(Tiger Woods is 46 years old)
Tiger Woods is 46 years old. On December 30, he celebrated his 46th birthday. Will the cake be filled with 46 candles? Don't know what wish the tiger made?
While we can't celebrate the tiger's birthday by candlelight, there are plenty of ways to celebrate for a player who has set countless records and enough highlight moments.
For example, we can pick up 46 shining points from Woods' brilliant career to light up our best wishes for Tiger:
1. Since the first round of the professional game, tigers have reached the top of the world ranking in only 291 days, which is the fastest to reach the top in the history of the official world golf rankings.
2. Tigers have occupied the world's number one throne for a total of 683 weeks. The four behind him are Greg Norman, Dustin Johnson, Rory McIlroy and Nick Faldo — all four of whom combined for 669 weeks.
3. Woods has been runner-up 31 times, who won the most in those races? Phil Mickelson, five times in total.
4. In addition to 15 Grand Slam titles, he has won 7 Grand Slam runners-up, including 3 PGA Championships, 2 U.S. Opens, and 2 Masters.
5. His PGA Tour has 82 wins in seven countries – two each in England and Scotland, one each in Spain, Canada, Ireland and Japan, and the remaining 74 are of course won in the United States.
6. Tiger Woods was the winner of the inaugural FedEx Cup in 2007. Two years later, he became the first player to win the FedEx Cup twice. There is currently only one latecomer – Rory McIlroy (2016 and 2019).
7. Woods has won a Grand Slam with more than 279 strokes once, and that was the U.S. Open championship in 2008 with a stroke of 283.
8. Tigers has won the Players Tournament twice, in addition to his victory at the 1994 U.S. Amateur Championship at TPC Sawtooth.
9. In the Tigers' five Masters victories, he scored just -17 in the first and final rounds, while in the middle two he scored a staggering -54. His blueprint for victory at Augusta? The start was slow, the halfway through the race, and the game was steadily closed.
10. In the 288 holes that achieved tiger grand slam, he swallowed only one three bogey and one double bogey, of which four rounds did not swallow any bogey.
While Jack Nicklaus has more Grand Slam titles (18) than he does, Woods has an average win advantage of 4.13 in his 15 Grand Slam wins, while Jack's average win advantage is 2.64.
12. If Woods' career had been just 75 games from 2005 to 2009, his 31 wins could have tied for 15th place in history.
13. From 1997 to 2009, Tigers won the Jack Nicklaus Player Award ten times and was named Player of the Year.
Between 1999 and 2009, tigers won the Byron Nelson Award with the lowest average number of strokes on nine occasions.
15. In 2007, Tiger won the 2007 Tour Championship with a career-low 72 hole (257 strokes) and an 8-stroke advantage, becoming the first FedEx Cup winner. His first three rounds were 64-63-64, the lowest number of holes in his career on 54 holes, and he finished with a sealed victory of 66.
(In three different seasons, tigers earn more than the second- and third-placed players combined.)
16. In three different seasons, he earned more than the second- and third-placed players combined – in 1999, 2000 and 2007, woods was so dominant.
From amateur to professional, Woods won seven consecutive major events – the 1991–93 Junior Amateur Championship, the 1994–96 U.S. Amateur Championship, and the 1997 Masters.
18. In the summer of 1994, Tiger was almost invincible in the hole race, winning three amateur hole races including the American Amateur Championship.
19. Back in the 1992 U.S. Open qualifiers, Tiger Woods had his first taste of beating the PGA Tour star — beating Johnny Miller's 77-77 77 77 77, even though neither of them qualified. Miller was 45 years old and went on to win another PGA Tour victory — the 1994 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Amateur Match. Woods was only 16 years old.
20. After entering Stanford in 1994, Tiger said that one of the first things he learned was that there were so many gifted and talented students, both academically and athletically. "In high school," he told reporters, "I set the trend. And here, I follow the trend. ”
21. The World Golf Championships were first held in 1999, the fourth year of Woods' career. He quickly dominated – he won 16 of his first 33 world championships and won 18 of his career.
22. Counting only his victories at Arnold Palmer's Bay Hill Club, Dollysson and Flintstone (8 games each), it would be enough to tie Gary PLyre's 24 PGA Tour wins.
23. Tigers have won 43 games on eight courses, including Augusta (5 wins), Jack Nicklaus' Münfield Hills (5 wins), Gear Hill (5 wins) and Dora (4 wins), accounting for 52.4% of the 82 career wins.
24. At just 6 years old, Woods has already performed with three Hall of Famers, the most widely reported of being the Mike Douglas Show with Bob Hope in 1978.
25. At the Junior World Golf Championships in San Diego, Woods had an extraordinary record – winning the championship five times on 4 different courses and 4 different age groups.
26. A few weeks after winning the 2001 Players' Championship, Tiger won the Masters and completed tiger grand slams, meaning he truly holds five of the most powerful titles in golf at the same time.
27. At the Johnnie Win Plus Classic in January 1998, the Tigers tied for 18th place after three rounds, eight strokes behind the leader Ernie Ayres, but he shot 65 in the final round, catching up with Els and ultimately winning the extended round. The reversal of the victory, while not playing out on the PGA Tour, heralded a frenzy in the golf world.
28. From the Buick Invitational in Dollisson in early February 1998 to the Wells Fargo Championship in Quail Valley in May 2006, Tigers competed in 142 consecutive matches, all qualifying. Of course, he didn't just sneak off the promotion line on Friday afternoon; Of those 142 games, he won 37, or 26 percent.
29. In 2000, from the second round of the Byron Nelson Classic (May 12) to the end of the season, Woods played 47 consecutive rounds of par or better. During that time, he shot a total of -185, averaging 67.51 in a single round.
From 1999 to 2003, Tiger's record was epic: out of 101 games, he won 32 with a win rate of 31.7 and won seven Grand Slam titles. From the 1999 PGA Championship to the 2001 Masters, he won five of the six Grand Slam tournaments, the only winless one being a fifth-place finish at Augusta in 2000.
(Tigers win the 2000 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach)
31. Then between 2005 and 2009, the record was no less than that: 31 wins in 75 games, with a win rate of 41.3%, including six Grand Slam wins.
32. In those 10 seasons (1999-2003; 2005-09), the Tigers' longest winless record was only seven games. In 2000 and 2009, the longest drought he experienced was no more than three races.
33. Between 1999 and 2000, Woods played six consecutive wins (the last four in 1999 and the first two in 2000) until the 2000 Buick Invitation was interrupted by Mickelson.
34. Between 2006 and 2007, the Tigers recorded a staggering seven consecutive wins (the last six in 2006 and the first in 2007). This time the terminator is again a left-handed man – Nick O'Gergen from Australia. He beat Woods on the 20th hole in the third round of the World Championships-Hole Match Championship.
35. Tigers are one of five players to achieve a professional Grand Slam, but he has achieved it faster than the other four – Gene Salasson, Ben Hogan, Gary Plyre and Jack Nicklaus (which was achieved after only 15 Grand Slam games since the transition).
36. Only Tigers and Nicklaus have won career Grand Slams three times.
37. From the 2000 US Open to the 2001 Masters, Tiger won four consecutive Grand Slams and set these numbers: the average of 16 rounds was 67.69, for a total of 65 under par.
38. Tigers did write an impressive resume during his two years in college — winning 11 times in 26 games and winning the NCAA individual championship in 1996. In that victory, he crushed the whole court amazingly, and despite handing over 80 in the last round, he still won by a four-stroke advantage.
39. Tiger Grand Slam Prologue: Seven holes to play, seven strokes behind, tigers on the 12th-18 holes -5 (including on the 15th hole, four holes to shoot the Eagles), the last nine 31, the final round of 64, beat Matt Gaugel to win the 2000 AT&T Pebble Beach pro-am match, achieving six consecutive wins.
40. The first act of the "Tiger Grand Slam": It was at Pebble Beach again, and tigers scored 67 in the final round to win the 2000 US Open with a huge margin of 15.
41. The second act of the "Tiger Grand Slam": A little bit of convergence, but still very strong - the Tigers won the British Open by 8 strokes at the old stadium. At just 24 years old, he achieved a professional Grand Slam.
42. "Tiger Grand Slam" Act III: Woods beat Bob May in the PGA Championship's extended round, becoming the only second player to win three pro Grand Slams in the same season (Ben Hogan, 1953).
43. Tiger Grand Slam Act IV: An unprecedented four-game Grand Slam win at the 2001 Masters! The tiger's bird push on hole 72 ignited the field. He shot 68 in the final round, while his main rival in the group, Phil Mickelson, scored a 70.
44. After winning the 2008 U.S. Open, Woods was sidelined due to knee surgery, and a glorious period of domination was interrupted. The 2008 U.S. Open was his 17th victory in his last 28 appearances.
45. What about the period of rule from 1999 to 2000? Tiger played 151 rounds, 50 of which ended with him in the lead or tied for the lead.
46. Tigers will officially enter the World Golf Hall of Fame on March 9, ahead of the start of the 2022 Players Championship.