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  His father put a golf club in his hands when  he was less than a year old. He broke 80 when he was 8. When he was 18, he won the first of three consecutive U.S. Amateur Championships. At 20, just five weeks after turning pro, he won his first PGA Tournament-The Las Vegas Invitational. For good measure, he won again two weeks later. Eldrick (Tiger) Woods, now in his 30's, has had an unprecedented career since becoming a professional golfer in the late summer of 1996. He has won 50+ tournaments,40 of those on the PGA Tour, including the 1997, 2001, and 2002 Masters Tournaments, 1999 and 2000 PGA championships, 2000 and 2002 U.S. Open Championships. 
 Also, he won the 2000 British Open Championship. With his second Masters victory in 2001, Tiger became the first ever to hold all four professional major championships at the same time.  He is the career victories leader among active players on the PGA Tour, and is the career money leader.  

Woods won 11 tournaments in 2000, nine on the PGA Tour European Tour and the PGA Grand Slam.  He achieved No. 1 on the Official World Golf Ranking for the most rapid progression ever to that position.  On June 15, 1997, in his 42nd week as a professional, Woods' became the youngest-ever No. 1 golfer at the age of 21year and 24 weeks.

Arnold Palmer was born on September 10, 1929.  Arnold got married in the fall of 1954.  Arnold Palmer is one of my favorite golfers in the world, because he's a great golfer and he's from Pittsburgh.  He lives in Latrobe and became a professional in 1955.