How Many Birdies Has Tiger Woods Made In His PGA Tour Career?

He made 91 birdies alone in those four tournaments that comprised the Tiger Slam, but how many birdies has Tiger Woods had in his PGA Tour career in total?

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How many birdies has Tiger Woods? Here Tiger celebrates after making yet another birdie, this time on the 15th hole during the 2019 Masters GettyImages-1142313060
Tiger Woods celebrating one of his many birdies on the PGA Tour
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The first hole Tiger Woods ever played on the PGA Tour he birdied. It was in 1992 on the par-5 1st hole at Riviera Country Club in the Los Angeles Open. When he would normally have been in a geometry class at Western High School, the 16-year-old Tiger was instead about to play a round on the PGA Tour.

He remembers: “I teed the ball up and I was totally fine with my practice swings, no big deal. I get over the golf ball, no big deal. Look down the fairway, like ho hum, it's an easy tee shot from No. 1 at Riv. I take it back and the club felt like it weighed like eight tons. I didn't know if I could get it to the top of my swing. … I’d never felt the club get that heavy. I was nervous, like I always am before an event, but I had never felt so awkward going back.”

It remains to be seen how many more PGA Tour birdies Tiger will make before his legendary career comes to a close, but he returned to action at Riviera in February and is planning more starts throughout the course of the season. It's possible that we see him at The Players Championship, but if not, he'll almost certainly be in the field for The Masters in April. 

Woods has also taken up a position as the vice-chairman of the PGA Tour Enterprises board of directors. 

Roderick Easdale
Roderick Easdale

Contributing Writer Roderick is the author of the critically acclaimed comic golf novels, Summer At Tangents, which was one of Country Life magazine's Books of The Year for 2024 and nominated for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, and Crime Wave At Tangents. Golf courses and travel are Roderick’s particular interests. He writes travel articles and general features for the magazine and website and compiles the magazine's crossword. He is a member of Trevose and has played golf in around two dozen countries. Cricket is his other main sporting love. He is also the author of five non-fiction books, four of which are still in print: The Novel Life of PG Wodehouse; The Don: Beyond Boundaries; Wally Hammond: Gentleman & Player and England’s Greatest Post-War All Rounder.