Golf has been changed forever by Tiger Woods' entrance into the sport. We have never seen (and may never see again) anyone like Woods and the feats he's been able to accomplish throughout his 19-year professional career.
Of course, some of those feats are more pronounced than others (sorry, Bell Canadian Open) and some are just downright insane.
I want to look back at Tiger's career today and the seven craziest stats he's posted since making his pro debut in 1996.
26.1 -- That's the percentage of tournaments won by Woods on the PGA Tour. He's entered 302 of them and won a whopping 79. Even more stunning is his 21.2 percent of majors won that he's entered. He's 14 for 66 so far and has started out 14 for 46 (30.4 percent!).
11 -- That's how many times Tiger has missed the cut in his 302 PGA Tour tournaments played. For context: Phil Mickelson, arguably the second best player of Woods' generation, has over 70 missed cuts.
That 11 (two of which happened in 2014) is mythical.
683 -- That's how many weeks Woods has been No. 1 in the world. He has the 1st, 2nd, 6th and 11th longest streaks at No. 1 ever. He has twice been No. 1 for over 263 weeks in a row.
Nobody else has ever touched 100 in a row.
21 -- This is one of my favorite sneaky Tiger stats but at the end of 2006 he won six tournaments in a row and broke 70 in 21 of 24 rounds. I mean, look at this!
Oh yeah, then he won his first tournament in 2007 as well.
19.4 -- On May 20, 2001, Tiger led the world golf rankings by 19.4 points over Mickelson, who was in second place.
To put that into context for you, No. 1 in the world right now, Rory McIlroy, only has a 11.6-point lead. (Wink of the CBS Eye to Chris Charles.)
4 -- This gets overlooked, but Woods has only finished outside the top 10 at the Masters just four times. He's only finished outside of the top five a total of six times. Six times out of 17! That's absurd.
His finishes outside the top 10 are as follows: T15, T18, T22 and T40. If Woods only played the Masters for his career, he would be a no-doubt Hall of Famer.
14 -- It's still incredible, despite the fact that he'll never get to 18 majors, that he's won 14 of them. Woods' career will likely ultimately be looked upon by many as a disappointment because of how good he was at such a young age, but we got to (and are getting to) see history unfurl in front of our eyes.
The 14th major of Woods' career seemed to be a harbinger of at least 10 more, and maybe it will be (no, it won't).
Even if it isn't the fact that we watched Woods, as a professional, win 14 of his first 46 majors is something we should always treasure as golf fans.
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