Tiger Woods ruled golf in 2000 in a manner that may never be matched, but one of his peers may have an insight into one of the reasons for that dominance.
Britain's Lee Westwood maintained ice-cool composure while fending off an electrifying back-nine charge by Phil Mickelson to take a one-shot lead after Saturday's third round of the US Masters. While Tiger Woods clawed his way back into contention after losing his cool early on, Westwood fired a four-under-par 68 in glorious spring sunshine at Augusta National to post a 12-under total of 204.
Tiger Woods mixed dazzling brilliance with occasional moments of sloppiness while charging into a three-shot lead in the second round of the Chevron World Challenge on Friday.
Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson were set to miss the cut as US Open champion Webb Simpson moved one stroke clear in Friday's second round of the weather-delayed Greenbrier Classic at White Sulphur Springs in West Virginia.
Tiger Woods has lashed out at veteran golf writer Dan Jenkins for penning a fake satirical interview with the 14-time major winner, describing the parody as 'a grudge-fueled piece of character assassination'.
A year after surrendering his top ranking, Tiger Woods finds himself ranked 51st -- his lowest in almost 15 years.
Vijay Singh inched to within 3.08 points of Woods following his victory in the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am.
Tiger Woods said fatigue was the reason he skipped this week's World Golf Championship event in China.
The American golfer was voted the "ultimate sports star" in a survey conducted last month by ESPN TV.
Tiger Woods sank to the bottom of the US Open leaderboard after an opening round 10-over 80 on Thursday, but vowed to fight on and return to the top.
Despite Lewis Hamilton's uneasiness at comparisons to Tiger Woods, the similarities between the two are striking.
The American needs to finish no worse than outright third at the rain-delayed Nissan Open to regain his status as the game's leading player.\n
The 35-year-old McIlroy arrived at the year's first major, where in 2011 he blew a four-shot lead on the back nine, seeking his first major since August 2014 to end a barren run that came with its fair share of near misses.
Tiger Woods's taxpayer-funded visits Down Under did nothing to help Australia's ailing golf tour, which is stuck in a losing battle for relevance unless it does more to embrace Asia, according to five-times British Open champion Peter Thomson.
Woods had "extremely slow and slurred speech" after being awoken by a Jupiter police officer, who found the golfer's car stopped in the right lane of the roadway and still running, the report said.
The American stays at number two in the official world rankings but trails world number one Vijay Singh by just 0.76 points.
Tiger Woods stormed to an eight-shot victory at the Dunlop Phoenix tournament to claim his first strokeplay title this year.
Tiger Woods fired a five-under-par 65 to move 10 shots clear after the third round of the Dunlop Phoenix tournament on Saturday.
Tiger Woods' image may be tarnished after admitting to marital infidelities, but most Americans would support him representing the country on a US Olympic golf team.
Tiger Woods will return to competition this week at the Wachovia Championship after a three-week layoff.
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Even the prospect of a golf landscape temporarily minus Tiger Woods is not one PGA Tour officials, advertisers and sponsors care to ponder as speculation swirls around the popular athlete's private life, which has kept him secluded in his Florida home. Yet as corporate sponsors like Gatorade and Gillette consider ways to deal with recent negative coverage of the world's No. 1 golfer, some media companies are seeing an upside.
India's top golfer intends to show his stripes at the US $5 million HSBC Champions, and there will be no better way than doing it in the presence of the world number one.
Tiger Woods needs to show some humility and appear in public to admit he "messed up" by cheating on his wife, eight times major winner Tom Watson said on Wednesday. The world number one has taken an indefinite break from the sport after admitting in December on his website that he had been unfaithful to his wife.
The former world number one appeared pain free at the Albany course on the island of New Providence where he mixed five birdies with two bogeys for a three-under-par 69.
Woods overcame Adam Scott of Australia while Toms beat Peter Lonard \n\nin the semi-finals.
On a perfect day when birdies were in abundance, Jeev Milkha Singh and Jyoti Randhawa began with a bang and returned identical cards of five-under 67 to finish tied second behind Tiger Woods after the opening round in the Dubai Desert Classic on Thursday.
German golfer Martin Kaymer leapfrogged Tiger Woods to become the world number two when he stormed his way to an eight-shot victory in the Abu Dhabi Championship on Sunday.
Major winners Francesco Molinari, Louis Oosthuizen, Brooks Koepka, Jason Day and Adam Scott shared top spot at the Masters on Friday at the end of the second round, but it was Tiger Woods who commanded the spotlight once again at Augusta National.
Tiger Woods, who demolished the opposition by a record 15 strokes at the 2000 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach, made a less than triumphant return to the Pacific coast layout on Thursday with a three-over-par 74.
Injuries from the "embarrassing" car crash, which is still a subject of investigation and speculation, have forced World No 1 Tiger Woods to opt out of the golf tournament he hosts every year for his charity foundation.
Tiger Woods will probably miss the halfway cut at the US Open despite recording birdies on the final two holes of his two-over-par 72 second round at Shinnecock Hills on Friday.
Tiger Woods, Adam Scott and Henrik Stenson are among the five nominees for the PGA Tour's Player of the Year, the tour said on Monday.
Tournament host Tiger Woods has announced a strong field featuring five of the world's top 10 players for the year-ending Chevron World Challenge.
Tiger Woods may be the greatest golfer of his generation but at the Ryder Cup he has been Joe Average and on Tuesday accepted responsibility for the dismal US showing for the past 15 years.
South Korean Yang Yong-eun became Asia's first male major winner after overhauling Tiger Woods in stunning fashion to clinch the US PGA Championship by three shots on Sunday. Trailing world number one and overwhelming favourite Woods by two strokes overnight, Yang, ranked 110th in the world, kept his composure in difficult, swirling winds at Hazeltine National to fire a two-under-par 70.
Tiger Woods is not guaranteed a spot on the US Ryder Cup team and will have to play his way on like every other player, skipper Corey Pavin said on Sunday.
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