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When Was Tiger Woods Born? posted on 10/30/2014

Born December 30, 1975, Tiger Woods is considered one of the most successful golfers of all time. Woods started playing professional golf in 1996, and by 1997 he had won his first major title, which he won by a record-breaking 12 strokes. In the same year, he was also ranked number one in the world. He remained world number one for 264 weeks during 1999 to 2004, and for 281 weeks during 2005 to 2010. From December 2009 to April 2010, he did not play professional golf, as he was facing infidelity accusations from several women and wanted to save his marriage. By November 2011 he was ranked 58th and had lost his form, but in December he regained his form by winning the Chevron World Challenge. In March 2013, Woods had regained his number one ranking when he won the Arnold Palmer Invitational golf tournament.

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NC Golf Panel Releases Best 100 Courses in North Carolina posted on 03/02/2012

This week the North Carolina Golf Panel released their list with the Best 100 Golf Courses in North Carolina and it is not shocking that prestigious courses including the No.two course at Pinehurst Resort NC and the course at Grandfather Mountain Golf and Nation Club created the top rated spots. The list, which considers NC Golf Courses that are public, private, or resort for the Leading 100 list is published each year in the April issue of Business enterprise North Carolina. The North Carolina Golf Panel was designed in 1995 to rate and report on the state’s finest courses. Panelists that were asked to contribute score every course employing these deciding aspects: routing, style, conditioning, strategy, memorability, fairness, selection and aesthetics. We agree with all the folks at the NC Golf Panel. North Carolina is the greatest state within the country to appreciate golf! Here are some highlights from the list.

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Tiger's swing coach opens up in a new book posted on 02/28/2012

Tiger Woods' quest to break Jack Nicklaus' record of 18 big championships weighed heavily on the former world No. 1 golfer, his former swing coach, Hank Haney, said in a book excerpt released Tuesday.

"There was a lot more urgency and much less entertaining. ... He never mentioned Nicklaus' record, but it began to weigh additional heavily at just about every significant," Hank Haney wrote in "The Significant Miss," his book about his time coaching Woods. "And Tiger's actions indicated he believed he had less time to do it than every person thought."

Inside the excerpt, Haney detailed Woods' extreme workouts and how they intersected with his fascination with the military.

"Tiger did two tandem parachute jumps, engaged in hand-to-hand combat exercises, went on four-mile runs wearing combat boots, and did drills in a wind tunnel," Haney wrote about 4 days Woods spent in special-ops coaching at Fort Bragg, N.C. "Tiger loved it, but his physical therapist, Keith Kleven, went a bit crazy worrying about the additional damage Tiger could be carrying out to his left knee.

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