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Eldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods (born December 30, 1975 is an American professional golfer whose achievements to date rank him among the most successful golfers of all time. Formerly the World No. 1, he is the highest-paid professional athlete in the world, having earned an estimated $90.5 million from winnings and endorsements in 2010.Woods has won 14 professional major golf championships, the second highest of any male player (Jack Nicklaus leads with 18), and 71 PGA Tour events, third 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. Additionally, Woods is only the second golfer, after Jack Nicklaus, to have achieved a career Grand Slam three times. Woods has won 16 World Golf Championships, and won at least one of those events in each of the first 11 years after they began in 1999.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 ten times, the Byron Nelson Award for lowest adjusted scoring average a record eight times, and has the record of leading the money list in nine different seasons.On December 11, 2009, Woods announced he would take an indefinite leave from professional golf to focus on his marriage after he admitted infidelity. His multiple infidelities were revealed by over a dozen women, through many worldwide media sources. returned to competition for the 2010 Masters on April 8, 2010, after a break lasting 20 weeks.In July 2010, Forbes announced Woods as the richest sportsman in the world, earning a reported $105m according to them and $90.5m according to Sports Illustrated.On October 31, 2010, Woods lost the world number 1 ranking to Lee Westwood.Woods grew up in Orange County, California. He was a child prodigy, introduced to golf before the age of two, by his athletic father Earl, who was a good standard amateur golfer and one of the earliest Negro college baseball players at Kansas State University. 1978, Tiger putted against comedian Bob Hope in a television appearance on The Mike Douglas Show. Before turning seven, Tiger entered and won the Under Age 10 section of the Drive, Pitch, and Putt competition, held at the Navy Golf Course in Cypress, California. At age three, he shot a 48 over nine holes over the Cypress Navy course, and at age five, he appeared in Golf Digest and on ABC's That's Incredible. 1984 at the age of eight, he won the 9–10 boys' event, the youngest age group available, at the Junior World Golf Championships. He first broke 80 at age eightHe went on to win the Junior World Championships six times, including four consecutive wins from 1988 to Woods' father Earl wrote that Tiger first beat him when he was 11 years old, with Earl trying his best. Earl lost to Tiger every time from then on. Woods's first major national junior tournament was the 1989 Big I, when he was 13 years old. Woods was paired with pro John Daly, then relatively unknown, in the final round; the event's format placed a professional with each group of juniors who had qualified. Daly birdied three of the last four holes to beat Woods by only one stroke. As a young teenager, Woods first met Jack Nicklaus in Los Angeles at the Bel-Air Country Club, when Nicklaus was performing a clinic for the club's members. Woods was part of the show, and impressed Nicklaus and the crowd with his skills and potential.
While attending Western High School in Anaheim at the age of 15, Woods became the youngest ever U.S. Junior Amateur champion in 1991, was voted Southern California Amateur Player of the Year for the second consecutive year, and Golf Digest Junior Amateur Player of the Year for 1991. In 1992, he defended his title at the U.S. Junior Amateur Championship, becoming the first multiple winner, competed in his first PGA Tour event, the Nissan Los Angeles Open, and was named Golf Digest Amateur Player of the Year, Golf World Player of the Year, and Golfweek National Amateur of the YearThe following year, Woods won his third consecutive U.S. Junior Amateur Championship, and remains the event's youngest-ever and only multiple winner. 1994, he became the youngest-ever winner of the U.S. Amateur Championship, a record that stood until 2008 when it was broken by Danny Lee. Woods won over the TPC at Sawgrass in Florida. He was a member of the American team at the 1994 Eisenhower Trophy World Amateur Golf Team Championships (winning), and the 1995 Walker Cup (losing)
Woods graduated from Western High School in 1994 at age 18, and was voted "Most Likely to Succeed" among the graduating class. He had starred for the high school's golf team under coach Don Crosby.Tiger Woods’ girlfriend Rachael Uchitel denies affair with him
Sunday, November 29, 2009 4:30:47 AM by Aishwarya Bhatt ( Leave a comment )
rachel Florida, Nov 29 (THAINDIAN NEWS) There has been speculation that Tiger Woods had an accident at home because of his affair with Rachel Uchitel. According to reports, apparently his wife find out and she wasn’t amused at all. However at the other end of the spectrum, Rachel Uchitel denied the reports that she is having an affair with the golfer Tiger Woods.
She said that, “God forbid Tiger got into a car wreck because of this false report of him having an affair. This is nothing to do with me. We have never had an affair, and the claims we did are completely false.” The 34-year old New York socialite said that the media concocts all these spicy stories up.She in fact claimed that ‘The National Enquirer’ paid a friend $25,000 to cook up the story about her and Tiger Wood’s affair. She claims that she is completely innocent in this regard and to prove her point, she even offered to take a polygraph for the newspaper to prove her innocence, but “they refused it. They told me it was too late and the story was running anyway.”“Other things have happened in my past that would prevent me from doing anything like this. I have traveled with men that are quietly more important than Tiger Woods and it is incredibly difficult to get to their hotel room,” she said, with reference to the report that she sneaked into Tiger Wood’s hotel room in Australia earlier this year.And for the second consecutive day Tiger Woods remained unavailable for comments, so the speculators and the media had a complete hey-day, with the rumors of the affairs flying thick and thin.