Tiger Woods was well renowned for ribbing his rivals on the PGA Tour on his way to demolishing them in majors, but Chris DiMarco managed to get under the skin of the golf icon during their epic Masters shootout in 2005.

Woods dominated the world of golf for the best part of a decade between 1997 when he made his debut to 2010, spending a record 623 weeks as the world No 1 in that time.

While many of his major wins ended in a demolition job, some led to some of golf’s most epic battles.

Arguably none were more dramatic than his win over DiMarco at the 2005 Masters having trailed his compatriot by four shots going into the final 27 holes.

Tiger Woods has won 15 majors in his career

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Play was suspended after the front nine due to darkness with play resuming on Sunday, where Woods ended up carding a round of 65 after recording seven-straight birdies.

Woods ended up turning things around to hold a four-shot lead over DiMarco for the final round, but the latter kept things close throughout the round.

The 15-time major champion was regularly steel-faced during final rounds to try and win the mental battle with whomever he was up against.

But DiMarco has revealed that he gave Woods as good as he got throughout the final round on Sunday and even got under his skin at one point.

“You know, Sunday at Augusta that year, I mean, he was hitting it 50, 60, 70 by me all day and I was hitting the closer to the pin every hole,” DiMarco told GOLF.com.

“So, you know, he knew that the game was on and he had to go out and play and play some good golf.

“We were walking down 11 and I just hit one a little closer to him again and I said, ‘Are you tired of putting first yet?’

“He just went, ‘F*** off!’”

Chris DiMarco pushed Tiger Woods to a playoff

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The iconic chip-in on the 16th hole – arguably golf’s most famous shot – gave Woods a two-shot lead but he then bogeyed the last two holes with the match going to a playoff.

The rest was history as Woods birdied the playoff history to win his fourth green jacket.

But DiMarco continued his ribbing of Woods on the practice green the following year when the Florida Gators won the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament prior to the Masters.

Tiger Woods was famous for playing mind games with his rivals

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“I took a golf ball out and I wrote, ‘Go Gators’ on it,” DiMarco said.

“And I chipped it down to him and hit a really nice little chip that ran kind of right into his bucket there.

“And he lifted it up, took a sharpie out, scratched, sent it back down to me, and he scribbled out ‘Go Gators’— or ‘go’ and he wrote ‘F*** the…’ ‘Gators.’”