Tiger Woods Trivia
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50 free Tiger Woods trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
41 free Tiger Woods trivia questions with answers. Tiger Woods is the most dominant golfer of the modern era and one of the most famous athletes who ever lived, and this quiz covers the whole story. Forty questions run from the toddler putting against Bob Hope on television, through three straight US Amateurs and Stanford, the 1997 Masters won by twelve, the 2000 US Open won by fifteen, the Tiger Slam, the record 281 straight weeks at number one, the 2008 US Open on a broken leg, the scandal and the back surgeries, and the 2019 Masters comeback that earned him the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Easy questions ask how many majors he has won and what brand he wore for 27 years; the hard ones want his real first name and where it came from, the caddie he fired in 2011, the colonel behind the nickname 'Tiger' and the golfer he tied for the all-time PGA Tour wins record. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on Woods and his major championships, and each question carries the sentence that supports it.
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Q 01What is Tiger Woods's real first name?
Eldrick
Woods's given name is Eldrick, chosen by his mother because it begins with E for Earl and ends with K for Kultida.
Q 02The nickname 'Tiger' honours a friend of his father's from which country?
South Vietnam
The nickname honours Colonel Vuong Dang Phong, a South Vietnamese Army officer known as Tiger who fought alongside Earl Woods in the Vietnam War.
Q 03In which California city was Tiger Woods born?
Cypress
Woods was born in Cypress, California, and learned the game at the nearby Navy Golf Course in Los Alamitos, where his father, a retired Army officer, had playing privileges.
Q 04His mother Kultida came from which country?
Thailand
Kultida Woods was born in Thailand and met Earl Woods in Bangkok in 1968 while he was stationed there; Tiger coined 'Cablinasian' for his mixed heritage.
Q 05As a two-year-old, Woods putted against which comedian on The Mike Douglas Show?
Bob Hope
Two-year-old Tiger putted against Bob Hope on The Mike Douglas Show in October 1978; a year later he shot 48 for nine holes at the Navy course.
Q 06According to Earl Woods, how old was Tiger when he first beat his father at golf?
11
Earl Woods said Tiger first beat him at age 11, while Earl was playing his best golf, and that he never beat his son again.
Q 07Which university did Woods attend on a golf scholarship?
Stanford
Woods enrolled at Stanford in 1994 on a golf scholarship, majored in economics, and was nicknamed 'Urkel' by teammate Notah Begay III.
Q 08Woods was the first golfer to win how many consecutive U.S. Amateur titles?
Three
Woods won three consecutive U.S. Amateurs (1994-96), the first player to do so, after taking three straight U.S. Junior Amateurs.
Q 09How old was Woods when he turned professional in August 1996?
20
Born on 30 December 1975, Woods was 20 when he turned professional at the Greater Milwaukee Open in August 1996 and signed Nike and Titleist deals worth about $60 million.
Q 10By how many strokes did Woods win the 1997 Masters, his first major?
Twelve
Woods won the 1997 Masters by twelve strokes, finishing 18 under par on 270, and at 21 became the youngest Masters champion.
Q 11Woods shot what score on his first nine holes of the 1997 Masters before running away with it?
40
Woods went out in 40 on Thursday at the 1997 Masters, came home in 30 for an opening 70, and led from Friday onward.
Q 12At which course did Woods win the 2000 U.S. Open by a record 15 strokes?
Pebble Beach
Woods won the 2000 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach on 272, a winning margin that beat Old Tom Morris's 13-shot major record from the 1862 Open at Prestwick.
Q 13Which two players tied for second at that 2000 U.S. Open?
Ernie Els and Miguel Ángel Jiménez
Ernie Els and Miguel Ángel Jiménez shared second place at the 2000 U.S. Open on 287, both a record distance behind Woods's winning 272.
Q 21What did Woods crash his Cadillac Escalade into outside his Florida home in November 2009?
A fire hydrant and a tree
Around 2:25 a.m. on the day after Thanksgiving 2009, Woods hit a fire hydrant and then a tree leaving his Isleworth home near Orlando, triggering the scandal that ended his marriage.
Q 22Whom did Woods marry in 2004 and divorce in 2010?
Elin Nordegren
Woods married Swedish former model Elin Nordegren in Barbados in October 2004; they had two children, Sam and Charlie, and divorced in August 2010.
Q 23Which Olympic skier did Woods date from 2013?
Lindsey Vonn
Q 14Winning which tournament completed the 'Tiger Slam' of four straight majors?
The 2001 Masters
Woods's 2001 Masters win followed his 2000 U.S. Open, Open Championship and PGA Championship titles, making him the first player to hold every modern major at once.
Q 15How many consecutive PGA Tour events did Woods win spanning late 1999 and early 2000?
Six
Woods won six straight PGA Tour starts, from the August 1999 NEC Invitational through the first two events of 2000, matching Ben Hogan's six in a row from 1948.
Q 16What is the record number of consecutive weeks Woods held the world number-one ranking?
281
Woods held the world No. 1 ranking for a record 281 consecutive weeks, from June 2005 to October 2010, after an earlier 264-week run that ended in 2004.
Q 17How many major championships has Tiger Woods won?
15
Only Jack Nicklaus, with 18, has more.
Q 18With whom does Woods share the all-time record of 82 PGA Tour wins?
Sam Snead
Woods matched Sam Snead's 82 PGA Tour wins at the 2019 Zozo Championship in Japan, his first start after knee surgery, beating Hideki Matsuyama to claim his 82nd title.
Q 19Whom did Woods beat in a playoff to win the 2008 U.S. Open on a broken leg?
Rocco Mediate
Woods beat Rocco Mediate at the 2008 U.S. Open after their Monday 18-hole playoff ended level on 71, winning on the first sudden-death hole despite a fractured left leg.
Q 20Which course hosted Woods's 2008 U.S. Open victory?
Torrey Pines
Torrey Pines in La Jolla, San Diego, hosted the 2008 U.S. Open, the first played on its South Course, which Woods won with a double stress fracture and a torn ACL.
Woods and Lindsey Vonn announced their relationship in March 2013, the same month he returned to world number one; they split in May 2015.
Q 24How many back surgeries did Woods undergo between 2014 and 2017?
Four
Woods had four back operations between 2014 and 2017, microdiscectomies in 2014 and 2015 followed by an April 2017 spinal fusion, after which he fell outside the world's top 1,000.
Q 25Which event did Woods win in September 2018 for his first victory in five years?
The Tour Championship
Woods won the 2018 Tour Championship at East Lake in Atlanta by two strokes over Billy Horschel, his 80th PGA Tour title and first since August 2013.
Q 26How many years passed between Woods's 14th and 15th major titles?
Eleven
The 2019 Masters was his fifth green jacket, and his first major won without leading after 54 holes.
Q 27Which leader found the water twice on the back nine to hand Woods the 2019 Masters?
Francesco Molinari
Francesco Molinari, leading by two, found Rae's Creek at the 12th and then the pond at the 15th after clipping a tree, handing Woods the 2019 Masters.
Q 28At 43, Woods became the second-oldest Masters champion behind which golfer?
Jack Nicklaus
Nicklaus was 46 when he won his sixth green jacket in 1986.
Q 29Which honour did President Trump present to Woods in May 2019?
Presidential Medal of Freedom
President Trump presented Woods with the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House on 6 May 2019, weeks after his Masters win, the first golfer so honoured since Charlie Sifford in 2014.
Q 30Where did Woods suffer his serious single-vehicle rollover crash in February 2021?
Rancho Palos Verdes, California
Woods's Genesis SUV rolled over on a downhill stretch of Hawthorne Boulevard in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, on 23 February 2021; he needed surgery for open fractures of his right leg.