Happy Birthday to a Florida Sports Legend: Tiger Woods Turns 50 Amidst Triumph and Trials

Tiger Woods reacts as he wins the Masters golf tournament, Sunday, April 14, 2019, in Augusta, Ga. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

Tiger Woods turned 50 on Tuesday, Dec. 30. Hard to believe, right?

He’s spent decades making history on the golf course and fighting through plenty away from it. No one else has ever held all four major titles at once. He’s won 82 PGA Tour events—that’s tied for the record. The guy’s body has taken a beating, too. Surgeries on his legs and back, the awful car crash in LA back in 2021, and let’s not forget the messy divorce in 2010.

Tiger Woods of the U.S. gestures to the crowd at the end of his second round of the British Open golf championship on the Old Course, in St. Andrews, Scotland, Friday July 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison, File)

Still, Tiger stays in the spotlight. President Donald Trump gave him the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2019. Lately, he’s even been dating Trump’s former daughter-in-law. Tiger’s story just keeps going.

President Donald Trump presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Tiger Woods during a ceremony in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, May 6, 2019. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Tiger Woods wears his green jacket holding the winning trophy after the final round for the Masters golf tournament, Sunday, April 14, 2019, in Augusta, Ga. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)

Elin Nordegren talks to her husband, golfer Tiger Woods, during the first quarter of Game 4 of the NBA basketball finals in Orlando, Fla., June 11, 2009. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

Tiger Woods embraces his father, Earl, after Tiger defeated George Marucci for in the final round of the 1995 Centennial U.S. Amateur Golf Championship, Sunday, Aug. 27, 1995, at the Newport Country Club in Newport, R.I. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)