Tiger Woods beats Rory McIlroy in overtime in the Tomorrow’s Golf League, a technological league founded by the Californian and Northern Irish champions. At the SoFi Center in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, the American’s team, Jupiter, defeated Boston Common, the number 3 in the world, in the indoor golf championship that was also born as a response to the economic advance of the Arab Super League. It was a day of firsts. From the penalty Woods received for slow play, to the greatest number of putts made in the short history of the competition, from the closest shot to the hole to “overtime”.
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Nothing was missing, with Jupiter winning 4-3 on McIlroy’s debut day. “It was a beautiful evening, even if, in front of my teammates, I took full responsibility for the penalty that cost us a point. I should have called a time out and I didn’t,” Woods admitted at the end of the match.
Eldrick Tont Woods, better known as Tiger Woods, born December 30, 1975 in Cypress (California), is an American golfer.
Considered one of the greatest golfers of all time, he is one of the most popular sportsmen of the early 21st century. Winner of 15 major tournaments, he revolutionized the world of golf with his sporting results and by attracting a new audience.
Precocious, Tiger started golf at a very young age and had an exceptional career in all junior categories. An amateur scrutinized for his extraordinary qualities, he became professional at the end of the summer of 1996. Winner of the 1997 Masters, he became world number 1 less than a season after becoming professional. Dominant for most of the 2000s, various physical problems with his knees and back forced him to reinvent his game.
A commercial figure, headliner of the Nike equipment manufacturer, Tiger multiplied lucrative contracts off the course, making him one of the richest athletes of the 2000s despite the scandals that tarnished his private life and his marriage in 2009.
In April 2019, at the age of 43, he achieved the feat of winning a 5th Masters and his 15th career major title in Augusta, eleven years after his last major victory1,2,3. On May 6, 2019, he was decorated by the President of the United States Donald Trump with the highest American civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. On March 8, 2022, he was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame4,5,6.
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