Tiger Woods Match Play Record
Tiger Woods match play record is sometimes up for debate given that he was the most dominate player of his era in stroke play. However in professional team match play and individual match play golf his record varies across singles, foursomes and four-ball match play formats.
The Match Play World Golf Rankings include every match play tour event ever played plus every Ryder Cup Rankings and Presidents Cup Rankings and here is how Tiger Woods performed by event and format.
Tiger Woods Career Record
Played: 136, Points: 84, Points Per Match: 0.618
Tiger Woods career record is exceptional and his win ratio of 0.618 is the second best for players with over 100 matches. Only Ian Poulter on 0.632 is ahead of him and Rory should pass him too once he reaches 100 games.
Tiger has also won the most points in professional match play and is 4 ahead of Phil Mickelson and over 20 ahead of the next active player. Truly he is the master of all forms of golf.
Tiger Woods Ryder Cup Record
Played: 37 (W13 L21 H3), Points: 14.5, Points Per Match: 0.392
Tiger Woods played in 8 Ryder Cups from 1997 to 2018 and was only on the winning side once in 1999. Within this his four-ball record is 0.333 from 15 games and 0.321 from 14 foursomes games. As that makes up 78% of all the matches Tiger has played in the Ryder Cup, his good singles record of 0.625 from 8 games gets overshadowed.
Tiger Woods Presidents Cup Record
Played: 43 (W27 L15 H1), Points: 27.5, Points Per Match: 0.640
Tiger Woods played in 9 Presidents Cups from 1998 to 2019 and was on the winning side 7 times with one halved match. He currently holds the record for the most match wins in the event. Within this his four-ball record is 0.471 from 17 matches and 0.735 from 17 foursomes matches. His excellent singles record of 7 wins from 9 matches and 0.778 ppm shows that when he is on his own he can be unbeatable.
Tiger Woods Singles Record
Played: 73 (W53 L17 H2), Points: 54, Points Per Match: 0.740
Tiger’s individual singles record is excellent in events like the WGC Match Play show how dominant a player he really was. In that event he won 36 out of 48 games at 0.750 points per match.
This included the biggest winning margin of 9&8 against Stephen Ames in 2006 after Ames questioned his respect for other players and being more considerate. He got his answer handed to him. “I think he understands now” said Tiger after finishing the game at the 10th.
In the World Match Play Championship he was W2 L2 thanks to the dramatic 1998 final loss to friend Mark O’Meara at Wentworth, and he won both PGA Grand Slam of Golf events when they were match play.
In the Ryder Cup singles he was 0.500 (W4 L4 H2), but in the Presidents Cup he was back to his dominant best at 0.788 (W7 L2 H0). Clearly on his own ball he was almost unbeatable.
Tiger Woods Foursomes Record
Played: 31 (W16 L13 H2), Points: 17, Points Per Match: 0.548
Tiger’s foursomes record is a game of two halves. In the Presidents Cup he has a great points rating of 0.764 from W12 L4 H1. However in the Ryder Cup it is just 0.321 from a record of of W4 L9 H1. Either the event got to him or he had better partners in the Presidents Cup or easier opposition who were not used to the alternate shot format either.
Tiger Woods Four-Ball Record
Played: 32 (W13 L19 H0), Points: 13, Points Per Match: 0.406
Similar to foursomes, Tiger’s four-ball record is better in the Presidents Cup at 0.471 from W8 L9 H0 but not by much. In the Ryder Cup he is 0.333 from W5 L10 H0, so this is his worst format. Given his singles dominance you could say in four-balls it was down the opposition having two opponents to beat him or he needed a better partner.
Tiger Woods US Amateur Record
Played: 20 (W18 L2 H0), Points: 18, Points Per Match: 0.900
The Match Play World Rankings rank results from professional golf, it is worth mentioning Tiger Woods amazing match play record in amateur golf.
Tiger has the highest win percentage ever in the US Amateur which is not surprising given that he won it three times in a row from 1994 to 1996, the only person to do so, winning 18 matches in a row.
Prior to that he also won the US Junior Amateur three times in a row from 1991 to 1993 which is also a match play event.
Tiger Woods Walker Cup Record
Played: 4 (W2 L2 H0), Points: 2, Points Per Match: 0.500
Tiger Wood’s first international match for the USA was at the 1995 Walker Cup where he won and lost a foursomes match with John Harris.
Over the two days he also won and lost a singles game against Gary Wolstenhome on successive days as the GB&I won the event 14-10 at Royal Porthcawl.
