Washington DC: For
the first time since turning professional 20 years ago, Tiger Woods has fallen
out of the world’s top 500 players.
Despite a career in
which the American golfer has won 14 majors, it comes as little surprise
considering his form and fitness. The 40-year-old has not played since the
Wyndham Championship last August and when he was playing he was failing to make
any sort of assault on actually winning the tournaments he was in.
In 2015, he tied 17th
at the Masters and then failed to make the cut at the other three majors of the
year. He did not feature in last month's tournament in August.
The latest rankings
published this week saw him drop nine spots down to 508. The last time he was
outside of the top 500 players in the world was on July 14, 1996 — when he was
still an amateur. A week after that he would tie 22nd at the Open which moved
him up to 431 in the world and shortly after that he turned professional.
He would go on to
become arguably the most famous sportsman in the world and the second most
successful golfer of all time after Jack Nicklaus in terms of success in the
majors.
Earlier on March 29,
2015, Woods had fallen to #104, outside of the top 100 for the first time since
the week prior to his first Tour title win in 1996.
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