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Victories, injuries, scandals and other important dates in the career of five-time Masters winner Tiger Woods.

A TIMELINE OF TIGER WOODS' CAREER

December 1994 - Woods has surgery to remove two benign tumours and scar tissue in his left knee while studying at Stanford University

August 1996 - Woods wins third straight US Amateur title before turning professional a week later.

October 1996 - Woods wins his first PGA Tour victory at the Las Vegas Invitational

April 1997 - Aged 21, Woods win the Masters - his first major - with a record score (270) and a record margin of victory (12 shots) while also becoming its youngest champion

June 2000 - Woods wins the US Open at California's Pebble Beach by 15 shots for the largest margin of victory in a major championship

April 2001 - Woods becomes the only player to hold all four professional majors at the same time when he wins the 2001 Masters

December 2002 - Woods has surgery to remove fluid from the ACL in his left knee

October 2004 - Woods marries Swedish model Elin Nordegren

June 2007 - Nordegren gives birth to the couple's first child, daughter Samantha

July 2007 - Woods tears his ACL while running on a golf course after the British Open. He wins five of his next six tournaments, including the PGA Championship

April 2008 - Woods has arthroscopic surgery to repair cartilage damage

June 2008 - Woods braves a torn ACL to defeat Rocco Mediate in a playoff at the US Open at Torrey Pines, his 14th major victory

Late June 2008 - Woods has reconstructive surgery on his left knee to repair the ACL and is sidelined for eight months

February 2009 - Nordegren gives birth to their son, Charlie

August 2009 - Woods loses a two-shot lead in the final round of the PGA Championship to Y.E. Yang. Woods had never lost a 54-hole lead in a major

November 2009 - Woods crashes his SUV into a tree and a fire hydrant outside his Florida home. He is engulfed in a scandal when newspapers report his multiple extramarital affairs

December 2009 - Woods loses major sponsorship endorsements and spends 45 days in a clinic and doesn't return to golf until the 2010 Masters, where he ties fourth

August 2010 - Woods is divorced from Nordegren

March 2012 - Woods wins the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill for his first PGA Tour victory since the scandal

August 2013 - Wins the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational for his 18th WGC title

March 31, 2014 - Woods announced he will undergo back surgery and will miss the Masters for the first time

Sept. 16, 2015 - Woods a second back surgery and a month later has a third procedure on his back

Dec. 1, 2015 - In a press conference at his Hero World Challenge, Woods says of his future, "So where is the light at the end of the tunnel? I don't know." He then returns to competition at the event and finishes 15th in an 18-man field

January 2017 - Makes first PGA Tour start since the August 2015 but misses the cut at Torrey Pines. He wirhdraws from the Dubai Desert Classic a month later, citing back spasms.

April 19, 2017 - Woods undergoes spinal fusion surgery and announces a significant break to recover

May 30, 2017 - Woods is arrested and briefly jailed in Jupiter, Florida under suspicion of DUI when police find him asleep at the wheel of his car. He attributes it to a bad combination of pain medication

September 2017 - Woods concedes retirement is a possibility due to injuries in a press conference at the Presidents Cup in New York

October 2017 - Woods pleads guilty to reckless driving and agrees to enter a diversion program and prosecutors drop the DUI charge

December 2017 - Returns to competition at his event, the Hero World Challenge

January 2018 - Woods returns to the PGA Tour and makes the cut at Torrey Pines.

March 11, 2018 - Woods finishes one shot behind winner Paul Casey at the Valspar Championship

July 2018 - Woods holds lead briefly in the final round at the Open Championship at Carnoustie, but makes double bogey on the 12th and finishes tied for sixth

August 2018 - Woods finishes runner-up to Brooks Koepka in the PGA Championship with a 64, Woods' lowest final round ever in a major

Sept 2018 - Woods wins the Tour Championship for his 80th career victory on the PGA Tour

April 2019 - Woods wins the Masters by one shot for his fifth Augusta green jacket and 15th major title