What NCAA individual golf championship did Tiger Woods win in 1996?

Tiger Woods won the NCAA Division I men’s golf championship in 1996.

The championship was held from May 29 to June 1 at the Honors Course in Ooltewah, Tennessee. Woods represented Stanford and won the individual title with a four-round score of 285, three under par.

The event also awarded a team championship, which Arizona State won. That distinction explains a common mix-up: Woods won the individual championship, while Stanford finished fourth in the team standings. The question refers specifically to Woods’s personal victory.

The 1996 title was part of Woods’s remarkable amateur season. He also became the first golfer to win three consecutive U.S. Amateur Championships that year. Soon afterward, at age 20, he left Stanford and turned professional in August 1996. His rapid transition helped set up his breakthrough 1997 season, when he won the Masters by 12 strokes.