• Woods collected his first strokeplay title of a difficult year when he stormed to an 8-shot victory at the Dunlop Phoenix tournament. His triumph signalled a welcome return to form, after his 5 years reign as world no. 1 was ended by Fiji's Vijai Singh.

• In 1997, Tiger Woods became the youngest-ever Masters champion at age 21 years, three months and 14 days.

• Woods was the youngest (15) ever to win the U.S. Junior Amateur and the youngest (18) to win the U.S. Amateur.

Biography
Born Eldrick Woods on December 30, 1975, in Cypress, California. As soon as he could stand up on his own, Tiger’s parents introduced their only child to the game of golf by giving him a sawed-off putter to practice with. He picked the game up fast and was shooting in the high 40's for nine holes before his third birthday. At the age of 8, he won the first of six Optimist International Junior World Titles. He is the
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