Black History Month – Tiger Woods
…As of January 2007, Woods has won 55 official money events on the PGA Tour and at 30 years and 7 months old, became the youngest to the 50-win mark. At the close of his first eleven seasons, Tiger had eclipsed the all time eleven-season PGA Tour total win record of 52 (set by Byron Nelson) and total majors record of 11 (set by Jack Nicklaus). He also has 20 other individual professional titles, and two team titles in the two-man WGC-World Cup. With his 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 seasons. His victory in the Buick Invitational on January 28, 2007 placed him 2nd for the longest PGA Tour win streak at 7 straight. Only Byron Nelson’s streak of 11 wins in 1945 is longer. He has successfully defended a title 17 times on the PGA Tour, has finished runner-up 20 times, and has won 27% (55 out of 201) of his professional starts on the PGA Tour. He has a 38–3 winning record when leading after 54 holes in TOUR events, and owns the lowest career scoring average and the most career earnings of any player in PGA Tour history. He has been the PGA Tour Money Winner seven times, trailing Jack Nicklaus by one, the PGA Player of the Year a record eight times, and has won the Byron Nelson Award a record seven times. Woods is one of five players (along with Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Jack Nicklaus, and Gary Player) to have won all four professional major championships in his career, known as the “Career Grand Slam”, and was the youngest to do so. Bobby Jones won all four of what were in his era considered major championships. With Woods’s win in the 2005 Open Championship, he became the second golfer (after Nicklaus) to have won all four majors more than once. At the 2003 TOUR Championship, it was widely reported in the print media that he set “an all-time record for most consecutive cuts”, starting in 1998, with 114 (passing Byron Nelson’s previous record of 113) and that he extended this mark to 142 before it ended on May 13, 2005 at the EDS Byron Nelson Championship.[20] Many[21][22][23][24] 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 against stronger fields in terms of depth than those in Nelson’s day)[25][26][27] and given that during the streak, the next longest streak by any other player was usually only in the 10s or 20s…
