List of career achievements by 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)

Records and trivia

• In all of his major victories, he has had the outright lead or a share of the lead at the end of the third round, except his victory at the 2019 Masters. He has had the outright lead or a share of the lead 11 times at the end of the second round and has only lost three times.
• Woods holds at least a share of the record for lowest 72-hole score in relation to par in one of the four majors. Note that the "to par" and "low 72-holes" records are not always the same because, while most championship golf courses have a par of 72, or 288 for four rounds, some have a par of 71 or 70.
• Woods is the only player to have won multiple professional majors in consecutive years, 2005 and 2006.
• Woods has won two or more majors in a year four times. He trails only Jack Nicklaus, who won two majors in a season five times.
• Woods, Nicklaus, Jordan Spieth, Brooks Koepka and Rickie Fowler are the only players to have finished in the top 5 in all four majors in a year. Woods and Nicklaus have both achieved this twice: Woods in 2000 and 2005, and Nicklaus in 1971 and 1973. Fowler joined the list in 2014, Spieth joined in 2015, and Koepka joined in 2019.
• Woods and Bobby Jones are the only golfers to have won 10 majors before the age of 30. Jones achieved 13 majors in 21 attempts,, while Woods achieved 10 wins in 44 attempts.
• Woods is only the second player all-time to win three major championships in a calendar year winning the U.S. Open, The Open Championship, and the PGA Championship respectively, along with Ben Hogan who accomplished this feat in with The Masters, the U.S. Open, and The Open Championships.
• Woods is the second player to have won the career grand slam three times along with Jack Nicklaus. Woods is the only professional golfer to win four majors in a row.
• The last: Masters, US Open, Open Championship, and PGA, Jack Nicklaus played in; were all won by Tiger Woods.

  Masters Tournament

• −18, 1997, tied by Jordan Spieth in 2015
• Woods holds the record for the largest margin of victory at the Masters: 12 strokes
• Woods became the youngest winner in 1997 at the age of 21 years, 104 days. He is also now the second oldest player to win the Masters at 43 years old.
• His win made him the first winner of The Masters, or any other men's major, of African or Asian descent. He, the Indian Fijian Vijay Singh, and the South Korean Yang Yong-eun are the only winners of any major of such descent. The only other major winner whose primary ethnic heritage is undeniably non-European is 2005 U.S. Open champion Michael Campbell, a Māori from New Zealand.
• After a front-nine 40 in the first round, Woods played the final 63 holes 22-under par
• He played 72 holes without a single three-putt
• Woods set a record with the lowest back-to-back total for two rounds: 131

  U.S. Open

• Woods holds the record for the largest margin of victory at the U.S. Open based on 72 holes : 15 strokes. defeated Espinosa
• Also in 2000, Woods became the first player to finish a U.S. Open at double digits under par.
• Woods was the only player to finish under par at the following U.S. Opens:
• *2000 at Pebble Beach Golf Links: -12
• *2002 at Bethpage State Park, Black Course: -3
• With his win in 2008, Woods equaled Jack Nicklaus' feat of winning each major at least three times.
• *The 2008 win is the final U.S. Open to play more than 90 holes, as subsequent playoffs are now only two holes.

  The Open Championship

• Woods shares the record for largest margin of victory at a post-1900 Open Championship: 8 strokes
• Woods became the fifth player to achieve the Career Grand Slam, and the youngest player to do so, breaking the mark held by Nicklaus
• He became the fastest to win all four majors – in his 93rd sanctioned tournament, compared with 125 for Nicklaus
• He became the youngest to win a fourth major championship, breaking the mark held by Nicklaus
• In 2006, Woods became the first player to win the Open Championship in back-to-back years since Tom Watson in 1982–83
• He became the first golfer since Watson in 1982 to win the U.S. Open and Open Championship in the same year

  PGA Championship

• With his 2006 PGA Championship win, Woods became the only golfer to have won all 4 majors by at least 5 strokes
• Woods was the only player in the stroke-play era to repeat as PGA champion until Brooks Koepka equaled this feat in 2019.
• Woods' wins at Medinah in 1999 and 2006 make him the only player to win the PGA Championship twice on the same course.
• Woods’ second round 63 in the 2007 PGA Championship tied the record for second lowest single-round score in major championship history
• Woods is the only player to win the PGA Championship back-to-back on two different occasions: 1999–2000 and 2006–2007.

  Results timeline

Summary

• Starts – 84
• Wins – 15
• Runners-up – 7
• Top 3 finishes – 26
• Top 5 finishes – 33
• Top 10 finishes – 41
• Top 25 finishes – 59
• Made cuts – 72
• Missed cuts – 11
• Withdrew – 1
• Longest streak of wins – 4
• Longest streak of top-5s – 6
• Longest streak of top-10s – 8
• Longest streak of top-25s – 15

  The Players Championship

Wins (2)

Results timeline

World Golf Championships

Wins (18)

Records

• Won at least one World Golf Championships event every year from 1999 to 2009.
• All-time wins leader in World Golf Championships events.
• All-time money leader in World Golf Championships events.
• Won the WGC-World Cup with David Duval in 2000, an unofficial money WGC event, for a total of 19 World Golf Championships titles.
• Only player to have held the titles of all three of the pre-2009 events at the same time.

• Woods set the record for most lopsided victory in his first round match against Stephen Ames in 2006 – 9 & 8. Mathematically, it is the fastest possible win in 18-hole match play.
• Woods also set the record for largest margin of victory in the 36-hole final match – 8 & 7 over Stewart Cink in 2008.

• Lowest first 18-hole total 63 set the course record at The Grove
• Tied lowest first 18-hole total – 63
• Lowest 36-hole total – 127
• Largest 36-hole lead – 5 strokes
• Lowest 54-hole total – 194
• Largest 54-hole lead – 6 strokes
• Lowest 72-hole total – 261
• Largest margin of victory – 8 strokes
• Only player to record top-10 finishes in each appearance

• Lowest 18-hole total – 61
• Lowest 36-hole total – 125
• Lowest 54-hole total – 192
• Lowest 72-hole total – 259
• Largest margin of victory – 11 strokes

Results timeline

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PGA Tour professional career summary

• Green background for 1st place. Yellow background for top 10.
• * Woods qualified for the third round in the 1998 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am but decided to withdraw from the rain-delayed event. Officially, it is counted as a missed cut.
• ** As of February 16, 2020
• ^† Woods did not play the required 50 rounds to be ranked in scoring average these years: 1996 – 41 rounds, 2008 – 26, 2010 – 45, 2011 – 27, 2014 – 21, 2015 – 32, 2017 – 2, 2019 − 42.
• Woods played in 14 PGA Tour events from 1992–1996 as an amateur. In this span, he made 5 cuts, with his best finish and sole top-25 performance coming at the 1996 British Open. This brings his total tally of PGA Tour events played to 359, his total number of cuts made to 326, and his total number of top-25 finishes to 269.

  Professional wins (110)

PGA Tour wins (82)

PGA Tour playoff record (11–1)

European Tour wins (41)

European Tour playoff record (10–0)

Japan Golf Tour wins (3)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponent	Result
1	2005	Dunlop Phoenix Tournament	Kaname Yokoo	Won with birdie on fourth extra hole
2	2006	Dunlop Phoenix Tournament	Pádraig Harrington	Lost to birdie on second extra hole

Asian Tour wins (2)

PGA Tour of Australasia wins (3)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponent	Result
1	1998	Johnnie Walker Classic	Ernie Els	Won with birdie on second extra hole

Other wins (17)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponent	Result
1	1998	Nedbank Million Dollar Challenge	Nick Price	Lost to birdie on fifth extra hole
2	2000	PGA Grand Slam of Golf	Vijay Singh	Won with eagle on first extra hole
3	2001	WGC-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
4	2010	Chevron World Challenge	Graeme McDowell	Lost to birdie on first extra hole
5	2013	Northwestern Mutual World Challenge	Zach Johnson	Lost to par on first extra hole

Amateur wins (21)

• 1984 Junior World Golf Championships
• 1985 Junior World Golf Championships
• 1988 Junior World Golf Championships
• 1989 Junior World Golf Championships
• 1990 Junior World Golf Championships, Insurance Youth Golf Classic
• 1991 U.S. Junior Amateur, Junior World Golf Championships, Orange Bowl International Junior
• 1992 U.S. Junior Amateur, Insurance Youth Golf Classic
• 1993 U.S. Junior Amateur
• 1994 U.S. Amateur, Western Amateur, Pacific Northwest Amateur
• 1995 U.S. Amateur, College All-America Golf Classic
• 1996 U.S. Amateur, NCAA Division I Championship, NCAA West Regional, Pac-10 Championship

  Amateur major wins (3)

Results timeline

Reign as World No. 1 male golfer

Start date	End date	Weeks	Approximate time	Successor
June 15, 1997	June 21, 1997	1	7 days	Ernie Els
July 6, 1997	September 6, 1997	9	2 months	Greg Norman
January 11, 1998	April 11, 1998	13	3 months	Ernie Els
May 10, 1998	May 16, 1998	1	7 days	Ernie Els
June 14, 1998	March 27, 1999	41	9 months, 13 days	David Duval
July 4, 1999	August 7, 1999	5	1 month, 3 days	David Duval
August 15, 1999	September 4, 2004	264	5 years, 20 days	Vijay Singh
March 6, 2005	March 19, 2005	2	14 days	Vijay Singh
April 10, 2005	May 21, 2005	6	1 month, 11 days	Vijay Singh
June 12, 2005	October 30, 2010	281	5 years, 4.5 months	Lee Westwood
March 25, 2013	May 17, 2014	60	1 year, 2 months	Adam Scott

U.S. national team appearances

• Eisenhower Trophy: 1994
• Walker Cup: 1995

• Ryder Cup: 1997, 1999, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2010, 2012, 2018
• *Ryder Cup record : 13–21–3
• Alfred Dunhill Cup: 1998
• Presidents Cup: 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2019
• *Presidents Cup record : 27–15–1
• World Cup: 1999, 2000, 2001

Awards

• Mark H. McCormack Award
• ESPNs ESPY Award for Best Male Athlete

• 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
• Anderson Consulting Medal for best performance in WGC events
• Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year

• PGA Tour Player of the Year
• PGA Player of the Year
• PGA Tour Money Leader
• Vardon Trophy
• Byron Nelson Award
• Mark H. McCormack Award
• Laureus World Sports Awards
• Sports Illustrated "Sportsman of the Year"
• ABC's Wide World of Sports Athlete of the Year
• Golf Writers Association of America Player of the Year
• Royal Canadian Golf Association Triple Crown Trophy
• Palm Performance Award as leading money winner on PGA Tour West Coast Swing
• PricewaterhouseCoopers Fall Finish Award as leading money winner on PGA Tour's fall schedule
• Anderson Consulting Medal for best performance in WGC events
• Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year
• BBC Sports Personality of the Year Overseas Personality
• ESPNs ESPY Award for Best Male Athlete

• PGA Tour Player of the Year
• PGA Player of the Year
• PGA Tour Money Leader
• Vardon Trophy
• Byron Nelson Award
• Mark H. McCormack Award
• Laureus World Sports Awards
• ESPNs ESPY Award for Best Male Athlete
• Golf Writers Association of America Player of the Year

• PGA Tour Player of the Year
• PGA Player of the Year
• PGA Tour Money Leader
• Vardon Trophy
• Byron Nelson Award
• Mark H. McCormack Award
• ESPNs ESPY Award for Best Male Athlete
• Golf Writers Association of America Player of the Year

• Golf Writers Association of America'' Ben Hogan Award
• Presidential Medal of Freedom
• Teen Choice Award