Records still stack up for disgraced Woods

THINK of Tiger Woods what you will, but even before he ends his self-imposed exile and tries to win over disappointed and disgusted fans again comes another reminder of the thing that made him famous in the first place.

Woods has now been world number one for the past 250 weeks – and that would be a record except for the fact that between 1999 and 2004 he held the position for 264 uninterrupted weeks.

In total Woods has been at the head of things for 592 weeks, more than 11 years, since he first knocked Greg Norman off the perch a mere two months after he won his first major at Augusta in 1997.