Tiger Woods earns his 44th career PGA TOUR victory at the age of 29 years, six months and 17 days in his 178th career professional start on TOUR 192nd overall).
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TIGER WOODS in MAJOR CHAMPIONSHIPS
Career Majors - 41 (35 as
professional)
Career Major Victories - 10
Career Major Top-10s -
20 (6 - Masters; 6 - British Open; 4 - PGA Championship; 4 - U.S. Open)
TIGER WOODS in the BRITISH OPEN
Starts - 11 (1995-2005)
Wins - 2 (2000, 2005)
Top-10s - 6 (3rd - 1998, T7 - 1999, Won - 2000,
T4 - 2003, T9 - 2004, Won - 2005)
BRITISH OPEN and MAJOR CHAMPIONSHIP NOTES
•Became just the second player in history to win each of the four major championships more than once. Jack Nicklaus was the first to accomplish the feat with six Masters Tournaments, four U.S. Open Championships, three British Open Championships and five PGA Championships.
•Became the youngest and quickest to win each of the four major championships twice. Jack Nicklaus was the first to accomplish the feat at 31 years, one month and seven days of age when he won his second PGA Championship in 1971. It was his 37th major as a professional. Woods is 29 years, six months and 17 days and in his 35th major as a professional.
•Became the third player in history to reach the double-digit victory mark in professional major championships (10), joining Jack Nicklaus (18) and Walter Hagen (11).
•Became the 25th player to have won the Open Championship more than once and the fifth player to win more than one at St. Andrews Golf Club -- James Braid (1905, 1910), J.H. Taylor (1895, 1900), Jack Nicklaus (1970, 1978) and Bob Martin (1876, 1885). Braid, Taylor, Nicklaus and Woods (2000, 2005).
•Became the 28th player to win two major championships in a season and did so for the third time in his 10-year TOUR career. In 2000, he won the final three Majors, while in 2002 he captured the first two. Jack Nicklaus is the leader in the category with five multiple major championship seasons (1963, 1966, 1972, 1975, 1980).
•Became the eighth player in major championship history to win the Masters and the Open Championship in the same year. The last to do so was Mark O'Meara in 1998. The others -- Ben Hogan (1953), Arnold Palmer (1962), Jack Nicklaus (1966), Gary Player (1974), Tom Watson (1977) and Nick Faldo (1990). Faldo is the only other to do so at St. Andrews.
•Sixth player in Open Championship history to win in wire-to-wire fashion -- Ted Ray (1912), Bobby Jones (1927), Gene Sarazen (1932), Henry Cotton (1934) and Tom Weiskopf (1973).
•His opening-round 66 matched the lowest opening round by a winner at the Open Championship -- Peter Thomson (1958), Nick Faldo (1992) and Greg Norman (1993).
•Has made the cut 11 times in 11 starts at the Open Championship, his longest current streak in majors (10 - U.S. Open).
2005 NOTES
•With career-best payday of $1,261,584, moves to No. 1 on the 2005 PGA TOUR Official Money List with $6,601,874. Surpasses $6-million mark for the fifth time in 10 seasons.
•Seventh season with at least four TOUR victories. The four are the most on TOUR this season (Phil Mickelson and Vijay Singh each have three).
•Third player to win in wire-to-wire fashion this season -- Phil Mickelson (AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am) and Justin Leonard (FedEx St. Jude Classic).
•CAREER NOTES
•With 44th career TOUR victory, moves into a tie for seventh all-time with Walter Hagen. Next on the list is Billy Casper with 51.
•Career PGA TOUR Official Money now stands at $51,744,610.
•Open Championship becomes the 13th TOUR tournament that he has won multiple times.
•Sixth career wire-to-wire victory on the TOUR and third in a major.
•Has held 35 54-hole leads/co-leads on the PGA TOUR and has won 32 times during that span, including 10 of 10 in majors.
2005 PGA TOUR SUMMARY
Tournaments entered - 14
In money -13
Victories - 4
Top-10
finishes - 8
PGA TOUR Victories (44):
1996 - Las Vegas Invitational, Walt
Disney World/Oldsmobile Classic
1997 - Mercedes Championships,
Masters Tournament, GTE Byron Nelson Classic, Motorola Western Open
1998 - BellSouth Classic
1999 - Buick Invitational, Memorial
Tournament, Motorola Western Open, 81st PGA Championship, WGC-NEC
Invitational, National Car Rental Golf Classic at Walt Disney World
Resort, THE TOUR Championship, WGC-American Express Championship
2000
- Mercedes Championships, AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, Bay Hill
Invitational, Memorial Tournament, 100th U.S. Open Championship, 129th
British Open Championship, 82nd PGA Championship, WGC-NEC Invitational,
Bell Canadian Open.
2001 - Bay Hill Invitational, THE PLAYERS
Championship, Masters Tournament, the Memorial Tournament, WGC-NEC
Invitational
2002 - Bay Hill Invitational, Masters, U.S. Open, Buick
Open, WGC-American Express Championship
2003 - Buick Invitational,
WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship, Bay Hill Invitational, 100th
Western Open, WGC-American Express Championship
2004 - WGC-Accenture
Match Play Championship
2005 - Buick Invitational, Ford Championship
at Doral, Masters Tournament, Open Championship
Major Championship Victories (10):
1997 Masters Tournament
1999 PGA Championship
2000 U.S. Open
2000 British Open
2000 PGA
Championship
2001 Masters Tournament
2002 Masters Tournament
2002 US. Open
2005 Masters Tournament
2005 British Open
