On February 29 in golf history — 2004: Tiger Woods defends WGC Match Play title, plus 4 more moments from 1860–2008.
February 29 falls only once every four years, making it the scarcest date in golf history; in most leap years tour play falls on the PGA Tour's West Coast Swing and the season's early World Golf Championships.
On a rare leap day, Tiger Woods beat Davis Love III in the final at La Costa to defend his WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship crown.
Tiger WoodsOn this leap day, Heath Slocum captured the Chrysler Classic of Tucson for his first PGA Tour victory, the same Sunday Tiger Woods won the WGC Match Play.
On this leap day, Annika Sorenstam claimed her third ANZ Ladies Masters title in Australia, one of the few professional golf events ever decided on February 29.
On this leap day the PGA Tour was in the middle of its Florida and West Coast stretch, with the game's elite jockeying for position early in the season before the year's first major at Augusta.