Tiger Woods may have made golf’s “stinger” popular, but he certainly has a lot of company on the PGA Tour when it comes to pulling off the low, wind-cheating shot.
For more than three decades, Jim Nantz has called the biggest events in sports for CBS. But he’s already calling Tiger Woods’ 2019 Masters win “the best event I’ve ever covered.”
We compared the clubs Tiger Woods hit into Augusta National’s greens in 1997 in his first Masters win, when the course measured 6,925 yards, versus what he hit into greens on Sunday in winning his fifth green jacket, on a course of 7,475 yards:
Nicklaus, who had been fishing in the Bahamas, got to shore in time to see Tiger win his 15th Major, re-igniting his quest to equal or surpass Nicklaus’ 18 Majors.
Two years ago, at the Masters Champions Dinner, Tiger Woods whispered to three-time winner Nick Faldo that he was “done.” The injuries, the surgeries and the poor life decisions that played out on an extremely public stage had all taken their toll. Woods was finished.
It looked as though the security guard may have hurt Woods’ knee, causing the entire golf world to collectively gasp and attempt to find out the security guard’s home address so they could hunt him down.
Australian Golf Digest
