future. While expectations for Woods were high, his play faded in the second half of 1997, and in 1998 he only won a single PGA Tour event. At the conclusion of the 1997 season, Woods was named PGA Player of the Year, the first time a golfer had won the award in just his second year as a professional. He went on to win another three PGA Tour events that year, and on June 15, 1997, in only his 42nd week as a professional, rose to number one in the Official World Golf Ranking, the fastest-ever ascent to world No.

Woods set 20 Masters records in 1997 and tied six others. The landmark victory made Woods the tournament's youngest-ever winner, as well as its first African-American winner (and its first Asian-American winner).

The following April, Woods won his first major, The Masters, with a record score of 18-under-par 270, by a record margin of 12 strokes. He began his tradition of wearing a red shirt during the final round of tournaments, which was a link to his college days at Stanford. For his efforts, Woods was named Sports Illustrated's 1996 Sportsman of the Year and PGA Tour Rookie of the Year. He played his first professional golf event at the Greater Milwaukee Open, tying for 60th place, recorded a hole-in-one, and would win two events in the next three months to qualify for the Tour Championship. These endorsement contracts were the highest in golf history up to that point. With the announcement 'Hello, World.' Tiger Woods became a professional golfer in August 1996 and signed endorsement deals worth $40В million from Nike, Inc. Woods giving a driving demonstration aboard the USS George Washington.

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