The Masters 2001
April 2001
Wondrous Woods rips up records and rivals
Tiger Woods finally did what no other golfer has ever done and what no golfer may ever do again: he won his fourth consecutive major championship, a simply fantastic feat. In winning the US Masters on Sunday for the second time he took his championship-winning streak to five of the last six, demonstrating that in modern golf there is no one remotely as good.
Tiger Woods on course to become sponsorship billionaire
1pm: Tiger Woods is on course to become the world's first sponsorship billionaire after his US Masters win, writes Claire Cozens.
Sports sponsorship: top five earnersMonty leads the nearly men
For a handful of golfers, those who are very, very good but not yet considered great, April is an extra-special month. It is the time of the US Masters, the first major of the year, and a time when they hope to discard the tag that they love and hate, that of being the "best golfer never to have won a major championship".