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Tiger Woods, a Dawning Career, Part 2

Part 2

In June 1999, Woods won the Memorial Tournament. This was the beginning of a sustained period of dominance of men's golf. He won seventeen PGA Tour events in two calendar years, and 32 in five years. He won seven out of eleven major championships starting with the 1999 PGA Championship and finishing with the 2002 U.S. Open.

The next phase of Woods' career was relatively disappointing. He did not win a major in 2003 or 2004, and fell to second in the PGA Tour money list in 2003 and to fourth in 2004. In September of 2004, Woods' record streak as the world's top-ranked golfer, with a record of 264 consecutive weeks at the top, came to an end at the Deutsche Bank Championship when Vijay Singh won the tournament and overtook Woods in the rankings. Around this time Woods let it be known that he was once again working on changes to his swing, and hoped that once the adjustments were complete he would get back to his best.

Woods played well in the 2004 off-season and at the start of the 2005 PGA Tour season. On 6 March he won the Ford Championship at Doral and returned to Number 1 in the World Rankings.

As of the 7th of March 2005, Woods has won 42 official money events on the PGA Tour and 15 other professional titles. He is one of only five players (along with Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player) in the history of golf to have won all four professional major championships in his career. At the 2003 TOUR Championship, he set an all-time record for most consecutive cuts made, with 114, and by early February 2005 he had extended this streak to 135.

Tiger Woods deservedly won the "World Sportsman of the Year" award at the Laureus World Sports Awards in 2000 and 2001. Woods is the only two-time winner as an individual of Sports Illustrated magazine's "Sportsman of the Year," winning in 1996 and again in 2000. The highlights to this young man's career are indeed numerous, but his greatest highlight is perhaps what he has done for the game of golf. Indeed every generation has had that premier golfer who meant more to the game of golf than what could be simply measured on the various fairways and greens. Ben Hogan, Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and so many others transcended the notice of the mere golfing community and became great sporting icons.

While playing the game they all so loved (and on occasion, so despised) each brought honour and notoriety to golf. Like Woods, each of these masters left the game a greater game simply for having played it. Though he has barely approach mid-career, Tiger Woods can already be counted among these men, these heroes of golf, these true icons of sport.

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Part 2

In June 1999, Woods won the Memorial Tournament. This was the beginning of a sustained period of dominance of men's golf. He won seventeen PGA Tour events in two calendar years, and 32 in five years. He won seven out of eleven major championships starting with the 1999 PGA Championship and finishing with the 2002 U.S. Open.

The next phase of Woods' career was relatively disappointing. He did not win a major in 2003 or 2004, and fell to second in the PGA Tour money list in 2003 and to fourth in 2004. In September of 2004, Woods' record streak as the world's top-ranked golfer, with a record of 264 consecutive weeks at the top, came to an end at the Deutsche Bank Championship when Vijay Singh won the tournament and overtook Woods in the rankings. Around this time Woods let it be known that he was once again working on changes to his swing, and hoped that once the adjustments were complete he would get back to his best.

Woods played well in the 2004 off-season and at the start of the 2005 PGA Tour season. On 6 March he won the Ford Championship at Doral and returned to Number 1 in the World Rankings.

As of the 7th of March 2005, Woods has won 42 official money events on the PGA Tour and 15 other professional titles. He is one of only five players (along with Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player) in the history of golf to have won all four professional major championships in his career. At the 2003 TOUR Championship, he set an all-time record for most consecutive cuts made, with 114, and by early February 2005 he had extended this streak to 135.

Tiger Woods deservedly won the "World Sportsman of the Year" award at the Laureus World Sports Awards in 2000 and 2001. Woods is the only two-time winner as an individual of Sports Illustrated magazine's "Sportsman of the Year," winning in 1996 and again in 2000. The highlights to this young man's career are indeed numerous, but his greatest highlight is perhaps what he has done for the game of golf. Indeed every generation has had that premier golfer who meant more to the game of golf than what could be simply measured on the various fairways and greens. Ben Hogan, Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and so many others transcended the notice of the mere golfing community and became great sporting icons.

While playing the game they all so loved (and on occasion, so despised) each brought honour and notoriety to golf. Like Woods, each of these masters left the game a greater game simply for having played it. Though he has barely approach mid-career, Tiger Woods can already be counted among these men, these heroes of golf, these true icons of sport.