“I’m disenchanted that I won’t be able to compete on the Hero World Problem this yr, however I stay up for internet hosting the match.”
Tiger Woods, statements
With these phrases, on his social media channels, Tiger Woods introduced that he might be compelled to skip the unofficial PGA Tour match, organized by his basis, scheduled for December 5-8 in Albany, Bahamas. The Californian, 15-time Main champion, additionally revealed the final three names of the protagonists within the discipline: Justin Thomas, his nice buddy and up to date father, Jason Day and Nick Dunlap.
Eldrick Tront Woods was born to an African-American father, Earl, and a Thai mom, Kultida. Nicknamed “Tiger” by his father[8], he started enjoying golf virtually from the time he may stroll and was quickly thought-about a kind of youngster prodigy of the specialty. In 1990, at fifteen years outdated, he was the youngest golfer to win the Nationwide Junior Championships, successful he repeated within the following two years. After having received three consecutive titles of US champion of the beginner circuit (1994, 1995 and 1996), he turned skilled, profitable two tournaments on the circuit in his first yr.
Winner of 15 main tournaments (second solely to Jack Nicklaus, with 18) between 1997 and 2019, he has indelibly marked the historical past of this sport, bringing it into the highlight after years wherein such a dominant and charismatic determine was lacking. Among the many many moments which have gone down in golf historical past, we bear in mind the unbelievable strategy holed out on the sixteenth of the ultimate spherical of the 2005 Masters, and the victory after a play-off gap towards Rocco Mediate on the 2008 U.S. Open on the finish of the 4 rounds performed with a fractured tibia and a knee ligament that may be rebuilt just a few days later. Historic rivalries with Phil Mickelson and Vijay Singh, among the many solely athletes able to threatening, even when solely at alternating durations, his dominance.
Tiger Woods holds the unbelievable variety of 54 victories and solely 4 defeats in tournaments wherein he was main after three rounds, a report that has fueled the parable of the unbeatable “Sunday Tiger Woods”, invariably wearing a purple shirt and black pants on the Sunday of the ultimate spherical (his mom handed this little superstition on to him since he was a toddler). He holds the report for the fewest strokes in all 4 Main Tournaments, is the one participant with Jack Nicklaus to have received the “Profession Grand Slam” thrice, and the one golfer in historical past to have received multiple Main Event for two consecutive years (2005-2006)
Woods received the Masters in 1997 at 21 years and three months, turning into the youngest winner within the historical past of the match (a report now held by Jordan Spieth). He received all 4 Main tournaments consecutively: from the 2000 U.S. Open to the 2001 Masters; this feat was referred to as the “Tiger Slam”, and never the “Grand Slam” as a result of it was not completed in the identical calendar yr. Nonetheless, he stays the one golfer within the historical past of the game to have completed this feat.
He has at all times stated he needed to beat Jack Nicklaus’s report of Majors received (18), and for now he’s at 15, having received the 2019 Masters as his final title.
On the finish of 2006 he renewed his contract with Nike. The well-known sportswear model has sponsored Woods since 1996, the yr wherein he turned knowledgeable participant (for a complete gross determine of over 150 million {dollars}). The brand new contract offers for a compensation of over 25 million {dollars} per yr, together with royalties. Woods has additionally signed a contract with PepsiCo, to promote Gatorade, for 100 million {dollars}, the best compensation ever paid to an athlete to promote drinks. In 2007 he was the best paid athlete on this planet with over 122 million {dollars}. He has additionally marketed the Tiger Woods PGA Tour online game collection, a really profitable collection that additionally options him as a personality.
In keeping with Forbes journal, in 2012 Woods was the best paid athlete on this planet with earnings of 83.1 million {dollars},[9] whereas in 2014 he dropped to ninth place on this particular rating (earnings of fifty.6 million {dollars}).[10] As of 2016 his internet value is estimated at round 740 million {dollars}.
