Tiger Woods was born Eldrick Tiger Woods on December 30, 1975 in Cypress, California.
Tiger Woods is a professional golfer whose achievements to date rank him among the most successful golfers of all time.
Tiger Woods is currently the highest paid professional athlete, in 2006, having earned an estimated $100 million from winnings and endorsements. It is predicted that Tiger Woods will be the first billionaire athlete and should reach that status by 2010.
Tiger Woods has won 13 professional major golf championships, the second-most of any male player, and 63 PGA Tour events, the fourth-most of all time. He has more career major wins and career PGA Tour wins than any other active golfer. He is the youngest player to achieve the Career Grand Slam, and the youngest and fastest to win 50 tournaments on Tour. Woods has held the number one position in the world rankings for the most consecutive weeks and for the greatest total number of weeks. He has been awarded PGA Player of the Year a record nine times, the Byron Nelson Award for lowest adjusted scoring average a record eight times, and has tied Jack Nicklaus’s record of leading the money list in eight different seasons. He has been named Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year four times, a record he shares with Lance Armstrong.
Tiger Woods, who is multiracial in the truest sense of the word. Tiger Woods is one-quarter Chinese, one quarter Thai, one quarter African American, one-eighth Native American, and one-eighth Dutch. He refers to his ethnic make-up as “Cablinasian”, a term he coined made up from the words Causasian, Black, American-Indian and Asian.
Tiger Woods is credited with prompting a major surge of interest in the game of golf. Tiger Woods is said to have doubled attendance at tournaments he plays in and improved TV ratings just as high, and generated interest among a multicultural audience in a game that used to be considered elitist.
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