TIGER WOODS has had an unprecedented career since becoming a professional golfer in the late summer of 1996. He has won 105 tournaments, 79 of those on the PGA Tour, including the 1997, 2001, 2002, and 2005 Masters Tournaments; the 1999, 2000, 2006, and 2007 PGA Championships; the 2000, 2002, and 2008 U.S. Open Championships; and the 2000, 2005, and 2006 British Open Championships. With his second Masters victory in 2001, Tiger became the first ever to hold all four professional major championships at the same time.
In winning the 2000 British Open at St Andrews, Woods became the youngest to complete the career Grand Slam of professional major championships and only the fifth ever to do so, following Ben Hogan, Gene Sarazen, Gary Player, and Jack Nicklaus. Tiger also was the youngest Masters champion ever, at the age of twenty-one years, three months, and fourteen days, and was the first major championship winner of African or Asian heritage.
He is the career victories leader among active players on the PGA Tour and is the career money list leader. He is second in career PGA Tour victories (seventy-nine) and major championships (fourteen).
LORNE RUBENSTEIN was the golf columnist for the Globe and Mail, Canada’s national newspaper, from 1980 to 2013. He was the first editor of ScoreGolf, Canada’s national golf magazine, where he writes a column. Born in Toronto, Rubenstein caddied on the PGA Tour for a few tournaments a year from 1970 to 1982. He has written fourteen books, including A Season in Dornoch: Golf and Life in the Scottish Highlands, and Moe & Me: Encounters with Moe Norman, Golf’s Mysterious Genius.
Rubenstein’s work has appeared in magazines around the world, including Golf Digest, Golf World, Golf Magazine, Golf Monthly, Esquire, and Links. The Golf Writers Association of America has presented him with four first-place awards for his work. Rubenstein is a member of the Ontario Golf Hall of Fame and the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame. He and his wife, Nell, live in Toronto and Jupiter, Florida.