Eldrick "Tiger" Woods (b 1975) is an
American professional golfer whose achievements to date rank him among
the most successful golfers of all time.
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With the announcement, 'Hello World,' Tiger
Woods became a professional golfer in August 1996, and immediately
signed endorsement deals worth $40 million from Nike and $20 million
from Titleist. Currently the World No. 1, Woods was the
highest paid professional athlete in 2005, having earned an estimated
$87 million. In 2006, at the age of 30, he won his eleventh and twelfth
professional major golf championships and has more wins on the PGA Tour
than any other active golfer. He is the only active golfer in the top 10
in career major wins or career PGA Tour wins.
Golf is a game played on a large outdoor
course with a series of 9 or 18 holes spaced far apart, the object being
to propel a small, hard ball with the use of various clubs into each
hole with as few strokes as possible.
The first game of golf for which records
survive was played at Bruntsfield Links, in Edinburgh, Scotland, in
1456, recorded in the archives of the Edinburgh Burgess Golfing Society,
now The Royal Burgess Golfing Society.
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