Tiger Woods has competed in a tournament.
The 1999 PGA Championship was the 81st PGA Championship , held August 12 -- 15 at the Medinah Country Club in Medinah , Illinois , a suburb northwest of Chicago . Tiger Woods . Woods has won 18 World Golf Championships , and won at least one of those events in each of the first 11 years after they began in 1999 . World Golf Championships . All four WGC tournaments are official money events on the PGA Tour , European Tour , and the Japan Golf Tour , and officially sanctioned by the Asian Tour , Sunshine Tour , and PGA Tour of Australasia .