Tiger Woods dominated golf’s top stars from 1998 to 2010, shown in a dynamic chart made by Data Golf company.

Data Golf is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, founded by the Courchene brothers, starting with a specialized blog in the summer of 2016. After 6 years, this company is now a reputable data provider in the international professional golf world. .

They recently launched an animated chart to show Woods’ dominance in his prime, based on “stroke gained: total”. This is an overall index that compares an individual’s performance (number of strokes) with the average in the round, tournament or arena, thereby showing the performance of that player. For example, “stroke gained: total” will reach +2 if the golfer plays 70 strokes while the average is 72 strokes, reaching -2 if the two parameters are inversely correlated.

When analyzing Woods, Data Golf took 1996 – the year he started professionally as well as debuted on the PGA Tour and immediately won two championships.

At the beginning of the chart, Greg Norman led at 2.6 but quickly dropped. In April 1997, at the age of 21, Woods won his fourth championship on the PGA Tour, at the Masters. That is also the first title in the current 15 major collection.

In 1998, Woods began to lead “stroke gained: total” and was usurped by Ernie Els in 2003-2004 – the time when Woods changed coaches, from Butch Harmon to Hank Haney. But then, Woods regained the top position in this index and held it continuously until the end of 2010. In the process, Woods reached his maximum score of nearly 4.0 in 2000, when he won three majors in nine times finishing first in the golf arena. America.

Tiger Woods received the Claret Jug trophy when winning The Open 2000. Photo: The Open

Over the past 26 years, Woods has won a total of 82 PGA Tour titles. This is the record he co-owns with legend Sam Snead. In addition, the American superstar also held the world number one position for a record 683 weeks, topping the combined prize money on the PGA Tour with 120.89 million USD.

After a near-fatal accident in February 2021, it was not until April 2022 that Woods returned to compete at the Masters. With his health completely reduced, he dropped out of the US Open in the four majors, going through a total of nine rounds, including the Masters with 47th place overall, three rounds of the PGA Championship, then gave up because he was not physically fit and was eliminated in the final round. The Open. This year,

Woods will turn 46 years old on December 30.