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 first name was Tiger Woods given at birth?
Eldrick
Eldrick was his mother's invention: it begins with E for his father, Earl, and ends with K for her own name, Kultida.
Q 02Tiger Woods's nickname honours a soldier friend of his father's from which country?
South Vietnam
South Vietnam's Vuong Dang Phong, an army officer Earl Woods nicknamed Tiger, served beside him in the Vietnam War; Earl said Phong twice saved his life.
Q 03In which California city was Tiger Woods born?
Cypress
Cypress was the family home; because his father was a retired Army officer, the Woodses could use the nearby Navy Golf Course, where Tiger learned the game.
Q 04Tiger Woods's mother, Kultida, came from which country?
Thailand
Thailand-born Kultida met Earl Woods while he was stationed there with the US Army; Tiger later coined 'Cablinasian' for his background so that her Asian side was not left out.
Q 05As a two-year-old, Woods putted against which comedian on The Mike Douglas Show?
Bob Hope
Bob Hope putted against the two-year-old on The Mike Douglas Show in 1978; a year later, aged three, Tiger shot 48 for nine holes at the Navy course.
Q 06Which video game publisher put Woods's name on its PGA Tour golf series until 2013?
EA Sports
EA Sports ended the partnership in October 2013 after 15 years of annual Tiger Woods PGA Tour games; its next golf title carried Rory McIlroy's name instead.
Q 07Which university did Woods attend on a golf scholarship?
Stanford
Stanford gave Woods a golf scholarship in 1994, but he left after two years to turn professional at 20.
Q 08Woods turned professional days after winning which title a third straight year?
U.S. Amateur
The U.S. Amateur went to Woods for the third year running only after he came from five holes down and won in sudden death.
Q 09Which phrase announced Woods as a professional in 1996?
Hello, world
Hello, world was how he announced himself, yet the 20-year-old's first week as a professional ended in a tie for 60th place.
Q 10By how many strokes did Woods win the 1997 Masters, his first major?
Twelve
Twelve strokes is still the Masters record margin; afterwards Woods said he was no pioneer and thanked Charlie Sifford, Lee Elder and Ted Rhodes for opening the way.
Q 11Woods's one shaky stretch at the 1997 Masters, a 40, came on which nine?
Thursday's front nine
Thursday's front nine cost him 40 strokes; he came home in 30 and led by nine shots after three rounds.
Q 12At which course did Woods win the 2000 U.S. Open by a record 15 strokes?
Pebble Beach
Pebble Beach saw only one player finish under par that week: Woods, whose 15-shot margin erased a majors record Old Tom Morris had held since 1862.
Q 13Which South African shared second place, 15 strokes behind Woods, at the 2000 U.S. Open?
Ernie Els
Ernie Els shared second place, then chased Woods home again at the Open a month later; he finished runner-up in three of that year's four majors.
Q 21What did Woods crash his SUV into outside his Florida home in November 2009?
A fire hydrant and a tree
A fire hydrant and a tree stopped the car in the early hours after Thanksgiving 2009; the crash set off the infidelity scandal that ended his marriage the next year.
Q 22Whom did Woods marry in 2004 and divorce in 2010?
Elin Nordegren
Elin Nordegren was working as a nanny for the Swedish golfer Jesper Parnevik, who introduced her to Woods at the 2001 Open Championship.
Q 23Which Olympic skier did Woods date from 2013?
Lindsey Vonn
Lindsey Vonn and Woods went public in March 2013, the month he climbed back to world number one after sinking as low as 58th; they parted in May 2015.
Q 14Winning which tournament completed the 'Tiger Slam' of four straight majors?
The 2001 Masters
The 2001 Masters gave Woods all four major trophies at once; because the run began in June 2000 it was not a calendar-year Grand Slam, so it took his name instead.
Q 15Which rival ended Woods's streak of six straight PGA Tour wins in February 2000?
Phil Mickelson
Phil Mickelson won that week and left Woods tied for second; the six in a row were the longest streak since Ben Hogan's in 1948.
Q 16Which Englishman ended Woods's record 281 straight weeks as world number one in 2010?
Lee Westwood
Lee Westwood took over on 31 October 2010 without a major title to his name, years after a slump had dropped him far outside the world's top 100.
Q 17How many major championships has Tiger Woods won?
15
15 majors came in two bursts: 14 by the age of 32, then nothing for almost eleven years until the 2019 Masters.
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 despite a badly damaged left knee?
Rocco Mediate
Rocco Mediate matched him over the 18-hole Monday playoff, so the title went to sudden death, where Woods won the first extra hole with a par.
Q 20Which course hosted Woods's 2008 U.S. Open victory?
Torrey Pines
Torrey Pines in San Diego was staging its first U.S. Open; Woods needed 91 holes to win it and announced season-ending knee surgery two days later.
Q 24Which April 2017 back operation, his fourth, cleared the way for Woods's comeback?
Spinal fusion
Spinal fusion in April 2017 let him return pain-free that December, and within two years he had won the Masters again.
Q 25Which event did Woods win in September 2018 for his first victory in five years?
The Tour Championship
The Tour Championship ended with thousands of fans streaming down the 18th fairway behind him as he sealed his 80th PGA Tour title, his first in more than five years.
Q 26Who partnered Woods at the PNC Championship from 2020 to 2024?
Son Charlie
Son Charlie was 11 at their first PNC Championship in 2020; a year later, ten months after the crash that shattered Woods's leg, the pair finished second.
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
Jack Nicklaus was 46 when he won the 1986 Masters, storming home in 30 on the back nine with his son Jackie as his caddie.
Q 29Which honour did Donald Trump present to Woods in May 2019?
Presidential Medal of Freedom
The Presidential Medal of Freedom followed his Masters comeback by three weeks; Trump called him 'a true legend', and Woods became the fourth and youngest golfer to receive it.
Q 30Where did Woods suffer his serious single-vehicle rollover crash in February 2021?
Rancho Palos Verdes, California
Rancho Palos Verdes, California, is where his SUV left a downhill stretch of Hawthorne Boulevard and rolled; surgeons put a rod in his shattered right leg, and he returned at the 2022 Masters.