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The 1997 Masters Tournament was the 61st Masters Tournament, held April 10–13 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. Tiger Woods won his first major championship, twelve strokes ahead of runner-up Tom Kite. The margin of victory is the largest in the tournament's history.
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.
Nicklaus, Nick Faldo, and Tiger Woods co-hold the record for most consecutive victories with two. Woods was the youngest winner of the Masters, 21 years 104 days old when he won in 1997. [6] Woods also set the record for the widest winning margin (12 strokes). The lowest winning score, with 268, 20-under-par, was scored by Dustin Johnson in ...
April 13 is one of the most remarkable days in sports history thanks to the Masters wins of Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods.
The pair decided that “The Golden Bear” should put the jacket on himself, and in the two repeat occasions since – Nick Faldo in 1990 and Tiger Woods in 2002 – the Masters chairman assumed ...
Woods in 1997. Woods turned professional at age 20 in August 1996 and immediately signed advertising deals with Nike, Inc. and Titleist that ranked as the most lucrative endorsement contracts in golf history at that time. [64] [65] Woods was named Sports Illustrated ' s 1996 Sportsman of the Year and PGA Tour Rookie of the Year. [66]
Woods begins his 26 th Masters on Thursday at 1:24 p.m. alongside Jason Day and Max Homa, and as Couples noted, “the last thing he’s thinking about is making the cut.”
Woods is the only professional golfer to win four majors in a row. Woods finally came from behind in a major championship to win the 2019 Masters. At the 2002 Mercedes Championships at the Plantation Course at the Kapalua Resort in Hawaii, Woods hit a 498-yard drive on the par-5 18th.