Here are 20 things you might not know specifically about Tiger Woods:
1. Real name is Eldrick Tont Woods – EldricK whose first and last letters come from the first letter (E) of his father Earl’s name and the first letter (K) of his mother Kultida Punsawad (Thailand). . And the name Tont is a traditional name of the land of golden temples.
2. Tiger’s father, Earl Woods, is an African American who fought in Vietnam. Therefore, Tiger’s name was named after his Vietnamese friend, General Vuong Dang Phong, known by the nickname Tiger Phong.
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Tiger and his father Earl Wood and mother Kulture (Photo: Getty Images)
3. Tiger Woods was born in Cypress, California – USA
4. Tiger Woods had a stutter since childhood and overcame it by attending school classes and talking to dogs at night.
5. Mr. Earl introduced him to golf from a very young age. Tiger often watched his father hit golf balls in the garage while sitting on a high chair when he was just 6 months old.
6. Tiger started his first golf course, the Navy Golf Course, with his father. Tiger Woods shot 48 after 9 holes when he was just 3 years old.
Tiger developed his talent from a young age (Photo: Getty Images)
7. Tiger Woods broke 80 at age 8, and broke 70 for the first time at age 12.
8. Tiger won the US Amateur Championship 3 years in a row (1994-1996). Currently Tiger is still the only one who can do that.
9. Also in 1996, Tiger Woods won the NCAA Championship Division 1. He is one of 5 golfers who won the US Amateur and NCAA championships in the same year – including Jack Nicklaus, Phil Mickelson, and recently Bryson DeChambeau and Ryan Moore.
10. Tiger likes sports, including basketball – rugby and diving.
11. Tiger opened its first golf course in 2016, Bluejack National in Montgomery, Texas.
12. At the age of 24, Tiger became the youngest golfer in history to complete the entire Grandslam Major.
In 2000, Tiger won 3 consecutive Majors and the PGA Championship helped him complete the entire Grand Slam early. (Photo: Getty Images)
13. His The Tiger Woods Foundation helps children around the world learn.
14. He and his ex-wife Elin Nordegren have two children together, 11-year-old daughter Sam and 9-year-old son Charlie.
15. Tiger is the 3rd golfer with the most European Tour titles in history even though he never fully competed in this system.
16. Tiger attended Stanford University for 2 years and never graduated. Instead, he turned to professional golf and made a fortune.
17. He became the first sports athlete to reach $1 billion in net worth. As of 2018, this figure was around $740 million.
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Tiger Woods earns $30 million a year from Nike sponsorship.
18. Tiger follows Buddhism.
19. Tiger holds a record of 683 weeks as world number 1, twice as long as second place Greg Norman.
20. Tiger Woods wore a red shirt on Sunday when competing on his mother’s advice. Mrs. Kultida said this was Tiger’s lucky color and he listened to his mother. Since then, wearing a red shirt on final day has become Tiger’s own trademark.
