Tiger's good!
June 16th 2008 02:10
There are no superlatives left to decribe Tiger Woods' ability to overcome the odds.
Injured, hitting it badly and in danger of losing a major championship that was practically in the bag, Woods summoned all his willpower to make a birdie putt on the 18th and force an 18 hole playoff with the genial 45-year-old Rocco Mediate.
Woods and Mediate will go head to head tomorrow morning after both finished at one-under par, Mediate shooting even par in the final round and Woods shooting an untidy two-over 73 which featured three bogeys, a double bogey and three birdies including that putt on the 18th where the ball stuck it's head out the back window, so to speak, before settling down.
It was an amazing birdie on the par-5 18th after Woods had left his drive in the fairway bunker, then laid up into the rough, tossing hius club a couple of times before jamming his wedge pin high at the front of the green.
The guys is a freak. Mediate, watching in the clubhouse, would have expected every other player in the field to miss the birdie putt but he took the opposite view with Woods, muttering "unbelievable ... amazing" before saying he expected Woods to sink the putt and force the playoff.
It's safe to say Woods would have won this tournament easily if not for his gammy knee, which severly limited his ability to rip drives off the tees, forcing him to take a more sedate, easy-swinging approach which meant he didn't the attack course the way he normally would.
If the knee holds out for another 18-holes he should beat Mediate but Mediate seems such a lovely bloke, it'd be great to see him win. But this has the feel of the last US OPen playoff - at Southern Hills in 2001 when Retief Goosen beat Mark Brooks: like then class should beat experience and steadiness.
As for golfdelerium's tipping - it's fair to say we were there or thereabouts but no cigar.
I originally tipped Woods but then went off him when it was obvious his knee wasn't quite right but I should know by now to never write off this guy; he writes his own scripts and he's a fantasy writer of the highest standard.
Of the other tips, Stewart Cink was 14th, Sergio Garcia, Robert Allenby and Phil Mickelson tied for 18th and Luke Donald withdrew with sore wrist.
Cink has a habit of winning the week after a major so watch for him at his next start.
Until then, Tiger to shoot down Rocco for major No 14
Injured, hitting it badly and in danger of losing a major championship that was practically in the bag, Woods summoned all his willpower to make a birdie putt on the 18th and force an 18 hole playoff with the genial 45-year-old Rocco Mediate.
Woods and Mediate will go head to head tomorrow morning after both finished at one-under par, Mediate shooting even par in the final round and Woods shooting an untidy two-over 73 which featured three bogeys, a double bogey and three birdies including that putt on the 18th where the ball stuck it's head out the back window, so to speak, before settling down.
It was an amazing birdie on the par-5 18th after Woods had left his drive in the fairway bunker, then laid up into the rough, tossing hius club a couple of times before jamming his wedge pin high at the front of the green.
The guys is a freak. Mediate, watching in the clubhouse, would have expected every other player in the field to miss the birdie putt but he took the opposite view with Woods, muttering "unbelievable ... amazing" before saying he expected Woods to sink the putt and force the playoff.
It's safe to say Woods would have won this tournament easily if not for his gammy knee, which severly limited his ability to rip drives off the tees, forcing him to take a more sedate, easy-swinging approach which meant he didn't the attack course the way he normally would.
If the knee holds out for another 18-holes he should beat Mediate but Mediate seems such a lovely bloke, it'd be great to see him win. But this has the feel of the last US OPen playoff - at Southern Hills in 2001 when Retief Goosen beat Mark Brooks: like then class should beat experience and steadiness.
As for golfdelerium's tipping - it's fair to say we were there or thereabouts but no cigar.
I originally tipped Woods but then went off him when it was obvious his knee wasn't quite right but I should know by now to never write off this guy; he writes his own scripts and he's a fantasy writer of the highest standard.
Of the other tips, Stewart Cink was 14th, Sergio Garcia, Robert Allenby and Phil Mickelson tied for 18th and Luke Donald withdrew with sore wrist.
Cink has a habit of winning the week after a major so watch for him at his next start.
Until then, Tiger to shoot down Rocco for major No 14
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