Full Name: Eldrick "Tiger" Woods
Born: December 30, 1975 (Cypress, Calif.)
High School: Western H.S. (Anaheim, Calif.)
College: Stanford University
Height: 6'1"
Weight: 185
Turned Pro: 1996
Residence: Orlando, Fla.
Wife: Elin Nordegren (10/5/2004)
Children: Sam Alexis (6/18/2007)
Charlie Axel (2/8/2009)
Parents: Earl and Kultida Woods
Biography
Eldrick (Tiger) Woods, now 33 years of age, has had an
unprecedented career since becoming a professional golfer
in the late summer of 1996. He has won 88 tournaments,
68 of those on the PGA TOUR, including the 1997, 2001,
2002 and 2005 Masters Tournaments, 1999, 2000, 2006
and 2007 PGA Championships, 2000, 2002, and 2008 U.S.
Open Championships, and 2000, 2005 and 2006 British
Open Championships. With his second Masters victory in
2001, Tiger became the first ever to hold all four
professional major championships at the same time. He is
the career victories leader among active players on the
PGA TOUR, and is the career money list leader.
Woods won 11 tournaments in 2000, nine on the PGA
TOUR, one on the PGA European Tour and the PGA Grand
Slam. In addition, Woods and David Duval won the World
Cup team title for the United States. He earned $9,188,321
on the PGA TOUR ($11,034,530 worldwide) and broke the
PGA TOUR record of $6,616,585 which he set in 1999.
Tiger increased his record total on the PGA TOUR career
money list to $76,579,376 through 2007, and had won
$94,038,162 worldwide.