Tiger Woods is one of the most successful golfers of all time. He has achieved numerous accomplishments in his career, including winning 14 major championships and becoming the first player to reach a career grand slam. Woods has also been ranked as the world’s number one golfer for a record-breaking 11 times.
In addition to his success on the golf course, Woods has also been a successful businessman off the course. He has endorsement deals with some of the world’s biggest companies, including Nike, Rolex, and Gatorade. Woods has also founded his own golf course design company, Tiger Woods Design.
Despite his many successes, Woods has also faced some challenges in his personal life. In 2009, he was involved in a highly publicized cheating scandal that led to the end of his marriage. Woods has also struggled with injuries in recent years, which have caused him to miss significant time on the golf course.
Despite these challenges, Woods remains one of the most popular golfers in the world. He is currently ranked as the world’s seventh-best golfer and is still considered to be one of the greatest players of all time.
Table of Contents:
1. Early Life
2. Amateur Career
3. Professional Career
4. Major Championships
5. Business Endeavors
6. Personal Life
7. Legacy
8. Top Tiger Woods Quotes
Early Life
Woods was born in Cypress, California, on December 30, 1975. He was given the name Eldrick Woods, but his parents later nicknamed him “Tiger” after a Vietnamese soldier they had seen on television.
Woods began playing golf at the age of two and was introduced to the game by his father, Earl Woods. Earl was a single-digit handicap amateur golfer who also taught Tiger how to play the game.
Woods was a gifted junior golfer and won several age-group championships. He was also featured in Golf Digest magazine as a child prodigy.
Woods attended Stanford University on a golf scholarship and won several collegiate tournaments. He decided to turn professional after his sophomore year and turned down an estimated $30 million in endorsement deals to do so.
Amateur Career
As an amateur, Woods won several prestigious tournaments. He was a three-time U.S. Amateur champion and also won the 1994 Amateur Championship. He is the only amateur golfer to have won both of these events in the same year.
Woods also won the 1995 NCAA Division I individual championship. He is the only amateur golfer to have won all three of these events.
Professional Career
Woods turned professional in 1996 and quickly rose to the top of the golf world. He won his first professional tournament, the Greater Milwaukee Open, in just his second start as a pro.
Woods would go on to win eight more times on the PGA Tour in 1996, including his first major championship at the Masters. He would finish the year with a record-breaking 12 wins and would be named PGA Tour Player of the Year.
Woods would win the Masters again in 1997 and 1999. He would also win the PGA Championship in 1999 and 2000. In 2000, Woods would achieve the career grand slam by winning the U.S. Open. He would also win the Open Championship in 2000 and 2005.
Woods would win the Masters for a third time in 2001. He would also win the PGA Championship in 2006 and 2007. In 2008, Woods would win the U.S. Open for the second time.
Major Championships
Woods has won 14 major championships in his career, which is second only to Jack Nicklaus’ record of 18. Woods has won the Masters four times, the PGA Championship four times, the U.S. Open three times, and the Open Championship three times.
Business Endeavors
In addition to his success on the golf course, Woods has also been a successful businessman off the course. He has endorsement deals with some of the world’s biggest companies, including Nike, Rolex, and Gatorade.
Woods has also founded his own golf course design company, Tiger Woods Design. The company has designed courses all over the world, including in the United States, China, and the United Arab Emirates.
Personal Life
Despite his many successes, Woods has also faced some challenges in his personal life. In 2009, he was involved in a highly publicized cheating scandal that led to the end of his marriage.
Woods has also struggled with injuries in recent years, which have caused him to miss significant time on the golf course. Despite these challenges, Woods remains one of the most popular golfers in the world.
Legacy
Woods is currently ranked as the world’s seventh-best golfer and is still considered to be one of the greatest players of all time. He has been inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame and has won numerous awards, including the PGA Tour Player of the Year and the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year.
Top Tiger Woods Quotes
“Under pressure, you can win with your mind.”
“Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.”
“The joy I get from winning a major championship doesn’t even compare to the feeling I get when a kid writes a letter saying: ‘Thank you so much. You have changed my life’.”
“The amount of meetings I’ve been in – people would be shocked. But that’s how you gain experience, how you can gain knowledge, being in meetings and participating. You learn and grow.”
“If you’re not nervous, it means you don’t care. I’ve always said that the day I’m not nervous playing is the day that I quit.”
“You’ve got to stay patient, stay in the moment, and keep grinding. You never know what can happen.”
“I’m trying as hard as I possibly can each and every day to get my life better and better and stronger. And if I win championships along the way, so be it.”
“My dad has always taught me these words: care and share. That’s why we put on clinics. The only thing I can do is try to give back. If it works, it works.”
“You can always become better.”
“Money and fame made me believe I was entitled. I was wrong and foolish.”
“As a kid when I was growing up, as any kid, you think you know every thing and I was no different to that.”
“Golf is a great way for someone to learn discipline, responsibility, and sportsmanship.”
“I am not without faults and I am far short of perfect.”
“It’s ok to fail. Failing does not shape your personality; it’s how you react upon your failure. Do you dust yourself off and mope or do you dust yourself off and come back stronger the next time? Eventually you will win. It may not happen the next time, it may take a little time but you will win in the end.”
“Never listen to other people’s expectations. You should live your own life and live up to your own expectations; those are the only things that I care about.”
“There’s no point in going to a tournament if you don’t believe that you can win it.”
“I’ll tell you what, I’ve been in some seriously bad places playing golf and it’s just part of the game.”
“Winning is not always the barometer on getting better.”
“My mother was right when she said that turning pro would take away my youth.”
“There’s always stuff to work on. You’re never there.”
“I stopped living according to my core values. I knew what I was doing was wrong but thought only about myself and thought I could get away with whatever I wanted to.”
“As a child, the family that I had and the love I had from my two parents allowed me to go ahead and be more aggressive, to search and to take risks knowing that, if I failed, I could always come home to a family of love and support.”
“If you can’t laugh at yourself, who can you laugh at?”
“My dad used to say, ‘Just because you dress up in a coat and tie, it doesn’t influence your intelligence’.”
“If you’re a baseball player and you’re on the mound, you don’t ever want to look up in the stands if somebody is yelling at you, because they know they’ve got you. You just keep your head down, keep moving along. Of course it annoys you, but you don’t ever show that it annoys you. Just go ahead, move on, and keep on playing.”
“Don’t force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It’s the child’s desire to play that matters, not the parent’s desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.”
“All that really matters is I have two beautiful kids, and I’m trying to be the best dad I can possibly be, and that’s the most important thing of all.”
“Days when you just don’t have it, you don’t pack it in, you give it everything you’ve got. You grind it out.”
“I lost my ability to will things to happen.”
“My will can move mountains.”
“I did envisage being this successful as a player, but not all the hysteria around it off the golf course.”
“I thoroughly enjoy getting away from the game and going out fishing because it’s so relaxing, so quiet and peaceful. I mean, there’s no noise other than nature – and it’s so different from what I do in a tournament situation that it just eases my mind.”
“Well, you know, a lot of people look at the negative things, the things that they did wrong—which I do. But I like to stress on the things I did right, because there are certain things that I like to look at from a positive standpoint that are just positive reinforcement.”
“For many my behavior has been a major disappointment, my behavior has caused considerable worry to my business partners, and everyone involved in my business, but most importantly to the young people we influence, I apologize.”
Look, there are no shortcuts in golf, and there are no shortcuts in life. You have to work for it. Dream big and keep your dreams for yourself. Because the dreams that you have are those things that separate you from others. If you give up your dream, you give up hope. And without hope, you are nothing.”
“My dad told me this: You get out of it what you put into it. If you put in effort and log your time, you’ll get the results.”
“The thing you don’t dream about as a kid is all the peripheral stuff that comes with success.”
“I smile at obstacles.”
“I felt that I had worked hard my entire life and deserved to enjoy all the temptations around me. I felt I was entitled, and thanks to money and fame, I didn’t have to go far to find them.”
“In therapy I have learned the importance of keeping spiritual life and professional life balanced. I need to regain my balance.”
“Never beat yourself up. There are going to be plenty of people who are going to do that for you.”
“You’re going to make mistakes. The key is to learn from them as fast as possible and make changes as soon as you can. That’s not always easy to do because ego and pride get in the way, but you have to put all that aside and look at the big picture.”
“Green and black go well together, don’t they?”
“Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.”
“The greatest thing about tomorrow is, I will be better than I am today. And that’s how I look at my life. I will be a better golfer, I will be a better person, I will be a better father, I will be a better husband, I will be a better friend. That’s the beauty of tomorrow.”
“I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for—getting paid for doing what you love.”
“I’m all or nothing.”
“My instincts have never lied to me.”
“One of the things my dad kept instilling in me was the joy of the game. He made it fun for me. A lot of the time I see kids that don’t enjoy being out there and that’s a shame; you’re supposed to enjoy the game.”
“Personal sins should not require press releases and problems within a family shouldn’t have to mean public confessions.”
“You have to look at the past in order to learn from it and move on.”
“Sensationalism sells: Don’t let the facts get in the way of a good story.”
“There’s nothing wrong with having your goals really high and trying to achieve them. That’s the fun part. You may come up short. I’ve come up short on a lot on my goals, but it’s always fun to try and achieve them.”
“I wake up every day and I can’t wait to go to work, and that’s a gift. Not too many people have the opportunity to feel that way.”
“People don’t understand that when I was growing up, I was never the most talented and I was not the biggest. I was never the fastest. I certainly was never the strongest. The only thing I had was my work ethic, and that’s what has gotten me this far.”
“The greatest thing about tomorrow is that I will be better than I am today.”
“There are still courses in the United States that I am not allowed to play because of the color of my skin.”
“If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person’s life in a positive light, and that’s what I want to do. That’s what it’s all about.”
“No matter who you are, the game is fluid. The game is always evolving, so you always have to keep working on it. There are plenty of hours in the day to get that done.”
“If you’re lucky to have three close people in your life, you’re blessed.”
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