Tiger Woods last month at the PNC Championship.
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Tiger Woods, in his first start after the 2020 Covid shutdown, was struggling. Then it wasn’t. After a respectable 71 during the first round of the Memorial, he went six over through 15 holes in the second round, only to finish birdie, birdie, par, leading to a cut made — and a thought.
Did he consider himself? a mill?
Really? Forests? 15 times major winner? 82-time PGA Tour winner? A scrap? A bacon and egg?
“Always have,” Woods said.
And apparently still do.
This week, as part of a curtain raiser to her plush new multimedia digs, The PGA Tour released a video of Woods visiting campus, and much of it was Woods’ fan cat. There were highlights and comments about his 2018 Tour Championship win. There were highlights and comments about his entry into the 2001 Players Championship. There were highlights and comments about his fist pump. There were highlights and comments about his 82 Tour victories.
However, during the latter, Woods offered this:
– He felt he was “really good” only twice in his career – at the 1997 Masters and at the 2000 US Open at Pebble Beach. He won both in convincing fashion – the margins of victory in those events are tournament records. (He won by 12 at the Masters and by 15 at the US Open.)
— He felt the “best” he ever hit in his career was at the 2000 Open Championship in St. Louis. Andrews, where Woods won by eight. “I felt like I had the ball on a string and I could do whatever I wanted,” Woods said in the video.
— He felt in most of his events, he “didn’t really have it.”
Really? Woods? 15 times major winner? 82-time PGA Tour winner?
Here is the full quote:
“People are probably surprised to hear that, but most of my events, I didn’t have it. These are the ones I’ve won the most, but most of them just hang in there and don’t double, making a key save.
“And that was the biggest part of the events that I had won, is to win the tournament you have to go to the weekend, you have to make the cut first and that’s one of the things I was very proud of. The bottom line is that I gave myself a chance to go for a weekend run. Torrey (Pines) one year, I made the cut, and I went out and shot 62, 65 on the weekend to win. But that doesn’t happen unless I make the cut. So, first things first, I made a lot of cuts in my career, which allowed me to still have opportunities at the weekend to win.”
