On the day that basketball legend LeBron James turns 40, golf champion Tiger Woods celebrates his 49th birthday. Winner of 82 career tournaments on the PGA Tour (a record shared with Sam Snead), including 15 Majors, the Californian has recently returned to the green, after a long absence, alongside his son Charlie with whom he finished in second place at the Pnc Championship in Orlando, Florida.
Tiger Woods, results
His first steps on the green at the age of 2, then, the first 'hole in one' at 6 years old made on the Navy Golf Course in Cypress, California. Then, his debut on the PGA Tour in 1996 at the Greater Milwaukee Open. The youngest to win 50 times on the top American circuit before turning 30, he was number 1 in the world for 281 consecutive weeks. In his career he has earned over 1.8 billion dollars and now, together with Northern Irishman Rory McIlroy, he is preparing to launch the TGL, a technological league that will start on January 7th.
Eldrick Tont Woods, better known as Tiger Woods, born December 30, 1975 in Cypress (California), is an American golfer.
Considered one of the greatest golfers of all time, he is one of the most popular sportsmen of the early 21st century. Winner of 15 major tournaments, he revolutionized the world of golf with his sporting results and by attracting a new audience.
Precocious, Tiger Woods started golf at a very young age and had an exceptional career in all junior categories. An amateur scrutinized for his extraordinary qualities, he became professional at the end of the summer of 1996. Winner of the 1997 Masters, he became world number 1 less than a season after becoming professional. Dominant for most of the 2000s, various physical problems with his knees and back forced him to reinvent his game.
A commercial figure, headliner of the Nike equipment manufacturer, Tiger Woods multiplied lucrative contracts off the course, making him one of the richest athletes of the 2000s despite the scandals that tarnished his private life and his marriage in 2009.
In April 2019, at the age of 43, he achieved the feat of winning a 5th Masters and his 15th career major title in Augusta, eleven years after his last major victory. On May 6, 2019, he was decorated by the President of the United States Donald Trump with the highest American civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. On March 8, 2022, he was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame.
