| Year | Age | Details |
| 1975 | Birth date | Eldrick Woods born on Decemner 30th in Southern California to Earl and Kultida Woods. |
| 1976 | 6 Months | Sees his father hitting golf balls into a net and begins to imitate his swing. |
| 1978 | 2 Years | Appears on the Mike Douglas Show and putts against comedian Bob Hope. |
| 1979 | 3 Years | Shoots a 48 over nine holes at the Navy Golf Club in Cypress, Calif. |
| 1981 | 5 Years | Appears in Golf Digest magazine and on ABC's That's Incredible. |
| 1984 | 8 Years | Wins the Optimist International Junior Championship. |
| 1991 | 15 Years | Becomes the youngest U.S. Junior Amateur Champion in golf history. |
| 1992 | 16 Years | Successfully defends title at the U.S. Junior National Championships, becoming the first golfer to win the title more than once (he would win the following year as well). Competes in his first PGA Tour event, the Nissan Los Angeles Open. |
| 1994 | 18 Years | Wins the U.S. Amateur Championship at the TPC at Sawgrass, becoming the youngest winner ever. Enrolls at Stanford University and wins first collegiate event, the William Tucker Invitational. |
| 1995 | 19 Years | Defends title as U.S. Amateur champion. Voted Pac-10 Player of the Year, NCAA First Team All-American, and Stanford's Male Freshman of the Year (an award that encompasses all sports). Participates in the Masters, his first PGA major tournament, and ties for 41st as the only amateur to make the cut. |
| 1996 | 20 Years | Becomes the first golfer in history to win three consecutive U.S. Amateur titles. Turns pro in August and signs endorsement deals worth $40 million from Nike and $20 million from Titleist. Wins the Las Vegas International and the Disney/Oldsmobile Classic. Voted Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year. |
| 1997 | 21 Years | Leading money winner on the PGA Tour with a record $2,066,833 in earnings. Wins first major championship, The Masters, by an amazing 12 strokes, the widest margin of victory the tournament has ever seen. Becomes youngest Masters winner ever, and the first of African or Asian descent. Wins three other PGA events. Achieves No. 1 world ranking in his 42nd week as a pro. Voted PGA Player of the Year and Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year. |
| 1998 | 22 Years | This year is considered a "slump" as he wins only one official PGA event and finishes fourth on the PGA Tour money list with $1,841,117. |
| 1999 | 23 Years | Earns the most money on the PGA Tour with a record $6,616,585 in winnings for the year. Records 16 top-10 finishes in 21 PGA Tour starts and makes the cut in all 21. Wins second PGA major title with a one-shot victory over Sergio Garcia in the PGA Championship . Records eight PGA victories overall, including the final four official tournaments of the year. Voted PGA Player of the Year and AP Male Athlete of the Year for the second time in three years. |
| 2000 | 24 Years | Opens the year with wins at the Mercedes Championship and AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, his fifth and sixth consecutive PGA Tour victories (the longest streak since Ben Hogan in 1948). Wins U.S. Open at Pebble Beach by a record 15 strokes, the largest margin of victory ever recorded at a major tournament. Breaks or ties a total of nine records at the U.S. Open. Becomes the Tour's all-time career money leader.
Becomes the fifth player in history (and youngest ever) to complete the career Grand Slam by winning the British Open by eight strokes. His 19-under 269 is the best score ever at St. Andrews and the lowest score (in relation to par) at a major tournament.
Defeats Bob May in a three-hole playoff at Valhalla in Louisville to win his second consecutive PGA Championship and third consecutive major title. He joins Ben Hogan (1953) as the only two players to win three majors in one season. |
| 2001 | 25 Years | In April, wins the Masters tournament, becomes the first golfer to be reigning champion of all four majors simultaneously. Wins five overall PGA events and takes home PGA Player of the Year honors for the third consecutive year. |
| 2002 | 26 Years | Wins second consecutive Masters, third overall, with a three-stroke victory over Retief Goosen. Becomes the youngest golfer in history to win seven PGA majors. In June, he goes on to win his second U.S. Open at Bethpage Black. |
| 2003 | 27 Years | Although he didn't win any of the major titles this year, Tiger still came in first in 5 of the 18 tournaments he entered, and ended the season winning over $6.6 million dollars. |
| 2004 | 28 Years | Early in the year, Tiger became the first player to pass the $40 million mark in career earnings. A tough year for Tiger, he loses his number one ranking to a hot Vijay Singh after Singh, Woods, and Adam Scott battle it out at the Deutsche Bank Championship over the Labor Day weekend. Tiger had been at the top since Aug. 1999—a record 264 weeks. |
| 2005 | 29 Years | In January, Tiger wins the Buick Invitational, ending a slump that started in 2003. The last full-field PGA tournament he won was the Western Open in July 2003.
In April, Tiger defeats Chris DiMarco in a playoff to win the Masters for the fourth time. Tiger joins six-time winner Jack Nicklaus and other four-time winner Arnold Palmer as the only players to win four or more Masters.
With a commanding 5-stroke victory, Tiger takes the British Open trophy for the second time. This is his 10th major title and he joins Jack Nicklaus in being the only players to win all four major tournaments at least twice. |
| 2006 | 30 Years | A good omen for Tiger for the fourth time in his professional career he opens the season with a win. He wins the Buick Invitational at Torrey Pines in an exciting three-way playoff, defeating Nathan Green and Jose Maria Olazabal.
Earl Woods, 74, Tiger's father and the guiding force behind his career, dies of cancer in early May. |
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