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2000 PGA Tour season; Duration: January 6, 2000 () – November 12, 2000 () Number of official events: 49: Most wins: Tiger Woods (9) Money list: Tiger Woods: PGA Tour Player of the Year: Tiger Woods: PGA Player of the Year: Tiger Woods: Rookie of the Year: Michael Clark II
Turned professional in August 1996. In his first event as a professional, Woods finished tied for 60th at the Greater Milwaukee Open. Won his first title on the PGA Tour at the Las Vegas Invitational which was a five-round event. Woods won the Walt Disney World/Oldsmobile Classic two weeks later which is the first four-round event that he won.
The 2000 Open Championship was a men's major golf championship and the 129th Open Championship, held from 20 to 23 July at the Old Course in St Andrews, Scotland. Tiger Woods, 24, won his first Open Championship and fourth major title, eight strokes ahead of runners-up Thomas Bjørn and Ernie Els.
For Jack Nicklaus, the moment came in 2000 at Valhalla, the site of next week's PGA Championship.. Nicklaus, then 60, was playing in what would be his final PGA Championship. He missed the cut at ...
Tiger Woods won his second straight PGA Championship and fifth major in a three-hole playoff over Bob May. [2] Woods and May finished at 18 under par to set the PGA Championship record to par, later equaled by Woods in 2006. It was the first time since 1937 that a PGA Championship title was successfully defended, and the first as a stroke play ...
The 2000 United States Open Championship was the 100th U.S. Open Championship, held June 15–18 at Pebble Beach Golf Links in Pebble Beach, California. Tiger Woods won his first U.S. Open by a record-setting fifteen strokes over runners-up Ernie Els and Miguel Ángel Jiménez – it remains the most dominating performance and victory in any major championship.
Woods has won 15 majors, second all time behind Jack Nicklaus' 18. Woods is 14–1 when going into the final round of a major with at least a share of the lead. Woods scoring average in 2000 is the lowest in PGA Tour history, both adjusted, 67.79, and unadjusted, 68.17. [1] Woods has the lowest career scoring average in PGA Tour history.
Only three other players since 2000 have won both the PGA Championship and the Open Championship: Tiger Woods (2000 and 2006), Padraig Harrington (2008) and Rory McIlroy (2014).