Tiger Woods has now hit an unwanted career milestone after being ruled out of 2025 through injury

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For Tiger Woods, it’s been a career of huge ups and some big downs at times but with 2025 effectively being a non-starter for him, he’s sunk to a new low he’ll have been keen to avoid.

Woods, a 15-time major winner and holder of five green jackets from Augusta National, is arguably the greatest golfer of all time and his record stands up to task.

Over the years, he’s won countless events, level at 82 with Sam Snead for PGA Tour wins, while he holds some records that quite simply will never be matched.

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One of those records for Woods is how long he spent as world number one. Woods held top spot for around 13 years, with a record of 683 weeks as the top dog in his career and a record 281 and then 264 of those weeks coming consecutively.

Now, though, Woods will want to think twice before looking at the official world rankings again.

Tiger Woods’ current world ranking after latest injury problems

With an achilles injury effectively ending Woods’ season for 2025, a further slip down the world rankings was always going to come.

However, in what is a bit of an awful sight to see as a golf fan, Woods now finds himself at his lowest ever spot on the OWGR.

In a post shared by Golf Digest on X, Woods now sits at the lowly position of 1341st, his lowest ever position in the rankings.

With Woods’ latest injury being a potential career ender for some, the fact he’s had so many other injury issues puts serious doubt in if we’ll see him again.

Tiger Woods could have beaten Jack Nicklaus if not for injury

Given Woods is on 15 majors and one of those was won when he battled back in 2019 to win The Masters, it’s safe to assume that injuries have held him back a bit from dominating further.

Woods has had countless back and leg problems, then with his car accident later in his career, he’s just never looked anywhere near getting back to his best.

Sure, he will still battle along and push through and no doubt if he does play again, he’ll get himself into the mix somewhere down the line in a big event.

However, with Jack Nicklaus on 18 majors, the realism of the situation is that Woods will now never catch him.

It’s a case of what might have been for Tiger, and despite his huge success, he’ll still end up walking away from his career with question marks and what ifs.