| Tiger's Records and Milestones |
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| ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (Ticker) -- The following records and milestones were set or reached by Tiger Woods at the British Open: |
| With his victory he became: |
| the fifth player in history to win all four major championships (Masters, U.S. Open, British Open, PGA Championship) in a career, joining Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player and Jack Nicklaus. |
| the youngest player in history (24 years, 7 months) to win all four major championships, breaking the mark held by Nicklaus record (26 years, 6 months at 1966 British Open). |
| the youngest player in history (24 years, 7 months) to win a fourth major championship, breaking the mark held by Nicklaus (25 years, 2 months at 1965 Masters). |
| the first player since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win three titles in a span of four major tournaments. |
| the first player since Jack Nicklaus in 1972 to hold three of the four major championship titles at the same time (1971 PGA, which was played in February, and 1972 Masters and U.S. Open). |
| the first player since Tom Watson (1982) to win the U.S. and British Opens in the same year. |
| the first player since Nick Price (1994) to win consecutive major championships. |
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| With his final-round 69 and total score of 19-under, he: |
| broke the major championship record for lowest score in relation to par (18-under), set by Nick Faldo at the 1990 British Open and matched by Woods at the 1997 Masters. |
| broke the British Open record for lowest score in relation to par (18-under), set by Faldo at St. Andrews in 1990. |
| joined Greg Norman (1993) and Nick Price (1994) as the only British Open champions to shoot all four rounds in the 60s. |
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