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Woods has been the PGA Player of the Year a record eleven times. Woods has been the PGA Tour Player of the Year a record eleven times. Woods has been the PGA Tour Money Leader a record ten times. Woods has been the Vardon Trophy winner a record nine times. Woods has been the recipient of the Byron Nelson Award a record nine times.
Woods first broke 70 on a regulation golf course at age 12. [42] When Woods was 13 years old, he played in the 1989 Big I, which was his first major national junior tournament. In the final round, he was paired with pro John Daly, who was then relatively unknown. The event's format placed a professional with each group of juniors who had qualified.
The Vardon Trophy was awarded by the PGA of America to the PGA Tour's leader in scoring average. [1] When the award was first given in 1937, it was awarded on the basis of a points system. No award was given from 1942–1946 due to World War II .
Woods's major championship streak was seriously threatened at the 2000 PGA Championship, when Bob May went head-to-head with Woods on Sunday at Valhalla Golf Club. However, Woods played the last twelve holes of regulation seven under par, and won a three-hole aggregate playoff over May with a birdie on the first hole and pars on the next two.
Selected by a panel comprising the PGA European Tour, the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St.Andrews, and the Association of Golf Writers. Seve Ballesteros Award: 2008 Selected by a ballot of tour members. Founded as the European Tour's Players' Player of the Year Award, and renamed in honour of Ballesteros in 2017.
The Players Championship at one point offered the highest purse of any tournament in golf (from $12.5 million in 2019 up to $25 million in 2023). [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The field usually includes the top 50 players in the world rankings , but, unlike the major championships , it is owned by the PGA Tour and not an official event on other tours.
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