First it was Tiger Woods who cheated on his wife and he had sex addiction and now it is Jesse James that has to seek help for sex addiction?

Woods' first name, Eldrick, was coined by his mother because it began with "E" (for Earl) and ended with "K" (for Kultida). His middle name Tont is a traditional Thai name. He was nicknamed Tiger in honor of his father's friend Col.

Vuong Dang Phong, who had also been known as Tiger. Woods has a niece, Cheyenne Woods, who played for Wake Forest University's golf team and turned professional in 2012, making her pro debut in the LPGA Championship. Woods grew up in Orange County, California.

He was a child prodigy, introduced to golf before the age of two, by his athletic father Earl, a single-figure handicap amateur golfer who had been one of the earliest African-American college baseball players at Kansas State University. 17 In 1978, Tiger putted against comedian Bob Hope in a television appearance on The Mike Douglas Show. At age three, he shot a 48 over nine holes over the Cypress Navy course, and at age five, he appeared in Golf Digest and on ABC's That's Incredible.

18 Before turning seven, Tiger won the Under Age 10 section of the Drive, Pitch, and Putt competition, held at the Navy Golf Course in Cypress, California. 19 In 1984 at the age of eight, he won the 9–10 boys' event, the youngest age group available, at the Junior World Golf Championships. 20 He first broke 80 at age eight.

21 He went on to win the Junior World Championships six times, including four consecutive wins from 1988 to 1991. Woods' father Earl wrote that Tiger first beat him when he was 11 years old, with Earl trying his best. Earl lost to Tiger every time from then on.

2728 Woods first broke 70 on a regulation golf course at age 12. Woods' first major national junior tournament was the 1989 Big I, when he was 13 years old. Woods was paired with pro John Daly, then relatively unknown, in the final round; the event's format placed a professional with each group of juniors who had qualified.

Daly birdied three of the last four holes to beat Woods by only one stroke. 30 As a young teenager, Woods first met Jack Nicklaus in Los Angeles at the Bel-Air Country Club, when Nicklaus was performing a clinic for the club's members. Woods was part of the show, and impressed Nicklaus and the crowd with his skills and potential.

31 Earl Woods had researched in detail the career accomplishments of Nicklaus, and had set his young son the goals of breaking those records. While attending Western High School in Anaheim at the age of 15, Woods became the youngest ever U.S. Junior Amateur champion (a record which stood until it was broken by Jin Liu in 2010). 32 He was named 1991's Southern California Amateur Player of the Year (for the second consecutive year) and Golf Digest Junior Amateur Player of the Year.

In 1992, he defended his title at the U.S. Junior Amateur Championship, becoming the first multiple winner; competed in his first PGA Tour event, the Nissan Los Angeles Open (he missed the 36-hole cut); and was named Golf Digest Amateur Player of the Year, Golf World Player of the Year, and Golfweek National Amateur of the Year. The following year, Woods won his third consecutive U.S. Junior Amateur Championship; he remains the event's only three-time winner. 35 In 1994, at the TPC at Sawgrass in Florida, he became the youngest-ever winner of the U.S. Amateur Championship, a record that stood until 2008 when it was broken by Danny Lee.

36 He was a member of the American team at the 1994 Eisenhower Trophy World Amateur Golf Team Championships (winning), and the 1995 Walker Cup (losing). Woods graduated from Western High School in 1994 at age 18, and was voted "Most Likely to Succeed" among the graduating class. He had starred for the high school's golf team under coach Don Crosby.

Woods was recruited very heavily by college golf powers, and chose Stanford University, the 1994 NCAA Division I champion. He enrolled at Stanford in the fall of 1994 under a golf scholarship, winning his first collegiate event, the 40th Annual William H. Tucker Invitational, that September.

40 He declared a major in economics, and was nicknamed "Urkel" by college teammate Notah Begay III. 41 In 1995, he successfully defended his U.S. Amateur title at the Newport Country Club in Rhode Island36 and was voted Pac-10 Player of the Year, NCAA First Team All-American, and Stanford's Male Freshman of the Year (an award that encompasses all sports). 4243 He participated in his first PGA Tour major, the 1995 Masters Tournament, and tied for 41st as the only amateur to make the cut.

At age 20 in 1996, he became the first golfer to win three consecutive U.S. Amateur titles44 and won the NCAA individual golf championship. 45 In winning the Silver Medal as leading amateur at The Open Championship, he tied the record for an amateur aggregate score of 281. 46 He left college after two years and turned professional.

In 1996, Woods moved out of California, stating in 2013 that it was due to the state's tax rate. Woods became a professional golfer in August 1996, and immediately signed deals with Nike, Inc. And Titleist that ranked as the most lucrative endorsement contracts in golf history at that time.

5051 Woods was named Sports Illustrated's 1996 Sportsman of the Year and PGA Tour Rookie of the Year. 52 In April 1997, he won his first major, the Masters, becoming the tournament's youngest-ever winner. 53 Two months later, he set the record for the fastest-ever ascent to No.

1 in the Official World Golf Rankings. 54 After a lackluster 1998, Woods finished the 1999 season with eight wins, including the PGA Championship, a feat not achieved since 1974. In 2000, Woods achieved six consecutive wins, the longest winning streak since 1948.

One of these was the 2000 U.S. Open, where he broke or tied nine tournament records in what Sports Illustrated called "the greatest performance in golf history."57 At age 24, he became the youngest golfer to achieve the Career Grand Slam. 58 At the end of 2000, Woods had won nine of the twenty PGA Tour events he entered and had broken the record for lowest scoring average in tour history. He was named the Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year, the only athlete to be honored twice, and was ranked by Golf Digest magazine as the twelfth-best golfer of all time.

Woods' victory in the 2001 Masters Tournament made him the first player to hold all four major professional golf titles at the same time. 61 Following a stellar 2001 and 2002 in which Woods continued to dominate the tour, Woods' career hit a "slump". 5562 He did not win a major in 2003 or 2004.

In September 2004, Vijay Singh overtook Woods in the Official World Golf Rankings, breaking Woods' record streak of 264 weeks at #1. Woods rebounded in 2005, winning six official PGA Tour money events and reclaiming the top spot in July after swapping it back and forth with Singh over the first half of the year. In 2006, Woods began dominantly, winning his first two PGA tournaments but failing to capture his fifth Masters championship in April.

6566 Following the death of his father in May, Woods took a nine-week hiatus from the tour and appeared rusty upon his return at the U.S. Open, missing the cut at Winged Foot. 67 However, he quickly returned to form and ended the year by winning six consecutive tour events. At the season's close, with 54 wins and 12 majors wins, Woods had broken the tour records for both total wins and total majors wins over eleven seasons.

Woods continued to excel in 2007 and the first part of 2008. In April 2008, he underwent knee surgery and missed the next two months on the tour. 69 Woods returned for the 2008 U.S. Open, where he struggled the first day but ultimately claimed a dramatic victory over Rocco Mediate, after which Mediate said, "This guy does things that are just not normal by any stretch of the imagination," and Kenny Perry added, "He beat everybody on one leg."707172 Two days later, Woods announced that he would miss the remainder of the season due to further knee surgery, and that his knee was more severely damaged than previously revealed, prompting even greater praise for his U.S. Open performance.

Woods called it "my greatest ever championship."737475 In Woods' absence, TV ratings for the remainder of the season suffered a huge decline from 2007. Upon Woods' much-anticipated return in 2009, he performed well, including a spectacular performance at the 2009 Presidents Cup, but failed to win a major, the first year since 2004 that he had not done so. 777879 After his marital infidelities came to light at the end of 2009 and received massive media coverage, Woods announced in December that he would be taking an indefinite break from competitive golf.

In February 2010, he delivered a televised apology for his behavior. During this period, several companies ended their endorsement deals with Woods. Woods returned to competition in April at the 2010 Masters Tournament, where he finished in a tie for fourth place.

80 He followed the Masters with poor showings at the Quail Hollow Championship and the Players Championship, where he withdrew in the fourth round citing injury. 81 Shortly afterward, Woods' coach since 2003, Hank Haney, resigned the position; he was replaced in August by Sean Foley. The rest of the season went badly for Woods, who failed to win a single event for the first time since turning professional, while nevertheless finishing the season ranked No.

2 in the world. Woods' performance continued to suffer in 2011, taking its toll on his ranking. After falling to No.

7 in March, he rebounded to No.