Tiger Woods’ 1999 PGA Tour season was among the best in history. He won eight times (including a major), had 16 top-10s in 21 starts and earned a record $6.6 million.
He then topped that a year later.
Woods’ 2000 campaign was (and still is) arguably the greatest in golf history. Coming off four consecutive Tour wins to end ’99, he won his first two official starts in 2000 before the streak ended at Torrey Pines.
He won only once over the next three-plus months but, beginning at the Memorial, he spent the majority of the summer in the winner’s circle.
His final tally:
- Starts: 20
- Wins: 9
- Runners-up: 4
- Top-5s: 17
- Scoring average: 68.17 (actual); 67.79 (adjusted)
- Earnings: $9,188,321
Woods won 45% of his starts and finished first or second in 65% of them. So good was his performance, all of his top-10 finishes were actually in the top 5 (85% for the season) and his scoring averages, both actual and adjusted, remain Tour records.
Here’s an event-by-event look at the modern, if not all-time, standard for greatness:
| Tournament | Finish | Score | Margin | Earnings |
| Mercedes Championships | 1 | 276 (-16) | Won in playoff | $522,000 |
| AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am | 1 | 273 (-15) | Won by 2 | $720,000 |
| Buick Invitational | T2 | 274 (-14) | Lost by 4 | $264,000 |
| Nissan Open | T18 | 279 (-5) | Lost by 7 | $37,731 |
| WGC-Anderson Consulting Match Play | 2nd | N/A | Lost in final | $500,000 |
| Bay Hill Invitational | 1 | 270 (-18) | Won by 4 | $540,000 |
| The Players Championship | 2 | 279 (-9) | Lost by 1 | $648,000 |
| Masters Tournament | 5 | 284 (-4) | Lost by 6 | $184,000 |
| GTE Byron Nelson Classic | T4 | 270 (-10) | Missed playoff by 1 | $176,000 |
| Memorial Tournament | 1 | 269 (-19) | Won by 5 | $558,000 |
| U.S. Open | 1 | 272 (-12) | Won by 15 | $800,000 |
| Advil Western Open | T23 | 281 (-7) | Missed playoff by 7 | $26,700 |
| The Open Championship | 1 | 269 (-19) | Won by 8 | $759,150 |
| Buick Open | T11 | 275 (-13) | Lost by 7 | $57,240 |
| PGA Championship | 1 | 270 (-18) | Won in playoff | $900,000 |
| WGC-NEC Invitational | 1 | 259 (-21) | Won by 11 | $1,000,000 |
| Bell Canadian Open | 1 | 266 (-22) | Won by 1 | $594,000 |
| National Car Rental Golf Classic Disney | 3 | 265 (-23) | Lost by 3 | $204,000 |
| The Tour Championship | 2 | 269 (-11) | Lost by 2 | $540,000 |
| WGC-American Express Championship | T5 | 281 (-7) | Lost by 4 | $157,500 |
