Tiger Woods has reached one of golf’s great milestones. His win Sunday at THE ZOZO CHAMPIONSHIP was the 82nd of his stories career, tying him with Sam Snead for the most in PGA TOUR history. Let’s use the numbers to take a closer look at Woods’ incredible achievement. RELATED: History Loves Company | Visual Stories: Tiger’s Top 10 shots | Final leaderboard 1. A CLASS OF THEIR OWN: Snead and Woods are the only players to win more than 80 PGA TOUR titles. Jack Nicklaus is the only other player to win more than 70. 2. NOTHING BUT A NUMBER: Snead’s 82nd career TOUR title at the age of 52 at the 1965 Wyndham Championship. Woods won his 82nd nine years earlier, at the age of 43. Here’s a look at the age that each player reached various victory milestones. 3. PLAYING THE PERCENTAGES: Woods has won 22.8% of his PGA TOUR starts. He’s finished in the top 10 in more than half of his starts (55.2%). Woods has the highest winning percentage in PGA TOUR history. Ben Hogan is the only player with at least 200 career starts to win at least 20% of the time. 4. FAST LANE: Woods won five times in his first 263 days as a professional, passing 487 players who had four or fewer PGA TOUR Wins. At the time, Woods needed to pass 160 players for the most all-time TOUR wins. The below table shows the number of players who had one or more victories than Woods at the time of his win at the event. 5. FRONT-RUNNER: Since 1996, Woods has won 93.2% (55 of 59) of PGA TOUR events when leading or co-leading after 54-holes in official 72-hole stroke play events. That’s the best win percentage of any player with four or more 54-hole leads and co-leads. When the outright leader, his win percentage increases to 96% (44 of 46), while the PGA TOUR average is 44% over the last decade. Woods is 25 of 25 when holding outright 54-hole leader and leading by three or more strokes (last win: 2019 ZOZO Championship).
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