Tiger Woods - 2008 PGA Championship Player

Tiger Woods hits his tee shot on the 16th hole during the final round of the 89th PGA Championship at the Southern Hills Country Club on August 12, 2007 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Undeniably one of the world's top golfing champions and current number one in his field, Eldrick (Tiger) Woods has had an incredible career since going professional in 1996. At 33, Woods has a list of victories under his belt and is consistently setting and smashing golf records.

Knee Surgery 

Tiger Woods will not compete at the PGA Championship this year as he will be recovering from knee surgery after suffering a fracture in his left tibia. The injured world number one actually won the 2008 US Open golf tournament with a torn ligament which caused the fracture! The epic victory has been called his "greatest ever championship".

Current Records

He has won 81 golf tournaments, 61 of them on the PGA Tour. They include most notably the 1997, 2001, 2002 and 2005 Masters Tournaments, the 1999, 2000, 2006 and 2007 PGA Championships, the 2000 and 2002 U.S. Open Championships and finally the 2000, 2005 and 2006 British Open Championships.

With his second Masters victory in 2001, Woods became the first player ever to hold all four professional major championships at the same time.

Tiger Woods ranks number 1 on the Official World Golf Rankings and is the career money list leader. He continues to hold fast onto his number 1 earnings spot having increased his record total (set in 1999 and then again in 2000) on the PGA Tour career money list to $76,579,376 through 2007. Woods has won $92,688,162 worldwide.

His nine PGA Tour victories in 2000 equalled the fifth highest total ever and were the most since Sam Snead won 11 in 1950. He again matched a record in 2000 by winning three professional major championships in the same year – a feat managed only by Ben Hogan in 1953. If Tiger Woods wins the 2008 US PGA Championship, he will share the record of most wins at five with Walter Hagen and Jack Nicklaus.

Woods has also broken records as the youngest player to complete the career Grand Slam of professional major championships. He was also the youngest Masters champion ever at 21 years, three months and 14 days.

He holds or shares the record for the low score in relation to par in each of the four major championships. His records are 270 (18 under par) in the Masters, 272 (12 under par) in the U.S. Open, 269 (19 under par) in the British Open, and he shares the record of 270 (18 under par) with Bob May in the 2000 PGA Championship, which Tiger won by one stroke in a three-hole playoff.

Woods was selected as 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2006 Player of the Year by the PGA Tour (Jack Nicklaus Award), the PGA of America, and the Golf Writers Association of America. His adjusted scoring average in 2000 of 67.79 strokes was the lowest ever - breaking his record of 68.43 in 1999 - and earned the Byron Nelson Award on the PGA Tour and the Vardon Trophy from the PGA of America.

Read more about Tiger Woods and his successful career to date. Check how Woods stacks up against other players in the PGA Tour player stats comparison.

Although he wont be claiming the Wannamaker Trophy at the 2008 US PGA Championship this year, Tiger Woods will be back to conquer the 2009 event. Watch this space!

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