Former number one Golf Champion, Tiger Woods, has dropped out of the world top 100 for the first time in his career due to injuries and loss of form.
According to AFP reports, in latest rankings issued after this weekend's tournaments, the 14-time major winner who first broke into the top 100 when he turned pro in 1996, has fallen to 104th from previous 96th position.
The 39-year-old American has spent a cumulative record 683 weeks as world number one and was last in that position in May, 2014 when he was replaced by Australian Adam Scott.
Since then, a succession of injuries and swing problems have bedevilled him and are threatening to derail the rest of his career.
Just last January Woods posted an 82 in the Phoenix Open — his worst round as a professional — that saw him drop outside the top 50 in the world rankings for the first time in more than three years.
Since then his downward slide has continued resulting in him failing to qualify for last month's WGC-Cadillac Championship, an event he had captured seven times.
When Woods turned professional in September 1996 at the Greater Milwaukee Open he was ranked 433rd in the world.
Woods first took the world number one spot in finishing 19th in the 1997 US Open at Congressional in Maryland.
He has not played since a sore back forced him to withdraw mid-round from the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines in early February.
Current world number one Rory McIlroy has been top of the rankings since August 3, 2014 and his accumulated total stands at 73 weeks after having reached the pinnacle of the sport on four previous occasions.
