Tiger Woods has golf, the 1996 Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year is widely regarded as the greatest golfer of all-time.
From August 1999 to September 2004 (264 weeks), Tiger was the number one ranked golfer on the planet, at the time a record length to maintain the number one status.
Woods would go on to break his own record just over a year later, when from June 2005 to October 2010 (281 weeks), the California-native dominated top spot yet again.The golf superstar is currently "lucky to be alive" according to Police after he was injured in a car crash in Los Angeles.
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