Tiger Woods stats you *haven’t* heard before? Here’s a bunch of them

Since first compiling a compendium of Tiger Woods‘ most staggering statistics a decade ago, I have tried to add new insights to the list every year. That exercise might sound challenging considering that in recent years injuries have limited Woods’ competitive schedule — but, in fact, the reservoir of “he did what?” numbers is seemingly bottomless.

Scottie Scheffler’s inspired play also has been helpful, as Scheffler’s ascent has steered me into confirming any number of superlatives on a near-weekly basis. Those deep dives not only almost exclusively lead me back to something Woods accomplished but also serve as reminders of the yawning gap between Woods and his competition — a statistical canyon that, in many instances, will never be matched.

Here, on the occasion of Tiger’s 50th birthday, are 50 of my favorite Tiger Woods statistics…

50. In 2025 on the PGA Tour, Scottie Scheffler had an adjusted scoring average of 68.13, the fifth-best single season average in Tour history. On that same list, Tiger Woods owns spots 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 8.

49. This week marks the 171st in which Scheffler has been the No. 1 player in the Official World Golf Ranking. To tie Woods for most weeks all-time on that list, Scheffler would need to stay in the top spot every week from now until October 2035.

48. Scheffler has successfully converted each of his last 10 outright 54-hole leads on the PGA Tour. It’s the longest such streak since Woods, who did it 37 consecutive times.

47. Five times in PGA Tour history a player has won a specific event seven or more times; Woods has done it four times.

46. On three occasions in PGA Tour history a player has won eight or more times at a single venue. That player is Tiger Woods (Bay Hill, Torrey Pines and Firestone).

45. There are two instances since World War II on the PGA Tour in which a player won the same tournament four consecutive years: yep, Woods (Bay Hill and Torrey Pines).

44. Woods has won the Arnold Palmer Invitational eight times; no other player has won it more than twice. From 2000-13, Woods was 109 under par at Bay Hill, 73 shots better than any other player (Vijay Singh, -36).

43. With his win at The Open this year, Scottie Scheffler has successfully converted his first four 54-hole leads in major championships. That’s tied for third most all-time to begin a career, one behind Peter Thomson, who converted in each of his first five. Woods leads the all-time list: He converted the first 14 times he held a 54-hole lead in a major.

42. There are six instances in USGA history when a player — male or female — won a single championship three consecutive years. Tiger owns two of those and did it in consecutive streaks: the U.S. Junior Amateur from 1991 to 1993, and the U.S. Amateur from 1994 to 1996.

41. Woods is the only player all-time to win the U.S. Junior Amateur, U.S. Amateur and U.S. Open in a career. He has won each championship three times.

40. Woods won both the 2000 and 2002 U.S. Opens wire-to-wire, holding the outright lead after each round. He is the only player to win multiple U.S. Opens in that fashion.

39. Strokes gained: total is the differential of a player’s score compared to the field’s scoring average in a particular round. In the 2000 major season, Woods had 81.3 strokes gained total, the most for any player in a single major season since the first Masters was held in 1934. Second-best? Arnold Palmer, with 74.4 in 1962.

38. From 1999 through 2007, Tiger Woods played in 17 World Golf Championship stroke-play events and won 12 of them. In those tournaments, his combined score to par was 188 under, 131 strokes better than any other player (Jim Furyk, -57).

37. “Bounce back percentage” is the rate at which a player makes birdie or eagle immediately following a score of bogey or worse. In the 2000 season, Woods had a bounce back rate of 36.5%, the best single-season average all-time, even to this date. The PGA Tour average for that metric in the 2000 season was 18.6%.

36. In 2025, Scheffler led the PGA Tour in scoring average in rounds one, two, three and four. Over the last 40 years (since they started keeping track), Tiger in 2000 is the only other player to do this.

35. Woods has a record of 14-1 in playoffs on the PGA and DP World Tours. His only defeat came to Billy Mayfair at the 1998 Nissan Open.

34. From 1998 through 2009, Woods played in 180 rounds in the majors. He beat the field scoring average in 164 of those rounds, a preposterous 91.1%. The second-highest rate among players with 50 or more rounds played in the majors in that same span was Ernie Els at 78.4%.

33. Remarkably, Tiger won his 100th, 200th and 300th official starts on the PGA Tour. They were the 2000 WGC Invitational, the 2006 Buick Invitational and the 2013 Players Championship, respectively.

32. When Webb Simpson won the 2018 Players Championship, U.S. players held all four majors, as well as the Players Championship, for the first time in 17 years. The previous instance was in 2001, when Tiger Woods held all five titles simultaneously.

31. From the 1999 Memorial through 2001 Memorial, Woods won 20 times in a stretch of 40 official PGA Tour starts. Then he did it again — winning 20 times in 40 official starts from the 2005 WGC American Express through the 2008 U.S. Open. For context, fewer than 40 players in PGA Tour history have 20 wins or more.

30. Woods has 199 top-10 finishes in official PGA Tour events, the most of any player over the last 40 years. Phil Mickelson is second, just one behind (198).

29. Tiger is still the last player to win PGA Tour events in three consecutive weeks. It’s been nearly 20 years since he did it at the 2006 PGA Championship, WGC Invitational and Deutsche Bank Championship.

28. From 1996 through 2019, Woods beat his playing partners on the PGA Tour (the other players he was grouped with that particular day) by a combined 3,811 strokes.

27. The player with the biggest stroke differential when playing with Woods in their PGA Tour careers is Jeff Sluman. In 17 official PGA Tour rounds, Woods beat Sluman by a combined 61 strokes.

26. Over the last 15 seasons on the PGA Tour, players have successfully converted a 54-hole lead of three strokes or more at a rate of 64.5%. Woods is 25-for-25 in those situations in his career.

25. Across Tiger’s 82 PGA Tour wins, fellow competitors were born across a span of 77 years: 1922 (Doug Ford, 1997 Masters) to 1999 (Devon Bling, 2019 Zozo Championship).

24. Woods is credited with 41 career wins on the DP World Tour, third-most all-time. He has never played a full season on that tour.

23. Among the four events currently recognized as the men’s major championships, there are two instances of a player winning by ten strokes or more. They both belong to Woods — at the 1997 Masters (12 shots) and 2000 U.S. Open (15 shots).

22. Over the last 30 seasons, there are seven instances of a player beating the field scoring average in all 16 rounds of a year’s major championships. Tiger is the only one to do it twice in that span (2000, 2007).

21. The Official World Golf Ranking began in 1986. Tiger Woods has more major victories while ranked in the top spot of those rankings (11) than every other player combined (8).

20. Tiger has led or co-led following 48 major rounds. That is the exact same total as Jack Nicklaus (48). The two legends are tied for most such rounds led in the modern era of major championships.

19. In the last 100 years, Tiger is the only player to win more than two majors by five strokes or more. Tiger has done that five times.

18. Woods holds the largest margin of victory in the last 100 years at the U.S. Open (15 shots), Masters (12 shots) and The Open (8 shots). Rory McIlroy holds that distinction for the PGA, winning by eight in 2012.

17. From 1999 through 2009, Tiger teed it up at the WGC Bridgestone Invitational ten times, winning the tournament in seven of those years. Woods was 103 under par in that stretch, 67 shots better than any other player (Jim Furyk, -36). Woods was one of 24 players with 30 or more rounds played at this tournament during that time — the other 23 players in that group were a combined 275-over-par.

16. Tiger has 48 career rounds in the majors of 67 or better. That’s six more than anyone else; Jack Nicklaus and Phil Mickelson are tied for second with 42 each.

15. In the modern era (since the first Masters in 1934), three players not named Woods have won 12+ PGA Tour titles and three or more majors in a two-season span. Scottie Scheffler has done it over the last two seasons, while both Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus did it twice. Tiger did it four different times.

14. During the entire 2000 PGA Tour season, Woods recorded one score higher than 73. It came in the first round of the Masters, when he shot 75. The field averaged 75.59 that day.

13. Woods had 46 PGA Tour wins and 10 major championship victories before his 30th birthday. If he had never played another tournament at that point, he would still be one of two players all-time to hit both benchmarks, alongside Jack Nicklaus.

12. Tiger has held the lead or co-lead after the first round of a PGA Tour event 31 times. He went on to win the tournament in 16 of those weeks, a rate of 51.6%. Over the last 20 years, the PGA Tour average win rate for first round leaders is just 10.2%. Last season on the PGA Tour, only four of 79 players who held a share of the lead after the first round went on to win (5.1%).

11. Woods has 24 career PGA Tour wins by four strokes or more. Over the last 40 years, the player with the second-most is Davis Love III, with nine.

10. In a stretch from the 1999 Deutsche Bank through the 2001 Memorial Tournament, Tiger won 23 times. His combined margin of victory was 79 shots and he finished outside the top-10 just six times.

9. In the month of August alone, Woods has 15 career PGA Tour wins including four majors. The only two players currently under the age of 50 with 15+ Tour wins and 4+ majors won are Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy.

8. From 2003-05, Tiger had 1,543 putts from three feet and in measured by the PGA Tour ShotLink system. He missed only three of them.

7. In the last 60 years, there are three instances of a player winning five or more PGA Tour starts in a row. They belong to Woods (seven straight), Woods (a different run of six straight) and . . . Woods (a third run of five straight).

6. Tiger has successfully defended a title on the Tour 23 times in his career. Over the last 30 years, the player with the second-most is Phil Mickelson, with five.

5. Woods made 142 consecutive PGA Tour cuts from 1998 through 2005. Per the Tour, that’s the longest such streak by 29 (Byron Nelson, 113 straight in the 1940s).

4. From 1997 through 2008, Woods was a combined 126 under par in the majors. Of the 114 players with 50 or more major rounds played in that span, that was 200 shots better than anyone else.

3. From the 1999 PGA Championship through the 2001 Masters, Tiger’s finishes in the majors were: 1st, 5th, 1st, 1st, 1st, 1st. That means in a span of six majors, Woods had more wins (five) than combined players to finish ahead of him (four).

2. Over the last 10 seasons on Tour, players who hold an outright 54-hole lead go on to win less than half of the time — a rate of 47%. Woods is 44-for-46 in those situations (95.7%).

1. Jack Nicklaus’ last career start in each of the four major championships were the 2000 U.S. Open, 2000 PGA, 2005 Masters and 2005 Open Championship. Tiger Woods won in all four of those weeks.

Justin Ray is head of content for the Twenty First Group, which specializes in sports intelligence.