The achievement Tiger Woods unexpectedly said he was most proud of from his entire career
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Notah Begay III has revealed that Tiger Woods picked out his cut streak as his proudest achievement from his career given that it showed how consistent his greatness was.
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Woods holds all kinds of records after an incredible career. No one has won more PGA Tour titles than the 50-year-old.
There is an argument that Woods is the most influential golfer of all-time, with Arnold Palmer potentially the only other contender.
And with Scottie Scheffler getting closer to adding his name to the pantheon of the game’s greatest ever players, it seems that fans are getting to hear more about the records Tiger Woods holds again as the current world number one looks to close in.
The record Tiger Woods is most proud of from his career
But there is one record that it is extremely difficult to see Scheffler taking from Woods at any stage of his career.
Over a spell of 142 tournaments between 1998 and 2005, Woods did not miss a single cut on the PGA Tour.
And speaking on Feel vs Real, Begay III explained how much pride Woods takes in that run.
“Tiger just exceeded everybody’s expectations. I think that’s probably the main one misunderstood fact about Tiger in all the facts that are stated about him. When you have prodigies in sports, we’ve had a lot of prodigies come through, we love potential, we love the expectation. ‘God, this guy can break all of Tom Brady’s records’. ‘This guy’s going to be the fastest sprinter in the history of mankind’. Very rarely do they meet our expectations, and we’re often disappointed,” he said.
Photo by Simon Bruty/Anychance/Getty Images“In Tiger’s case, he exceeded, I think, everybody’s expectations, with the exception of the major championship total wins. A lot of people thought he would break Jack’s record. I think that he would have had he stayed healthy, but woulda, shoulda, coulda. It didn’t happen.
“But in terms of everything else, you cannot go through a broadcast, he’s been virtually inactive on the tour for five or six years now, but you cannot go through a broadcast without mentioning at least one record that he leads in a category. And now with Scottie doing the types of things that he’s doing on the golf course, he’s putting up Tiger-esque numbers, statistically, in terms of number of wins before a certain age, I think he became the third youngest player to 21 wins or whatever his win total was this past week, but he surpassed Tom Watson to become the third youngest. It’s Tiger, Jack, then Scottie.
“It’s just phenomenal. I asked Tiger himself, what is the one record you’re most proud of? And he said, ‘my cut streak’. And I think that’s really neat. He didn’t say 15 majors, he didn’t say 82 wins, he didn’t say Vardon Trophies, he didn’t say money or any of those things you’d normally expect. He said, ‘my cut streak’. He goes, ‘for seven and a half years I didn’t miss a cut’. And he’s like, ‘I’m proud of that because it just told me that I could be consistent against the world’s best players over a sustained period of time’.”
The five players with the longest made cuts streaks currently on the PGA Tour
Scheffler missed his first cut since 2022 at this year’s Scottish Open. Meanwhile, Xander Schauffele played on the weekend 72 times in a row before missing the cut at the Farmers Insurance Open at the start of the season.
Of course, the current crop benefit from playing in a number of signature events that do not even have a cut at the halfway stage.
That certainly makes Woods’ run all the more impressive.
Currently, it is Hideki Matsuyama who has the longest streak at 34 made cuts in a row. Meanwhile, no one outside of the top 10 on the list has made their last 10 cuts in a row.
With events on the PGA Tour Championship Series from 2028 set to involve regular cuts, it is going to get even tougher for anyone in the current game to catch Woods.
There is a very good chance that Woods holds onto that record for generations to come.