White House press secretary Sarah Sanders announced the date in a Tweet, which read: "President Trump will award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to world-renowned golfer Tiger Woods on Monday, May 6 in the White House Rose Garden."

RIGHT: Woods and Trump in 2013. PHOTO: Warren Little/Getty Images.

Trump had already revealed in a Tweet last month that Woods was to receive the honour in the wake of his remarkable 15th major triumph at The Masters at Augusta National.

Woods, who has played golf with the president on a number of occasions, will be the fourth golfer to receive the honour, after Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer and Charlie Sifford.