All the records Tiger Woods has set at the Masters Tournament
Tiger Woods had everyone fooled on 1 April when he declared that he would be playing at his 27th Masters Tournament in 2025, only to swiftly announce that it was indeed a cruel April Fools joke.
However, with Tiger not participating in play, it allows the rest of the field a chance at taking on Tiger’s impressive world records, set at Augusta National Golf Club.
His third entry into the Masters tournament in 1997 was the first Major win of Tiger’s illustrious career and resulted in him becoming the youngest golfer to win the US Masters at the age of 21 years and 104 days old.
He won the tournament by a margin of 12 strokes to runner up Tom Kite, meaning his first victory is also the largest margin of victory in the US Masters.
Incredibly, after his first nine holes of the tournament, he was 4-over-par.
He managed to recover to 2-under-par by the end of the first day before finishing on the Sunday with a score of -18.
His second and third victories came in 2001 and 2002, meaning he became joint holder of the record title for most consecutive wins of the US Masters.
Jack Nicklaus and Sir Nick Faldo are the only other people to accomplish this feat, in 1965-1966 and 1989-1990 respectively.
Sadly, for Guinness World Records, it’s unquantifiable but in 2005, Woods hit what others have called ‘the greatest shot of all time’.
A chip from off the green at the 16th hole flew on to the green before hitting a downhill slope and almost coming to a complete stop on the edge of the hole and then gently falling into the cup moments later.
Woods went on to win that tournament in a playoff against Chris DiMarco.
And then came a 14-year wait for Tiger to win at Augusta again, for the fifth, and currently, final, time.
He took a hiatus from golf in 2009 and 2010, before flying back to the number-one ranking in 2013 and 2014.
Also, before his last Masters win, he underwent a third back surgery in 2017 and didn’t know if he would ever be able to play golf again.
The win, at the age of 43, was seen as one of the greatest comebacks in the history of sports.
He wasn’t the clear-cut favourite on the final day of play, either; in fact it was the first time he won a major when not leading going into the final day.
His score of -13 was enough to seal his fifth green jacket and made him have the longest gap between successive wins of the US Masters – 14 years.
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