Is it too much to ask, Tiger winning another major little more than a month after the Masters? Can a man who hasn’t hit one…
Is it too much to ask, Tiger winning another major little more than a month after the Masters? Can a man who hasn’t hit one competitive shot between his final putt April 14 at Augusta National and his opening tee shot Thursday morning in the PGA Championship be in the mix come Sunday? Does a 43-year-old golfer with the back of a 70-year-old have it in him to do this again?
Why not?
Sometimes sports is logical, other times it’s magical. Tiger Woods won the Masters by making almost no mistakes on Sunday while his competitors all fell apart. Four players who were in or near the lead in the final round watched their tee shots on the par-3 12th hole fall into Rae’s Creek. One by one, into the drink they went. The more you think about that, the more remarkable it is.
Tiger never made an eagle in winning his fifth Masters. He never made a double bogey. It was all about steady, unspectacular play. That’s logic.
All the best young players giving away their chance to win, leaving Tiger as the last man standing? That’s magic.
And so we come to Bethpage Black and the PGA, placed so perfectly on the golf calendar that it seems like it was put there by the golf gods. Tiger has fond memories of this course; he won the 2002 U. S. Open here.
