List of career achievements by Tiger Woods


This page details statistics, records, and other achievements pertaining to Tiger Woods.

Career records and statistics

  1. Woods has won 82 official PGA Tour events, tied with Sam Snead also 82, and nine ahead of Jack Nicklaus's 73 wins.
  2. Woods has won 15 majors, second all time behind Jack Nicklaus' 18.
  3. Woods is 14–1 when going into the final round of a major with at least a share of the lead.
  4. Woods scoring average in 2000 is the lowest in PGA Tour history, both adjusted, 67.79, and unadjusted, 68.17.
  5. Woods has the lowest career scoring average in PGA Tour history.
  6. Woods has amassed the most career earnings of any player in PGA Tour history.
  7. Woods is one of five players to have won all four professional major championships in his career, known as the Career Grand Slam, and was the youngest to do so.
  8. Woods is the only player to have won all four professional major championships in a row, accomplishing the feat in the 2000–2001 seasons. This feat became known as the "Tiger Slam".
  9. Woods set the all-time PGA Tour record for most consecutive cuts made, with 142. The streak started in 1998, he set the record at the 2003 Tour Championship with 114 and extended this mark to 142 before it ended on May 13, 2005 at the EDS Byron Nelson Championship. Many consider this to be one of the most remarkable golf accomplishments of all time, given the margin by which he broke the old record and given that during the streak, the next longest streak by any other player was usually only in the 10s or 20s. When Byron Nelson played far fewer players made the cut in a given event.
  10. Woods has won a record 22.8% of his professional starts on the PGA Tour.
  11. Woods is the only golfer to have won the U.S. Amateur three consecutive times.

    Awards records

  12. Woods has been the PGA Player of the Year a record eleven times.
  13. Woods has been the PGA Tour Player of the Year a record eleven times.
  14. Woods has been the PGA Tour Money Leader a record ten times.
  15. Woods has been the Vardon Trophy winner a record nine times.
  16. Woods has been the recipient of the Byron Nelson Award a record nine times.

    Miscellaneous

  17. Woods owns a 55–4 record when holding at least a share of the lead after 54 holes, and 44–2 record when holding the outright lead.
  18. Woods has only lost once when leading by more than one shot after 54 holes. Yang Yong-eun began the final round of the 2009 PGA Championship two strokes behind Woods and defeated him by three strokes.
  19. Woods has a 39–11 record when leading after 36 holes in Tour events, including an 8–3 record in majors.
  20. Woods has won 14 tournaments wire-to-wire, including seven times while holding the lead outright after each round: 2000 U.S. Open, 2000 PGA Championship, 2000 WGC-NEC Invitational, 2002 Bay Hill Invitational, 2002 U.S. Open, 2002 WGC-American Express Championship, 2003 Western Open, 2005 Open Championship, 2005 WGC-NEC Invitational, 2006 Ford Championship at Doral, 2006 WGC-American Express Championship, 2013 WGC-Cadillac Championship, 2018 Tour Championship , 2019 Zozo Championship
  21. Woods has successfully defended a title 24 times on the PGA Tour
  22. Woods has finished runner-up 31 times, and in third place 19 times.
  23. Woods has spent the most consecutive and cumulative weeks atop the world rankings.
  24. Woods holds the PGA Tour record for most consecutive rounds at par or better with 52. The streak began in the second round of the 2000 GTE Byron Nelson Classic and ended in the second round of the 2001 Phoenix Open. When including non-PGA Tour events, the streak was 66.
  25. Woods' win at the 2005 Open Championship made him only the second golfer to have won all four majors more than once. With his win in the 2008 U.S. Open, Woods joined Nicklaus as the only golfers to win each major at least three times.
  26. Woods' victory at the 2006 WGC-American Express Championship, he became the first player in PGA Tour history to win at least eight times in three different seasons.
  27. Woods' victory in the Buick Invitational in January 2007 placed him 2nd for the longest PGA Tour win streak at 7, trailing only Nelson's streak of 11 wins in 1945.
  28. Woods became the first golfer to win five PGA Tour events five or more times at the 2009 BMW Championship. In order of his accomplishment: WGC-CA Championship, WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, Buick Invitational, Arnold Palmer Invitational, and BMW Championship.
  29. Woods' win at the U.S. Open in 2008 made him the sixth person to win the U.S. Open three or more times, the first person to win a PGA Tour tournament on the same course seven times, and the first person to win two tournaments at the same golf course in the same season.
  30. Woods has hit a combined total twenty holes-in-one in the course of his lifetime—his first at the age of six. Three have come in PGA Tour competition, at the 1996 Greater Milwaukee Open, 1997 Phoenix Open, and 1998 Sprint International.
  31. Woods is the only professional golfer to win four majors in a row.
  32. Woods finally came from behind in a major championship to win the 2019 Masters.
  33. At the 2002 Mercedes Championships at the Plantation Course at the Kapalua Resort in Hawaii, Woods hit a 498-yard drive on the par-5 18th. That shot is the longest drive in the history of the PGA Tour recorded by ShotLink, the PGA Tour's data gathering information system.

    Major championships

Wins (15)

1Defeated May in three-hole aggregate playoff by 1 stroke: Woods, May

2Defeated DiMarco in a sudden-death playoff: Woods and DiMarco.

3Defeated Mediate with a par on 1st sudden death hole after 18-hole playoff was tied at even par 71

Records and trivia

Results not in chronological order in 2020.
LA = Low amateur
CUT = missed the half-way cut
WD = withdrew
"T" indicates a tie for a place.
NT = No tournament due to COVID-19 pandemic

Summary

Wins (2)

Results timeline

WD = withdrew

"T" indicates a tie for a place.

World Golf Championships

Wins (18)

Records

Match Play
Championship
Note: All Cadillac Championship records were set in 2006, when the tournament was known as the American Express Championship
Invitational
Note: All records were set in 2000 and 2013

Results timeline

Results not in chronological order before 2015.
1Cancelled due to 9/11
2Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic
QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play
"T" indicates a tie for a place.
NT = No Tournament
WD = Withdrew
Note that the HSBC Champions did not become a WGC event until 2009.
Performance summary
TournamentStartsTop-10sWinsEarnings
Match Play14835,213,500
Championship151379,606,500
Invitational1612811,150,375
Champions220335,714
Totals473518$26,306,089

FedEx Cup Playoffs">FedEx Cup">FedEx Cup Playoffs

YearPlacePointsMarginEarnings
20071123,033+12,57810,000,000
200870100,000−25,101110,000
200914,000+1,08010,000,000
2010421,300–3,635133,000
2011132318−4,94332,000
201232,663−1,4372,000,000
201322,743−2,0073,000,000
201421845n/a0
2015178215n/a0
201822,219−413,000,000
2019421,069n/a169,000
Total28,444,000

PGA Tour professional career summary

PGA Tour wins (82)

1Co-sanctioned by the Japan Golf Tour

PGA Tour playoff record (11–1)

European Tour wins (41)

1Co-sanctioned by the PGA Tour of Australasia
2Co-sanctioned by the Asian Tour

European Tour playoff record (10–0)

Note: This table is the European Tour's official Woods' victories on their tour, which gives Woods a total of 41 European Tour wins.
Woods' worldwide tournament playoff record is 16-6.

Japan Golf Tour wins (3)

1Co-sanctioned by the PGA Tour
Japan Golf Tour playoff record
No.YearTournamentOpponentResult
12005Dunlop Phoenix Tournament Kaname YokooWon with birdie on fourth extra hole
22006Dunlop Phoenix Tournament Pádraig HarringtonLost to birdie on second extra hole

Asian Tour wins (2)

1Co-sanctioned by the European Tour and the PGA Tour of Australasia

PGA Tour of Australasia wins (3)

1Co-sanctioned by the European Tour
2Co-sanctioned by the Asian Tour
'''PGA Tour of Australasia playoff record
No.YearTournamentOpponentResult
11998Johnnie Walker Classic Ernie ElsWon with birdie on second extra hole

Other wins (17)

Other playoff record
No.YearTournamentOpponentResult
11998Nedbank Million Dollar Challenge Nick PriceLost to birdie on fifth extra hole
22000PGA Grand Slam of Golf Vijay SinghWon with eagle on first extra hole
32001WGC-World Cup
Thomas Bjørn and Søren Hansen,
− Michael Campbell and David Smail,
Retief Goosen and Ernie Els
South Africa won with par on second extra hole
New Zealand and United States eliminated by birdie on first hole
42010Chevron World Challenge Graeme McDowellLost to birdie on first extra hole
52013Northwestern Mutual
World Challenge
Zach JohnsonLost to par on first extra hole

Amateur wins (21)

Results timeline

M = Medalist

DNQ = Did not qualify for match play portion
R32, R16, QF, SF = Round in which player lost in match play
Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10
Source:

Reign as World No. 1 male golfer

Woods holds the record for most consecutive weeks at No. 1, 281, and the most total number of weeks, 683. Since 1997, he has spent over twelve years atop the Official World Golf Ranking, and has been the number one player for all 52 weeks of a year a record eight times – 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. He has spent 861 weeks ranked in the top-10, and overtook Ernie Els as the golfer with the most weeks ranked in the top 10 in 2013.
This list is complete as of May 18, 2014.
Start dateEnd dateWeeksApproximate timeSuccessor
June 15, 1997June 21, 199717 days Ernie Els
July 6, 1997September 6, 199792 months Greg Norman
January 11, 1998April 11, 1998133 months Ernie Els
May 10, 1998May 16, 199817 days Ernie Els
June 14, 1998March 27, 1999419 months, 13 days David Duval
July 4, 1999August 7, 199951 month, 3 days David Duval
August 15, 1999September 4, 20042645 years, 20 days Vijay Singh
March 6, 2005March 19, 2005214 days Vijay Singh
April 10, 2005May 21, 200561 month, 11 days Vijay Singh
June 12, 2005October 30, 20102815 years, 4.5 months Lee Westwood
March 25, 2013May 17, 2014601 year, 2 months Adam Scott

U.S. national team appearances

Amateur
Professional
19971999200220042006200820102012201420162018Total
1.522.52330.5014.5

Awards

1990
1991
  • 1st Team – Rolex Junior All-American
  • American Junior Golf Association Player of the Year
  • Golf Digest Amateur Player of the Year
  • GolfWeek National Amateur of the Year
  • Southern California Player of the Year
1992
  • 1st Team – Rolex Junior All-American
  • American Junior Golf Association Player of the Year
  • Golf Digest Amateur Player of the Year
  • GolfWeek National Amateur of the Year
  • Southern California Player of the Year
  • Golf World Player of the Year
1993
  • 1st Team – Rolex Junior All-American
  • Southern California Player of the Year
  • Golf World Player of the Year
1994
  • Golf World Man of the Year
  • L.A. Times Player of the Year
  • Orange County Player of the Year
1995
  • Pac-10 Player of the Year
  • NCAA First Team All-American
  • GolfWeek Preseason First Team All-American for 1995–96
  • Stanford University's Male Freshman of the Year
1996
  • PGA Tour Rookie of the Year
  • Sports Illustrated "Sportsman of the Year"
  • Stanford University Collegiate Player of the Year
  • Fred Haskins Award
1997
  • Jack Nicklaus Trophy
  • PGA Player of the Year
  • PGA Tour Money Leader
  • ABC's Wide World of Sports Athlete of the Year
  • Golf Writers Association of America Player of the Year
  • Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
  • PGA Tour Player of the Year
  • PGA Player of the Year
  • Vardon Trophy
  • Byron Nelson Award
  • Mark H. McCormack Award
  • Golf Writers Association of America Player of the Year
2004
  • Mark H. McCormack Award
2005
  • PGA Tour Player of the Year
  • PGA Player of the Year
  • PGA Tour Money Leader
  • Vardon Trophy
  • Byron Nelson Award
  • Mark H. McCormack Award
  • Golf Writers Association of America Player of the Year
2006
  • PGA Tour Player of the Year
  • PGA Player of the Year
  • PGA Tour Money Leader
  • Byron Nelson Award
  • Mark H. McCormack Award
  • Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year
  • Golf Writers Association of America Player of the Year
2007
  • PGA Tour Player of the Year
  • PGA Player of the Year
  • PGA Tour Money Leader
  • Vardon Trophy
  • Byron Nelson Award
  • Mark H. McCormack Award
  • FedEx Cup
  • Golf Writers Association of America Player of the Year
2008
  • Mark H. McCormack Award
2009
  • PGA Tour Player of the Year
  • PGA Player of the Year
  • PGA Tour Money Leader
  • Vardon Trophy
  • Byron Nelson Award
  • Mark H. McCormack Award
  • FedEx Cup
  • Golf Writers Association of America Player of the Year
  • Associated Press Athlete of the Decade
2010
  • Mark H. McCormack Award
2013
  • PGA Tour Player of the Year
  • PGA Player of the Year
  • PGA Tour Money Leader
  • Vardon Trophy
  • Mark H. McCormack Award
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