Tiger Woods 'honoured and humbled' to be inducted into golf's Hall of Fame during Players Championship week

Tiger Woods says he is “honoured” and “humbled” to be inducted into golf’s Hall of Fame. Woods, 46, is one of the greatest golfers of all time. He is a 15-time major champion, behind only Jack Nicklaus (18) on the all-time standings, and has won a record-equalling 82 events on the PGA Tour.

Ad/> He will be inducted into the Hall of Fame on March 9, during the week of the Players Championship, alongside three-time US Women’s Open champion Susie Maxwell Berning, former PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem and the late Marion Hollins. /> Golf'It's pretty humbling' — Tiger Woods on 'very special' Hall of Fame induction40 MINUTES AGO “To be honoured and to be selected and to go into the hall with all the idols that I grew up watching and idolising, I'm going to be with them for perpetuity. It's pretty humbling,” Woods told Golf Digest in a special exclusive interview.

“Everyone that has been close to me and has been involved in my life, my family, foundation, I want them there. This is a career achievement and I’ve been out here doing it for 26 years, and it's a long time. When do Mcllroy and Rahm begin title bid at Players Championship? “And to have everyone there and, you know, I wish my dad would have been there to see it because he was involved and he's the one who got me started in the game, but my mum’s got to be there, and she was there.

“She's the one that took me to all our junior tournaments in southern California. We'd get up and go play the peewee league, and then an under-age division at Riverside and that’s an hour or hour-and-a-half drive and sometimes stuck on that 91 freeway headed out there…and never, never complain. She would keep the score score and give the report to my dad when I got home and that to me is