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How many times has Tiger Woods won the Masters and when was the last time he won the green jacket?
Woods has played just once in the 2024 season but returns to the scene of his first major success at Augusta National.
Sadly, we don’t get to see Tiger Woods tee it up very often these days, with the 48-year-old making just one appearance on the PGA Tour in 2024, at the Genesis Invitational in February. Even then, he withdrew from the tournament after a first-round 72 because of the flu, but he will be in the field when this year’s Masters gets underway at Augusta on Thursday.
Woods hopes to start playing “once a month”
Speaking ahead of the first major of the season, he admitted that he “aches every day” but also spoke of his hope this week’s event could help him get into the habit of playing competitive golf semi-regularly.
“I wasn’t ready to play (at the Genesis Invitational),” Woods claimed. “My body wasn’t ready. My game wasn’t ready. And I thought that once a month would be a really nice rhythm. Hasn’t worked out that way. But now we have major championships every month from here through July. So, now the once a month hopefully kicks in.”
When was the last time Tiger Woods won the Masters?
His last major tournament win came in 2019 at the Masters.
Tiger’s Masters and major record
Tiger had looked set to break Jack Nicklaus’ record of 18 major victories until a series of crippling injuries derailed his career. Woods won 14 majors by the age of 32, with his first of them coming at the 1997 Masters when he was just 21.
He then won another 13 majors in the next 11 seasons, including his second, third and fourth victories at Augusta in 2001, 2002 and 2005 respectively.
But it is perhaps his fifth and most recent Masters win which will live longest in the memory. Having struggled for fitness for more than a decade, and having one only one tournament in five years prior, Woods defied all the odds to win his 15th major in 2019, 11 years after his 14th.
Only Nicklaus (six times) has won more often on American golf’s most iconic track and few believe that will change any time soon, with Woods not expected to be near the top of the leaderboard come Sunday. However, making into to the weekend would see him take the outright record for most cuts made at August (24), which may be a more realistic goal.