Tiger Woods was born Eldrick Tont Woods on December 30th 1975 in Cypress, California.
Tiger is a childhood nickname, that he got from his father who had a friend he knew in the army named Vuong Dang Phong that also had that nickname, Tiger's dad decided to give is son the same nickname in honor of him.
Tiger Woods father Earl, pushed golfing on Tiger Woods at a young age. It paid of Young Tiger was a golfing prodigy at the age of 3. Young Tiger Woods even played against Bob Hope on The Mike Douglas Show. At age 5 he was already appearing in Golf Digest, at age 8 he won the Jr World Golf Championships at the youngest age bracket he could enter 9-10.
at the age of 15 Tiger Woods become the youngest U.S. Junior Amateur Champion ever and in 1991 he won that title again and become that tournaments first multi-winner.
In 1994 Tiger Woods become a student at Standford and played on their golfing team as he majored in economics.
in 1996 Tiger Woods went pro, Tiger Woods first round as a professional golfer was the Greater Milwaukee Open. Right out of the gate Tiger made headlines and got early endorsement deals (Nike at $40 million and Titleist at $20 million)
Tiger then went on to play the Master, he won with a score under 18 pair and only 12 strokes.
Since then Tiger has pretty much dominated the game of golf. Yes in 03 and 04 he was out shadowed a bit but Tiger quickly tweaked his game and was on top.
Tiger Woods maybe the most popular golfer in history and has done more to make the sport mainstream, then any golfer in recent times. Heck even with Tiger Woods' recent scandal he is bring attention to the game of golf that the sport wouldn't get before (who knew golf at groupies)
