document_title: Charles Dickens

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text: Charles Dickens

text: Early years

text: Charles John Huffam Dickens was born on 7 February 1812, at 1 Mile End Terrace (now 393 Commercial Road), Landport in Portsea Island (Portsmouth), the second of eight children of John Dickens (1785–1851) and Elizabeth Dickens (née Barrow; 1789–1863). His father was a clerk in the Navy Pay Office and was temporarily stationed in the district. He asked Christopher Huffam,[12] rigger to His Majesty's Navy, gentleman, and head of an established firm, to act as godfather to Charles. Huffam is thought to be the inspiration for Paul Dombey, the owner of a shipping company in Dickens's eponymous Dombey and Son (1848).[12]

text: In January 1815 John Dickens was called back to London, and the family moved to Norfolk Street, Fitzrovia.[13] When Charles was four, they relocated to Sheerness, and thence to Chatham, Kent, where he spent his formative years until the age of 11. His early life seems to have been idyllic, though he thought himself a "very small and not-over-particularly-taken-care-of boy".[14]

text: Charles spent time outdoors but also read voraciously, including the picaresque novels of Tobias Smollett and Henry Fielding, as well as Robinson Crusoe and Gil Blas. He read and reread The Arabian Nights and the Collected Farces of Elizabeth Inchbald.[15] He retained poignant memories of childhood, helped by an excellent memory of people and events, which he used in his writing.[16] His father's brief work as a clerk in the Navy Pay Office afforded him a few years of private education, first at a dame school, and then at a school run by William Giles, a dissenter, in Chatham.[17]

text: This period came to an end in June 1822, when John Dickens was recalled to Navy Pay Office headquarters at Somerset House, and the family—minus Charles, who stayed behind to finish his final term of work—moved to Camden Town in London.[19] The family had left Kent amidst rapidly mounting debts, and, living beyond his means,[20] John Dickens was forced by his creditors into the Marshalsea debtors' prison in Southwark, London in 1824. His wife and youngest children joined him there, as was the practice at the time. Charles, then 12 years old, boarded with Elizabeth Roylance, a family friend, at 112 College Place, Camden Town.[21] Roylance was "a reduced [impoverished] old lady, long known to our family", whom Dickens later immortalised, "with a few alterations and embellishments", as "Mrs. Pipchin" in Dombey and Son. Later, he lived in a back-attic in the house of an agent for the Insolvent Court, Archibald Russell, "a fat, good-natured, kind old gentleman... with a quiet old wife" and lame son, in Lant Street in Southwark.[22] They provided the inspiration for the Garlands in The Old Curiosity Shop.[23]

text: On Sundays—with his sister Frances, free from her studies at the Royal Academy of Music—he spent the day at the Marshalsea.[24] Dickens later used the prison as a setting in Little Dorrit. To pay for his board and to help his family, Dickens was forced to leave school and work ten-hour days at Warren's Blacking Warehouse, on Hungerford Stairs, near the present Charing Cross railway station, where he earned six shillings a week pasting labels on pots of boot blacking. The strenuous and often harsh working conditions made a lasting impression on Dickens and later influenced his fiction and essays, becoming the foundation of his interest in the reform of socio-economic and labour conditions, the rigours of which he believed were unfairly borne by the poor. He later wrote that he wondered "how I could have been so easily cast away at such an age".[25] As he recalled to John Forster (from The Life of Charles Dickens):

text: The blacking-warehouse was the last house on the left-hand side of the way, at old Hungerford Stairs. It was a crazy, tumble-down old house, abutting of course on the river, and literally overrun with rats. Its wainscoted rooms, and its rotten floors and staircase, and the old grey rats swarming down in the cellars, and the sound of their squeaking and scuffling coming up the stairs at all times, and the dirt and decay of the place, rise up visibly before me, as if I were there again. The counting-house was on the first floor, looking over the coal-barges and the river. There was a recess in it, in which I was to sit and work. My work was to cover the pots of paste-blacking; first with a piece of oil-paper, and then with a piece of blue paper; to tie them round with a string; and then to clip the paper close and neat, all round, until it looked as smart as a pot of ointment from an apothecary's shop. When a certain number of grosses of pots had attained this pitch of perfection, I was to paste on each a printed label, and then go on again with more pots. Two or three other boys were kept at similar duty down-stairs on similar wages. One of them came up, in a ragged apron and a paper cap, on the first Monday morning, to show me the trick of using the string and tying the knot. His name was Bob Fagin; and I took the liberty of using his name, long afterwards, in Oliver Twist.[25]

text: When the warehouse was moved to Chandos Street in the smart, busy district of Covent Garden the boys worked in a room in which the window gave onto the street and little audiences gathered and watched them at work—in Dickens biographer Simon Callow's estimation, the public display was "a new refinement added to his misery".[26]

text: A few months after his imprisonment, John Dickens's paternal grandmother, Elizabeth Dickens, died and bequeathed him £450. On the expectation of this legacy, Dickens was released from prison. Under the Insolvent Debtors Act, Dickens arranged for payment of his creditors, and he and his family left Marshalsea,[27] for the home of Mrs Roylance.

text: Charles's mother, Elizabeth Dickens, did not immediately support his removal from the boot-blacking warehouse. This influenced Dickens's view that a father should rule the family, and a mother find her proper sphere inside the home: "I never afterwards forgot, I never shall forget, I never can forget, that my mother was warm for my being sent back". His mother's failure to request his return was a factor in his dissatisfied attitude towards women.[28]

text: Righteous indignation stemming from his own situation and the conditions under which working-class people lived became major themes of his works, and it was this unhappy period in his youth to which he alluded in his favourite, and most autobiographical, novel, David Copperfield:[29] "I had no advice, no counsel, no encouragement, no consolation, no assistance, no support, of any kind, from anyone, that I can call to mind, as I hope to go to heaven!"[30]

text: Dickens was eventually sent to the Wellington House Academy in Camden Town, where he remained until March 1827, having spent about two years there. He did not consider it to be a good school: "Much of the haphazard, desultory teaching, poor discipline punctuated by the headmaster's sadistic brutality, the seedy ushers and general run-down atmosphere, are embodied in Mr. Creakle's Establishment in David Copperfield."[30]

text: Dickens worked at the law office of Ellis and Blackmore, attorneys, of Holborn Court, Gray's Inn, as a junior clerk from May 1827 to November 1828. He was a gifted mimic and impersonated those around him: clients, lawyers, and clerks. He went to theatres obsessively—he claimed that for at least three years he went to the theatre every single day. His favourite actor was Charles Mathews, and Dickens learnt his monopolylogues, (farces in which Mathews played every character), by heart.[31] Then, having learned Gurney's system of shorthand in his spare time, he left to become a freelance reporter. A distant relative, Thomas Charlton, was a freelance reporter at Doctors' Commons, and Dickens was able to share his box there to report the legal proceedings for nearly four years.[32][33] This education was to inform works such as Nicholas Nickleby, Dombey and Son, and especially Bleak House—whose vivid portrayal of the machinations and bureaucracy of the legal system did much to enlighten the general public and served as a vehicle for dissemination of Dickens's own views regarding, particularly, the heavy burden on the poor who were forced by circumstances to "go to law".

text: In 1830, Dickens met his first love, Maria Beadnell, thought to have been the model for the character Dora in David Copperfield. Maria's parents disapproved of the courtship and ended the relationship by sending her to school in Paris.[34]

text: Journalism and early novels

text: In 1832, at age 20, Dickens was energetic and increasingly self-confident.[35] He enjoyed mimicry and popular entertainment, lacked a clear, specific sense of what he wanted to become, and yet knew he wanted fame. Drawn to the theatre—he became an early member of the Garrick[36]—he landed an acting audition at Covent Garden, where the manager George Bartley and the actor Charles Kemble were to see him. Dickens prepared meticulously and decided to imitate the comedian Charles Mathews, but ultimately he missed the audition because of a cold. Before another opportunity arose, he had set out on his career as a writer.[37] In 1833 he submitted his first story, "A Dinner at Poplar Walk", to the London periodical Monthly Magazine.[38] William Barrow, a brother of his mother, offered him a job on The Mirror of Parliament and he worked in the House of Commons for the first time early in 1832. He rented rooms at Furnival's Inn and worked as a political journalist, reporting on Parliamentary debates, and he travelled across Britain to cover election campaigns for the Morning Chronicle. His journalism, in the form of sketches in periodicals, formed his first collection of pieces, published in 1836: Sketches by Boz—Boz being a family nickname he employed as a pseudonym for some years.[39][40] Dickens apparently adopted it from the nickname "Moses", which he had given to his youngest brother Augustus Dickens, after a character in Oliver Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield. When pronounced by anyone with a head cold, "Moses" became "Boses"—later shortened to Boz.[40][41] Dickens's own name was considered "queer" by a contemporary critic, who wrote in 1849: "Mr Dickens, as if in revenge for his own queer name, does bestow still queerer ones upon his fictitious creations." He contributed to and edited journals throughout his literary career.[38] In January 1835 the Morning Chronicle launched an evening edition, under the editorship of the Chronicle's music critic, George Hogarth. Hogarth invited Dickens to contribute Street Sketches and Dickens became a regular visitor to his Fulham house, excited by Hogarth's friendship with a hero of his, Walter Scott, and enjoying the company of Hogarth's three daughters—Georgina, Mary, and nineteen-year-old Catherine.[42]

text: Dickens made rapid progress both professionally and socially. He began a friendship with William Harrison Ainsworth, the author of the highwayman novel Rookwood (1834), whose bachelor salon in Harrow Road had become the meeting place for a set that included Daniel Maclise, Benjamin Disraeli, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, and George Cruikshank. All these became his friends and collaborators, with the exception of Disraeli, and he met his first publisher, John Macrone, at the house.[43] The success of Sketches by Boz led to a proposal from publishers Chapman and Hall for Dickens to supply text to match Robert Seymour's engraved illustrations in a monthly letterpress. Seymour committed suicide after the second instalment, and Dickens, who wanted to write a connected series of sketches, hired "Phiz" to provide the engravings (which were reduced from four to two per instalment) for the story. The resulting story became The Pickwick Papers, and though the first few episodes were not successful, the introduction of the Cockney character Sam Weller in the fourth episode (the first to be illustrated by Phiz) marked a sharp climb in its popularity.[44] The final instalment sold 40,000 copies.[38]

text: In November 1836 Dickens accepted the position of editor of Bentley's Miscellany, a position he held for three years, until he fell out with the owner.[45] In 1836 as he finished the last instalments of The Pickwick Papers, he began writing the beginning instalments of Oliver Twist—writing as many as 90 pages a month—while continuing work on Bentley's and also writing four plays, the production of which he oversaw. Oliver Twist, published in 1838, became one of Dickens's better known stories, and was the first Victorian novel with a child protagonist.[46]

text: On 2 April 1836, after a one-year engagement, and between episodes two and three of The Pickwick Papers, Dickens married Catherine Thomson Hogarth (1816–1879), the daughter of George Hogarth, editor of the Evening Chronicle.[47] They were married in St. Luke's Church,[48] Chelsea, London. After a brief honeymoon in Chalk in Kent the couple returned to lodgings at Furnival's Inn.[49] The first of their ten children, Charley, was born in January 1837, and a few months later the family set up home in Bloomsbury at 48 Doughty Street, London, (on which Charles had a three-year lease at £80 a year) from 25 March 1837 until December 1839.[47][50] Dickens's younger brother Frederick and Catherine's 17-year-old sister Mary, moved in with them. Dickens became very attached to Mary, and she died in his arms after a brief illness in 1837. Unusually for Dickens, as a consequence of his shock, he stopped working, and he and Kate stayed at a little farm on Hampstead Heath for a fortnight. Dickens idealised Mary- the character he fashioned after her, Rose Maylie, he found he could not now kill, as he had planned, in his fiction[51] and according to Ackroyd he drew on memories of her for his later descriptions of Little Nell and Florence Dombey.[52] His grief was so great that he was unable to meet the deadline for the June instalment of Pickwick Papers and had to cancel the Oliver Twist instalment that month as well.[46] The time in Hampstead was the occasion for a growing bond between Dickens and John Forster to develop and Forster soon became his unofficial business manager, and the first to read his work.[53]

text: His success as a novelist continued. The young Queen Victoria read both Oliver Twist and Pickwick, staying up until midnight to discuss them.[55] Nicholas Nickleby (1838–39), The Old Curiosity Shop (1840–41) and, finally, his first historical novel, Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty, as part of the Master Humphrey's Clock series (1840–41), were all published in monthly instalments before being made into books.[56]

text: In the midst of all his activity during this period there was discontent with his publishers and John Macrone was bought off, while Richard Bentley signed over all his rights in Oliver Twist. Other signs of a certain restlessness and discontent emerge—in Broadstairs he flirted with Eleanor Picken, the young fiancée of his solicitor's best friend, and one night grabbed her and ran with her down to the sea. He declared they were both to drown there in the "sad sea waves". She finally got free but afterwards kept her distance. In June 1841 he precipitately set out on a two-month tour of Scotland and then, in September 1841, telegraphed Forster that he had decided to go to America.[57] Master Humphrey's Clock was shut down, though Dickens was still keen on the idea of the weekly magazine, a form he liked, a liking that had begun with his childhood reading of the eighteenth-century magazines Tatler and The Spectator.

text: First visit to the United States

text: In 1842, Dickens and his wife made their first trip to the United States and Canada. At this time Georgina Hogarth, another sister of Catherine, joined the Dickens household, now living at Devonshire Terrace, Marylebone, to care for the young family they had left behind.[58] She remained with them as housekeeper, organiser, adviser, and friend until Dickens's death in 1870.[59] Dickens modeled the character of Agnes Wickfield after Georgina and Mary.[60]

text: He described his impressions in a travelogue, American Notes for General Circulation. Dickens includes in Notes a powerful condemnation of slavery, which he had attacked as early as The Pickwick Papers, correlating the emancipation of the poor in England with the abolition of slavery abroad[61] citing newspaper accounts of runaway slaves disfigured by their masters. In spite of the abolitionist sentiments gleaned from his trip to America, some modern commentators have pointed out inconsistencies in Dickens's views on racial inequality, for instance, he has been criticized for his subsequent acquiescence in Governor Eyre's harsh crackdown during the 1860s Morant Bay rebellion in Jamaica and his failure to join other British progressives in condemning it.[62] From Richmond, Virginia, Dickens returned to Washington, D.C., and started a trek westward to St. Louis, Missouri. While there, he expressed a desire to see an American prairie before returning east. A group of 13 men then set out with Dickens to visit Looking Glass Prairie, a trip 30 miles into Illinois.

text: During his American visit, Dickens spent a month in New York City, giving lectures, raising the question of international copyright laws and the pirating of his work in America.[63][64] He persuaded a group of twenty-five writers, headed by Washington Irving, to sign a petition for him to take to Congress, but the press were generally hostile to this, saying that he should be grateful for his popularity and that it was mercenary to complain about his work being pirated.[65]

text: The popularity he gained caused a shift in his self-perception according to critic Kate Flint, who writes that he "found himself a cultural commodity, and its circulation had passed out his control", causing him to become interested in and delve into themes of public and personal personas in the next novels.[66] She writes that he assumed a role of "influential commentator", publicly and in his fiction, evident in his next few books.[66]

text: His trip to the U.S. ended with a trip to Canada: Niagara Falls, Toronto, Kingston and Montreal where he appeared on stage in light comedies.[67]

text: Soon after his return to England, Dickens began work on the first of his Christmas stories, A Christmas Carol, written in 1843, which was followed by The Chimes in 1844 and The Cricket on the Hearth in 1845. Of these, A Christmas Carol was most popular and, tapping into an old tradition, did much to promote a renewed enthusiasm for the joys of Christmas in Britain and America.[68] The seeds for the story became planted in Dickens's mind during a trip to Manchester to witness the conditions of the manufacturing workers there. This, along with scenes he had recently witnessed at the Field Lane Ragged School, caused Dickens to resolve to "strike a sledge hammer blow" for the poor. As the idea for the story took shape and the writing began in earnest, Dickens became engrossed in the book. He later wrote that as the tale unfolded he "wept and laughed, and wept again" as he "walked about the black streets of London fifteen or twenty miles many a night when all sober folks had gone to bed."[69]

text: After living briefly in Italy (1844), Dickens travelled to Switzerland (1846), where he began work on Dombey and Son (1846–48). This and David Copperfield (1849–50) mark a significant artistic break in Dickens's career as his novels became more serious in theme and more carefully planned than his early works.

text: At about this time he was made aware of a large embezzlement at the firm where his brother, Augustus, worked (John Chapman & Co.). It had been carried out by Thomas Powell, a clerk, who was on friendly terms with Dickens and who had acted as mentor to Augustus when he started work. Powell was also an author and poet and knew many of the famous writers of the day. After further fraudulent activities, Powell fled to New York and published a book called The Living Authors of England with a chapter on Charles Dickens, who was not amused by what Powell had written. One item that seemed to have annoyed him was the assertion that he had based the character of Paul Dombey (Dombey and Son), on Thomas Chapman, one of the principal partners at John Chapman & Co. Dickens immediately fired off a letter to Lewis Gaylord Clark, editor of the New York literary magazine The Knickerbocker, saying that Powell was a forger and thief. Clark published the letter in the New-York Tribune and several other papers picked up on the story. Powell started proceedings to sue these publications and Clark was arrested. Dickens, realising that he had acted in haste, contacted John Chapman & Co. to seek written confirmation of Powell's guilt. Dickens did receive a reply confirming Powell's embezzlement, but once the directors realised this information may have to be produced in court they refused to make further disclosures. Due to the difficulties of providing evidence in America to support his accusations, Dickens eventually made a private settlement with Powell out of court.[70]

text: Philanthropy

text: In May 1846 Angela Burdett Coutts, heir to the Coutts banking fortune, approached Dickens about setting up a home for the redemption of fallen women of the working class. Coutts envisioned a home that would replace the punitive regimes of existing institutions with a reformative environment conducive to education and proficiency in domestic household chores. After initially resisting, Dickens eventually founded the home, named "Urania Cottage", in the Lime Grove section of Shepherds Bush, which he managed for ten years,[71] setting the house rules, reviewing the accounts and interviewing prospective residents.[72] Emigration and marriage were central to Dickens's agenda for the women on leaving Urania Cottage, from which it is estimated that about 100 women graduated between 1847 and 1859.[73]

text: Religious views

text: As a young man Dickens expressed a distaste for certain aspects of organized religion. In 1836, in a pamphlet titled Sunday Under Three Heads, he defended the people's right to pleasure, opposing a plan to prohibit games on Sundays. "Look into your churches- diminished congregations and scanty attendance. People have grown sullen and obstinate, and are becoming disgusted with the faith which condemns them to such a day as this, once in every seven. They display their feeling by staying away [from church]. Turn into the streets [on a Sunday] and mark the rigid gloom that reigns over everything around"[74]

text: Dickens honoured the figure of Christ—though some claim he may have denied his divinity.[75] Notwithstanding, Dickens has been characterized as a professing Christian.[76] His son, Henry Fielding Dickens, described Dickens as someone who "possessed deep religious convictions". In the early 1840s Dickens had shown an interest in Unitarian Christianity, and Robert Browning remarked that “Mr. Dickens is an enlightened Unitarian.”[77] Writer Gary Colledge, however, asserted that he "never strayed from his attachment to popular lay Anglicanism".[78] He also wrote a religious work called The Life of Our Lord (1849), which was a short book about the life of Jesus Christ, written with the purpose of inculcating his faith to his children and family.[79][80]

text: Dickens disapproved of Roman Catholicism and 19th-century evangelicalism, and was critical of what he saw as the hypocrisy of religious institutions and philosophies like spiritualism, all of which he considered deviations from the true spirit of Christianity.[81] Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoyevsky referred to Dickens as "that great Christian writer".[82][83]

text: Middle years

text: The Francophile Dickens often vacationed in France and in a speech delivered in Paris in 1846 in French called the French "the first people in the universe".[84] During his visit to Paris, Dickens met the French literati Alexandre Dumas, Victor Hugo, Eugène Scribe, Théophile Gautier, François-René de Chateaubriand and Eugène Sue.[84] Dickens started to write David Copperfield in 1848. It was published between 1849 and 1850. Scholars consider it as Dickens's veiled autobiography with the title character modeled after the author himself. It was Dickens's personal favourite among his own novels.

text: In late November 1851, Dickens moved into Tavistock House where he wrote Bleak House (1852–53), Hard Times (1854), and Little Dorrit (1856).[85] It was here that he indulged in the amateur theatricals described in Forster's "Life".[86] During this period he worked closely with the novelist and playwright Wilkie Collins. In 1856, his income from writing allowed him to buy Gad's Hill Place in Higham, Kent. As a child, Dickens had walked past the house and dreamed of living in it. The area was also the scene of some of the events of Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1, and this literary connection pleased him.[87]

text: In 1857, Dickens hired professional actresses for the play The Frozen Deep, written by him and his protégé, Wilkie Collins. Dickens fell in love with one of the actresses, Ellen Ternan, and this passion was to last the rest of his life.[88] Dickens was 45 and Ternan 18 when he made the decision, which went strongly against Victorian convention, to separate from his wife, Catherine, in 1858—divorce was still unthinkable for someone as famous as he was. When Catherine left, never to see her husband again, she took with her one child, leaving the other children to be raised by her sister Georgina who chose to stay at Gad's Hill.[59]

text: During this period, whilst pondering a project to give public readings for his own profit, Dickens was approached through a charitable appeal by Great Ormond Street Hospital, to help it survive its first major financial crisis. His 'Drooping Buds' essay in Household Words earlier on 3 April 1852 was considered by the hospital's founders to have been the catalyst for the hospital's success.[89] Dickens, whose philanthropy was well-known, was asked by his friend, the hospital's founder Charles West, to preside over the appeal, and he threw himself into the task, heart and soul.[90] Dickens's public readings secured sufficient funds for an endowment to put the hospital on a sound financial footing—one reading on 9 February 1858 alone raised £3,000.[91][92][93]

text: After separating from Catherine,[94] Dickens undertook a series of hugely popular and remunerative reading tours which, together with his journalism, were to absorb most of his creative energies for the next decade, in which he was to write only two more novels.[95] His first reading tour, lasting from April 1858 to February 1859, consisted of 129 appearances in 49 different towns throughout England, Scotland and Ireland.[96] Dickens's continued fascination with the theatrical world was written into the theatre scenes in Nicholas Nickleby, but more importantly he found an outlet in public readings. In 1866, he undertook a series of public readings in England and Scotland, with more the following year in England and Ireland.

text: Major works soon followed, including A Tale of Two Cities (1859) and Great Expectations (1861), which were resounding successes. During this time he was also the publisher, editor, and a major contributor to the journals Household Words (1850–1859) and All the Year Round (1858–1870).[97]

text: In early September 1860, in a field behind Gad's Hill, Dickens made a bonfire of most of his correspondence—only those letters on business matters were spared. Since Ellen Ternan also destroyed all of his letters to her,[98] the extent of the affair between the two remains speculative.[99] In the 1930s, Thomas Wright recounted that Ternan had unburdened herself with a Canon Benham, and gave currency to rumours they had been lovers.[100] That the two had a son who died in infancy was alleged by Dickens's daughter, Kate Perugini, whom Gladys Storey had interviewed before her death in 1929. Storey published her account in Dickens and Daughter,[101][102] but no contemporary evidence exists. On his death, Dickens settled an annuity on Ternan which made her a financially independent woman. Claire Tomalin's book, The Invisible Woman, argues that Ternan lived with Dickens secretly for the last 13 years of his life. The book was subsequently turned into a play, Little Nell, by Simon Gray, and a 2013 film.

text: In the same period, Dickens furthered his interest in the paranormal, becoming one of the early members of The Ghost Club.[103]

text: In June 1862 he was offered £10,000 for a reading tour of Australia.[104] He was enthusiastic, and even planned a travel book, The Uncommercial Traveller Upside Down, but ultimately decided against the tour.[105] Two of his sons— Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens and Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens—migrated to Australia, Edward becoming a member of the Parliament of New South Wales as Member for Wilcannia 1889–94.[106][107]

text: Last years

text: On 9 June 1865, while returning from Paris with Ellen Ternan, Dickens was involved in the Staplehurst rail crash. The train's first seven carriages plunged off a cast iron bridge that was under repair. The only first-class carriage to remain on the track was the one in which Dickens was travelling. Before rescuers arrived, Dickens tended and comforted the wounded and the dying with a flask of brandy and a hat refreshed with water, and saved some lives. Before leaving, he remembered the unfinished manuscript for Our Mutual Friend, and he returned to his carriage to retrieve it.[108] Dickens later used this experience as material for his short ghost story, "The Signal-Man", in which the central character has a premonition of his own death in a rail crash. He also based the story on several previous rail accidents, such as the Clayton Tunnel rail crash of 1861. Dickens managed to avoid an appearance at the inquest to avoid disclosing that he had been travelling with Ternan and her mother, which would have caused a scandal.[109]

text: Second visit to the United States

text: In the late 1850s Dickens began to contemplate[citation needed] a second visit to the United States, tempted by the money that he believed he could make by extending his reading tour there. The outbreak of the Civil War in America in 1861 delayed his plans. Over two years after the war, Dickens set sail from Liverpool on 9 November 1867 for his second American reading tour. Landing at Boston, he devoted the rest of the month to a round of dinners with such notables as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and his American publisher, James Thomas Fields. In early December, the readings began. He performed 76 readings, netting £19,000, from December 1867 to April 1868.[110] Dickens shuttled between Boston and New York, where he gave 22 readings at Steinway Hall. Although he had started to suffer from what he called the "true American catarrh", he kept to a schedule that would have challenged a much younger man, even managing to squeeze in some sleighing in Central Park.

text: During his travels, he saw a significant change in the people and the circumstances of America. His final appearance was at a banquet the American Press held in his honour at Delmonico's on 18 April, when he promised never to denounce America again. By the end of the tour, the author could hardly manage solid food, subsisting on champagne and eggs beaten in sherry. On 23 April, he boarded the Cunard liner Russia to return to Britain,[111] barely escaping a Federal Tax Lien against the proceeds of his lecture tour.[112]

text: Farewell readings

text: Between 1868 and 1869, Dickens gave a series of "farewell readings" in England, Scotland, and Ireland, beginning on 6 October. He managed, of a contracted 100 readings, to deliver 75 in the provinces, with a further 12 in London.[110] As he pressed on he was affected by giddiness and fits of paralysis. He suffered a stroke on 18 April 1869 in Chester.[113] He collapsed on 22 April 1869, at Preston in Lancashire, and on doctor's advice, the tour was cancelled.[114] After further provincial readings were cancelled, he began work on his final novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. It was fashionable in the 1860s to 'do the slums' and, in company, Dickens visited opium dens in Shadwell, where he witnessed an elderly addict known as "Laskar Sal", who formed the model for the "Opium Sal" subsequently featured in his mystery novel, Edwin Drood.[115]

text: After Dickens had regained sufficient strength, he arranged, with medical approval, for a final series of readings to partially make up to his sponsors what they had lost due to his illness. There were to be 12 performances, running between 11 January and 15 March 1870, the last at 8:00 pm at St. James's Hall in London. Although in grave health by this time, he read A Christmas Carol and The Trial from Pickwick. On 2 May, he made his last public appearance at a Royal Academy Banquet in the presence of the Prince and Princess of Wales, paying a special tribute on the death of his friend, the illustrator Daniel Maclise.[116]

text: Death

text: On 8 June 1870, Dickens suffered another stroke at his home after a full day's work on Edwin Drood. He never regained consciousness, and the next day, five years to the day after the Staplehurst rail crash, he died at Gad's Hill Place. Biographer Claire Tomalin has suggested Dickens was actually in Peckham when he suffered the stroke, and his mistress Ellen Ternan and her maids had him taken back to Gad's Hill so the public would not know the truth about their relationship.[118] Contrary to his wish to be buried at Rochester Cathedral "in an inexpensive, unostentatious, and strictly private manner,"[119] he was laid to rest in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey. A printed epitaph circulated at the time of the funeral reads: "To the Memory of Charles Dickens (England's most popular author) who died at his residence, Higham, near Rochester, Kent, 9 June 1870, aged 58 years. He was a sympathiser with the poor, the suffering, and the oppressed; and by his death, one of England's greatest writers is lost to the world."[120] His last words were: "On the ground", in response to his sister-in-law Georgina's request that he lie down.[121][nb 1]

text: On Sunday, 19 June 1870, five days after Dickens was buried in the Abbey, Dean Arthur Penrhyn Stanley delivered a memorial elegy, lauding "the genial and loving humorist whom we now mourn", for showing by his own example "that even in dealing with the darkest scenes and the most degraded characters, genius could still be clean, and mirth could be innocent." Pointing to the fresh flowers that adorned the novelist's grave, Stanley assured those present that "the spot would thenceforth be a sacred one with both the New World and the Old, as that of the representative of literature, not of this island only, but of all who speak our English tongue."[122]

text: In his will, drafted more than a year before his death, Dickens left the care of his £80,000 estate to his longtime colleague John Forster and his "best and truest friend" Georgina Hogarth who, along with Dickens's two sons, also received a tax-free sum of £8,000 (about £800,000 in present terms). Although Dickens and his wife had been separated for several years at the time of his death, he provided her with an annual income of £600 and made her similar allowances in his will. He also bequeathed £19 19s to each servant in his employment at the time of his death.[123]

text: Literary style

text: Dickens favoured the style of the 18th century picaresque novels that he found in abundance on his father's shelves. According to Ackroyd, other than these, perhaps the most important literary influence on him was derived from the fables of The Arabian Nights.[124]

text: His writing style is marked by a profuse linguistic creativity.[125] Satire, flourishing in his gift for caricature, is his forte. An early reviewer compared him to Hogarth for his keen practical sense of the ludicrous side of life, though his acclaimed mastery of varieties of class idiom may in fact mirror the conventions of contemporary popular theatre.[126] Dickens worked intensively on developing arresting names for his characters that would reverberate with associations for his readers, and assist the development of motifs in the storyline, giving what one critic calls an "allegorical impetus" to the novels' meanings.[125] To cite one of numerous examples, the name Mr. Murdstone in David Copperfield conjures up twin allusions to "murder" and stony coldness.[127] His literary style is also a mixture of fantasy and realism. His satires of British aristocratic snobbery—he calls one character the "Noble Refrigerator"—are often popular. Comparing orphans to stocks and shares, people to tug boats, or dinner-party guests to furniture are just some of Dickens's acclaimed flights of fancy.

text: The author worked closely with his illustrators, supplying them with a summary of the work at the outset and thus ensuring that his characters and settings were exactly how he envisioned them. He briefed the illustrator on plans for each month's instalment so that work could begin before he wrote them. Marcus Stone, illustrator of Our Mutual Friend, recalled that the author was always "ready to describe down to the minutest details the personal characteristics, and ... life-history of the creations of his fancy."[128]

text: Characters

text: Dickens's biographer Claire Tomalin regards him as the greatest creator of character in English fiction after Shakespeare.[129] Dickensian characters are amongst the most memorable in English literature, especially so because of their typically whimsical names. The likes of Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, Jacob Marley, Bob Cratchit, Oliver Twist, The Artful Dodger, Fagin, Bill Sikes, Pip, Miss Havisham, Sydney Carton, Charles Darnay, David Copperfield, Mr. Micawber, Abel Magwitch, Daniel Quilp, Samuel Pickwick, Wackford Squeers, and Uriah Heep are so well known as to be part and parcel of British culture, and in some cases have passed into ordinary language: a scrooge, for example, is a miser - or someone who dislikes Christmas festivity.

text: His characters were often so memorable that they took on a life of their own outside his books. "Gamp" became a slang expression for an umbrella from the character Mrs Gamp, and "Pickwickian", "Pecksniffian", and "Gradgrind" all entered dictionaries due to Dickens's original portraits of such characters who were, respectively, quixotic, hypocritical, and vapidly factual. Many were drawn from real life: Mrs Nickleby is based on his mother, though she didn't recognise herself in the portrait,[130] just as Mr Micawber is constructed from aspects of his father's 'rhetorical exuberance':[131] Harold Skimpole in Bleak House is based on James Henry Leigh Hunt: his wife's dwarfish chiropodist recognised herself in Miss Mowcher in David Copperfield.[132][133] Perhaps Dickens's impressions on his meeting with Hans Christian Andersen informed the delineation of Uriah Heep.[134]

text: Virginia Woolf maintained that "we remodel our psychological geography when we read Dickens" as he produces "characters who exist not in detail, not accurately or exactly, but abundantly in a cluster of wild yet extraordinarily revealing remarks."[135]

text: One "character" vividly drawn throughout his novels is London itself. From the coaching inns on the outskirts of the city to the lower reaches of the Thames, all aspects of the capital are described over the course of his body of work.

text: Autobiographical elements

text: Authors frequently draw their portraits of characters from people they have known in real life. David Copperfield is regarded by many as a veiled autobiography of Dickens. The scenes of interminable court cases and legal arguments in Bleak House reflect Dickens's experiences as a law clerk and court reporter, and in particular his direct experience of the law's procedural delay during 1844 when he sued publishers in Chancery for breach of copyright.[136] Dickens's father was sent to prison for debt, and this became a common theme in many of his books, with the detailed depiction of life in the Marshalsea prison in Little Dorrit resulting from Dickens's own experiences of the institution.[137] Lucy Stroughill, a childhood sweetheart, may have affected several of Dickens's portraits of girls such as Little Em'ly in David Copperfield and Lucie Manette in A Tale of Two Cities.[138][nb 2] Dickens may have drawn on his childhood experiences, but he was also ashamed of them and would not reveal that this was where he gathered his realistic accounts of squalor. Very few knew the details of his early life until six years after his death, when John Forster published a biography on which Dickens had collaborated. Though Skimpole brutally sends up Leigh Hunt, some critics have detected in his portrait features of Dickens's own character, which he sought to exorcise by self-parody.[139]

text: Episodic writing

text: Most of Dickens's major novels were first written in monthly or weekly instalments in journals such as Master Humphrey's Clock and Household Words, later reprinted in book form. These instalments made the stories affordable and accessible, and the series of regular cliff-hangers made each new episode widely anticipated. When The Old Curiosity Shop was being serialised, American fans waited at the docks in New York, shouting out to the crew of an incoming ship, "Is little Nell dead?"[140] Part of Dickens's great talent was to incorporate this episodic writing style but still end up with a coherent novel at the end.

text: Another important impact of Dickens's episodic writing style resulted from his exposure to the opinions of his readers and friends. His friend Forster had a significant hand in reviewing his drafts, an influence that went beyond matters of punctuation. He toned down melodramatic and sensationalist exaggerations, cut long passages (such as the episode of Quilp's drowning in The Old Curiosity Shop), and made suggestions about plot and character. It was he who suggested that Charley Bates should be redeemed in Oliver Twist. Dickens had not thought of killing Little Nell, and it was Forster who advised him to entertain this possibility as necessary to his conception of the heroine.[141]

text: Dickens's serialisation of his novels was not uncriticised by other authors. In Robert Louis Stevenson's novel The Wrecker, there is a comment by Captain Nares, investigating an abandoned ship: "See! They were writing up the log," said Nares, pointing to the ink-bottle. "Caught napping, as usual. I wonder if there ever was a captain yet that lost a ship with his log-book up to date? He generally has about a month to fill up on a clean break, like Charles Dickens and his serial novels."

text: Social commentary

text: Dickens's novels were, among other things, works of social commentary. He was a fierce critic of the poverty and social stratification of Victorian society. In a New York address, he expressed his belief that "Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen".[142] Dickens's second novel, Oliver Twist (1839), shocked readers with its images of poverty and crime: it challenged middle class polemics about criminals, making impossible any pretence to ignorance about what poverty entailed.[143][144]

text: Literary techniques

text: Dickens is often described as using idealised characters and highly sentimental scenes to contrast with his caricatures and the ugly social truths he reveals. The story of Nell Trent in The Old Curiosity Shop (1841) was received as extraordinarily moving by contemporary readers but viewed as ludicrously sentimental by Oscar Wilde. "You would need to have a heart of stone", he declared in one of his famous witticisms, "not to laugh at the death of little Nell."[145] G. K. Chesterton, stated: "It is not the death of little Nell, but the life of little Nell, that I object to", arguing that the maudlin effect of his description of her life owed much to the gregarious nature of Dickens's grief, his "despotic" use of people's feelings to move them to tears in works like this.[146]

text: The question as to whether Dickens belongs to the tradition of the sentimental novel is debatable. Valerie Purton, in her recent Dickens and the Sentimental Tradition, sees him continuing aspects of this tradition, and argues that his "sentimental scenes and characters [are] as crucial to the overall power of the novels as his darker or comic figures and scenes", and that "Dombey and Son is [ ... ] Dickens's greatest triumph in the sentimentalist tradition".[147] The Encyclopædia Britannica online comments that, despite "patches of emotional excess", such as the reported death of Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol (1843), "Dickens cannot really be termed a sentimental novelist".[148]

text: In Oliver Twist Dickens provides readers with an idealised portrait of a boy so inherently and unrealistically good that his values are never subverted by either brutal orphanages or coerced involvement in a gang of young pickpockets. While later novels also centre on idealised characters (Esther Summerson in Bleak House and Amy Dorrit in Little Dorrit), this idealism serves only to highlight Dickens's goal of poignant social commentary. Dickens's fiction, reflecting what he believed to be true of his own life, makes frequent use of coincidence, either for comic effect or to emphasise the idea of providence.[149] For example, Oliver Twist turns out to be the lost nephew of the upper-class family that rescues him from the dangers of the pickpocket group. Such coincidences are a staple of 18th-century picaresque novels, such as Henry Fielding's Tom Jones, which Dickens enjoyed reading as a youth.[150]

text: Reception

text: Dickens was the most popular novelist of his time,[151] and remains one of the best-known and most-read of English authors. His works have never gone out of print,[152] and have been adapted continually for the screen since the invention of cinema,[153] with at least 200 motion pictures and TV adaptations based on Dickens's works documented.[154] Many of his works were adapted for the stage during his own lifetime, and as early as 1913, a silent film of The Pickwick Papers was made.[155] He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.[1]

text: Among fellow writers, Dickens has been both lionised and mocked. Leo Tolstoy, G. K. Chesterton, and George Orwell praised his realism, comic voice, prose fluency, and satiric caricature, as well as his passionate advocacy on behalf of children and the poor. The French writer Jules Verne called Dickens his favorite writer, writing his novels "stand alone, dwarfing all others by their amazing power and felicity of expression."[156] The Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh was inspired by Dickens's novels in several of his paintings like Vincent's Chair and in an 1889 letter to his sister stated that reading Dickens, especially A Christmas Carol, was one of the things that was keeping him from committing suicide.[157] Oscar Wilde generally disparaged his depiction of character, while admiring his gift for caricature.[158] His late contemporary William Wordsworth, by then Poet laureate, thought him a "very talkative, vulgar young person", adding he had not read a line of his work; Dickens in return thought Wordsworth "a dreadful Old Ass".[159] Henry James denied him a premier position, calling him "the greatest of superficial novelists": Dickens failed to endow his characters with psychological depth and the novels, "loose baggy monsters",[160] betrayed a "cavalier organisation".[161] Virginia Woolf had a love-hate relationship with his works, finding his novels "mesmerizing" while reproving him for his sentimentalism and a commonplace style.[162]

text: A Christmas Carol is most probably his best-known story, with frequent new adaptations. It is also the most-filmed of Dickens's stories, with many versions dating from the early years of cinema.[163] According to the historian Ronald Hutton, the current state of the observance of Christmas is largely the result of a mid-Victorian revival of the holiday spearheaded by A Christmas Carol. Dickens catalysed the emerging Christmas as a family-centred festival of generosity, in contrast to the dwindling community-based and church-centred observations, as new middle-class expectations arose.[164] Its archetypal figures (Scrooge, Tiny Tim, the Christmas ghosts) entered into Western cultural consciousness. A prominent phrase from the tale, "Merry Christmas", was popularised following the appearance of the story.[165] The term Scrooge became a synonym for miser, and his dismissive exclamation 'Bah! Humbug!' likewise gained currency as an idiom.[166] Novelist William Makepeace Thackeray called the book "a national benefit, and to every man and woman who reads it a personal kindness".[163]

text: At a time when Britain was the major economic and political power of the world, Dickens highlighted the life of the forgotten poor and disadvantaged within society. Through his journalism he campaigned on specific issues—such as sanitation and the workhouse—but his fiction probably demonstrated its greatest prowess in changing public opinion in regard to class inequalities. He often depicted the exploitation and oppression of the poor and condemned the public officials and institutions that not only allowed such abuses to exist, but flourished as a result. His most strident indictment of this condition is in Hard Times (1854), Dickens's only novel-length treatment of the industrial working class. In this work, he uses vitriol and satire to illustrate how this marginalised social stratum was termed "Hands" by the factory owners; that is, not really "people" but rather only appendages of the machines they operated. His writings inspired others, in particular journalists and political figures, to address such problems of class oppression. For example, the prison scenes in The Pickwick Papers are claimed to have been influential in having the Fleet Prison shut down. Karl Marx asserted that Dickens "issued to the world more political and social truths than have been uttered by all the professional politicians, publicists and moralists put together".[167] George Bernard Shaw even remarked that Great Expectations was more seditious than Marx's Das Kapital.[167] The exceptional popularity of Dickens's novels, even those with socially oppositional themes (Bleak House, 1853; Little Dorrit, 1857; Our Mutual Friend, 1865), not only underscored his almost preternatural ability to create compelling storylines and unforgettable characters, but also ensured that the Victorian public confronted issues of social justice that had commonly been ignored. It has been argued that his technique of flooding his narratives with an 'unruly superfluity of material' that, in the gradual dénouement, yields up an unsuspected order, influenced the organisation of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species.[168]

text: Influence and legacy

text: Museums and festivals celebrating Dickens's life and works exist in many places with which Dickens was associated. These include the Charles Dickens Museum in London, the historic home where he wrote Oliver Twist, The Pickwick Papers and Nicholas Nickleby; and the Charles Dickens Birthplace Museum in Portsmouth, the house in which he was born. The original manuscripts of many of his novels, as well as printers' proofs, first editions, and illustrations from the collection of Dickens's friend John Forster are held at the Victoria and Albert Museum.[169] Dickens's will stipulated that no memorial be erected in his honour; nonetheless, a life-size bronze statue of Dickens entitled Dickens and Little Nell, cast in 1891 by Francis Edwin Elwell, stands in Clark Park in the Spruce Hill neighbourhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Another life-size statue of Dickens is located at Centennial Park, Sydney, Australia.[170] In 2014, a life-size statue was unveiled near his birthplace in Portsmouth on the 202nd anniversary of his birth; this was supported by the author's great-great grandsons, Ian and Gerald Dickens.[171][172]

text: Dickens was commemorated on the Series E £10 note issued by the Bank of England that circulated between 1992 and 2003. His portrait appeared on the reverse of the note accompanied by a scene from The Pickwick Papers. The Charles Dickens School is a high school in Broadstairs, Kent. A theme park, Dickens World, standing in part on the site of the former naval dockyard where Dickens's father once worked in the Navy Pay Office, opened in Chatham in 2007. To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens in 2012, the Museum of London held the UK's first major exhibition on the author in 40 years.[173] In 2002, Dickens was number 41 in the BBC's poll of the 100 Greatest Britons.[174] American literary critic Harold Bloom placed Dickens among the greatest Western Writers of all time.[175] In the UK survey The Big Read, carried out by the BBC in 2003, five of Dickens's books were named in the Top 100.[176]

text: Dickens and his publications have appeared on a number of postage stamps including: UK (1970, 1993, 2011 and 2012), Soviet Union (1962), Antigua, Barbuda, Botswana, Cameroon, Dubai, Fujairah, St Christopher, Nevis and Anguilla, St Helena, St Lucia and Turks and Caicos Islands (1970), St Vincent (1987), Nevis (2007), Alderney, Gibraltar, Jersey and Pitcairn Islands (2012), Austria (2013), Mozambique (2014).[177]

text: Notable works

text: Dickens published more than a dozen major novels, a large number of short stories, including a number of Christmas-themed stories, a handful of plays, and several non-fiction books. Dickens's novels were initially serialised in weekly and monthly magazines, then reprinted in standard book formats.

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The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (Known as "The Pickwick Papers") (Monthly serial, April 1836 to November 1837)[178]
The Adventures of Oliver Twist (Monthly serial in Bentley's Miscellany, February 1837 to April 1839)
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Monthly serial, April 1838 to October 1839)
The Old Curiosity Shop (Weekly serial in Master Humphrey's Clock, April 1840 to November 1841)
Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty (Weekly serial in Master Humphrey's Clock, February to November 1841)
A Christmas Carol (1843)
The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (Monthly serial, January 1843 to July 1844)
Dombey and Son (Monthly serial, October 1846 to April 1848)
David Copperfield (Monthly serial, May 1849 to November 1850)
Bleak House (Monthly serial, March 1852 to September 1853)
Hard Times: For These Times (Weekly serial in Household Words, 1 April 1854, to 12 August 1854)
Little Dorrit (Monthly serial, December 1855 to June 1857)
A Tale of Two Cities (Weekly serial in All the Year Round, 30 April 1859, to 26 November 1859)
Great Expectations (Weekly serial in All the Year Round, 1 December 1860 to 3 August 1861)
Our Mutual Friend (Monthly serial, May 1864 to November 1865)
The Mystery of Edwin Drood left unfinished due to Dickens's death (Monthly serial, April 1870 to September 1870)

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Woods has won 79 official PGA Tour events, second only to Sam Snead, and six ahead of Jack Nicklaus with 73 wins. (See List of golfers with most PGA Tour wins.)
Woods has won 14 majors, second all time, behind Jack Nicklaus.
Woods is 14–1 when going into the final round of a major with at least a share of the lead.
Woods scoring average in 2000 is the lowest in PGA Tour history, both adjusted, 67.79, and unadjusted, 68.17.[1]
Woods has the lowest career scoring average in PGA Tour history.
Woods has amassed the most career earnings of any player in PGA Tour history (even after inflation is considered).
Woods is one of five players (along with Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, and Jack Nicklaus) to have won all four professional major championships in his career, known as the Career Grand Slam, and was the youngest to do so.[2]
Woods is the only player to have won all four professional major championships in a row, accomplishing the feat in the 2000–2001 seasons. This feat became known as the "Tiger Slam".
Woods set the all-time PGA Tour record for most consecutive cuts made, with 142. The streak started in 1998, he set the record at the 2003 Tour Championship with 114 (passing Byron Nelson's previous record of 113 and Jack Nicklaus at 105) and extended this mark to 142 before it ended on May 13, 2005 at the EDS Byron Nelson Championship. Many consider this to be one of the most remarkable golf accomplishments of all time, given the margin by which he broke the old record and given that during the streak, the next longest streak by any other player was usually only in the 10s or 20s.[3][4][5][6] It should be noted that when Byron Nelson played far fewer players made the cut in a given event.[citation needed]
Woods has won a record 25.2% (79 out of 313) of his professional starts on the PGA Tour.
Woods is the only golfer to have won the U.S. Amateur three consecutive times (1994–96).

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Woods has been the PGA Player of the Year a record eleven times.
Woods has been the PGA Tour Player of the Year a record eleven times.
Woods has been the PGA Tour Money Leader a record ten times.
Woods has been the Vardon Trophy winner a record nine times.
Woods has been the recipient of the Byron Nelson Award a record nine times.

text: Miscellaneous[edit]

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Woods owns a 54–4 record when holding at least a share of the lead after 54 holes,[7] and 42–2 record when holding the outright lead.[8]
Woods has only lost once when leading by more than one shot after 54 holes. Yang Yong-eun began the final round of the 2009 PGA Championship two strokes behind Woods and defeated him by three strokes.
Woods has a 37–11 record when leading after 36 holes in Tour events, including an 8–3 record in majors.[7]
Woods has won 12 tournaments wire-to-wire, including seven times while holding the lead outright after each round: 2000 U.S. Open, 2000 PGA Championship (tied after 1st and 4th rounds), 2000 WGC-NEC Invitational, 2002 Bay Hill Invitational (tied after 1st round), 2002 U.S. Open, 2002 WGC-American Express Championship, 2003 Western Open, 2005 Open Championship, 2005 WGC-NEC Invitational (tied after 1st, 2nd and 3rd rounds), 2006 Ford Championship at Doral (tied after 2nd round), 2006 WGC-American Express Championship, 2013 WGC-Cadillac Championship (tied after 1st round)
Woods has successfully defended a title 24 times on the PGA Tour, has finished runner-up 29 times, and third place 19 times.
Woods has spent the most consecutive and cumulative weeks atop the world rankings.
Woods holds the PGA Tour record for most consecutive rounds at par or better with 52. The streak began in the second round of the 2000 GTE Byron Nelson Classic and ended in the second round of the 2001 Phoenix Open. When including non-PGA Tour events, the streak was 66.[9]
Woods' win at the 2005 Open Championship made him only the second golfer (after Nicklaus) to have won all four majors more than once. With his win in the 2008 U.S. Open, Woods joined Nicklaus as the only golfers to win each major at least three times.
Woods holds at least a share of the scoring record in relation to par in one major (The Masters), and also holds the margin of victory record in two majors (The Masters and the U.S. Open).
Woods' victory at the 2006 WGC-American Express Championship, he became the first player in PGA Tour history to win at least eight times in three different seasons.
Woods' victory in the Buick Invitational in January 2007 placed him 2nd for the longest PGA Tour win streak at 7 (consecutive wins in PGA events entered), trailing only Nelson's streak of 11 wins in 1945.
Woods became the first golfer to win five PGA Tour events five or more times at the 2009 BMW Championship. In order of his accomplishment: WGC-CA Championship, WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, Buick Invitational, Arnold Palmer Invitational, and BMW Championship.
Woods' win at the U.S. Open in 2008 made him the sixth person to win the U.S. Open three or more times, the first person to win a PGA Tour tournament on the same course seven times, and the first person to win two tournaments at the same golf course in the same season.
Woods has hit a combined total eighteen holes-in-one in the course of his lifetime—his first at the age of six. Three have come in PGA Tour competition, at the 1996 Greater Milwaukee Open, 1997 Phoenix Open, and 1998 Sprint International.[10]
Woods is the only professional golfer to win four majors in a row.

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Year
Championship
54 holes
Winning score
Margin
Runner(s)-up

1997
Masters Tournament
099 shot lead
-18−18 (70-66-65-69=270)
1212 strokes
 Tom Kite

1999
PGA Championship
00Tied for lead
-11−11 (70-67-68-72=277)
011 stroke
 Sergio García

2000
U.S. Open
1010 shot lead
-12−12 (65-69-71-67=272)
1515 strokes
 Ernie Els,  Miguel Ángel Jiménez

2000
The Open Championship
066 shot lead
-19−19 (67-66-67-69=269)
088 strokes
 Thomas Bjørn,  Ernie Els

2000
PGA Championship (2)
011 shot lead
-18−18 (66-67-70-67=270)
00Playoff1
 Bob May

2001
Masters Tournament (2)
011 shot lead
-16−16 (70-66-68-68=272)
022 strokes
 David Duval

2002
Masters Tournament (3)
00Tied for lead
-12−12 (70-69-66-71=276)
033 strokes
 Retief Goosen

2002
U.S. Open (2)
044 shot lead
-03−3 (67-68-70-72=277)
033 strokes
 Phil Mickelson

2005
Masters Tournament (4)
033 shot lead
-12−12 (74-66-65-71=276)
00Playoff2
 Chris DiMarco

2005
The Open Championship (2)
022 shot lead
-14−14 (66-67-71-70=274)
055 strokes
 Colin Montgomerie

2006
The Open Championship (3)
011 shot lead
-18−18 (67-65-71-67=270)
022 strokes
 Chris DiMarco

2006
PGA Championship (3)
00Tied for lead
-18−18 (69-68-65-68=270)
055 strokes
 Shaun Micheel

2007
PGA Championship (4)
033 shot lead
-08−8 (71-63-69-69=272)
022 strokes
 Woody Austin

2008
U.S. Open (3)
011 shot lead
-01−1 (72-68-70-73=283)
00Playoff3
 Rocco Mediate

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1Defeated May in three-hole aggregate playoff by 1 stroke: Woods (3-4-5=12), May (4-4-5=13)
2Defeated DiMarco in a sudden-death playoff: Woods (3) and DiMarco (4).
3Defeated Mediate with a par on 1st sudden death hole after 18-hole playoff was tied at even par 71

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text: Records and trivia[edit]

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In all of his major victories, he has had the outright lead or a share of the lead at the end of the third round. He has had the outright lead or a share of the lead 9 times at the end of the second round and has only lost once.
Woods holds at least a share of the record for lowest 72-hole score in relation to par in one of the four majors. Note that the "to par" and "low 72-holes" records are not always the same because, while most championship golf courses have a par of 72, or 288 for four rounds, some have a par of 71 or 70.
Woods is the only player to have won multiple professional majors in consecutive years, 2005 and 2006. Bobby Jones won multiple majors in consecutive years in 1926 and 1927, when the U.S. Amateur and the British Amateur were both considered majors.[11]
Woods has won two or more majors in a year four times. He trails only Jack Nicklaus, who won two majors in a season five times (1963, '66, '72, '75 and '80).[12]

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Woods, Nicklaus, Jordan Spieth and Rickie Fowler are the only players to have finished in the top 5 in all four majors in a year. Woods and Nicklaus have both achieved this twice: Woods in 2000 and 2005, and Nicklaus in 1971 and 1973. Fowler joined the list in 2014 and Spieth in 2015.
Woods and Bobby Jones are the only golfers to have won 10 majors before the age of 30. Jones achieved 13 majors in 21 attempts, (winning percentage 62%), while Woods achieved 10 wins in 44 attempts (a 23% winning ratio).[13]

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Woods is only the second player all-time to win three major championships in a calendar year (2000) winning the U.S. Open, The Open Championship, and the PGA Championship respectively, along with Ben Hogan who accomplished this feat in (1953) with The Masters, the U.S. Open, and The Open Championships.
Woods is the second player to have won the career grand slam three times along with Jack Nicklaus. Woods is the only professional golfer to win four majors in a row.
The last: Masters (2005), US Open (2000), Open Championship (2005), and PGA (2000), Jack Nicklaus played in; were all won by Tiger Woods.

text: Masters Tournament[edit]

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−18 (270), 1997 (outright to-par and low 72 holes record), tied by Jordan Spieth in 2015
Woods holds the record for the largest margin of victory at the Masters: 12 strokes (1997)
Woods became the youngest winner in 1997 at the age of 21 years, 104 days
His win made him the first winner of The Masters, or any other (under-50) men's major, of African or Asian descent. He, the Indian Fijian Vijay Singh, and the South Korean Yang Yong-eun are the only winners of any major of such descent. The only other major winner whose primary ethnic heritage is undeniably non-European is 2005 U.S. Open champion Michael Campbell, a Māori from New Zealand.
After a front-nine 40 in the first round, Woods played the final 63 holes 22-under par
He played 72 holes without a single three-putt
Woods set a record with the lowest back-to-back total for two rounds: 131 (65-66)

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Woods holds the record for the largest margin of victory at the U.S. Open: 15 strokes (2000) (this is the record for all majors).
Also in 2000, Woods became the first player to finish a U.S. Open at double digits under par. (In 1992, Gil Morgan was the first ever to be double digits under par at any stage of a U.S. Open, but failed to finish in double digits under par, and indeed failed to win that event, with Tom Kite winning instead.)
Woods was the only player to finish under par at the following U.S. Opens:

2000 at Pebble Beach Golf Links: -12
2002 at Bethpage State Park, Black Course: -3

With his win in 2008, Woods equaled Jack Nicklaus' feat of winning each major at least three times.

text: The Open Championship[edit]

text:
Woods shares the record for largest margin of victory at a post-1900 Open Championship: 8 strokes (2000)
Woods became the fifth player to achieve the Career Grand Slam, and the youngest player (7003897200000000000♠24 years, 206 days) to do so, breaking the mark held by Nicklaus (26 years, 6 months at the 1966 British Open)
He became the fastest to win all four majors – in his 93rd sanctioned tournament, compared with 125 for Nicklaus
He became the youngest to win a fourth major championship, breaking the mark held by Nicklaus (7003921200000000000♠25 years, 80 days at the 1965 Masters)
In 2006, Woods became the first player to win the Open Championship in back-to-back years since Tom Watson in 1982–83
He became the first golfer since Watson in 1982 to win the U.S. and British Opens in the same year

text: PGA Championship[edit]

text:
With his 2006 PGA Championship win, Woods became the only golfer to have won all 4 majors by at least 5 strokes
Woods is the only player in the stroke-play era (since 1958) to repeat as PGA champion.
Woods' wins at Medinah in 1999 and 2006 make him the only player to win the PGA Championship twice on the same course.
Second round 63 in the 2007 PGA Championship tied the record for second lowest single-round score in major championship history
Woods is the only player to win the PGA Championship back-to-back on two different occasions: 1999–2000 and 2006–2007.

text: Results timeline[edit]

text:
Tournament
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015

Masters Tournament
T41 LA
CUT
1
T8
T18
5
1
1
T15
T22
1
T3
T2
2
T6
T4
T4
T40
T4

T17

U.S. Open
WD
T82
T19
T18
T3
1
T12
1
T20
T17
2
CUT
T2
1
T6
T4

T21
T32

CUT

The Open Championship
T68
T22 LA
T24
3
T7
1
T25
T28
T4
T9
1
1
T12

CUT
T23

T3
T6
69
CUT

PGA Championship

T29
T10
1
1
T29
2
T39
T24
T4
1
1

2
T28
CUT
T11
T40
CUT
CUT

text:
LA = Low amateur
CUT = missed the half-way cut
WD = withdrew
"T" = tied

text: Summary[edit]

text:
Starts – 76 (69 as a professional)
Wins – 14
2nd-place finishes – 6
Top 3 finishes – 24
Top 5 finishes – 31
Top 10 finishes – 38
Top 25 finishes – 55
Cuts missed – 8 (6 as a professional)
Longest streak of wins – 4 (record)
Longest streak of top-5s – 6
Longest streak of top-10s – 8
Longest streak of top-25s – 15

text: World Golf Championships[edit]

text: Wins (18)[edit]

text:
Year
Championship
54 holes
Winning score
Margin
Runner(s)-up

1999
Invitational 1 !WGC-NEC Invitational
055 shot lead
-10−10 (66-71-62-71=270)
011 stroke
 Phil Mickelson

1999
Championship 1 !WGC-American Express Championship
-031 shot deficit
-06–6 (71-69-70-68=278)
00Playoff 1
 Miguel Ángel Jiménez

2000
Invitational 2 !WGC-NEC Invitational (2)
099 shot lead
-21−21 (64-61-67-67=259)
1111 strokes
 Justin Leonard,  Phillip Price

2001
Invitational 3 !WGC-NEC Invitational (3)
-022 shot deficit
-12−12 (66-67-66-69=268)
00Playoff 2
 Jim Furyk

2002
Championship 2 !WGC-American Express Championship (2)
055 shot lead
-25−25 (65-65-67-66=263)
011 stroke
 Retief Goosen

2003
Match play 1 !WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship
n/an/a
n/a2 & 1
n/an/a
 David Toms

2003
Championship 3 !WGC-American Express Championship (3)
022 shot lead
-06−6 (67-66-69-72=274)
022 strokes
 Stuart Appleby,  Tim Herron,  Vijay Singh

2004
Match play 2 !WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship (2)
n/an/a
n/a3 & 2
n/an/a
 Davis Love III

2005
Invitational 4 !WGC-NEC Invitational (4)
00Tied for lead
-06−6 (66-70-67-71=274)
011 stroke
 Chris DiMarco

2005
Championship 4 !WGC-American Express Championship (4)
-022 shot deficit
-10−10 (67-68-68-67=270)
00Playoff 3
 John Daly

2006
Invitational 5 !WGC-Bridgestone Invitational (5)
-031 shot deficit
-10−10 (67-64-71-68=270)
00Playoff 4
 Stewart Cink

2006
Championship 5 !WGC-American Express Championship (5)
066 shot lead
-23−23 (63-64-67-67=261)
088 strokes
 Ian Poulter,  Adam Scott

2007
Championship 6 !WGC-CA Championship (6)
044 shot lead
-10−10 (71-66-68-73=278)
022 strokes
 Brett Wetterich

2007
Invitational 6 !WGC-Bridgestone Invitational (6)
-031 shot deficit
-08−8 (68-70-69-65=272)
088 strokes
 Justin Rose,  Rory Sabbatini

2008
Match play 3 !WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship (3)
n/an/a
n/a8 & 7
n/an/a
 Stewart Cink

2009
Invitational 7 !WGC-Bridgestone Invitational (7)
-013 shot deficit
-12−12 (68-70-65-65=268)
044 strokes
 Robert Allenby,  Pádraig Harrington

2013
Championship 7 !WGC-Cadillac Championship (7)
044 shot lead
-19−19 (66-65-67-71=269)
022 strokes
 Steve Stricker

2013
Invitational 8 !WGC-Bridgestone Invitational (8)
077 shot lead
-15−15 (66-61-68-70=265)
077 strokes
 Keegan Bradley,  Henrik Stenson

text:
1 Won on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff
2 Won on the seventh hole of a sudden-death playoff
3 Won on the second hole of a sudden-death playoff
4 Won on the fourth hole of a sudden-death playoff

text: Records[edit]

text:
Won at least one World Golf Championships event every year from 1999 to 2009.
All-time wins leader in World Golf Championships events (41.9% win rate).
All-time money leader in World Golf Championships events.
Won the WGC-World Cup with David Duval in 2000, an unofficial money WGC event, for a total of 19 World Golf Championships titles.
Only player to have held the titles of all three of the pre-2009 events (not counting the HSBC Champions, elevated to WGC status in 2009) at the same time.

text: Accenture Match Play

text:
Woods set the record for most lopsided victory (18-hole match) in his first round match against Stephen Ames in 2006 – 9 & 8. Mathematically, it is the fastest possible win in 18-hole match play (10 & 8 would be a larger margin of victory, but the same number of holes played).
Woods also set the record for largest margin of victory in the 36-hole final match – 8 & 7 over Stewart Cink in 2008.

text: Cadillac Championship

text:
Lowest first 18-hole total 63 set the course record at The Grove
Tied lowest first 18-hole total – 63
Lowest 36-hole total – 127
Largest 36-hole lead – 5 strokes
Lowest 54-hole total – 194
Largest 54-hole lead – 6 strokes
Lowest 72-hole total – 261
Largest margin of victory – 8 strokes
Only player to record top-10 finishes in each appearance (more than two appearances)

text: Note: All Cadillac Championship records were set in 2006, when the tournament was known as the American Express Championship[14]

text: Bridgestone Invitational

text:
Lowest 18-hole total – 61 (twice, tied with José María Olazábal)
Lowest 36-hole total – 125
Lowest 54-hole total – 192
Lowest 72-hole total – 259
Largest margin of victory – 11 strokes

text: Note: All records were set in 2000 and 2013 (18-hole record)

text: Results timeline[edit]

text:
Tournament
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014

Accenture Match Play Championship
QF
2
DNP
R64
1
1
R32
R16
R16
1
R32
DNP
R64
R32
R64
DNP

Cadillac Championship
1
T5
NT1
1
1
9
1
1
1
5
T9
DNP
T10
WD
1
T25

Bridgestone Invitational
1
1
1
4
T4
T2
1
1
1
DNP
1
T78
T37
T8
1
WD

HSBC Champions

T6
T6
DNP
DNP
DNP
DNP

text:
1Cancelled due to 9/11
DNP = Did not play
QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play
"T" = tied
NT = No Tournament
WD = Withdrew
Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10.
Note that the HSBC Champions did not become a WGC event until 2009.

text: Performance summary

text:
Tournament
Starts
Top-10s
Wins
Earnings ($)

Accenture Match Play Championship
13
7
3
4,918,500

Cadillac Championship
13
12
7
9,369,000

Bridgestone Invitational
15
12
8
11,075,625

HSBC Champions
2
2
0
335,714

Totals
43
33
18
$25,678,839

text: Note that the HSBC Champions was not an official PGA Tour event. This means that the money earned in that event did not count toward his official earnings on that tour.

text: FedEx Cup Playoffs[edit]

text:
Year
Place
Points
Margin
Earnings($)

2007
1
123,033
+12,578
10,000,000

2008
70
100,000
−25,101
110,000

2009
1
4,000
+1,080
10,000,000

2010
42
1,300
–3,635
133,000

2011
132
318
−4,943
32,000

2012
3
2,663
−1,437
2,000,000

2013
2
2,743
−2,007
3,000,000

2014
218
45
n/a
0

2015
178
215
n/a
0

Total

25,275,000

text: PGA Tour professional career summary[edit]

text:
Year
Starts
Cuts made
Wins (Majors)
2nd
3rd
Top 10
Top 25
Earnings ($)
Money list
rank
Adjusted scoring
average (rank)

1996
8
8
2
0
2
5
7
790,594
24
69.44†

1997
21
20
4 (1)
1
1
9
14
2,066,833
1
69.10 (2nd)

1998
20
19*
1
2
2
13
17
1,841,117
4
69.21 (2nd)

1999
21
21
8 (1)
1
2
16
18
6,616,585
1
68.43 (1st)

2000
20
20
9 (3)
4
1
17
20
9,188,321
1
67.79‡ (1st)

2001
19
19
5 (1)
0
1
9
18
5,687,777
1
68.81 (1st)

2002
18
18
5 (2)
2
2
13
16
6,912,625
1
68.56 (1st)

2003
18
18
5
2
0
12
16
6,673,413
2
68.41 (1st)

2004
19
19
1
3
3
14
18
5,365,472
4
69.04 (3rd)

2005
21
19
6 (2)
4
2
13
17
10,628,024
1
68.66 (1st)

2006
15
14
8 (2)
1
1
11
13
9,941,563
1
68.11 (1st)

2007
16
16
7 (1)
3
0
12
15
10,867,052
1
67.79‡ (1st)

2008
6
6
4 (1)
1
0
6
6
5,775,000
2
67.65†

2009
17
16
6
3
0
14
16
10,508,163
1
68.05 (1st)

2010
12
11
0
0
0
2
7
1,294,765
66
70.32†

2011
9
7
0
0
0
2
3
660,238
128
70.46†

2012
19
17
3
1
2
9
13
6,133,158
2
68.90 (2nd)

2013
16
16
5
1
0
8
10
8,553,439
1
68.98 (2nd)

2014
7
5
0
0
0
0
1
108,275
201
71.65†

2015
11
6
0
0
0
1
3
448,598
162
71.93†

Career**
313
295
79 (14)
29
19
186
248
110,061,012
1

text:
Green background for 1st place. Yellow background for top 10.
* Woods qualified for the third round in the 1998 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am but decided to withdraw from the rain-delayed event. Officially, it is counted as a missed cut.
** As of September 28, 2015
† Woods did not play the required 50 rounds to be ranked in scoring average these years: 1996 – 41 rounds, 2008 – 26, 2010 – 45, 2011 – 27, 2014 – 21, 2015 – 32.
Woods played in 14 PGA Tour events from 1992–1996 as an amateur. In this span, he made 5 cuts, with his best finish and sole top-25 performance coming at the 1996 British Open. This brings his total tally of PGA Tour events played to 327, his total number of cuts made to 300, and his total number of top-25 finishes to 249.

text: Professional wins (106)[edit]

text: PGA Tour wins (79)[edit]

text:
Legend

Major championships (14)

Players Championships (2)

World Golf Championships (18)

Tour Champ / FedEx Cup events (4)

Other PGA Tour (41)

text:
No.
Date
Tournament
Winning score
Margin of
victory
Runner(s)-up

1
Oct 6, 1996
Las Vegas Invitational
−27 (70-63-68-67-64=332)
Playoff
 Davis Love III

2
Oct 20, 1996
Walt Disney World/Oldsmobile Classic
−21 (69-63-69-66=267)
1 stroke
 Payne Stewart

3.
Jan 12, 1997
Mercedes Championships
−14 (70-67-65=202)
Playoff
 Tom Lehman

4
Apr 13, 1997
Masters Tournament
−18 (70-66-65-69=270)
12 strokes
 Tom Kite

5
May 18, 1997
GTE Byron Nelson Golf Classic
−17 (64-64-67-68=263)
2 strokes
 Lee Rinker

6
Jul 6, 1997
Motorola Western Open
−13 (67-72-68-68=275)
3 strokes
 Frank Nobilo

7
May 10, 1998
BellSouth Classic
−17 (69-67-63-72=271)
1 stroke
 Jay Don Blake

8
Feb 14, 1999
Buick Invitational
−22 (68-71-62-65=266)
2 strokes
 Billy Ray Brown

9
Jun 6, 1999
Memorial Tournament
−15 (68-66-70-69=273)
2 strokes
 Vijay Singh

10
Jul 4, 1999
Motorola Western Open (2)
−15 (68-66-68-71=273)
3 strokes
 Mike Weir

11
Aug 15, 1999
PGA Championship
−11 (70-67-68-72=277)
1 stroke
 Sergio García

12
Aug 29, 1999
NEC Invitational
−10 (66-71-62-71=270)
1 stroke
 Phil Mickelson

13
Oct 24, 1999
National Car Rental Golf Classic Disney (2)
−17 (66-66-66-73=271)
1 stroke
 Ernie Els

14
Oct 31, 1999
The Tour Championship
−15 (67-66-67-69=269)
4 strokes
 Davis Love III

15
Nov 7, 1999
American Express Championship
−6 (71-69-70-68=278)
Playoff
 Miguel Ángel Jiménez

16
Jan 9, 2000
Mercedes Championships (2)
−16 (71-66-71-68=276)
Playoff
 Ernie Els

17
Feb 7, 2000
AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am
−15 (68-73-68-64=273)
2 strokes
 Matt Gogel,  Vijay Singh

18
Mar 19, 2000
Bay Hill Invitational
−18 (69-64-67-70=270)
4 strokes
 Davis Love III

19
May 29, 2000
Memorial Tournament (2)
−19 (71-63-65-70=269)
5 strokes
 Ernie Els,  Justin Leonard

20
Jun 18, 2000
U.S. Open
−12 (65-69-71-67=272)
15 strokes
 Ernie Els,  Miguel Ángel Jiménez

21
Jul 23, 2000
The Open Championship
−19 (67-66-67-69=269)
8 strokes
 Thomas Bjørn,  Ernie Els

22
Aug 20, 2000
PGA Championship (2)
−18 (66-67-70-67=270)
Playoff
 Bob May

23
Aug 27, 2000
NEC Invitational (2)
−21 (64-61-67-67=259)
11 strokes
 Justin Leonard,  Phillip Price

24
Sep 10, 2000
Bell Canadian Open
−22 (72-65-64-65=266)
1 stroke
 Grant Waite

25
Mar 18, 2001
Bay Hill Invitational (2)
−15 (71-67-66-69=273)
1 stroke
 Phil Mickelson

26
Mar 25, 2001
The Players Championship
−14 (72-69-66-67=274)
1 stroke
 Vijay Singh

27
Apr 8, 2001
Masters Tournament (2)
−16 (70-66-68-68=272)
2 strokes
 David Duval

28
Jun 3, 2001
Memorial Tournament (3)
−17 (68-69-68-66=271)
7 strokes
 Paul Azinger,  Sergio García

29
Aug 26, 2001
NEC Invitational (3)
−12 (66-67-66-69=268)
Playoff
 Jim Furyk

30
Mar 17, 2002
Bay Hill Invitational (3)
−13 (67-65-74-69=275)
4 strokes
 Michael Campbell

31
Apr 14, 2002
Masters Tournament (3)
−12 (70-69-66-71=276)
3 strokes
 Retief Goosen

32
Jun 16, 2002
U.S. Open (2)
−3 (67-68-70-72=277)
3 strokes
 Phil Mickelson

33
Aug 11, 2002
Buick Open
−17 (67-63-71-70=271)
4 strokes
 Fred Funk,  Brian Gay,
 Mark O'Meara,  Esteban Toledo

34
Sep 22, 2002
American Express Championship (2)
−25 (65-65-67-66=263)
1 stroke
 Retief Goosen

35
Feb 16, 2003
Buick Invitational (2)
−16 (70-66-68-68=272)
4 strokes
 Carl Pettersson

36
Mar 2, 2003
Accenture Match Play Championship
2 & 1
 David Toms

37
Mar 23, 2003
Bay Hill Invitational (4)
−19 (70-65-66-68=269)
11 strokes
 Stewart Cink,  Brad Faxon,
 Kenny Perry,  Kirk Triplett

38
Jul 6, 2003
100th Western Open (3)
−21 (63-70-65-69=267)
5 strokes
 Rich Beem

39
Oct 5, 2003
American Express Championship (3)
−6 (67-66-69-72=274)
2 strokes
 Stuart Appleby,  Tim Herron,
 Vijay Singh

40
Feb 29, 2004
Accenture Match Play Championship (2)
3 & 2
 Davis Love III

41
Jan 23, 2005
Buick Invitational (3)
−16 (69-63-72-68=272)
3 strokes
 Luke Donald,  Charles Howell III,
 Tom Lehman

42
Mar 6, 2005
Ford Championship at Doral
−24 (65-70-63-66=264)
1 stroke
 Phil Mickelson

43
Apr 10, 2005
Masters Tournament (4)
−12 (74-66-65-71=276)
Playoff
 Chris DiMarco

44
Jul 17, 2005
The Open Championship (2)
−14 (66-67-71-70=274)
5 strokes
 Colin Montgomerie

45
Aug 21, 2005
NEC Invitational (4)
−6 (66-70-67-71=274)
1 stroke
 Chris DiMarco

46
Oct 9, 2005
American Express Championship (4)
−10 (67-68-68-67=270)
Playoff
 John Daly

47
Jan 29, 2006
Buick Invitational (4)
−10 (71-68-67-72=278)
Playoff
 Nathan Green,  José María Olazábal

48
Mar 5, 2006
Ford Championship at Doral (2)
−20 (64-67-68-69=268)
1 stroke
 David Toms,  Camilo Villegas

49
Jul 23, 2006
The Open Championship (3)
−18 (67-65-71-67=270)
2 strokes
 Chris DiMarco

50
Aug 6, 2006
Buick Open (2)
−24 (66-66-66-66=264)
3 strokes
 Jim Furyk

51
Aug 20, 2006
PGA Championship (3)
−18 (69-68-65-68=270)
5 strokes
 Shaun Micheel

52
Aug 27, 2006
Bridgestone Invitational (5)
−10 (67-64-71-68=270)
Playoff
 Stewart Cink

53
Sep 4, 2006
Deutsche Bank Championship
−16 (66-72-67-63=268)
2 strokes
 Vijay Singh

54
Oct 1, 2006
American Express Championship (5)
−23 (63-64-67-67=261)
8 strokes
 Ian Poulter,  Adam Scott

55
Jan 28, 2007
Buick Invitational (5)
−15 (66-72-69-66=273)
2 strokes
 Charles Howell III

56
Mar 25, 2007
CA Championship (6)
−10 (71-66-68-73=278)
2 strokes
 Brett Wetterich

57
May 6, 2007
Wachovia Championship
−13 (70-68-68-69=275)
2 strokes
 Steve Stricker

58
Aug 5, 2007
Bridgestone Invitational (6)
−8 (68-70-69-65=272)
8 strokes
 Justin Rose,  Rory Sabbatini

59
Aug 12, 2007
PGA Championship (4)
−8 (71-63-69-69=272)
2 strokes
 Woody Austin

60
Sep 9, 2007
BMW Championship (4)
−22 (67-67-65-63=262)
2 strokes
 Aaron Baddeley

61
Sep 16, 2007
The Tour Championship (2)
−23 (64-63-64-66=257)
8 strokes
 Mark Calcavecchia,  Zach Johnson

62
Jan 27, 2008
Buick Invitational (6)
−19 (67-65-66-71=269)
8 strokes
 Ryuji Imada

63
Feb 24, 2008
Accenture Match Play Championship (3)
8 & 7
 Stewart Cink

64
Mar 16, 2008
Arnold Palmer Invitational (5)
−10 (70-68-66-66=270)
1 stroke
 Bart Bryant

65
Jun 16, 2008
U.S. Open (3)
−1 (72-68-70-73=283)
Playoff
 Rocco Mediate

66
Mar 29, 2009
Arnold Palmer Invitational (6)
−5 (68-69-71-67=275)
1 stroke
 Sean O'Hair

67
Jun 7, 2009
Memorial Tournament (4)
−12 (69-74-68-65=276)
1 stroke
 Jim Furyk

68
Jul 5, 2009
AT&T National
−13 (64-66-70-67=267)
1 stroke
 Hunter Mahan

69
Aug 2, 2009
Buick Open (3)
−20 (71-63-65-69=268)
3 strokes
 Greg Chalmers,  John Senden
 Roland Thatcher

70
Aug 9, 2009
Bridgestone Invitational (7)
−12 (68-70-65-65=268)
4 strokes
 Robert Allenby,  Pádraig Harrington

71
Sep 13, 2009
BMW Championship (5)
−19 (68-67-62-68=265)
8 strokes
 Jim Furyk,  Marc Leishman

72
Mar 25, 2012
Arnold Palmer Invitational (7)
−13 (69-65-71-70=275)
5 strokes
 Graeme McDowell

73
Jun 3, 2012
Memorial Tournament (5)
−9 (70-69-73-67=279)
2 strokes
 Andrés Romero,  Rory Sabbatini

74
Jul 1, 2012
AT&T National (2)
−8 (72-68-67-69=276)
2 strokes
 Bo Van Pelt

75
Jan 28, 2013
Farmers Insurance Open (7)
−14 (68-65-69-72=274)
4 strokes
 Brandt Snedeker,  Josh Teater

76
Mar 10, 2013
Cadillac Championship (7)
−19 (66-65-67-71=269)
2 strokes
 Steve Stricker

77
Mar 25, 2013
Arnold Palmer Invitational (8)
−13 (69-70-66-70=275)
2 strokes
 Justin Rose

78
May 12, 2013
The Players Championship (2)
−13 (67-67-71-70=275)
2 strokes
 David Lingmerth,  Jeff Maggert
 Kevin Streelman

79
Aug 4, 2013
Bridgestone Invitational (8)
−15 (66-61-68-70=265)
7 strokes
 Keegan Bradley,  Henrik Stenson

text: PGA Tour playoff record (11–1)[edit]

text:
No.
Year
Tournament
Opponent(s)
Result

1
1996
Las Vegas Invitational
 Davis Love III
Won with par on first extra hole

2
1997
Mercedes Championships
 Tom Lehman
Won with birdie on first extra hole

3
1998
Nissan Open
 Billy Mayfair
Lost to birdie on first extra hole

4
1999
American Express Championship
 Miguel Ángel Jiménez
Won with birdie on first extra hole

5
2000
Mercedes Championships
 Ernie Els
Won with birdie on second extra hole

6
2000
PGA Championship
 Bob May
Won three-hole playoff: Woods (3-4-5=12), May (4-4-5=13)

7
2001
NEC Invitational
 Jim Furyk
Won with birdie on seventh extra hole

8
2005
Masters Tournament
 Chris DiMarco
Won with birdie on first extra hole

9
2005
WGC-American Express Championship
 John Daly
Won with par on second extra hole

10
2006
Buick Invitational
 José María Olazábal,
 Nathan Green
Won with par on second extra hole
Green eliminated with par on first hole

11
2006
WGC-Bridgestone Invitational
 Stewart Cink
Won with birdie on fourth extra hole

12
2008
U.S. Open
 Rocco Mediate
Won with par on first extra hole
after 18-hole playoff (Woods:71, Mediate:71)

text: European Tour wins (40)[edit]

text:
Legend

Major championships (14)

World Golf Championships (18)

Other European Tour (8)

text:
No.
Date
Tournament
Winning score
Margin of
victory
Runner(s)-up

1
Apr 13, 1997
Masters Tournament
−18 (70-66-65-69=270)
12 strokes
 Tom Kite

2
Jan 25, 1998
Johnnie Walker Classic
−9 (72-71-71-65=279)
Playoff
 Ernie Els

3
May 24, 1999
Deutsche Bank - SAP Open TPC of Europe
−15 (69-68-68-68=273)
3 strokes
 Retief Goosen

4
Aug 15, 1999
PGA Championship
−11 (70-67-68-72=277)
1 stroke
 Sergio García

5
Aug 29, 1999
NEC Invitational
−10 (66-71-62-71=270)
1 stroke
 Phil Mickelson

6
Nov 7, 1999
American Express Championship
−6 (71-69-70-68=278)
Playoff
 Miguel Ángel Jiménez

7
Jun 18, 2000
U.S. Open
−12 (65-69-71-67=272)
15 strokes
 Ernie Els,  Miguel Ángel Jiménez

8
Jul 23, 2000
The Open Championship
−19 (67-66-67-69=269)
8 strokes
 Thomas Bjørn,  Ernie Els

9
Aug 20, 2000
PGA Championship (2)
−18 (66-67-70-67=270)
Playoff
 Bob May

10
Aug 27, 2000
NEC Invitational (2)
−21 (64-61-67-67=259)
11 strokes
 Justin Leonard,  Phillip Price

11
Nov 19, 2000
(2001 season)
Johnnie Walker Classic (2)
−25 (68-65-65-65=263)
3 strokes
 Geoff Ogilvy

12
Apr 8, 2001
Masters Tournament (2)
−16 (70-66-68-68=272)
2 strokes
 David Duval

13
May 20, 2001
Deutsche Bank - SAP Open TPC of Europe (2)
−22 (69-68-63-66=266)
4 strokes
 Michael Campbell

14
Aug 26, 2001
NEC Invitational (3)
−12 (66-67-66-69=268)
Playoff
 Jim Furyk

15
Apr 14, 2002
Masters Tournament (3)
−12 (70-69-66-71=276)
3 strokes
 Retief Goosen

16
May 19, 2002
Deutsche Bank - SAP Open TPC of Europe (3)
−20 (69-67-64-68=268)
Playoff
 Colin Montgomerie

17
Jun 16, 2002
U.S. Open (2)
−3 (67-68-70-72=277)
3 strokes
 Phil Mickelson

18
Sep 22, 2002
American Express Championship (2)
−25 (65-65-67-66=263)
1 stroke
 Retief Goosen

19
Mar 2, 2003
Accenture Match Play Championship
2 & 1
 David Toms

20
Oct 5, 2003
American Express Championship (3)
−6 (67-66-69-72=274)
2 strokes
 Stuart Appleby,  Tim Herron,
 Vijay Singh

21
Feb 29, 2004
Accenture Match Play Championship (2)
3 & 2
 Davis Love III

22
Apr 10, 2005
Masters Tournament (4)
−12 (74-66-65-71=276)
Playoff
 Chris DiMarco

23
Jul 17, 2005
The Open Championship (2)
−14 (66-67-71-70=274)
5 strokes
 Colin Montgomerie

24
Aug 21, 2005
NEC Invitational (4)
−6 (66-70-67-71=274)
1 stroke
 Chris DiMarco

25
Oct 9, 2005
American Express Championship (4)
−10 (67-68-68-67=270)
Playoff
 John Daly

26
Feb 5, 2006
Dubai Desert Classic
−19 (67-66-67-69=269)
Playoff
 Ernie Els

27
Jul 23, 2006
The Open Championship (3)
−18 (67-65-71-67=270)
2 strokes
 Chris DiMarco

28
Aug 20, 2006
PGA Championship (3)
−18 (69-68-65-68=270)
5 strokes
 Shaun Micheel

29
Aug 27, 2006
Bridgestone Invitational (5)
−10 (67-64-71-68=270)
Playoff
 Stewart Cink

30
Oct 1, 2006
American Express Championship (5)
−23 (63-64-67-67=261)
8 strokes
 Ian Poulter,  Adam Scott

31
Mar 25, 2007
CA Championship (6)
−10 (71-66-68-73=278)
2 strokes
 Brett Wetterich

32
Aug 5, 2007
Bridgestone Invitational (6)
−8 (68-70-69-65=272)
8 strokes
 Justin Rose,  Rory Sabbatini

33
Aug 12, 2007
PGA Championship (4)
−8 (71-63-69-69=272)
2 strokes
 Woody Austin

34
Feb 3, 2008
Dubai Desert Classic (2)
−14 (65-71-73-65=274)
1 stroke
 Martin Kaymer

35
Feb 24, 2008
Accenture Match Play Championship (3)
8 & 7
 Stewart Cink

36
Jun 16, 2008
U.S. Open (3)
−1 (72-68-70-73=283)
Playoff
 Rocco Mediate

37
Aug 9, 2009
Bridgestone Invitational (7)
−12 (68-70-65-65=268)
4 strokes
 Robert Allenby,  Pádraig Harrington

38
Nov 15, 2009
JBWere Masters1
−14 (66-68-72-68=274)
2 strokes
 Greg Chalmers

39
Mar 10, 2013
Cadillac Championship (7)
−19 (66-65-67-71=269)
2 strokes
 Steve Stricker

40
Aug 4, 2013
Bridgestone Invitational (8)
−15 (66-61-68-70=265)
7 strokes
 Keegan Bradley,  Henrik Stenson

text: 1 Co-sanctioned with the PGA Tour of Australasia

text: European Tour playoff record (10–0)[edit]

text:
No.
Year
Tournament
Opponent
Result

1
1998
Johnnie Walker Classic
 Ernie Els
Won with birdie on second extra hole

2
1999
WGC-American Express Championship
 Miguel Ángel Jiménez
Won with birdie on first extra hole

3
2000
PGA Championship
 Bob May
Won three-hole playoff: Woods (3-4-5=12), May (4-4-5=13)

4
2001
NEC Invitational
 Jim Furyk
Won with birdie on seventh extra hole

5
2002
Deutsche Bank - SAP Open TPC of Europe
 Colin Montgomerie
Won with par on third extra hole

6
2005
Masters Tournament
 Chris DiMarco
Won with birdie on first extra hole

7
2005
WGC-American Express Championship
 John Daly
Won with par on second extra hole

8
2006
Dubai Desert Classic
 Ernie Els
Won with par on first extra hole

9
2006
WGC-Bridgestone Invitational
 Stewart Cink
Won with birdie on fourth extra hole

10
2008
U.S. Open
 Rocco Mediate
Won with par on first extra hole
after 18-hole playoff (Woods:71, Mediate:71)

text: Note: This table is the European Tour's official Woods' victories on their tour, which gives Woods a total of 40 European Tour wins.[17] Woods' worldwide tournament playoff record is 15-2, including a loss to Pádraig Harrington at the 2006 Dunlop Phoenix.

text: Japan Golf Tour wins (2)[edit]

text:
Year
Date
Tournament
Score
Margin of victory
Runner-up

2004
Nov 21
Dunlop Phoenix
–16 (65-67-65-67=264)
8 strokes
Ryoken Kawagishi

2005
Nov 20
Dunlop Phoenix
–8 (65-67-68-72=272)
Playoff
 Kaname Yokoo

text: Asian Tour wins (1)[edit]

text:
No.
Date
Tournament
Winning score
Margin of
victory
Runner-up

1
Feb 9, 1997
Asian Honda Classic
−20 (70-64-66-68=268)
10 strokes
 Mo Joong-kyung

text: PGA Tour of Australasia wins (1)[edit]

text:
Year
Date
Tournament
Score
Margin of victory
Runner-up

2009
Nov 15
JBWere Masters 1
-14 (66-68-72-68=274)
2 strokes
 Greg Chalmers

text: 1 Co-sanctioned with the European Tour

text: Other professional wins (16)[edit]

text:
1998 (1) PGA Grand Slam of Golf
1999 (3) World Cup of Golf Individual Trophy, World Cup of Golf (team event with Mark O'Meara), PGA Grand Slam of Golf
2000 (2) WGC-World Cup (team event with David Duval), PGA Grand Slam of Golf
2001 (2) Williams World Challenge, PGA Grand Slam of Golf
2002 (1) PGA Grand Slam of Golf
2004 (1) Target World Challenge
2005 (1) PGA Grand Slam of Golf
2006 (2) PGA Grand Slam of Golf, Target World Challenge
2007 (1) Target World Challenge
2009 (1) Notah Begay III Foundation Challenge
2011 (1) Chevron World Challenge

text: Amateur wins (21)[edit]

text:
1984 (1) Junior World Golf Championships (Boys 10-and-under)
1985 (1) Junior World Golf Championships (Boys 10-and-under)
1988 (1) Junior World Golf Championships (Boys 11–12)
1989 (1) Junior World Golf Championships (Boys 13–14)
1990 (2) Junior World Golf Championships (Boys 13–14), Insurance Youth Golf Classic
1991 (3) U.S. Junior Amateur, Junior World Golf Championships (Boys 15–17), Orange Bowl International Junior
1992 (2) U.S. Junior Amateur, Insurance Youth Golf Classic
1993 (1) U.S. Junior Amateur
1994 (3) U.S. Amateur, Western Amateur, Pacific Northwest Amateur
1995 (2) U.S. Amateur, College All-America Golf Classic
1996 (4) U.S. Amateur, NCAA Division I Championship, NCAA West Regional, Pac-10 Championship

text: Amateur major wins (3)[edit]

text:
Year
Championship
Winning score
Runner-up

1994
U.S. Amateur
2 up
 Trip Kuehne

1995
U.S. Amateur
2 up
 Buddy Marucci

1996
U.S. Amateur
38 holes
 Steve Scott

text: Results timeline[edit]

text:
Tournament
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996

U.S. Amateur
DNQ
R32
R32
1
1
1 M

text:
M = Medalist
DNQ = Did not qualify for match play portion
R32, R16, QF, SF = Round in which player lost in match play
Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10

text: Reign as World No. 1 Male Golfer (introduced 1986)[edit]

text: Woods holds the record for most consecutive weeks at No. 1, 281, and the most total number of weeks, 683.[19] Since 1997, he has spent over twelve years atop the Official World Golf Ranking, and has been the number one player for all 52 weeks of a year a record eight times – 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. He has spent 860 weeks ranked in the top-10, and overtook Ernie Els as the golfer with the most weeks ranked in the top 10 in 2013.[20]

text: This list is complete as of May 18, 2014.

text:
Start date
End date
Weeks
Approximate time
Successor

June 15, 1997
June 21, 1997
1
7 days
 Ernie Els

July 6, 1997
September 6, 1997
9
2 months
 Greg Norman

January 11, 1998
April 11, 1998
13
3 months
 Ernie Els

May 10, 1998
May 16, 1998
1
7 days
 Ernie Els

June 14, 1998
March 27, 1999
41
9 months, 13 days
David Duval

July 4, 1999
August 7, 1999
5
1 month, 3 days
David Duval

August 15, 1999
September 4, 2004
264
5 years, 20 days
 Vijay Singh

March 6, 2005
March 19, 2005
2
14 days
 Vijay Singh

April 10, 2005
May 21, 2005
6
1 month, 11 days
 Vijay Singh

June 12, 2005
October 30, 2010
281
5 years, 4.5 months
 Lee Westwood

March 25, 2013
May 17, 2014
60
1 year, 2 months
 Adam Scott

text: U.S. national team appearances[edit]

text: Amateur

text:
Eisenhower Trophy: 1994 (winners)
Walker Cup: 1995

text: Professional

text:
Ryder Cup: 1997, 1999 (winners), 2002, 2004, 2006, 2010, 2012

Ryder Cup record (W–L–H): 13–17–3

Alfred Dunhill Cup: 1998
Presidents Cup: 1998, 2000 (winners), 2003 (tie), 2005 (winners), 2007 (winners), 2009 (winners), 2011 (winners), 2013 (winners)

Presidents Cup record (W–L–H): 24–15–1

World Cup: 1999 (winners, individual winner), 2000 (winners), 2001

text:
Ryder Cup points record

1997
1999
2002
2004
2006
2008
2010
2012
Total

1.5
2
2.5
2
3
–
3
0.5
14.5

text: Awards[edit]

text:
1990

1st Team – Rolex Junior All-American
Southern California Player of the Year

1991

1st Team – Rolex Junior All-American (2)
American Junior Golf Association Player of the Year
Golf Digest Amateur Player of the Year
GolfWeek National Amateur of the Year
Southern California Player of the Year (2)

1992

1st Team – Rolex Junior All-American (3)
American Junior Golf Association Player of the Year (2)
Golf Digest Amateur Player of the Year (2)
GolfWeek National Amateur of the Year (2)
Southern California Player of the Year (3)
Golf World Player of the Year

1993

1st Team – Rolex Junior All-American (4)
Southern California Player of the Year (4)
Golf World Player of the Year (2)

1994

Golf World Man of the Year
L.A. Times Player of the Year
Orange County Player of the Year

1995

Pac-10 Player of the Year
NCAA First Team All-American
GolfWeek Preseason First Team All-American for 1995–96
Stanford University's Male Freshman of the Year

1996

PGA Tour Rookie of the Year
Sports Illustrated "Sportsman of the Year"
Stanford University Collegiate Player of the Year
Fred Haskins Award

1997

Jack Nicklaus Trophy
PGA Player of the Year
PGA Tour Money Leader
ABC's Wide World of Sports Athlete of the Year
Golf Writers Association of America Player of the Year
Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year

1998

Mark H. McCormack Award
ESPN's ESPY Award for Best Male Athlete (for 1997)

1999

PGA Tour Player of the Year (2)
PGA Player of the Year (2)
PGA Tour Money Leader (2)
Vardon Trophy
Byron Nelson Award
Mark H. McCormack Award (2)
Golf Writers Association of America Player of the Year (2)
Anderson Consulting Medal for best performance in WGC events
Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year (2)

2000

PGA Tour Player of the Year (3)
PGA Player of the Year (3)
PGA Tour Money Leader (3)
Vardon Trophy (2)
Byron Nelson Award (2)
Mark H. McCormack Award (3)
Laureus World Sports Awards (for 1999)
Sports Illustrated "Sportsman of the Year" (2)
ABC's Wide World of Sports Athlete of the Year (2)
Golf Writers Association of America Player of the Year (3)
Royal Canadian Golf Association Triple Crown Trophy
Palm Performance Award as leading money winner on PGA Tour West Coast Swing
PricewaterhouseCoopers Fall Finish Award as leading money winner on PGA Tour's fall schedule
Anderson Consulting Medal for best performance in WGC events (2)
Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year (3)
BBC Sports Personality of the Year Overseas Personality
ESPN's ESPY Award for Best Male Athlete (for 1999) (2)

2001

PGA Tour Player of the Year (4)
PGA Player of the Year (4)
PGA Tour Money Leader (4)
Vardon Trophy (3)
Byron Nelson Award (3)
Mark H. McCormack Award (4)
Laureus World Sports Awards (for 2000) (2)
ESPN's ESPY Award for Best Male Athlete (for 2000) (3)
Golf Writers Association of America Player of the Year (4)

2002

PGA Tour Player of the Year (5)
PGA Player of the Year (5)
PGA Tour Money Leader (5)
Vardon Trophy (4)
Byron Nelson Award (4)
Mark H. McCormack Award (5)
ESPN's ESPY Award for Best Male Athlete (for 2001) (4)
Golf Writers Association of America Player of the Year (5)

2003

PGA Tour Player of the Year (6)
PGA Player of the Year (6)
Vardon Trophy (5)
Byron Nelson Award (5)
Mark H. McCormack Award (6)
Golf Writers Association of America Player of the Year (6)

2004

Mark H. McCormack Award (7)

2005

PGA Tour Player of the Year (7)
PGA Player of the Year (7)
PGA Tour Money Leader (6)
Vardon Trophy (6)
Byron Nelson Award (6)
Mark H. McCormack Award (8)
Golf Writers Association of America Player of the Year (7)

2006

PGA Tour Player of the Year (8)
PGA Player of the Year (8)
PGA Tour Money Leader (7)
Byron Nelson Award (7)
Mark H. McCormack Award (9)
Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year (4)
Golf Writers Association of America Player of the Year (8)

2007

PGA Tour Player of the Year (9)
PGA Player of the Year (9)
PGA Tour Money Leader (8)
Vardon Trophy (7)
Byron Nelson Award (8)
Mark H. McCormack Award (10)
FedEx Cup
Golf Writers Association of America Player of the Year (9)

2008

Mark H. McCormack Award (11)

2009

PGA Tour Player of the Year (10)
PGA Player of the Year (10)
PGA Tour Money Leader (9)
Vardon Trophy (8)
Byron Nelson Award (9)
Mark H. McCormack Award (12)
FedEx Cup (2)
Golf Writers Association of America Player of the Year (10)
Associated Press Athlete of the Decade

2010

Mark H. McCormack Award (13)

2013

PGA Tour Player of the Year (11)
PGA Player of the Year (11)
PGA Tour Money Leader (10)
Vardon Trophy (9)
Mark H. McCormack Award (14)