His Childhood

    Tiger woods had a lot of success as an amateur. 

"In 1991, at age 15, he became the youngest winner of the U.S. Junior Amateur Championship, on his way to one of the greatest amateur golf careers in the history of the sport. In 1994 he came from six holes behind to win the first of his three consecutive U.S. Amateur Championships." His college career had the same success, with winning eleven times in his two years there, including the 1996 NCAA Division I Championship.

His Iconic Interview

    Woods was interviewed by former player Curtis Strange where you could see the confident of Woods heading into his professional career. In the video, Woods announces his goal to win his first pro event, saying “second sucks and third is even worse.” Strange, taken aback, then reminds Woods that sometimes those finishes aren’t too bad, adding on, “You’ll learn.” This interview went viral because Strange was wrong about Woods since Woods one two tournaments in his first eight starts. 

First Year on Tour

The first year he turned professional was quite amazing. Woods turned professional on August 29, 1996. Playing as a pro in 8

events in 1996, he won two titles and was named the PGA Tour’s Rookie of the Year. No one expected him to start winning the first year because no one did it before. However, he quickly proved those people wrong and never looked back. 

The Win for the Ages

    In 1997, at the Masters, the most iconic tournament there is in golf, Tiger woods play the best golf anybody has seen. He wins the tournament by a record of 12 strokes. This marks the first major tournament Woods he won in his career. According to History (2024), "it also made him the youngest golfer by two years to win the Masters and the first person of Asian or African heritage to win a major."

The "Tiger Slam"

    Tiger Woods has done some things that no one else had done before. An example of this is the Tiger Slam. There is something called the Calendar Grand Slam, which is winning all four majors in the same calendar year, which the only person to do that was in 1930. With that being a extremely hard thing to do, Woods did the next best thing in winning all four majors in a row, but not in the same calendar year, but still remarkable.