Showing posts with label professional golfer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label professional golfer. Show all posts

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Phil Mickelson

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Philip Alfred Mickelson is a American professional golfer. He has won four main championships and a total of 38 events on the PGA Tour. He has achieved a career high world ranking of 2nd in multiple years. He is nicknamed "Lefty" for his left-handed swing, he is otherwise right-handed. According to approximation by Fortune Magazine, Mickelson's income for 2007 was over $51 million, with $47 million coming from endorsements. He was able to bypass the Tour's qualify process because of his 1991 Tucson win. He continued to win several PGA Tour tournaments, including the Byron Nelson Golf Classic and the World Series of Golf in 1996.

He won the Buick Invitational in 2000, defeating Tiger Woods and ending his streak of successive tournament victories at six. Mickelson's first major championship win arrived at the 2004 Masters. During the third round of the 2006 Ford Championship at Doral, Mickelson gave $200 to a viewer after his wayward tee shot at the par-5 10th broke the man's watch. Mickelson won for the first time in 2009 by defensive his title at the Northern Trust Open at Riviera Country Club. On April 11, 2010, Mickelson won the 2010 Masters Tournament with a 16-under-par presentation, giving him a three stroke win over Lee Westwood in Augusta, Georgia.

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Full name : Philip Alfred Mickelson

Nickname : Lefty

Born : June 16, 1970

Birth Place : San Diego, California

Height : 6 ft 3 in

Weight : 200 lb

Nationality : United States

Spouse : Amy

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Tiger Woods

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Eldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods is an American professional golfer whose success to date ranks him among the most successful golfers of all time. At present the World No. 1, he is the highest-paid professional athlete in the world, having produced a predictable $90.5 million from winnings and endorsements in 2010. Woods has won 14 professional foremost golf championships, the second highest of any male player, and 71 PGA Tour events, third all time. He has further career major wins and career PGA Tour wins than any other active golfer. He is the youngest player to reach the career Grand Slam, and the youngest and fastest to win 50 tournaments on tour.

Woods has won 16 World Golf Championships, and has won at least one of those actions each of the 11 years they have been in existence. On December 11, 2009, Woods announced he would take an imprecise leave from professional golf to focus on his marriage after he admitted infidelity. His multiple infidelities were exposed by over a dozen women, through many worldwide media sources. Woods go back to competition for the 2010 Masters on April 8, 2010, after a break lasting 20 weeks.

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Born: December 30, 1975

Birth Place: Cypress, California

Full name: Eldrick Tont Woods

Nickname: Tiger

Height: 6 ft 1

Weight: 185 lb

Nationality: United States

Spouse: Elin Nordegren
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