Tiger Woods is a prominent name and person in the world of sports, specifically in golf. The name and person is also prominent after the scandal of his womanizing became public which led to a lot of other derogatory stories and publicities about him. Due to all of these, Tiger Woods became less and less popular, and his game strategies are clearly affected. But as the saying goes that “you cannot put a good man down”, clearly, Tiger Woods has done a lot of good things in sports, specifically to the game he love so well. He may have put many people down for his indecency with women and his family life but he is still a king when it comes to golf.
To date, Tiger Woods is the most successful golfer in the world and the highest paid sportsman
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Amateur Championship in Florida’s TPC at Sawgrass. He continued to defend the title until Danny Lee broke it in 2008. He then became a member for the Eisenhower Trophy World Amateur Golf Team Championships in 1994 as well as the Walker Cup in 1995. Upon graduation at 18 in 1994, he received the highest votes for the "Most Likely to Succeed".
With his notable skills and prominence in the sports he had chosen, Tiger Woods became the apple of the eye of very many heavyweight in golf colleges. He finally chose Stanford University and enrolled to major in economics on fall. He won the 40th William H. Tucker Invitational on September 1994 for the school. Notah Begay III nicknamed him Urkel out of this turn of events. The following year, he defended his US amateur title at Newport Country Club, Rhode Island. He was then voted Stanford's Male Freshman of the Year, NCAA First Team All-American, and Pac-10 Player of the Year.
At 19, Tiger Woods finally joined Masters Tournament, his first ever major PGA Tour, and tied at 41st. He was the sole amateur who made it to the tournament. At 20, he became the first ever winner of three consecutive amateur titles in the US. He capped it off with a win at the NCAA individual golf championship. At 20, Tiger Woods turned professional and left college and eventually left California for tax rates as admitted in his 2013