"Tiger Woods is one of the greatest athletes of all time and an incredible guy." These are the words reserved by Donald Trump to the 15-time Major golf champion, received yesterday at the White House, together with his Australian colleague Adam Scott, the commissioner of the PGA Tour Jay Monahan and the governor of the Pif, Yasir Al-Rumayyan, to try to create a single, large green circuit, and put an end to years of divisions.
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"We want to thank President Trump, it was a very constructive meeting. The goal is to find an agreement as quickly as possible. We will share every detail at the most appropriate time," said Monahan, Woods and Scott at the end of the meeting. Then, Trump invited the three to a reception regarding Black History Month (a celebration observed in February in the US and Canada to celebrate the importance of people and events in the history of the African diaspora).
Eldrick Tont Woods, better known as Tiger Woods (Cypress, December 30, 1975), is an American golfer.
Considered one of the best golfers of all time,as well as the best of the modern era,in his twenty-year career he has won 110 professional tournaments, including 15 majors, making him the most successful player in history; he has held the first position in the OWG world ranking for a total of 683 weeks, of which 281 consecutive (from June 12, 2005 to October 30, 2010), and is the only golfer to have won all four major tournaments of the modern era in the span of a single year (between 2000 and 2001).
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In 2014 he became the first sportsman in the world to have exceeded one billion dollars in earnings between victories and endorsements.He was later surpassed by Michael Jordan and his net worth is estimated at $1.8 billion as of 2023, making him the second highest-paid athlete of all time.In 2019, US President Donald Trump awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States of America.
Eldrick Tront Woods was born to an African-American father, Earl, and a Thai mother, Kultida. Nicknamed "Tiger" by his father[8], he began playing golf practically from the time he could walk and was soon considered a sort of child prodigy of the specialty. In 1990, at the age of fifteen, he was the youngest golfer to win the National Junior Championships, a success he repeated in the following two years. After having won three consecutive titles of US champion of the amateur circuit (1994, 1995 and 1996), he turned professional, winning two tournaments on the circuit in his first year.
