By the Numbers: The return
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Feb. 19, 2009
By Mark Spoor, PGATOUR.COM
By Mark Spoor, PGATOUR.COM
Well, the countdown has started, hasn't it?
Tiger Woods will return at the World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship. There'll be plenty of time and space to pontificate on what Tiger will be like when he takes that first competitive swing. For now, let's just look at numbers - some serious, some not so serious - centered around the return of the greatest player of this generation.
BY THE NUMBERS
| 2 | The number of presidents the United States has had in the time Tiger Woods has been away from competition: George W. Bush and Barack Obama. |
| 17 | Since Tiger's surgery, the number of stories about Tiger that have run on PGATOUR.com. |
| 19 | The number of different PGA TOUR winners since Tiger Woods last competed at the 2008 U.S. Open. Here's the list: Stewart Cink, Anthony Kim, Kenny Perry, Richard S. Johnson, Padraig Harrington, Chez Reavie, Parker McLachlin, Vijay Singh, Carl Pettersson, Camilo Villegas, Dustin Johnson, Marc Turnesa, Cameron Beckman, Will MacKenzie, Davis Love III, Geoff Ogilvy, Zach Johnson, Pat Perez, Nick Watney |
| 29 | The number of PGA TOUR events since Tiger Woods last competed in the 2008 U.S. Open. |
| 254 | The number of days between Tiger's Monday playoff win at the 2008 U.S. Open and his opening tee shot in the 2009 World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship. |
| 304 | The number of words in the speech Tiger Woods gave at the "We Are One" concert the weekend before the inauguation of President Barack Obama. |
| 21,176,875 | In dollars, the amount of money PGA TOUR winners have taken home during the time Tiger Woods has been away from competition, or roughly the Gross National Product of Monserrat, a British overseas territory located in the Leeward Islands, part of the chain of islands called the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean Sea. |
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