Editing Tiger Woods (section)

==College golf career==
Woods was heavily recruited by college golf powers and chose [[Stanford Cardinal|Stanford University]], the reigning [[National Collegiate Athletic Association|NCAA]] [[NCAA Division I men's golf championship|champions]].<ref name=wbputr>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=K8IjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=BtEFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6433%2C1423009 |work=Moscow-Pullman Daily News |location=(Idaho-Washington) |title=Woods balances putter with textbooks |agency=Associated Press |date=September 14, 1994 |page=4B}}</ref> He enrolled at Stanford in the fall of 1994 under a golf [[Athletic scholarship|scholarship]] and won his first collegiate event, the 40th Annual William H. Tucker Invitational, that September<!-- 17th-->.<ref name="Stanford">{{cite web |title=Stanford Men's Golf Team Tiger Woods |publisher=Stanford Men's Golf Team |date=April 8, 2003 |url=http://www.stanfordmensgolf.com/stanford_greats/tigerwoods.htm |access-date=July 19, 2009}}</ref> He selected a major in economics and was nicknamed "[[Steve Urkel|Urkel]]" by college teammate [[Notah Begay III]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Rosaforte |first=Tim |title=Tiger Woods: The Makings of a Champion |publisher=St. Martin's Press |year=1997 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780312964375/page/84 84, 101] |isbn=0-312-96437-4 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780312964375/page/84 }}</ref> In 1995, he successfully defended his U.S. Amateur title at the [[Newport Country Club]] in [[Rhode Island]]<ref name="Sounes, p. 277"/> and was voted Pac-10 Player of the Year, NCAA First Team All-American, and Stanford's Male Freshman of the Year (an award that encompasses all sports).<ref name="PAC10">{{cite web|title = PAC-10 Men's Golf|publisher = PAC-10 Conference|url = http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/pac10/sports/c-golf/auto_pdf/m-golf-records.pdf|access-date = May 13, 2007|archive-date = January 11, 2012|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120111011734/http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/pac10/sports/c-golf/auto_pdf/m-golf-records.pdf|url-status = dead}}</ref><ref name="Ages">{{cite web| title = Tiger Woods through the Ages...|publisher=Geocities|url = http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/2396/tigerwatch.html| access-date =May 12, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090730221824/http://geocities.com/Colosseum/2396/tigerwatch.html|archive-date=July 30, 2009}}</ref>

At age 19, Woods participated in his first PGA Tour major, the [[1995 Masters Tournament|1995 Masters]], and tied for 41st as the only amateur to make the cut. At age 20 in 1996, he became the first golfer to win three consecutive U.S. Amateur titles<ref>Sounes, p. 277</ref> and won the [[NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championships|NCAA individual golf championship]].<ref name="NCAA">{{cite web|title=Tiger Woods Captures 1996 NCAA Individual Title |publisher=Stanford University |url=http://gostanford.cstv.com/sports/m-golf/archive/stan-m-golf-96woodsncaa.html |access-date=May 13, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061029151406/http://gostanford.cstv.com/sports/m-golf/archive/stan-m-golf-96woodsncaa.html |archive-date=October 29, 2006}}</ref> In winning the silver medal as leading amateur at [[1996 Open Championship|The Open Championship]], he tied the record for an amateur aggregate score of 281.<ref name="Open1996">Rosaforte 1997, p. 160.</ref> He left college after two years in order to turn professional in the golf industry. In 1996, Woods moved out of California, stating in 2013 that it was due to the state's high tax rate.<ref>{{cite news |title=Tiger Woods Moved Too, Says Mickelson Was Right About Taxes |first=Robert W. |last=Wood |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2013/01/23/tiger-woods-moved-too-says-mickelson-was-right-about-taxes/ |newspaper=Forbes |date=January 23, 2013 |access-date=January 26, 2013|ref=none}}</ref>