Tiger….Tiger….Tiger
Coming into the BMW Championship there were some people who were questioning whether Tiger Woods had started to lose a little bit of his swagger, that sense of invincibility that Tiger has always had since he burst on to the tour more than 10 years ago. Well to all those people….. Tiger proved each and every one of those people wrong. The opening weekend of the NFL season was on, but there was a part of me that couldn’t help but turn on NBC and watch Tiger dominate the field, and yes the word is dominate.Although this round was not all that impressive (a 3 under par 68) the shots that Tiger was able to pull off were surreal. There are many young talented players on the PGA Tour without a doubt, but the shot that Tiger pulled off on the par 5 9th hole was absolutely phenomenal, being able to hit a golf ball from behind a tree and leave the ball within 15 feet of the hole and then make the birdie……wow was the only word that came out of my mouth. I would say that 99% of the PGA tour players would have laid up and tried to get it close and try make a par putt… but then again 1% is equal to Tiger Woods. There was no Y.E. Yang on this day, this was the day that Tiger showed the aura that people thought he had lost…. was stronger than ever.
I spent part of the afternoon watching Roger Federer play in the US Open semifinals, and reading this makes me realize once again how lucky we are to live in an era in which these two tremendous athletes are plying their trades. It’s the sort of thing I’ll tell my kids about someday – “I saw Federer and Woods play in their primes, and it was amazing. You had to see it to believe it.”