Tiger Woods

The publicity which activists are able to attract for their views about an individual are proportionate to the individual's fame, so it could be considered that this negative publicity says little about Woods' personal ethics relative to those of other golfers, or of members of the general public. Recurring role--Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Recurring role--Felicity, Michael Jackson's "Black or White" video, George Michael Video with Linda Evangelista. Specific criticisms of things he has done personally have included those of his endorsement of an SUV (the 2002 Buick Rendezvous) deemed second-most-dangerous by the IIHS, and of mutual funds which do not meet certain activists' ethical investment criteria. In the Fall, Tyra has plans to start a weekly talk show. Some of these criticisms concern golf in general, and the mention of Woods is a device to attract publicity by utilising the name of a top celebrity. With rising ratings, the show has become very popular as viewers cheer for their favorite model contestant during the weekly competitions and eliminations. Some activists have criticised him on certain social and environmental issues. Banks is the host, chief judge, and executive producer (with Ken Mok) of the UPN television show America's Next Top Model.

As mentioned above he has funded university scholarships and is founding a learning centre. Banks has expanded from modeling into television. Page wrote, "That works out fine for his bank account, but, for too many others it only reinforces the wrongheaded notion that academics should take a back seat to athletics." Others see the inclusion of Woods in this debate as inappropriate, arguing that his main responsibility was to make the right decision for his own career, that he had the backing of his parents, who are certainly not feckless, and that subsequent events suggest he timed his entry to professional golf appropriately. In 1997, Tyra won the prestigious Michael Award for Supermodel of the Year. Clarence Page of the Chicago Tribune decried the "racially charged, money-linked sports obsession" fueled by a "fixation in which the riches and fame of such sports heroes as Michael Jordan have caused a wildly disproportionate number of young black Americans, in particular, to focus on the brass ring of professional sports at the expense of more realistic and productive career paths." Woods dropped out of Stanford after two years to pursue his golf career. In particular, Tyra is famous for her Victoria's Secret work. It should be noted that Woods is only one quarter African American, and has said that he does not regard it as his primary identity. Banks was the first African-American to be featured on the cover of Gentlemen's Quarterly, Sports Illustrated's swimsuit issue and the Victoria's Secret catalog.

Woods has also been mentioned in relation to certain wider controversies, including the debate about the role of sport in the aspirations of American youth, especially African American youth, which some consider to be unhealthy. Her modeling credits include Cover Girl, Swatch, Pepsi, Nike, Tommy Hilfiger, Ralph Lauren, and Dolce & Gabbana, among many others. The mainstream view is that Woods' success is one of the most positive things that has ever happened to golf. She has been featured in a wide array of magazines, commercials, and billboards. As of 2005 it is no longer heard. Instead of heading to school, Tyra headed to Paris for fashion shows and soon became internationally known. However, Woods was unable to keep up the winning streak, and the increases in television ratings and prize money which have occurred since Woods arrived on the golf scene have discredited the negative view of his impact on the game. In 1991, Banks was just weeks away from starting her freshman year at Loyola Marymount University when Elite Modeling Agency gave the 17-year-old her first modeling job.

At first, some feared that Woods could drive all spirit of competition out of the game of golf, by obsoleting existing courses, and having no competitors. Banks was born in Los Angeles, California and attended Immaculate Heart High School. This issue was most prominent in around 2001-02 when he was at his most dominant game level. "The question has been asked, seriously, and more than once: Isn't Tiger Woods actually bad for golf?" - commented Bill Lyon of Knight-Ridder, before going on to argue that he wasn't. Tyra Banks (born December 4, 1973) is an African-American supermodel and is considered one of the top models in the world. Early in Woods' career a small number of golf experts expressed concern about his impact on the competitiveness and thus the public appeal of professional golf. Higher Learning (1995). Tiger Woods has established several charitable and youth projects. A Woman Like That (1997).

He is also notable for playing in more international tourmanents than most top American golfers, although it should be pointed out that this only means two or three a year, besides The Open Championship, and he is said to receive seven figure appearance fees for most of them. Love Stinks (1999). He plays fewer tournaments than most professionals (twenty or twenty one a year compared to the typical twenty five to thirty), and focuses his efforts on preparing for and competing in the majors and most prestigious of the other tournaments. Life-Size (2000). He aims for consistency: although he is better than any other golfer when he is in form, his dominance comes not from having best rounds that are better then the other leading professionals' bests, but from having fewer bad rounds. Love and Basketball (2000). Although he is considered charismatic, Woods' approach is essentially cautious. Coyote Ugly (2000).

He was involved in a media spat with Harmon, who also works as a golf broadcaster, when Harmon suggested that he was in "denial" about the problems in his game, but they publicly patched up their differences. Halloween: Resurrection (2002). Early in his professional career Woods's worked with the leading swing coach Butch Harmon, but since he has been coached by the less-heralded Hank Haney. Larceny (2004). He is largely responsible for a shift to higher standards of athleticism amongst professional golfers, and is known for putting in more hours of practice than most. His driving is generally accurate, his approach play accurate, his recovery and bunker play sometimes brilliant, and his putting is usually reliable.

He has instead focused on developing an excellent all-around game. However, while he remains a long driver, he is by no means the longest, and does not attempt to be. When Woods burst onto the golf scene one the things which made the biggest impact on fans was his long driving. Major championships are shown in bold.

In 2004 Forbes Magazine estimated that the two men both had an annual income of $80 million. He is one of the two highest earning sports people in the world, alongside Formula One driver Michael Schumacher. Woods makes most of his income from endorsement contracts. In addition to his PGA Tour wins, he has won a number of events on professional tours outside North America, and several professional events which were not part of an official tour schedule.

Woods was only a professional for around one third of the 1996 season. * Updated 14th June 2005. DNP = did not play
WD = withdrew
CUT = missed the half way cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place. The above performances have also given him the record victory margin in two majors:.

The "to par" and "low 72-holes" records are not always the same because while most championship golf course have a par of 72, or 288 for four rounds, some have a par of 71 or 70:. Woods holds at least a share of the record for lowest 72-hole score in relation to par in all four majors, and at least a share of the low-72 holes record in two of them. The achievement has been nicknamed "The Tiger Slam". With his victory in The Masters in 2001, he became the only man to have held all four professional majors at once, although this did not occur in a calendar year, and is therefore not recognized by some as a true Grand Slam.

Woods' major championship victories are as follows:. He is the only two-time winner as an individual of Sports Illustrated magazine's "Sportsman of the Year" award (1996, 2000). Woods won the "World Sportsman of the Year" award at the Laureus World Sports Awards in 2000 and 2001. Many commentators consider this one of the most remarkable golf accomplishments of all time, given the margin by which he broke the old record (and against much stronger fields than those in Nelson's day) and given that during the streak, the next longest streak by another player was usually only in the 10s or 20s.

At the 2003 TOUR Championship, he set an all-time record for most consecutive cuts made with 114 (passing Byron Nelson's previous record of 113), and extended this mark to 142 before it ended on 13 May 2005 at the EDS Byron Nelson Championship. 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. To date, Woods has won 43 official money events on the PGA Tour and 15 other professional titles. Singh and Woods have continued to swap the number 1 position several more times during the 2005 season, with neither able to establish a lasting advantage.

On 10 April, Woods broke his "drought" in the majors by winning the 2005 Masters in a tie-breaking playoff, which also assured him of returning to Number 1 in the World Rankings once again. On 6 March he won the Ford Championship at Doral and returned to Number 1 in the World Rankings, but just two weeks later, Singh displaced him once again. At the start of the 2005 PGA Tour season, Woods returned to his winning ways. At 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.

In September 2004, Woods' record streak as the world's top-ranked golfer - 264 consecutive weeks - came to an end at the Deutsche Bank Championship when Vijay Singh won the tournament and overtook Woods in the rankings. 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 on 2004. The next phase of Woods career saw him remain among the top competitors on the tour, but lose his dominating edge. Open.

Open. During this time, he also broke Old Tom Morris' record for the largest victory margin ever in a major championship, which had stood since 1862, with his 15-shot win in the 2000 U.S. He won seven out of eleven major championships starting with the 1999 PGA Championship and finishing with the 2002 U.S. He won seventeen PGA Tour events in two calendar years, and 32 in five, both of them achievements that hadn't been rivaled for several decades, and golf in Woods' era is generally seen as having much more strength in depth than in earlier periods. This was the beginning of a sustained period of dominance of men's golf.

In June 1999, Woods won the Memorial Tournament. Woods was careful to avoid using this as an excuse and instead responded to questions about his wavering form with reminders that he was still very young, and was hoping to do better in the future. At this time he was working on modifications to his swing to adapt to the maturation of his physique, and to address concerns that the extremely vigourous and elastic swing he had used in his youth might cause him back problems in the long term and truncate his career. Despite suggestions that the other players would only be competing for second place from now on, Woods' form began to fade in the second half of 1997, and in 1998 he only won once on the PGA Tour.

The inspiration of working closely with a brilliant young talent was widely regarded as a catalyst for O'Meara's own career year in 1998, when he won the only two majors of his career. O'Meara acted as a mentor to him for a time, and the two men won the World Cup together. Woods formed a close friendship with leading PGA Tour professional Mark O'Meara, who was almost twenty years his senior. In the summer of 1997 Woods went to number one in the Official World Golf Rankings for the first time.

The following April he won The Masters by a record margin of 12 shots, and he has been by far the highest profile golfer in the world since then. He won two events in the three months of the 1996 season that he played as a professional. Woods became a professional golfer in August 1996 playing his first round of professional golf at the Greater Milwaukee Open (GMO). Woods decided to leave Stanford after two years because he believed he was ready to succeed as a professional.

He attended Stanford University and won one NCAA individual championship. With his first US Amateur win in 1994, the year that he graduated high school, he became the youngest man ever to win that event. Amateur titles the next three years. He followed this with three consecutive U.S.

He remains the youngest ever winner and the only multiple winner. Junior Amateur title in 1991, 1992 and 1993. He went on to win the U.S. He was only eight at the time, but 9-10 was the youngest age group in those days.

In 1984 he won the 9-10 boys' event at the Junior World Golf Championships. Woods was a child prodigy who began to play golf at very young age. While still a small child, he demonstrated his golf skills in a television appearance with Bob Hope. They presently make their home in Windermere, a suburb of Orlando, Florida. They married in a sunset ceremony at the Sandy Lane Hotel and Golf Club on Barbados amid armed security before approximately 200 family and friends on October 5, 2004.

They were introduced by Swedish golf star Jesper Parnevik, who had employed her as a nanny. In 2003, Woods became engaged to Elin Nordegren, a Swedish model. By the time he was achieving national prominence in amateur golf, he was always called Tiger Woods. He was nicknamed Tiger at birth after a Vietnamese war comrade of his father's and became generally known by that name.

Woods' actual given name is Eldrick. Woods' mother Kultida Woods is of Thai and Chinese ancestry. He is now the chairman of his son's charitable Tiger Woods Foundation. Army lieutenant colonel, of mixed African American, European, and Native American ancestry.

His father, Earl Woods, is a Vietnam War veteran and a retired U.S. Woods is from a comfortable social background. Woods, who is of mixed race, is credited with prompting a major surge of interest in the game of golf, especially among racial minorities and younger people in the United States. He also holds the PGA Tour record for most consecutive tournament cuts made with 142.

In 2005, at the age of 29, he reached the milestone of nine major golf championships at a younger age than any other player. Eldrick "Tiger" Woods (born December 30, 1975, Cypress, California), is considered one of the greatest golfers of all time. Tiger Woods Foundation National Junior Golf Team: An eighteen member team which competes in the annual Junior World Golf Championships. The event also carries generous prize money, but Woods donates his winnings to his foundation.

Target World Challenge: An annual off-season charity golf tournament. 2005's Tiger Jam VIII will be headlined by Stevie Wonder and Counting Crows. Tiger Jam: An annual fundraising concert. The center's website states, "Our mission is to provide an interactive enrichment program that will improve individual aptitude in reading, math, science and technology". The centre will feature extensive multi-media facilities and an outdoor golf teaching area.

There will also be summer programs, weekend and community outreach programs and online learning programs. It is expected to be used by several thousand students each year, with a day program for grades 4 to 6 and an after school program for grades 7 to 12. Tiger Woods Learning Center: This is a 35,000 square foot (3,000 mē) educational facility due to open in Anaheim, California in 2005. Jude Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee; the Start Something character development program, which had had over one million participants by 2003; and the Tiger Woods Learning Center.

Further activities added since then include participation include university scholarships, an association with Target House at St. Initially these comprised golf clinics (aimed especially at disadvantaged children), and a grant program. It focuses on projects for children. The Tiger Woods Foundation: The Tiger Woods Foundation was established in 1996 by Tiger Woods and his father Earl.

2004 Dunlop Phoenix (Japan Golf Tour), Target World Challenge (United States - unofficial event). 2002 Deutsche Bank-SAP Open TPC of Europe (PGA European Tour), PGA Grand Slam of Golf (United States - unofficial event). 2001 Deutsche Bank-SAP Open TPC of Europe (PGA European Tour), Williams World Challenge (United States - unofficial event), PGA Grand Slam of Golf (United States - unofficial event). 2000 Johnnie Walker Classic (co-sanctioned by Asian Tour and PGA European Tour), World Cup of Golf: team (unofficial event - with David Duval), PGA Grand Slam of Golf (United States - unofficial event).

1999 Deutsche Bank Open-TPC of Europe (PGA European Tour), World Cup of Golf: individual (unofficial event), World Cup of Golf: team (unofficial event - with Mark O'Meara), PGA Grand Slam of Golf (United States - unofficial event). 1998 Johnnie Walker Classic (co-sanctioned by Asian Tour and PGA European Tour), PGA Grand Slam of Golf (United States - unofficial event). 1997 Asian Honda Classic (Asian Tour). 2005 Buick Invitational, Ford Championship at Doral, The Masters.

2004 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship. 2003 Buick Invitational, WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship, Bay Hill Invitational presented by Cooper Tires, 100th Western Open presented by Golf Digest, WGC-American Express Championship. Open, Buick Open, WGC-American Express Championship. 2002 Bay Hill Invitational presented by Cooper Tires, The Masters, U.S.

2001 Bay Hill Invitational, The Players Championship, The Masters, Memorial Tournament, WGC-NEC Invitational. Open, The Open Championship, PGA Championship, WGC-NEC Invitational, Bell Canadian Open. 2000 Mercedes Championships, AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, Bay Hill Invitational, Memorial Tournament, U.S. 1999 Buick Invitational, Memorial Tournament, Motorola Western Open, PGA Championship, WGC-NEC Invitational, National Car Rental Golf Classic/Disney, The Tour Championship, WGC-American Express Championship.