{"id":129053,"date":"2025-05-24T21:55:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T21:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/129053\/"},"modified":"2025-05-24T21:55:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T21:55:13","slug":"tiger-woods-has-his-own-tiger-rule-on-pga-tour-which-no-other-player-can-access-golf-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/129053\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiger Woods has his own ‘Tiger Rule’ on PGA Tour which no other player can access | Golf | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tiger Woods<\/a> was once granted an exemption that no other golfer has access to. The legendary 15-time major champion is past his best but can still attend certain events whenever he pleases.<\/p>\n

Only Jack Nicklaus has won more major championships than Woods. His 82 PGA Tour<\/a> victories make him one of the most successful players in the sport\u2019s history, with his triumphs spanning over three decades. However, a succession of injuries and surgeries have seen Woods tumble down the rankings and he cannot always qualify for the biggest tournaments automatically.<\/p>\n

That is why the PGA Tour agreed a deal for the 49-year-old to have unconditional access to the eight signature events. There are very limited spaces available for these competitions and the prize money is significantly higher than most others.<\/p>\n

The best players in the world flock to the events, but the PGA Tour recognise that Woods has a unique draw for fans. Its board passed a rule to create a \u2018lifetime achievement exemption category\u2019 for active players with over 80 career titles.<\/p>\n

Woods will have access to the signature events for the rest of his career, if he chooses to enter. He has played on a limited schedule for several years and last participated competitively at the Genesis Invitational in 2024. Achilles surgery is expected to rule Woods out for most of the season.<\/p>\n

Former rival Adam Scott recently revealed the tactics Woods would deploy just to brutally hammer home the fact that he was better than everyone else.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, I played a bunch with him in practice rounds and stuff. I played a practice round with him that week of The Open at St Andrews in 2000. It was nuts, I was 19,\u201d Scott told YouTuber Grant Horvat.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery area of his game was better than everyone else\u2019s. Even his short game was like Phil Mickelson-esque. And then that ran across the board: driving, irons, putting, everything. But then, everything that went on around, the \u2018Tiger Mania\u2019 it was called back then, it was just so much. It was so new to golf, or at least [to] me at that point. I just don\u2019t think we\u2019d seen anything like that. It was wild to be around.<\/p>\n

\u201c[If you were a threat to him] he would just play games with you [in practice rounds]. He\u2019d hit the wrong club. He\u2019d challenge you. You\u2019d hit a good shot and he\u2019s like, \u2018But can you draw it and hold it up against the wind like that?\u2019 And you can\u2019t. Just to make you feel inferior. He was a gamesman, he was the ultimate competitor.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tiger Woods was once granted an exemption that no other golfer has access to. The legendary 15-time major…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4106],"tags":[2826,4365,56974,93,79,4320,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-129053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-golf-section","10":"tag-major-championships","11":"tag-sport","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-tiger-woods","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114565042873138789","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}