Tiger Woods

Tiger Woods

Tonti Eldrick "Tiger" Woods (b. December 30, 1975) is an American professional golfer whose achievements to date him among the most successful golfers of all time. Previously, the World No. 1 is the highest paid athlete in the professional world after winning an estimated U.S. $ 90.5 million of earnings and endorsements in 2010.

Woods has won 14 professional major golf championships, the second highest of any male actor (Jack Nicklaus leads with 18), and 71 PGA Tour events, third all time behind Sam Snead and a Nicklaus.He career wins largest and career PGA Tour wins than any active golfer. He is the youngest player to reach the Grand Slam and the youngest and fastest to win 50 tournaments on the circuit. In addition, Woods is only the second golfer, after Jack Nicklaus, to have achieved a career Grand Slam three times the Great. Woods has won 16 world championships in golf, and won at least one of the events in each of the first 11 years after they began in 1999.

Woods held the top spot in the world ranking of most consecutive weeks and the largest total number of weeks. He received the PGA player of the year a record ten times the price of Byron Nelson the lowest average score set a record eight times and holds the record for money for the best list in nine different seasons.

11. December 2009, Woods announced that he would take the time to be a golf professional to concentrate on his marriage after admitting to infidelity. Many of his infidelities revealed more than a dozen women, many international media sources. Woods returned to competitive Masters 2010 April 8, 2010, after a pause lasting 20 weeks.

In July 2010, Forbes magazine said Woods, the richest in the sport, winning a sum as $ 105m and was told 90.5m, according to Sports Illustrated.

31. October 2010, Woods lost his number one world ranking by Lee Westwood. As of August 15, 2011, Woods has been ranked # 33 in the world. This is a list of its lowest since January 5, 1997, more than fourteen and a half years ago, when it was ranked as the thirty-third. From mid-November 2009, shortly before the infidelity scandals began to break in the media, Woods is winless in the world 21 months, the longest tube without the title of his career. Woods has announced via its website July 6, 2011, miss the 2011 Open Championship, his second championship unplayed main straight, because it takes time away from competitive golf to improve the injury to his left knee and ankle. July 20 day Woods announced through his website that he was firing his caddy Steve Williams, who had worked with her since 1999, the two had worked for 13 major championships Woods 14. Williams, the caddy is now in Australia Adam Scott star. Woods announced on July 27 via his Twitter account that he would return to the tournament-August 4th WGC Bridgestone Invitational after a break of 11 weeks, and that long-term friend and current employee Bryon Bell would caddy for him.