Professional golf career of Tiger Woods first professional golf event at the Greater Milwaukee Open, tying for 60th place, recorded a hole-in-one, and would win two events in the next three months to qualify for the Tour Championship. For his efforts, Woods was named "Sports Illustrated"'s 1996 Sportsman of the Year and PGA Tour Rookie of the Year. He began his tradition of wearing a red shirt during the final round of tournaments, which was a link to his college days at Stanford. The following April, Woods won his first major, The Masters, with a record score of 18-under-par 270, by a record margin of 12
Tiger Woods (book) Tiger Woods (book) Tiger Woods is a 2018 biography of professional golfer Tiger Woods written by bestselling authors Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian. It is the second book co-authored by Benedict and Keteyian, who published "The System: The Glory and Scandal of Big-Time College Football" in 2013. Prior to writing the book, Benedict and Keteyian read over 20 books previous published about Woods' life, including Woods' own memoir, "The 1997 Masters: My Story". The authors also read articles by Wright Thompson, Gary Smith, Frank Deford and others as they created a timeline of Woods' life that, once complete, was over