Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 to the Northern Irish golfer Rory McIlroy, who was the first person to win a PGA Tour event before their 21st birthday since Tiger Woods. McIlroy would later become the namesake of the PGA tour games. "Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2011" features the Ryder Cup tournament for the first time in the game franchise's history. The game also features for the first time a 24 player online multiplayer mode allowing game players to compete in the Ryder Cup online, representing either the American or European side of the tournament. The Wii version introduces 2 new swing modes, one being Advance
Tiger Woods addition to his first major, the 1997 Masters. Woods won this tournament by 12 strokes in a record-breaking performance and earned $486,000. He first reached the number one position in the world rankings in June 1997, less than a year after turning pro. Throughout the 2000s, Woods was the dominant force in golf—he won the 2000 U.S. Open by a record 15-shot margin. He was the top-ranked golfer in the world from August 1999 to September 2004 (264 weeks) and again from June 2005 to October 2010 (281 weeks). Woods took a self-imposed hiatus from professional golf from December 2009