Tiger Woods saves magic for last hole with clutch birdie putt to force 18 hole playoff on Monday
What can you say? I mean really, what can you say? We’ve seen it time and again. When there’s a pressure shot, and the tournament is on the line, there is no better “clutch” player than Tiger Woods. Tiger saved his best for last.
Rocco Mediate was sitting pretty in the clubhouse, at -1, with only Lee Westwood and Tiger Woods left on the course, both of whom were at even. Give Rocco some props because that “old” guy played his heart out on Sunday. The only hole left for Westwood and Woods to play was the par-5 18th. Both Westwood and Tiger hit poor drives and were forced to lay up. But Tiger flared his lay-up wide right into the rough and was so visibly displeased by his shot that he slammed his club twice. At this point, Woods looked like things were slipping away. Westwood blasted out of the bunker into the fairway, perfect for the approach. Advantage Westwood. Tiger muscled out of the rough and 15 feet to the right of the cup. Westwood went over the flag, but too long to about 20 feet. Advantage Tiger.
Both needed to sink their birdie putts to tie Rocco. Westwood missed from downhill, leaving only Tiger to putt. It was reminiscent of the 2000 PGA Championship when Tiger needed to birdie the last hole to force a playoff with Bob May.
So what did Tiger do next? You guessed it. He rolled the ball and it barely snuck in the right edge and looped around, but in. Tiger was overjoyed with emotion, shaking his entire body and yelling. Like magic.
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