No Laying Up - Golf Podcast - NLU Podcast, Episode 301: Tiger Woods in Majors, Part I

Episode Date: April 13, 2020

In Part I of our deep dive, we go through Tiger's major championship history from his amateur days, to the triumph at Augusta in '97, the Tiger Slam, and into 2001. We put each win into perspective, and touch on his close and not so close calls in between. We also highlight some often forgotten moments of these majors, the "contenders," the great media quotes, and a ton more. This episode went way longer than we anticipated, so it's divided up over two parts. Stay tuned for Part II coming Tuesday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I'm going to be the right club today. Yes! That is better than most. I'm not in. That is better than most. Better than most! Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the No Laying Up Podcast. Got another new format, another new topic for you. Hopefully everyone had a chance to watch some Masters replay this past week. You know, we got a lot of comments from people saying, oh, you guys need to do a pod.

We did a pod on this. We did a podcast on the 2019 Masters. You can go back and listen to that if you're itching to relive Tigers glorious victory. The Masters last year, we did two podcasts on that. So go ahead and go back at that. We've got something even better for you today. We're going to talk a bit about it here in the second, but we're going to talk through all 15 of Tigers major wins.

Basically, this whole entire major championship history over these next two episodes. We talked, I think we had an hour and a half scheduled and we went for three hours and 20 minutes. So for everyone out there, it's been Craven's more content. Here it is. And if you are spending, if you're like me,

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the No Laying Up podcast. This one, you know, it's Master's Week that we're recording this and there is, of course, no Masters this week. So it's not a master's week. Yeah, it's well, it's always master. It's still master's week. I think it's fine to declare that it's master's week. So we are going to get nostalgic and we are going to all five of us are here, Niels

cross the table. Hello, Mr. T.C. is here. Hello. Big Randy is here. Good morning. DJ Pies here. Good morning. DJ Pies here. Good morning folks. We are going to relive all 15 of Tiger Woods major victories.

We have divided and conquered. Each of us are covering a certain time period and dug deep in the SI Vault. A lot of different places, a lot of different artifacts. The helps to win a lot of masters because all those fun around broadcasts are still on the air. And we're just gonna relive them a little bit.

Get a bit sappy and feely, and some of the fun stories and stuff from those weeks. And I learned a thing or two in the process. I don't know about you guys. I sure did. So well, let's turn it right over. Let's go straight into it. The merch are just gonna lead us off

with what's your time period and take us there. My time period is pre-tiger slam. So, you know, Eldridge. It's a big time period and take us there? My time period is pre-tiger slam. So, you know, Eldrick. It's a big time period. It is. I feel like I had. Lots of cover. And there needs to be some context set.

I mean, that goes back to the big bang, technically. Eldrick, cont, Tiger Woods. What do we stick to sports, Rady? So, you know, and I think some of this, you know, major wins, professional majors, but there's some, there's some major junior and amateur golf events that we're going to cover. Some lowercase majors. Lowcase majors, well said.

So, sources for me, obviously Wikipedia. The USGA website has some great recaps on some of the amateur tournaments that Tiger's won. AmateurGolf.com had a great breakdown of his amateur wins from the time he was pretty much eight years old on. And of course, the SI Vault, Shipnuck had some good stuff in there. So we'll pull a few quotes from each of those. It all kind of starts with Bob Hope.

No, I'm just kidding. We're not gonna talk about the putting competition. It's before turning turning seven though tiger one What I think we all would consider his first major. Do you guys know what that was? The world junior junior world the under The under 10 section of the drive chip and putt competition. I don't know how low it goes Maybe he won them all so he won the drive chip and putt. That's cool. Yeah. I thought Randy would really like that. He won it.

It was held at the Navy. I felt it. I felt it. I felt it. I felt it. I felt it. I felt it. I felt it.

I felt it. I felt it. I felt it. I felt it. I felt it. I felt it. I felt it. I felt it.

I felt it. I felt it. I feltin' Putt takes. I'll stand by that take. It's one of the last masters. What was it? What was it? Like there shouldn't be a 13 or 14 or 15 year old division in the freaking Drive Chippin' Putt. Like go play real golf. What's the cut off? 12.

12 or 13 I think. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no teenager play a drive-chip and putt that's disgusting. Guantan long made the cut at the master's room is 14 years old. And then like, you know, and then some kid is celebrating winning drive-chip and putt as a 14 or 15 year old because there was that division as well. Disgusting. Distincts. I'd say now it's officially master's week. Yeah.

TCK man with a fresh shave, he's feeling fierce this morning. I do see Tiger every year at the Champions dinner for the drive-chip and putt, so I actually didn't know that. So listen, Congrats on your win. Yes, I would say his first, you know, truly historic win there for Tiger. In 1984, at the age of eight, he did win the nine and 10 boys event

at the youngest age group available for the Junior World Golf Championship. So, I'm gonna throw it on. Okay. He then, you know, fun fact from Wikipedia, he then broke 80 for the first time before the age of eight. How about that? That's a really to read.

He went on to win. What tease was he playing? That's a good thing. Didn't say that's a great question. Let's see, Tiger went on to you and asking the right questions, big read. He went on to win the Junior World Championships. How many times?

Oh God, seven. I don't know how many times how far they go six times DJ I guess it Including four consecutive wins from 80 18 91 Okay, so when Woods was 13 years old he played in the 1989 big eye which was his first major national junior tournament in the final round It was paired with Pro John Daly. The big eye? Yeah, apparently this is a big deal. He was paired with John Daly.

What is it? It's just like a junior invitation, kind of thing. Was that the optimist one? I don't know, that's the optimist world junior. Oh, okay. Anyway, just spelled EYE, B-I-G-I. It's like the letter I. Big eye. I'm gonna do some research. IE, B-I-G-I, to get a letter I.

Big eye. I'm gonna do some research. T.C. always beat on the professor. You know, T.C. is gonna swim. You know, he actually won the 2000 US Open as well. I know, by like 12. He's gonna skip ahead. 15, so big eye. It's a prestigious junior golf tournament.

Yeah, it's a football tournament. All right, so let me get through, let me finish the question. I gotta get to at least the first major in your body for the hour, come on. He was paired with, he was paired with John Daly, who was little relatively unknown. The events format placed a professional

with each group of juniors who had to qualify. Daly birdied three of his last four holes to beat Woods by only one stroke. Wait, he was paired with a pro. Yeah, so the pro wasn't John Daly. The pro was John Daly. John Daly, I guess he's that much older. Yeah, and he was paired with John Daly

and dailyly beat him by one in Tyros 13. That's what we're getting at. And granted, daily was probably hung over or something. To be fair. Yeah. Okay, moving on. I agree. No, I'm just, you know, we finished the question.

1991. Is that heavy weight so you do it? Yeah. 1991, what happens? John Daley wins the PGA. Probably the boy's junior, first US junior. That's exactly right. Youngest junior amateur champion, 15 years old.

Where was that? Uh, I'm not sure. I'm gonna look that up for me. Can we get the research department on that? I'm trying to get to the good stuff. I'm just setting the context here. Sorry, 91 was a US junior amateur championship. There's a lot of trends that we'll notice.

Limited field event. Bait will be, for sure. No, there's like 350 people. You know, based on, uh, based on venues and such. You know, we're trying to, trying to give the people, this one was, it was at Firestone.

Well, no, this one was at Bay Hill Club in Lauderdale. Oh, wow. Wow. And then he wins at 92 and 93 as well. That's all the three seats. And Massachusetts and then Waverly out. This is the junior amateur. This is the junior amateur.

So he kind of came up to the Portland scene. He goes, he man skies the junior amateur. Back up. And he beats Brad Zewishki, nine in extra holes in the first one. Mark Wilson won up the second one and Ryan Ormer in 19 holes in the first one Mark Wilson won up the second one and Ryan armor in 19 holes in third one Under it Randy. Yes. Thank you for raising your hand question. What To play in the junior amateur. What's the like max age?

You can be does that go to give to be under 18 under 18, okay? T.C.s cuts and takes about no I believe that's what he's doing here. Under 19, I think. I could be wrong, but I think it's under 19. Under 19, on the last day of competition and have a USGA handicap index of 4.4 or less. Or as TC would say, go play real golf. No. That's very much real golf. So, I'm gonna bring us back onto the highway here.

Who is the three US juniors in a row? Three in a row. Who is the only other two time US junior amateur champion, Mr. Splyff? It's correct. Jordan Spieff. Wow. Yeah.

How about that? Spieff had a goody vibe. Oh my God. He was pre-approved for goes that I was kind of there's a few just things in my research where I was like, man, Spieff again, again, I'd like to give a shout out to David Sam's for speed though. Back to back runner up.

Well, shout out to Mr. Riley. DJ as you were saying. Well, no, USAms for spieth. As I'm sure we'll get to get to. You do like sniff it, do we? I don't think so. I think he made like round of 16 when you're. So 93, he wins his third junior amateur champion

that 94, what happens? USA and US goes right into it. Is that so grass? That is it. So grass. We got the shark hat. You know, the straw hat. We've got the baggy polo, the high white socks, white shoes. It's kind of a sick look. He looks like the terminator with like the peach stripes or whatever, the navy shorts. The high socks. So young. It's kind of coming back. Youngest amateur champion ever until who beat that record. I don't want to keep taking them all, but Bung Hoon on.

I believe I was going to say Ben on. Well, I had Danny Lee. Oh, shit, that's right. And then I think Ben on broke it again. But listen, my facts have been off in the past. I think Danny Lee broke it and then I think Ben on broke it again. But listen, my facts have been off in the past. So I'm gonna say that it's, I think you're gonna stay in league. I think Danny Lee broke it and then I think Ben on broke it again.

Okay. So yeah, this was the USAM at TPC Sawgrass. Kim was deep in Amr-Golfo a while. Out at Sawgrass. He played, does anybody know who his opponent was in the final round? Final match, there's a goal. Which string?

Can I say something? Should they be having an amateur event at the tournament professionals course? The tournament players course. The tournament players course. It's open to all players. It seems like a tournament that people are playing. You can't deny that.

I think it's sick. I'm just asking the question. I'm just saying. You gotta remember, Amarigulf was at a very, it is kinda to go down a tangent, but Amar Gulf was at a very, it is kinda, it's a good unattangent, but Amar Gulf is in a little different, just golf in general, probably in a different spot. I think TBC Sawgrass was kinda the gold standard,

not the Barrow of Frays, but the gold standard of like big, hard, expensive golf. And it's kinda wild to see the USA Amar go to band-in dunes this year. Yeah. Hopefully. Throw the game. Anyway, back to my question.

Do you guys know who we played against? It's a trip Keeney. It was trip Keeney. Mm. Mm. Now, and just a quick Wikipedia search of trip. I just want to say all the stuff that you know about the USM, and you couldn't have told me that my USM qualifier was

to you and my catty. That's it. That's my point. I mostly picked it up after the local call stage. I didn't get deep into the local call if I exceed. So as someone who was too young to, I was four or five years old at the time, to really follow that one.

Witness this one. USGA has some good highlight videos on their website for each USAM. He was, wasn't he like five down? He was six down. Trailing six to Trip Keeney at one point. I think in the beginning of the final round actually. Tiger rattles off three wins, like three birdies in a row.

The video highlight of the USGA website shows all this. Gets it to all square on 16. So they go to 17. Do you guys remember what happened? Oh, yeah. Pin is, pin is far right, like over on the Sunday players pin. Yeah, right, right shelf. Yeah, Ricky pin, right. Exactly. pin is far right like over on the the Sunday players. Yeah, right right shelf. Yeah, Ricky pin right.

Exactly. Now I can picture. So tiger hits one and it probably lands as far right on the fringe as you can get. And the ball like really bounces backwards. Like in and it should up 150% gone in the water, right? But it like kind of jumps up and then it kind of comes back. And the best part is his reaction is just like, yeah, of course I knew what was going to do that.

He's about to gas it right there. And then he runs that put in and Keeney misses. And I think he wins it on 17 there. Wikipedia search for a trip Keeney. I thought this was telling Ernest W. Trip Keeney that third is an American amateur golfer. He is most remembered for his defeat at the hands of Tiger Woods in the 1994 US amateur and his subsequent refusal to turn professional in favor of a successful amateur career.

Keeney's were kind of golfing royalty. What I think he's thought that how about and just full disclosure for that he if he was all square going into 17 he he would not have won it on the 17th, but he was he was game. He just gave up He just saw that he was like That's good. He good job. No, he won 17. He made his birdie to win to win. Okay, I'm 70 square going to 17 That's okay. He was one on the 17 We can if he made it to... If he made it to win. If he made it to win,

what couldn't they be all square and he made a birdie and came in the middle of it? Maybe he won up going to 18th. He won up going up one on. Oh. I'll diagram it for you. Thanks. Well, regardless, he beat him.

Anyway, I just thought it was interesting to have your Wikipedia lead B. I feel like there's a lot of those going to have that. Loosing at the hands of the cat. He was mulled by the cat. The big cacket crown though? A little bit. Would you like there's a lot of those losing at the hands of the cat. Yeah, basically. He was mulled by the cat. Did the cat get crowned though a little bit? Would you say it was a crowning? He did. He lifts out a five or six footer to either extend the match

basically. And it just seems like he got literally tracked down by a tiger. It's a big cat. A big cat. Can you imagine how slow that, I guess, probably fast actually that final round was going to blow six up lead at the after ludge? Yeah.

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Let's get back to talking about the big cat. So, in 94 Tiger graduates from Western High School, do you guys know what his high school's superlative was? Most likely to succeed. That's exactly right. Most robotics. Most the linies. Most likely to start an That's exactly right. Most real honor. Most, most the lineings. Most likely to start an HBO series Westworld.

Goes to Stanford in the fall 94 and does what in his first college tournament? Winds. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's how we winds. Yeah, that's how we winds. He wins his first tournament that William H. Tucker invitational.

Also in 95, pleasant as first masters, finishes 41st and is the Only amateur to make the cut the low amateur low amateur you got invited to Butler cabin then he did yes Who won masters 95 was Cranchot yes, Cranchot Not I was gonna say about a mister about it was me. I so Mr. Mr. Crunch is a crunch or is he a mister? He might be a two time master's mister. I don't just feel like I don't hear that very much.

That's because you're not here. You're not running the right circle. So we should do a podcast on who where the Mr. Light is. So 1995 successfully defends his USA amateur championship at what country club? You poured. All right. I did it, but there's such a good moment in the Defends his USA amateur championship at what country club? You port. Alright, of course. I did it, but in the shot.

God, there's such a good moment in the Jeff Benedict arm and Ketayin Tiger book. Sol and I listen to the audio book version of it and the actor gets really animated on one of the stuff. And one of the shots at this new port USA, when he hits a, I believe was a choked down punch eight iron into the final green to make birdie. And the narrators, I didn't butch, I hit the shot, you taught me.

I don't think Tiger has ever sounded like that. Which is so funny because the rest of it is like, Tiger made a trip to Ponta Vedra Beach, Florida. It's a great book. She goes, So that was the hundredth edition of the USAM played at Newport because that's where the first USAM was played. The home of the US amateur.

The first. He note from that one was Earl lifting up the trophy in the clubhouse afterwards and saying Bobby Jones can kiss my black ass. I did not have that in my notes, but that is like the best thing I think we'll say today. Yeah. I feel like there's an Earl story associated with each one of these sort of things we're gonna bring out. And that's the part of the book that I'm like,

where do they source some of this? Something about like a showdown at a gas station between Earl and a clerk, which is like, they tracked down the clerk from the gas station for this story. I don't know how it came, but Earl was an absolute menace during this time period. I think during every time period. Yeah.

Do you guys know who Tiger's opponent was? Buddy Marucci. T.C.'s boy. Buddy. Buddy's rocking a Pine Valley polo and no hat in the final round. He's like 42. Yeah. So lifelong amateur, the narrator of the USGA videos, like a man that's been searching for

this for 25 years. I really played the game the right way. Playing Tiger. So Tigers won down after the first 18. They battle, then Buddy gets, seems to, as the narrator says, gets tired. Tiger charges. He starts missing fairways, basically.

He gets tired, he gets sleepy. And Tiger starts making every putty who looks at Mary, which is two down, but then wins 17 he hits it into Awesome birdie there and then tiger as you said he almost holds out on 18 He hits this like punch cut eight iron and I'm not a lot of my game after was that the shot that books tongue? Yeah, yeah, and it spins back it it but it, but it spins back to about two feet. So he taps into win and actually, no, I don't think he taps in marriage he concedes.

Oh God, that's classic. Yeah. So he rolls his birdie, but he concedes. Do you think it was tough for buddy knowing that cats probably taking all sorts of endorsements and stuff under the table. I'm wondering about that. Yeah, I wonder how there had to be, there's a lot of very public bad things that were said, shot at the fuzzy seller.

There had to be some massively horrible private things said amongst the golf community. Which we know were to put on buddies. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no makes Earls quote, maybe not even that outrageous. But I forget the details from the book, but it is a time period in which Tigers receiving some sort of benefits through Earl and I think they're doing a lot of clinics. Yeah, there's a lot of one day kind of teaching things going on. Which Randy, that's got to really urke you.

I know you're a big NCAA, like amateurism guy. I think if we don't uphold the sacrednessity of the sanctity of amateurism, I'm not sure. Yeah. Nobody's talking about the value that Tiger got out of that free round of golf at Newport Country Club. And pride practice, right?

Yeah, probably. How much of those go for? I'm sure he was getting, you know, a buffet lunch free lunch. Probably you have breakfast. Yeah. Anyways, thanks for keeping us up. I will say before you feel too bad for buddy, he now has memberships at Wingfoot Seminole Pine Valley and Cypress Point. So, okay. He's doing just fine. He did all right. So Tiger wins and he says, posts, you know, after the fact that the shot in the 18 wasn't a shot that was in my repertoire a year ago. So just to buy, there you go. 95. End of 95, he's voted pack 10 player of the year, NCAA first team all American, Stanford's male freshman

of the year and award encompassing all sports. How about that? Are you majors? I'm trying to set the context. I think they're majors in amateur golf. It depends who you ask, you know. Yeah, but like, they're the here every day. They were major to him. I'm sure. That's what I'm saying. These are the major, these are the major moments in his amateur golf career. I have a couple more if you don't mind. 96, he wins his third consecutive US amateur, who's his opponent?

Steve Scott. That's correct. At Pumpkin Ridge, outside Portland, Oregon. The ultimate class act. Steve Scott reminds him to move his ball back at a certain point in the round. There's a good golf.com video. Like looking back at it from a competition standpoint, should not.

That may have cost him the tournament. But yeah, golf.com video is all about this battle. Steve Scott was unconscious pretty much the entire week. He was five up after how was he competing? He was unconscious. Oh, well, that was more. If you wanted to get through this part, you're gonna have to let the teacher teach. Somebody, well, that was more. He wanted to get through this part. You're gonna have to let

it teach you teach somebody put this kid in time out. So Scott's five up after the morning 18. He kind of starts losing the mo his his girlfriends cadding for him though. And they now just was just loving that she's bringing all the positivity, all the vibes Steve Scott's girlfriend Steve Scott's. Oh, like you're saying. That's like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, I miss that? It looks on your guys' faces. Yeah, Steve Scott. So that was like a whole storyline throughout the NBC broadcast. They're driving home.

America's sweetheart. Yeah, they are 100%. And man, she's just, she has been his 15th club today. You know, like a bunch of dumb lines like that. So then Tiger Battles back to two down on 16. Tiger moves his mark and then forgets to move it back. Steve Scott, the class act that he is, reminds Tiger to move it back. And then in the golf act that he is, reminds Tiger to move it back.

And then in the golf.com video, there's a whole scene with Tiger, where he's like, yeah, you know, now I always marked my ball with heads and whenever I move it over, I used tails. So now I know, I'll never do that again. That was pretty good. That's kind of kind of good. Which I wanted to know was really, really sport,

is a sportsmanship. It just says a lot about the game of golf. I want to know where that was birth from though, because if you watch the clip, Steve Scott holes out, and then he's already saying to Tiger, like make sure you, Tiger wasn't about to hit the ball. He kind of doubles back, though.

He's like, hey, remember to move that mark. He makes a point to step back into the field of play, if you will. And Tiger says in his interview that I had forgotten. I was lying in my put up, I was about to get my process. It didn't even cross my mind. So they go to extra holes. So at one down, Tiger makes a mega birdie on 17,

which I think you always see the footage of that, fist pumping all over the place. They're all square on 18 extra holes, Scott loops out a 10 foot par putt, Tiger taps into win. I thought it was interesting, and all three US Ambs Tiger was down, heading into the final 18. And it's a stark contrast to how he's won every major

with the exception of the last one. Well, I just wanna say along that note, it makes like a 30 footer on 17, right? It's a bomb. Yeah, yeah. So in the little bit that I've done for my stretch here, and I'm struggling with, I guess it's not struggling, but it's amazing how often these kind of coin flip scenarios fell his way.

I know a lot of people will say that's the RF tiger and all this stuff, but you watch him, he's replayed, he's like, no, no, dude, that's just like how you remember it. It could have easily gone the other way. And he's never on the other end of a razor-thin call. Does he ever lose a major, I, he loses to Rich being by one, but like almost runs him down. It wasn't like he got screwed.

Like he, so like, yeah, it's amazing how many times he wins when it was very, very, very close. You might say he's a killer. He's, he just, every must make putt, it's like, he, very close. You might say he's a killer. He's a man who was a killer. He just, every must-make putt, it's like, he just bare, you know, he makes, like, there's a few in the video recaps, like, must-make 20-foot par-puts.

Yeah. Right, and it's just like, God, man. And he just bips pumps everything. And you're just like, oh, it's a machine! It's unbelievable. So, throughout his amateur career,

Woods played in 16 professional events. Was he an athlete of the week or anything, coming on a Stanford after that USA. Faces in the crowd. If potentially, potentially. Listen, I thought you guys would enjoy those teams. No, they're great. I'd send you off topic so hard.

Yeah, TC, thank you for raising your hand. Thanks, Neil. Thanks for acknowledging that the New York Times article from the 94, or the sorry, the 95 USM, couple tidbits here. Buddy Merchie, he was a Mercedes-Benz dealer at the time. Tiger said, I'm more experienced. I've been there, I know what to expect.

He was somewhat overshadowed by his opponent, Mr. Plummer, a 43 year old liquor company salesman from Manchester, Maine with a bushy red moustache, a lurching swing, and a silky smooth putting stroke. Despite being outdriven by as much as 60 yards and missing nearly half the greens, the plucky plumber, one potted seven times in the first 13 holes and was tied with the defending champion with five holes to play. I thought that was great. And Tigers match play record, 35 and three at that point. And now USGA events. And then in any wins and other,

you wins once more. So 36 and three and then you wins what, four or five more the next year. So 41 and three. So that would usually get it done. That seems good, huh? That sums it up pretty good. So he turns pro after 96, U.S. amateur one,

I don't know if it's like direct, I think it's August of 96 at age 20. During his amateur career, played in 16 professional events, making the cut seven times of those 16 events, six for majors. The masters, U.S. open and British open, each of them twice,

Woods made the cut on four occasions. And the masters used T41 in 95, cut in 96. US Open, WD in 95 and T82 in 96 and the Open T68 and T22. What happened, 95? Why did you WD? I think there was a little, I could definitely be a misremembering this,

but I think he played poorly in the first round and then there was like some Injury I think it was kind of out my I tried it. I tried to dig up dirt, but I couldn't find any So I'll leave that maybe leave that up to our research department. I'm right April 97 It was April 97 with some masters what It was April 7th with some masters. What happened? I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm gonna pour in the front of that. That's good. That stinks. I remember coming home and going to school for, and my mom telling me that and I was in debt estate. No!

So what happened? I won the Masters by 12. He hits 10. One of my 12 strokes, tournaments youngest winner, 21 years old and 104 days. Why does winning margin 12 strokes, lowest winning score, 18 18 under 270 now tied by Mr. Split, Mr. Split. Yeah, I don't know. Well, hello world, I guess, is about all you can say.

That one is, you know, everybody's kind of remembers the masters. I wanted to kind of open up to you guys. What do you remember anything other than the 40 was in my notes as well, but anything else from that, when other than the iconic, you know, 18th fist bump that you got, fist bump that you guys remember. I mean, hitting Sand wedge into, I've seen that film of, I can, I can repeat the highlight guy, what he says. Here he is, going into 15th with a sand wedge, because he was, it was kind of firm that week and he was kind of firm that week and he was hitting the ball in places

that no one else could. And that was the week that changed golf forever, like a gust of panic after that and playing it a bunch of stuff and made all these changes. So no one could ever do that to their golf course again. I mean, it was just, it was absurd. The lines he was taking and guys were hitting four

irons into par five that he was hitting wedges into and it was a true par 68. And I remember the Monty interview the night before, after I think Monty played with him like Saturday, and he's like, I appreciate the way he struck it, the way he drove it, I did not appreciate the way he put it. I'm like, waited for everyone to laugh. It was kind of awkward laugh.

And then the end of it is like super depressing. He's like, what's he up by like nine? Yeah, it'll probably be more tomorrow. He's just like defeated. It was like, he'd seen it. It's like, I don't have that. It's gonna get ugly. And yeah, it was, I still struggle with like,

how he was able to do that and then not win one for like almost another two years. You know what I mean? Cause it was a signal of like, here we go. And then rebuild. I know it was rebuild, but it was amazing that he won that and then was like, all right, it's time to redo my swing. That's gonna be a theme.

Yeah, so he hits the rebuild. He goes T19 and the US Open in 97, T24 in the Open Championship and T29 in the PGA Championship. I believe the championship. I think he opened the Open Championship. The British and the PGA Championship. I believe the Championship. I think he opened the championship. The British Open presented by her match. Okay. It was crazy in my quick research.

How quickly took over number one of the world? Yes, he did. You know what I mean? It was like, wasn't it by June of 97? I think it was 95 USM when he took over the World. So yeah, it's a bit, I didn't have too much research on those three opens, 98 masters, he's T8, so he's T top 10's the next year. Fun fact, Jack Nicholos beat him at the 1998 masters

after he won by 12, 56 year old Jack, that is T6. Truly favorite facts. Truly amazing, golf history, which was one of those, it's obviously the time period where the masters is not coming on air until close to the back nine, and like, it dances call at the beginning of that is, I forget exactly what it is, but it's awesome. He's like, you will not believe what is on your screens right now. And like, the Golden Bears making a move. And then his buddy, Mark Umiro won that one.

Tiger took over number one of the world for the first time in June of 97, which seems crazy early. I mean, when you win like six times and you know, no, I'm not saying the math doesn't add up like it makes sense. It's just just juxtaposed that. I guess Phil Mikkelson never ever ever being number one. When you hear some of the names he was going up against in the 2000 PGA You'll understand that a lot. Yeah, that's true. And then 98, so T8 at the Masters, T18 at the US Open, comes in third at the UK British Open presented by our Majesty of the Queen. Did I say that right?

Yes. One by Mark Amir. Mark Amir. Mark Amir. A good pal, a running buddy of the cat and T10 at the PGA. So 98, like, I guess a wilderness, but still three top 10 finishes, three out of four in majors, which is hard to believe when people are like, oh, we're talking. That's what I was going to say. Well, I had kind of the O304 section

in my purview as well. And people are like, oh, yeah, that's when he was slumping. I'm like, yeah, no, I get it, like compared to what he has done, but it's like a career year for most other people. Yeah. Still, which is nuts. So that's kind of funny to hear the same thing about 90 years. Like compared to say Ricky, or it's like, oh man, like, like four top fives.

That one, he killed it that one. That's the best year in major, major major, major major. He was the worst year of his career. And some people's minds, 98, and he's, he had three top 10s and majors. So why you gotta bring Ricky in? That was tossing a bone to the big guy over there. Quarantine or we're pro Ricky.

Okay, fair enough. So then 99, just Ricky and Nostec. Just, yeah, we're supportive. Yeah. 90s, I hope he's healthy and safe. So 99s, T18 at the Masters in 99, tie for third at the US Open. I could have won that. Yeah, which yeah, it's like gloss over that. Well, please share. That was pint

her straight. Yeah, those pains, pains do it. Yeah. Yeah. Can't, can't kind of choke that one away. You know, some pots on the back nine. But, okay, there you have it. T7 at the open championship. Where was that? Carlos D. That's Paul Lorry. That was Van Develle's situation. Oh, wow. Sick.

And then it's kind of wild to go back. I don't know when it'll be interesting to watch footage from either this era or kind of like the early 2010s era where it's like Looking at like the Paul Laurie van de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Ven de Medina, Statsich Kago, I mean. That's cool. That's cool. Very cool. Tiger wins at 11 under, duels with 19 year old Sergio from Rio. From Shipnuck's SI Game Piece,

there was no freighted embrace with the old man behind the 18th green. There were no ghost exercised, no historical legacies razzed. This was golf, not sociology. If Tiger Woods stunning victory at the 97 master's Masters signal the birth of a cross-culture icon is when it last week's PGA championship served mainly to confirm that he has matured into a golfer for the ages.

For three and a half rounds, Woods overpowered the longest course in major championship history, and then in a giddy, sloppy, riveting duel over the final nine holes, the outlasted Spain's team dream Sergio Garcia who didn't quite sneak off with the tournament, but for a while did steal the show What's a jack lady Where people you know sand. Hey is is the cat done? Does the cat stink? Wonder at this point. Yeah, it sounds like some takes would have come out of the car to house.

No, what people were saying is that God, they wanted so badly for this to be the generational duel between Tiger and Sergio. And then Sergio, you know, takes 17 years from that point, you know, to win a major. God, just wait till we get to the 2002 US Open. So there's some really good stuff. Before we move on, so Shipnuck, kind of what everyone remembers, Shipnuck again, quote, having cut the deficit to one, but with his drive, cozyed up to the base of one of Medina's 4,161 trees. Yes, someone counted. Garcia opened the face of his six iron and with his eyes closed slash to the ball, like a housewife trying to kill a mouse with a broom.

He chased the shot up the fairway with hilarious enthusiasm, doing a little scissor kick as he strained to see it reach the green, and then pantomime to the crowd, the pitter-patter of his heart. Summing up Sunday's events, Garcia said, it was really fun. Most of all, it was joy, it was pressure, it was, I will tell you you the best day of my life and it was an interesting rewatch because Sergio's English at the time is not what it is now like it's just a true like young spandered over in the states playing some professional golf

so other notes from that co-leader after 54 holes do you got to guys know who it was Monty no Phil Mike Phil. Mike Weir. Shot 80 in the fun around. T-3rd, Stuart Sink, Jay Haas, 5th place. Nick Price, 6th place, Monty Bob Estes, T-8, Jim Furik, and the Volcano of Steve Payton. Is that good stuff? Is that good stuff? Does that conclude your research?

That concludes my research. I believe I was responsible for 2000s masters that I just found out beforehand, but I think we can make that crowdsource that. And that's all going to double as part one journey of the cat. Exactly. Well, I'll take it from here if you're willing to pass the reins on it to, uh, so you got to remember, my era starts post Y2K. Everything else you did was pre Y2K.

Um, so it's a different world. Tiger opens up 2000. He's having himself a year, if you will. Right off the bat. He began with a dramatic win at the Mercedes championship, followed it with a win at the AT&T. And an even more dramatic final round, 64, holes, Monday finish, holes, a shot on the 15th hole to run down Matt Goggle, that poor guy. That was one of my favorite final rounds of all time. Watching that.

That was such a... That was a clinic that they kept put on. T2 with the Buick Invitational, which is honestly kind of shocking, considering what's about to follow. Phil won that one. T18 at Rive always struggled there. Second at the match.

Sorry, that was 2000. Is that the one where Phil broke his six tournaments in a row streak? I don't believe so. No, six tournaments in a row, I think it was like 2006, ish. He won six in a row, no six. Oh, okay.

18 and Reve always started their second match play. Do you remember who beat him at the 2000 match play final? Nico Hirn. That was my guess and it is not right. He beat him in the first round. That's right. I can't remember. Auntie.

Darren Clark. Oh, sure. I had totally forgotten that he won the Bay Hill Invitational that year. He got second at the players, too. 2000? Yeah. Uh, do ball. Guys, elk.

Come on. DJ. 2000 players. They're so equal screaming at their speakers in their car right now. How Sutton? Yes. Oh, wow. Listen, for sure. Recent podcast, yes. Um, and we get to the masters. I would, it's safe to say the hand up. That was we should have got that one. That's on me dog. The hype is getting real.

Uh, coming off the, uh, the success to start the year and his recent win at the, uh, PGA championship. He goes out in the first round of the 2000 Masters and shoots 75. Stinks. It's not going to be a template for me. He ends up finishing, uh, six shots back. He makes a little run on the weekend, but he just was too far back.

The 2000 Masters was won by VJ, VJ Singh, Ernie II. The big Fiji and Duval was third with Lauren Roberts. So the boss and the boss. So that not winning that would end up sticking out by the end of the year, but we go to. It was second. Ernie was second. Ernie was second. Ernie was second.

Yeah. Can I quickly interject, sir? That tied for second at the Buick. Yeah. That was his, he had one six, I popped out in a row. I'm sorry. Yeah. Okay.

Anyway. All right. Good stuff, man. Yeah. T fourth of the buyer Nelson then goes on in June. I believe this was in May of 2000. This is when things change. He goes and wins the memorial by five. So it's three weeks, this is three weeks before the United States.

Were you there? The 100, I was. This was actually, now that the year before, is the year I wrote on a shirt, yeah. Perhaps things will change. So this is three weeks before the US Open, the 100th US Open Championship at Pebble Beach. Which if we can, a quick aside, the major locations for that year, of course Augusta National will start the year. Pebble Beach for the 1000th US Open, St Andrews.

1000th US Open. It's 100th US Open. Not damn. St Andrews for the, you know, the even number 2000 Open Championship in Valhalla and Kentucky, the Jack Ne Scores, which is going to stick out by the end of this. So what do you think Tigers odds are going into the 2000 US Open?

It's three to one. No, no, no. Eight to five. It's three to one exactly. Was it really? Yeah. Play that bit back. No, no, no, no, no. So he's three to one. Do vol 14 to one, L's 16 to one, Phil 16 to one, Monti 18 to one. Three to one. You know, unlikely it is to win a golf tournament. Three to one.

I was going back. I was trying to find a true odds on favorite. He doesn't quite reach there. But if you remember that week, there was a 21 gun salute from the 18th fairway honoring 99 champion, pain steward who was no longer with us. Guys hit tee shots from the 18th fairway into still water, cove tiger did not appear for that.

He teed off for a practice round 20 minutes before the ceremony. Jack Nicholas was asked to take pain spot in the traditional pairing with Paul Laurie and David Gossett. Of course he accepted that. Yeah, David Gossett could have cared a bit of what if guy. The tournament starts. It is a soft, soft conditions to start and you know, Johnny Miller is out following Tiger and Marco Miro during a practice round and kind of notices how well Tiger's hitting it and says to Marco and Marco Miro, like it mentions it to Marco Miro and Marco Miro during a practice round and kind of notices how well Tigers hitting it and says to

Marco and Marco Miro like it mentions it to Marco Miro Mark's like he's gonna win this tournament like by a lot So fast forward to the 15th team on Thursday Johnny Miller Tigers I got a good round going. He's four or five hundred to that point And he says I think Tiger Woods is going to break every record imaginable and he's gonna win this by a big margin This is this is the introduction of Tiger using the solid core golf ball. This is the started that I believe at he talked about it the 2000 Memorial during a

reindeer lay how like he was allowed to basically get out of his ball deal to like figure out using the solid core ball and yeah, things end up going very well. So he shoots a first round 65. He only leads by one over Miguel on L and Mineth. He got the benefit of the draw on day one. But second round, a huge fog delays things, conditions are really tough. He tees off at 440 local time because of the fog delay. And this is gonna play kind of a factor,

not really a factor, because he wins by 15, but it sets things in motion for the rest of the week. He finishes the day, trying to get as many holes in as he can, and it's really dark as he plays at 12, much dark in the camera's making it look. And hits a shot, like the announcer, like he's not gonna hit this, hits the shot on 12, like surely the horn blows, and I surely he's not going to hit this hits the shot on 12. No, like surely the horn blows.

And I surely he's not going to finish this. He'll put it tomorrow morning. Tiger says he had the speed of the greens down and he didn't want to read learn them the next morning hits the putt in the dark drains the birdie putt. Tigers iris is for wide open. Gets to the next morning. So he's got to come out super early the next morning. And this is going to again play a factor because that night he gets to the 18th to the 9 under par. But the night before he had been spending some time in his hotel room, had his clubs in

there with him, takes three golf balls out of his bag to practice putting on his hotel room floor. He does not put the golf balls back in his bag. And after he hit a wedge on the 15th hole, he took a ball out of play because it was scuffed. This is, we gotta remember, this is square groove era. It hits a wedge and it scuffs the ball so bad and he tosses the ball to a kid. And Stevie goes and reaches into the bag and feels that there's two golf balls left. And so Tiger gets to 18 with two golf balls and steps up and snap hooks one directly into the cove. He lets out four

exploits. I don't know what they are, but it's a clear Stevie reaches into he says ball as he walks back to it. He goes ball. Stevie reaches in and grabs the last golf ball that they have in the bag and hands it to him. And here's Stevie describe it. It's just like the look on his face too, as he's describing it later on, is just like, I'm wondering, I'm gonna be carrying the bag in from here. This is it, it's in my career.

He's like, Tiger, maybe we oughta hit an iron. He's like, no, ball. It's a driver and just lets it loose, finds the fairway out there. And he doesn't tell Tiger until they're signing their cards on Sunday. And so Tiger signs the card, gives it to him, he goes, all right, what the hell happened Saturday morning?

That's when Stevie tells him they were out of golf balls. She's. Can you imagine the 2000 US Open never happens because you ran out of balls? So if he did, what would have happened? So Tiger's ball moves. All the trucks are gone, right? It bounced around.

I think he could have, and you can't like go to the pro shop because nobody says it, but nobody sells like the tiger prototype. Yeah, yeah, like he had like the crazy straight from Nike. I think you could have sprinted to the locker. I think you could have. I think you're right. So it would have had to be like literally the exact same ball, you know. Yes, but so they're also saying Stevie would have been down there

with a snorkel in a inst still water cove trying to find the ball if he had hit another one in there. Which, yeah, that should have been a what if, if Tiger hit one more hook in the water. I could see Stevie, the Tiger's sure, they're doing that. Like an abalone, you die for it.

What's the other, but the rule is if you run out of balls in your bag, you're, you're, you're S.O.L. right? Yeah, you can go to the pro shopper. I think you can. I think it would take like a reasonable time. Yeah, yeah. Okay.

I don't think you can take like two hours, but I think if it's like a 10 minutes like run to the locker room, run back, I think you're okay. That would be sick of Stevie, just set off in a dead sprint. Do you think Tiger would have done it just because he's faster than Stevie, just to prove he's faster? You can't bring a ball back into play that you've like publicly declared out of play.

No, you can. Like, could he have done that ball back in like a kid? Well, it would be faster like run to the locker room or like track down that kid somewhere on the property. Presumably the kid's following the group. Yeah, that's interesting. Hey kid. I'm gonna need that ball back.

I'll give you a fucking club if you give me that ball back. God, that's interesting. Hey kid. I'll give you a fucking club if you give me that ball back. Um, God, that's a good story. The kids doing deals. So at day everyone goes backwards except the cat. The conditions really did get tough that day. He shoots 16.9. He now leads by six over Thomas Bjorn and Miguel. Round two finished up on Saturday as the Thursday, as the weather on Thursday led to a bunch of delays. So only 63 players make the cut. US Open tradition is top 60 in ties plus anyone within 10 shots. There were 17 players within 10 shots on the lead.

10 shots rules. So cats got to wait seven hours before resuming play that Saturday afternoon. Conditions get ramped up even more. The winds blow and super hard. The roughs bordering out of control, greens are firm, and cat comes out in like this tan shirt with a tan vest. And the vest is like wool, and it's like coming apart.

It's like, because it's kind of wet. I don't know what is, not a good look. Cat was shedding. It was, it looked like it was ready to shed. Can I propose something? I think the 10 shot rule should go both ways. If you're not within 10 shots, you automatically get cut.

Dude, so if there's only one issue, it should be a firm and fast 10 shot rule. I agree. So anyways, he comes out and he triples the third hole. He balloons a shot from the middle of the fairway. Shot is to Dustin Johnson. It stops on the edge of the bunker. It's a shot from the middle of the fairway. Shout out to Dustin Johnson. It stops on the edge of the bunker. He hits a, the chip doesn't even move it.

It's another bad chip, hits a poor chip and then misses the putt and makes triple. That's the key to you, man. And it's like, whoa, is he flustered? Is he, oh my God, what happens? And he walks off the green laughing and they flash the scoreboard and he's still leading by five. Because everybody was falling apart.

So no worries. He's not the mega- apart. So, no worries. He shoots. He shot the mega-bose is going to happen. He shoots. He has to be eight under. Hell yeah. He's just making trouble. He shoots an even par 71. He now leads by 10 shots over Ernie L's going in the front round.

Who Ernie shot 68 on that Saturday, which was the best round of the day. I think it was, sorry, I skipped ahead. I think on Friday, he hits that tee shot in the right rough and he hits the seven iron out of the thick rough that goes over the tree up the hill to the front of the green And he misses the eagle putt that's where Roger Melby gives this famous. It's just not a fair fight That's on six that's on six. Yeah So comes out final round makes nine straight pars You know, nobody loves to make him pars in the final run anytime you can start a major with eight or nine pars Like you'll take that birdies a tenth birdies a twelf the 13th, the 14th gets it all the way to 12

under par, the first player in history to get to 12 under par. Finishes with all parts for the round. That was his goal for the day was not make any bogies and he makes about a 12 to 15 footer side winding putt on 16 after flying the green to stay bogie free. And that's when he fist pumps and does like this glare up at the camera as if Somebody had wronged him in some way Only player finishes under par for the week 1200 par ties the lowest score ever in the US open and all of the others that the tied brawl par 70s. This was par 72 15 shot victory is of course the largest in major championship history

Miguel and Ernie finished tie for second. Bill Barnwell concluded that the performance was the greatest NA major since 1960. I'd imagine that's just as far back as this data goes. His score of 272 was 4.12 standard deviations better than the mean of the field he competed against. So more than a half standard deviation better than the winner of any other major in that period. I'm not a mathematician, but that sounds impressive.

Yeah. Math magician. So we're the math magician. Yes. Between some of these major wins, is actually when he had the only time he struggled during this year, he had a T23 at the Advil Western Open between the majors.

Shout out to Coghill. So we of course go to the home of golf, where he is the favorite going into it at the old course. What is it? What are his odds to win the championship? Two to one. One eight to five. One point five to one to win the title. Ernie's 10 to one, Monti 15 to one, Duval 18 to one. We know that he goes on to win four consecutively, but as a 24 year old, again, important to remember at this time, he's looking to be the youngest ever to complete the career grand slam.

Only Jack Nicholas had won the US Open at Pebble and the Open Jimmy Chip at the Old Course. He said beforehand in his press conference, if there's two tournaments, you ever want to win, it's the US Open at Pebble and the Open at the Old Course. This was Jack's last open for the first time. Didn't he come back? So he asked Jack. Course was firm and fast and the bunkers had been redone

and they were way, way tougher than anyone had ever seen before. Jack said in his press conference, they outdid themselves. The quote was, they're very, very, very difficult. Toughest I've ever seen, which was bordering on complaining about them. Tigers quote. That was Jack's quote.

Tiger didn't have much to say about the bunkers, other than when asked about the bunkers, he said, I was in one every day that I've been here. They were all on the practice screen. He didn't really see much of the bookers. I was too busy winning. Well, Jack has taken his own advice. It wasn't either one who always said, like, if you're complaining about conditions, I know I've already got you beat.

Yeah, exactly. That might have been pre-2000s, Jack. Yes. Tiger was famously avoided all 112 bunkers at the old course of St. Andrews in route to his victory. So, Barbara, these bunkers. I can't play. I can't play.

Too much thought. It's all stacked up. I can't play. I don't know what they're doing. What's funny is the open championship film that's obviously clearly done by the RNA says Tigers, looking to join recent open champions at the old course, including Nick Fowdo in 1990 and Sevy in 84. And others in 95 clearly ignoring John daily one there in 95 and others too. Which is great. Tiger

does not lead after day one. And he guesses as to who leads the open after day one. Who any guess is as to who leads the open after day one? Dennis Paulson. Ernie L shoots a 66 and his 600. The cat is one back. Dennis Paulson was up there. He's wearing a wide shirt. He's tied with serious. Thanks. Ty was Steve flesh at five under Ernie last. Steve flesh from Northern Texas. Ernie has a laugh in the press conference afterwards and says, well, Tiger beats me by 15 from now. There should be an inquiry.

He survived that quote. He would only beat him by nine from there. David Tom's, Steve Fleshin's Sergio, I'll take the lead on Friday before the cat heads to the tee. So Jack, this happened at the US Open 2. Jack is finishing up on Friday as Tiger is, which I think they had to have organized. Tiger tees off in his round. And again, it happens off, Jack walks off the 18th have organized Tiger T's off in his round.

And again, it happens off, Jack walks off the 18th green and Tiger's getting ready to tee off. And if you watch all of his T shots on one that week, we can easily describe one as the widest fairway in the world, correct? He hits iron every day, hits iron, and let's loose vicious club twirls immediately after hitting the ball and not even bending down to pick up his tea. This is peak sauce. Who's gonna hook that up? I was at e-maker Finch.

Yeah, hooked out of bounds on wood. Yeah. That's how fans are. As someone who has also done that, I've refused to be a part of it. They've heard that story. You know, there's people walking in the crosswalk across the way. And we had just asked the starter for permission to play the back teas. And I get to the top of my swing,

and the starter yells at the people walking at full volume. You know how Scott's yell for? He's like, for! And I snap hooked it out of balance and hit a car. On the left. He yelled at the top. Like, he's standing right next to me

at the top of my swing. He goes for! And it was firm and fast and it went OB left. So you went OB left over by the rustic soda. It stopped underneath the car. Yeah. World number one's due that kind of thing. I know.

Listen, when it gets windy and firm and fast and somebody's some scotts me, how did you react? I was kind of like turned to him and like, what was that? He didn't say a thing. He didn't acknowledge that he screamed in my swing. He's trying to protect the public. I didn't want to take a mold again in front of like 150 people,

but yeah, that was, I'm not even embarrassed by it. It was, so did you retie? I think I took a drop from OB left. So scum, scum. I mean, it's not Ireland, man. It was on a brow to like an 88, guys. I think we could let it slide. Okay. So he says his first goodbye or Jack says his first goodbye. The cat goes out in 66 opens up a

three shot lead over David Thompson. I go back and watch these highlights. It's so fun to watch him how firm and fast it played that year and kind of the lines he's taken. He's driving number 10, which is 380. He's just like got to cover a certain bunker and it runs up there forever. He drives 12 a bunch of the days and he basically dominates all the same holes on repeat. Ernie shot even par in round two and he's now five shots back. So bogey free at the old course through 36 holes. So not only did he not hit it any bunkers but he's driving all these greens. Oh yeah I mean like that would be the easiest way to hit it in the bunkers. It's like oh it's 380 sweet Let's just get one running 70 yards up there. Mm-hmm And like it seems like accidentally like one of those has got a role into one of those green side bunkers

And they were like it with how firm it is that means more likely balls are gonna win. They're not gonna stop. Yeah So shut off to David Tom's he was a man. It's good. He was like the poor man's version of David Duval I think he made so much money. Yes David Thompson. He was a man. He was really good. He was like the poor man's version of David Duval. He made so much money. Yes. Uh, second hole on Saturday. Tiger makes his first bogey in 63 holes in majors. Wow.

A methodical performance on Saturday is highlighted by a three wood from the 14th fairway. Before it even apexes, yes, Stevie, that's the shot you're talking about. So Stevie, that's the shot you're talking about. Stevie had told him to hit a three wood at the tower in the distance holding up. I believe holding up a fade against the wind coming off the right and Tiger X queued it perfectly. It goes on two puts. He birdies the 14th every day,

I'm pretty sure. Shoot 67 sits at 16 under six shots, clear of Thomas Bjorn and David DuVall. He opens up Sunday with an awkward red vest over a different color red short sleeve shirt. And you know, people don't remember that because by the end of it, he's got the crispy, iconic red sweater on by the end of the day.

But yeah, he struggled with some of the, some of the vesting options during this time period. This was when he had that weird logo. Yeah, the weird like thing on the side of his hat, which I don't think has ever been. Well, it's hard to know that the, when the, when the, the shares vest, like the time, time, right, yeah.

That's gotta make this cool thing to understand. It's post-White2K though. He did, he did. Well, true. And he'd go back and watch this. Well, I forgot to mention this. I need to watch it. Yes.

To cat navigating, like peak cat navigating the greatest course in the history of the world. So I forgot to mention this. At the US Open, he opened that Sunday with that tan vest over the red short sleeve shirt. The woolly one from Saturday, same one with like a thick layer of fuzz coming off the sweat. He opened the day with that.

I think by the time he reached the tee, he had it off, but gosh, that had been some tough imagery. So... So... He could have tainted the whole lid. Really tough. Imagine if the Marine layer came back in. What happens in 2000?

You know, obviously we know he wins by a comfortable margin. But, Duval, birdies two with the first three, gets within four. He birdies the seventh to get within three. And he has a putt to get within two of the lead on number 10. And he loses by eight. He left the twelfth green down by six. Cat puts the iconic red sweater on. Duval finds the road hole bunker. It takes him four to get out. He makes an eight. He comes home in 43 and finishes T-I-Actually, I do remember that.

Cat cruises to a final round 69 sets the major championship scoring record at 19 under wins by eight over Thomas Bjorn and Ernie Ls. Who would be waiting there greenside for the cat at this time period as after he wins? Ricky. That's what the... Marco Mier is there. A young Mark Steinberg is up on the steps as well. His home is there. Mark Calcivecchi is waiting there.

Joanna Giotta. Oh, of course. His girl's like the biggest revelation of that book was that he had his long-term girlfriend for like three or four years. That was a long time. Literally had never heard of. Joanna Jagoda.

Yeah. And so like I kept it incredibly private, but like the old pictures there, I'm like, oh my God, that's Joanna Jagoda. She was a student, right? She was going to like Pepperdine or Stanford or something. No, that's the way I think that. How burclear something like that, yeah.

Something like that. So, missed all 112 bunkers and then yeah, the quote about that afterwards. And he's in the press conference or in the ceremony afterwards he's talking about coming back to the defense title next year already. You have energy to go. I said that's her name. Yeah. Go look at first.

She works. She go animate. She's got to work. We're halfway through. So yeah, and that she looks a lot like Eelon. We could spend a lot, a lifetime talking about that stretch, but I just want to point out, you know, for as much as dominant as Tiger is in majors. So he wins us first one by 12, his third one by 15, and his fourth one by eight.

He never wins another one by more than five, okay? And the rest of his,IP kids, other major wins are one stroke playoff, two strokes, three strokes, three strokes, playoff, five strokes, two strokes, five strokes, two playoff, one. So like the net that gap, it doesn't come back. Like we'll never probably see dominance like that stretch. Big cast lie, he lost his fastball. That was Pete Cat. Yeah, that was it. I mean, that was just a complete exhibition. So again, he is a T11 at the Buick after that. This is only start in between. So in the in the year 2000, he won he played

20 events, 17 top 10s. He played 20 events, 15 of which were Buick. Yeah. Four majors. How many Buick cars did you think he had? Honestly, probably not. Probably not. No, but like, did he won? Didn't he? Oh, I'm sure. Right? And I wonder what he did with them.

We had to Valhalla. That's a question. I'd like an answer. Some rich people demolition derbies or something. But you said? Some sort of rich people demolition derbies. I know, that's why it's sick. It could be a million different things.

We had to Valhalla. What are Tigers odds to win the PGA Championship of Valhalla? Eight to five. Randy's our shark. Six to five. Eight to five. Oh! You were thinking of that one, initial. Yeah, exactly.

Eight to five. Which is nuts. Does anybody bet? Does anybody place a mess? Oh, everybody. Yeah, is this one like Tiger and the Feele bet start getting popular too? Pretty much.

So, but at this point, and I know he goes on to win it, but Tiger is a sucker bet. Like, you don't bet on somebody to win a tournament at those odds. But we Hawkins are, I would never do that. Phoenix Phil probably had a ticket in. Ernie's 12 to 1, Duval 16 to 1, Feele 18 to 1. So, I think if one guy's 8 to 5,

how can anybody else be less than like 31? I know. I know. No, obviously, they're going to do that. Like he's for sure going to win. So I'll get anybody else. So Tiger is the defending champion at this event. So he's already coming in winning three out of four. No one had defended a PGA since 1937. No one had won three straight majors since Hogan and 53. Ernie came into this finishing second in each of the first three. Is there one on three straight?

Jack never won three straight. Maybe in the same year. It might be in the same year. Three straight majors in the same year. I don't think you ever won three straight. Oh, okay, I did. No, he never, I don't think you did. Tiger opens with a 600 par 66.

He's paired with VJ and Jack, which again, they're really jamming home. This is Jack's farewell toward this year, and they're really jamming home this passing of the torch. It's been passed. Yeah, I've got this for you. Tiger is somebody else shoots 66 on this day.

Can anyone name who shot 60s opening round? Major player in this going, Bob May. It's not Bob May. Bob may shot 72 in round one Thomas Bjorn is not Thomas Bjorn or he else it is Scott Dunlap. Oh, come on shoot 66. Catch you 67 in round two. He leads Dunlap only by one. Dunlap did not go. It took a long time for Dunlap to go away. Fred funk DL3 and JP Hays. But when he did go. Yes. JP Hayes. Is anybody remembered JP Hayes? He won the John Deer. One year, didn't he? Who could say? TC research department is on it. Bob May shoots 66 and round two. Still five back.

Okay. A 70 and round three for the cat includes a double and a bogey on the back. JP Hayes won the 2002 John Deer classic by four strokes of a Robert Gomez. You got that? uh... seventy and round three for the cat includes a double and a bogey on the back jp hit one the two thousand two john dear classic by four strokes of a rubber commas and the ninety eight view classic over jim furekin playoff uh... major win fifth major so is again seventy and round three for the cat includes a double and a bogey in the back he had birdie eleven of the twelve par five's he played through the

first three rounds solid off another sixty six for bob may of the 12 par fives he played through the first three rounds. That's solid golf. Yeah. That's it. Another 66 for Bob May. Dunlap still holding tight. He's one back going into the final round. But the cat and Bob May are paired together. And I remember this final round differently than I did in rewatching it last night. So Tiger, par five second hole.

Tiger bogies a second and May birdies it. Bob May leads the PGA championship. For all the running away and hiding Tiger did, this would not be that on this day. May birdies the fourth hole. He leads the cat by two. Cat comes up. Birdies seven and eight to tie the lead. Franklin Langham gets in the hunt and by know that name. Yes. I remember it for sure. I didn't, I never heard of that name. Never heard of Frank and Langham. Oh, I can't say that. I've heard the name, I can't tell you anything other

than his name's Frank and Langham. I can't say, I could, I could, I could do one thing. What are we missing? What are we missing? What are we missing? Augusta Native is a... I can't tell you anything about it.

I've seen the name all two times. Oh, that's cool, man. It's a two-winner, isn't it? I think he's the name once on it. But the cat birdies, I mean, if you got in the PJ championship, obviously, he's a pro or a pro or a pro or a pro or a pro or a pro or a pro or a pro or a pro or a pro or a pro or a pro or a pro or a pro or a pro or a pro or a pro or a pro or a pro or a pro or a pro or a pro or a pro or a pro or a

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They get to the par, Bob May leads by one, they get to the long par 3, 14th. Bob May stuffs a four iron, makes the birdie. Cat uses the slope also with a four iron. They're both hitting four iron to this hole, which surprised me. And he makes the birdie as well. So they both birdie with four irons

and cat still trails by one, going to 15. Bob May hits it to four feet on 15 and cat misses the green. He chips to 10 feet and drains the clutch par putt. Bob may does not touch the hole from four feet on for birdie on 15. He would live to regret that. So again, he gets to 17 and tiger still trails by one. It's a great drive. Stuff's a wedge from 94 yards and makes Bernie

to go to the 18th hole tide. Where was the, was 15 the, the walk it in put? Or that was a playoff. We'll get to. Sorry. May putt, so we can, they get to 18. May putt's it off the green to be very back. We're just going to skip the fact that the, the kid,

like, throws his, throws cats ball back into play. Oh, we're not going to skip that. Oh, we're going to get to that. All right. Because that we're gonna skip that. Oh, we're gonna get to that, right? All right. Cause that might be the ultimate one. Yeah, it's one. We finished the question.

We're gonna get to that. Um, so Tiger hits it, uh, sorry, the May puts it off the green to the back. And it hits this, hits this putt from the back of the green. I believe it is a Ken Venturi or something that says, somebody's, while the putts in motion says, oh no, like it, it looked horrible. Like there was no way that putt was going in

and it somehow breaks back into the whole drain O. He's in at 18 under par, shoots 66, three straight days, and now Tigers looking at a left to right breaker, five foot putt, six foot putt, whatever it is, to get into the playoff. 18 is sweetle. He of course makes it, he put, whatever it is, to get into the playoff. 18th is sweetle. He of course makes it.

He would later describe it as, oh, my mom could make this put. But low key. Tiger had to play the last 12 holes in seven under to get into a playoff of Bob Mc. Good lord. Bob may as a killer. Um, well, no.

Dog, maybe. That's a brand new dog. Who did he kill? Wow, baby. That's brand new. Definitely dog. Who did he kill? Wow, listen. Brand new, brand new format for the PJ championship playoff. It's a three hole format. They go back to the 16th hole. Bob May hits a bad tee shot, a bad second shot and hits a pitch from like 50 yards and

it almost goes in. He hits it to five inches. Crowd goes nuts. Tigers got 25 footer from the right. The ball is way out, way outside the ballpark, starts running after it drains it, does the point. Most important we can all say from that. The security card in the background goes nuts. The moment we'll never forget. After some bars on 17, cat steps up to 18 and dead pulls his t-shirt looks very nervous about it. The ball rolls up a cart path.

Somebody, some volunteer goes sprinting after it and all of a sudden the ball pops out the bottom of the hill and starts rolling backwards. Like straight up after the fact Tiger should have renounced that. He should have withdrawn. Yeah, that was so... Was it gonna be OB or is it gonna be lateral? It was going to be in the rough. Oh, no, no, no, it was gonna be OB or is it gonna be lateral? It was gonna be in the rough. Oh.

No, no, no, no, no, no, it was gonna be like a big, it was a bullet. It was like a cart path. Like he was in like the native. In this theory, a cocky bluegrass. In this theory, the TC is willing to put forward here.

I can see the volunteer intercepted the ball perfectly, avoiding the cameras as it's about to go in the bush and kicks it down the cart path to the yard. Watch the video, you be the kill. The video is from the blip, right? Oh, it's from up the fairway. That's tower. I thought it was up, I thought it was like,

I always remember being overhead, was just a tower. Whatever was on the highlight tape last night that I watched it. I think it's one of those big towers. Okay, it's up near the green almost. But you can see the ball bounding back down. Well, let's take a look at the whole.

Do you think the guy touched it? No, you don't. No, DJ. I don't have enough information to weigh in. This is one of those things that I do. I for sure. 100% beyond a reasonable doubt. It takes so little for these guys to believe

any conspiracy theory. I'm with these two. No, I don't think it's a conspiracy theory. Watch the video. Just watch the video. I literally just watched the video. He's even watched it some YouTube videos that explain it in a really good way. So Bob May has his chance. We don't know where Tigers ball was as they go to T off,

but May is struggling with a left miss in this playoff. But the left miss, he did put the left miss play. Snap hooks it basically ends up, ends up on the front of the green after missing. No, no players touch the fairway in 18. Go ahead, Randy. Can I, from a golf digest story by Alex Myers, the broadcast crew Ken Venturi and Jim Nance.

Venturi says, what happened with that ball? Nance says, do you think someone either kicked it or threw it back in that direction? Venturi, I don't know. It didn't, Nance, it didn't react naturally, did it. Venturi, no, it didn't at all. Nance, I sure hope someone didn't slap it back. What did he hope they didn't?

Yeah. Hit that, effing conspiracy. No players touched the fairway in the 18th. Bob May has got a long putt from the front of the green up and over the ridge. It barely misses. Tiger hits a great pitch from the bunker to about three feet and taps in to win

his third consecutive major championship. Are there any PGA's scheduled at the Hala in the near future? I don't believe so. We have this one. We got the Weird Rory playing through thing. If it's the venue where just weird shit happens, sign me up. I'm all in.

Yeah. It's a good, great tour. I like it. It's a good course for all I can think, like all I can, it's all I'm gonna play there a couple of months ago, and I can't like explain how bad we played. So naming all those holes and was like,

oh god. Yeah, you hit it to five feet of 14. I mean, like a fucking seven there. And they like. Great event for professionals. Yeah. A good course for tournaments. It seems to kind of breathe like this.

Just shootouts. Yeah, right? With like a bunch of like risk reward shots, which I'd rather see the PJ set up like that than Beth page. I mean any day of the week. So to wrap up that season, he wins the NEC invitationally wins the Canadian open and a national open. That's the six. I heard that. That's the six iron out of the bunker. Thirded Disney seconded tour championship T5 at the American Express. 20 events played. One nine of them, 17 top 10s, continue. Can I give a shout out to Thomas Bjorn?

Sure. T2 at San Andrews that year. Solo third at the PGA. He's got three T2s and majors. Sounds like he's gonna make you a writer kept T. Sounds like he's gonna make you a writer kept T. After I draft. He likes.

T2 with the job, dear. T5. The 2024 PGA scheduled for Vahala. Oh, there you go. Allegedly. Allegedly. Let's see what happens with the virus. It's a fluid situation.

So flipping the calendar over to 2001. The masterpiece. We have eight months. Don't spoil it. We have eight months in between majors here. Tiger opens the first five events of the year with no win. Golf World runs a what's wrong with Tiger headline. Per Rick Riley. I didn't go actually go find the headline, but he wins Bay Hill and wins the players

and often forgotten part of the Tiger slam as he won the players in the middle of winning for consecutive majors. So we go to Augusta National, what are Tigers odds to win the Masters? We know it Randy. Thanks. Eight to five. Eight to five. One and a half to one. So, three to two.

Three to two. Phil is eight to one. DL three is 10 to one. VJ 12 to one. Ernie 15 to one. So Ben Hogan had given Forne a row a shot. He had won three in a row in 53, but did not play the PGA that year

because the open and the PGA dates overlapped. So his next major would be the 54 masters. What a world. Yeah, I wanted to play about four but I think I could it. A lot of guys in play. I wanted to win the Grand Slam, but you can't really.

I literally couldn't take I take a steam ship. It's easy to forget. He lost in a playoff to Sam Sneed at a 54 masters or else that would have been four in a row. The Hogan Slam. I think he did win the Hogan Slam. You win three in a row and you can't play the fourth. That's the Hogan Slam.

The catch hoots in opening round 70. He's in 15th place. The conditions were pretty easy. Is the streak still alive? He's never broken 70 in the first year. No, in 2010, I think he shot like 68, like the year that he has shot a 68 in Round 1. But yeah, did you mention Jack held three?

He had a chance for what would be a Tiger slam. He did. I did. We, what year was that? Because I messed that up. 71 to 72. He's never won three in the same year, but he won.

Is that the year that the PGA was in January? If you want to keep going on, I think that there's a weird little anomaly in there where they, I think because it was at PGA National and they didn't want to do that in August. So they had the PGA in January or February. And it's some point in the 70s. That's it.

Yeah. And Jack did win. So that might be it right there. So somebody opens up with the first round 65. Somebody we've recently discussed on this podcast as having some what if moments at Augusta National, and we know anything we mentioned this, who shot 65 in round one? Greg Norman. Kenny Perry. DeMarco.

Chris DeMarco. Chris DeMarco. Shoot 69 in round two. Tiger shoot 66. Lefty shoots a 69 with a double on 12. You know, this one doesn't get forgotten as a, as a what could have been for, for Mikkelsen. You go back and watch these highlights. You're like, oh my god, he should have won this by like seven.

Devolomate a move with a 67 and sat in fourth. Go to round three. Tiger shoots at a 68, takes the lead at 12 under par, Phil is one back at 11 to Marco and Calcivec, yet 10, Devol, Ernie and Cabrera all at nine under, heading into the final round. Phil has just a crazy amount of misses on that Saturday.

The highlights show three, Putsy misses from inside of three feet. Six. That is sick. But he's like my childhood on a hand. So this guy, he's got sticks. He never makes any pus. Instead of thinking, wow, he hits it really close. He birdies 17 and 18 to get into the final group with the cat.

And he says in his press conference afterwards, I desperately want this. Of course I want this. I wanted to play with him. And as he said that, I was like, I hope when they wrote up that quote that they used the capital H on him. Exactly.

Exactly. And then Tiger was asked about something similar, like what, you know, is this how you want it? He's like, no, I'm focused on my rounds. And this was when Tiger would really be like, he would be a dick at really unnecessary times. But he would have thought it was awesome. Yeah, he had this look on his face as he's getting ready to answer your question

and you can tell he's getting ready to troll you. Somebody in the press or that night's like, is this how you would have scripted it, you know, with world number two, play in the same group as you're, you know, going for the tiger, before the question, he gets finished, he goes, no.

And everybody over at opposite laughter, he's like, what would you rather have a 10 shot lead? He's like, well, if we're dreaming, why not more? If we're dreaming, right? Why just 10? And everyone's laughing, it's like. Is, do people actually think that's funny?

It's like ironically funny now. Anyways, so all those misputs fill ends up losing by two. And he leaves shots just all over the golf course. Tiger shows up on that Sunday, wearing those really weird, small sunglasses. I'm gonna roll up in a golf cart looking just not cool. Like Boroughfius. Yes, pretty much it.

I've seen the highlight of this one, the masters film of this one so many times, because they show everyone arriving and Phil gets out of the car and he's like, hey, how you guys doing? Good day. And Tiger pulls up in the golf cart and like, hey, Tiger, how you doing? He goes, good. And walks right by him and goes straight into the locker room. The broadcast, you go find on YouTube.

It is less than three hours long. They come into the under the air, well into the final round. Duval comes out and goes, ape shit. Birdies, seven of the first 10 holes. He has just one part in that stretch, made a couple bogies as well. But Tiger makes the turn and is tied for the lead with Duval and Phil is one back. So

this is Duval at just birdie number 10. So, Duval is the best. They get to number 12. And this is what they need to bring this back. At this time period, they were big still in on the guy hits a shot. We're following the ball in the air, but the little picture and picture box on the players reaction. Tiger hits a shot on a 12. It goes long. In the meantime, Duval is hit 13 and two, but he is three putted big, big one if there. Tiger goes long on 12, snaps at Stevie and says, you want to meet a hit hard, huh? Pitches out of the bunker, misses his par putt, and it's tied for the lead with DuVall, and cats just like piss.

If you're in that back bunker on 12, he had 10 balls coming, do you think he'd hit in the water? 11. I'm like all of them. I don't know how I can possibly stop one on the green. He talked about that, and the pressure he's like,

this could be my tournament right here. If I land this a foot farther than him, I think I could go in the water. It's always so scary. So we get to 13, and lefty stands up up and hits an awesome high fade around the corner, hits it right in the middle of the fairway. And Tiger sets up and aims right of where TC would have aimed. He closes his stance so hard and takes the hardest rip at driver and hits this moon ball

draw. And has a draw 182 yards in. Like it is, it truly is where he like won the tournament. Hits an eight iron in and two puts for birdie, both he and Phil birdie. So Duval birdie's 15, it goes to 16, just super pumped up. You can just tell he's pumped up. As pumped as Duval gets.

And he hits the shot that bones would later go on to describe as the shot that everyone hits their first real time in contention at Augusta. When you get to 16, you're pumped up, there's just something weird about the air there that makes everybody go long. And Duval would later describe it as he hit the best shot of his life on 16, and it goes long and he made bogey. It's the Icarito vortex. Yes, it is. So, this is kind of he talks about how that that shot the Duval hit with later contribute to Phil Winning in 04 because they hit one less club in 2004 because they've seen some of the players go long.

So that's the big what if for Duval? I mean, Tiger ends up winning by two, but that dropped Duval back one of Tiger. And then, so Tiger hits 15 and two, his 25 feet for Eagle. He three checks it. He missed like a three foot birdie. Heads to 16, one up.

Phil hits a shot, stops on the top right of the green. Tiger hits a shot, it lands maybe six inches from Phil's, and it takes the slope and goes down to the bottom. Phil three puts, Tiger two puts. This is coming off a birdie on 15 for Phil. So he was thinking. What's Phil at this point? Is he two, is he?

So Phil is one back on 16. Now he's, now he's two back. On distinctly Indiana. So, do vaults, nothing happens on distinctly Indiana. Do vaults. Thank you for that. Star usual. Stuff's it on 18.

Like hits it on belief, a great shot into six feet. Doesn't touch the hole with the putt. This is it. 67. Shoot 67 with three bogt. This is it. 67. Shoot 67 with three bogies. Cat hits a 330 yard drive up the hill on 18. He's got a one shot lead. They would go into change the hole after that.

Hits the green, makes the putt iconic fist pump in the air, wins the Tiger slam. Duval score would have won 59 of the previous 65 miles. I love this, I love this stat like that. Yeah, that's the best. Interesting stat from this time period. Tyher doesn't miss a cut from 98 until 2005. And in, in majors, period. He played 20 events in 2000. Guess how many tops 25s he had?

All of them. 20. Yeah. So that's it. That is the Tiger Slame. Yeah, so I had what's, I think, often like a kind of an afterthought in the Tiger majors career. I had post Tiger Slame through 2004.

And there's a lot of interesting things that happened, a lot more interesting things than I quite remember candidly. So of course Tiger wins for Nero, capping off at the 2001 Masters, the Masterpiece as Sports Illustrated called it. And that takes us to the 2001 US Open at... 2001 US Open's at Southern Hills. Southern Hills, that's correct.

And first news, first a Southern Hills Southern Hills. That's correct. And first goose. First a word about Southern Hills Didn't receive goose and was your champion. Yeah, also known as goose and a playoff Correct with Mark Brooks. He nailed it Exactly right. It's hot. A. F. Hot. This wasn't the super hot one. I think that was the All news to me. Yeah, so forink, missed an 18 inch putt. Yeah, he missed a three jacked 18. No, he actually eagled 18. I believe.

No, he missed a jack putt. He missed the playoffs. Yeah, he went up to tap one sink. And he missed it to get into the playoffs with Mark Brooks and Riteef Goosin. All right, I could be wrong, but I thought I was looking at this whole by whole score. This is the one where Goosin made me eagle 18 one of the days.

I don't know. Yeah. Gooseon missed like the short putt to win it. Listen, I was very tagger focused on this. And they were in the same group. Like Stuart Sink went to go finish his putt and because I get out of the way for Gooseon to make his short putt to win the US open and Sink missed like the 18 incher. And people are saying like, whoa, he must have put the image in Gooseon's head of a short Miss putt because Goose missed, and then it took a while for Sink to realize he had just missed a putt that would have put him in an 18-hole playoff. Oof, our Brooks.

This is news to me, and that is a decidedly tough scene. Before we get into too much, a word about Southern Hills, which I didn't really realize this. It's kind of like, I think Olympic club is kind of like this. One of those ones where you got some very heavy favorites coming in and they never seemed to win. It was always the guys who were kind of like, oh, all right, well, speaking of what I wanted to happen.

Do you want to guess at what Tiger Woods is odds worth for this tournament? Eight to five. Six to five. This is the lowest one yet. Good Lord. What were Ritef Gusson's odds the real question. And it will surprise you. No, he was a fucking minutes coming in.

He'd won like six of his last 24 stars or something. He's a third or something. Another bit of Southern Hills. 15 to 1. trivia. It's where Whitey Boulder organized a mob hit. If you've seen the movie Black Lives Matter. He has.

I forgot about that. That was at Southern Hills when they knock off, what's the highlight game? Yeah. Yeah. They highlight sweet. Yeah, they are. I guess the owner of highlight was a guy that lived in Tulsa. He belonged to Southern Hills

and they just whacked him in the parking lot. Yeah. Great. Great pull. I believe I wasn't in my notes either. But anyway, sorry. Back to Tiger. Ritchie Fguisson was four to one because he was not listed. He was part of field. He's according to sports odd, his odd history dot com.

So yeah, Southern Hills, a place where some strange winners. You had 1958 peak of kind of Arnold Palmer, Mania Tommy Bolt wins 70 and 77 peak of the Jack Astaria. You had Dave Stockton and Hubert Green, 82. I think Tom Watson, you know, would be kind of the 82 PGA, Ray Floyd wins, not exactly no name. And then 94, you've got, you know, Fowldo just kind of do his thing, Nick Price wins. Oh, again, it's quite a, quite a, quite a, a stout name there. But also the site of the 1996 tour championship.

Anyone remember what happened in Tiger's life during the 1996 tour championship? In Tiger's life? In Tiger's life. Turns pro. No, he's not in college. He, uh, no, this was it. Let me just tell you, Earl has a heart attack at Southern Hills or in Tulsa after round one.

Tiger spends the whole night with him in the hospital, comes out and round two shoots like what are he shoots, 78, I think just bad vibes at bad vibes at Southern Hills. So he's coming in trying to win his fifth in a row and this is from SI Golf Plus. He returned last week, asked acting as if nothing could distract him, not even Earl, who overswong on his pre-open rhetoric and cranked a few metaphors OB of his son's recent play. Tiger had won five of his last six starts heading into Tulsa. Earl said, it's like watching an artist after 10 years of education and practice in his craft. There's a mastery of the stroke, a more subtle blending of the colors. His fellow players can best appreciate what he's accomplishing.

A layman looks at a Rembrandt and says, oh, those colors are beautiful. The curator of a museum sees 20 times the detail, the craft, the beauty. So that was like, that's like a really good quote. That was really good. Where's the part where we can argue with that? I took issue with him cranking that metaphor. Oh, yeah, I thought he kind of split the fairway to be honest. Cats, like synthetic Cubism period.

That's a great question. That's a metaphor we can debate whether that cut the fairway or not. So if you wanted to flip through the pages of SI, Tiger was actually adjacent to the main game story in SI. That would be for announcing a partnership with Upper Deck playing cards. I haven't launched that one. You're a big Upper Deck guy.

Very cool. He's that. That's literally why I put it in there. That's maybe a story for the NES podcast. Tiger, the headline straight hat finishes seven strokes back in a tie for 12th. He was just shot inside the cut line after Friday. So obviously disappointing looks like there's not going to be five in a row.

Although Tiger does go 69 69 nice on the weekend. Second best of all the players. That's going to be a theme over my chunk here is like every time he has a bad round, he bounces back with insane stuff. It's, he never has a bad week. I remember distinctly saying after he won the Masters Armored, is it Tiger Slam? Is it a Grand Slam? I'm like, guys, it doesn't matter.

He's gonna win the next three as well. I legitimately thought he was gonna win the next three majors and just do seven in a row. It wasn't that far off. He almost won like 12 in a row, but we'll get to there. Just a couple other quick notes. Paul, are you using your finish T5? Kind of cool.

Anyone know who the low AM was? I love the low AM stuff. It's the best. 2001 James Trisco. You know it's good guess. Georgia Tech guy. Could be a Bryce Molder. Bryce Molder is exactly correct.

Couple of quotes from the cat. To be honest with you, I played as hard as I could. I tried and every shot. There's no regrets. I don't think people really understand how difficult it is to keep putting yourself in there and the stress it puts on you coming down the back night on Sunday with a chance to win. More often times than not, it just wears you out.

There were five in a row is not to be. We move on to the 2000. One. One of you humanizing quotes. Yeah, I would say so, from the cat that I've heard. 2001 Open Championship at Royal Lhythm. This is of course won by David Duval first and second round leader, Monty.

Though I would say this tournament maybe should be best known for the fact that of what happened in the final round. Anybody remember a weird intro? In Buznum. Too many clubs in the back. Exactly right. You know what I'm saying? Playing in the final group on Sunday, his caddy reminds him, oh God, we just played the first hole with 15 clubs in the back. Exactly right. He moved them. Playing in the final group on Sunday, his caddy reminds him, oh god, we just played the

first hole with 15 clubs in the bag. And he birdied it. And that's going to be a two shot penalty. So the best, that's why it happened. Any other golf course they would have caught that they had two drivers in the bag, but the first hole is a par three. So we didn't hit drivers. Well, if you had two drivers, did he really have one?

It's like, maybe you only have 13. And is it, it's after you hit your first shot. So if he had, if he had realized that on the first, if the bags on the first tee hadn't his shot, yet he can take it out. Yeah. So this is low. In fact, this is what inspired Phil to go win a major with two drivers. There you go. Is a homage. So Wusen would eventually lose by four to David Duval, who would go on to win his long-awaited first major Tiger not much to report He was six back after round one. He had 68 in round two. So he was top 10 But just kind of faded on the weekend 73-71

He finished nine shots back tied with such luminaries as Eduardo Romero, Bob Estes and Joe Oluvi We move now to the 2001 PGA. Shout out to David Toms. Losing that US Open, it hurt him in the odds. He was three to one to win that Open Championship. So he was done with the less than two to one. So there's here, do people bet on Tiger? Like there's Vegas just raking all their cash

right there on people betting three to one on Tiger. 2001, of course, David Toms wins with the layup. Tiger finished T29. Yeah, I'm people betting three to one on on tiger 2001. Of course David Tom's wins with a layup tiger finished T29 that's I think maybe is worst finish in this stretch 14 shots back a follow-up a lot that week She's yeah, I'll add here at Atlanta club. You volunteered. I volunteered because you have to pay What did you pay? I did not have to pay your parents paid did you get No, there's no pain. Did you get a free shirt? Yeah, I worked the merchandise shop for Thursday and Friday and then watched Thursday, Friday, mornings.

Any good stories? Did you get any altercations in any way? It's a cons brother, man. Not really, no, this is, I mean, this is, I'm a sophomore in high school, I think. This is what I, it was my dream after he worked the merch tent to become. I was gonna say, it's all our, I was like, wow,

that had to be a seminal move. I think that's what I wanna do. I was gonna say, it's all our, I was like, wow, that had to be a seminal move. I think that's what I wanna do. I was right there when Tom's aced it on 15. I watched that whole tournament by myself. I'm like, around, it was cool. So worth mentioning here, David Duval shoot 66 in the first round, coming off of a major victory, impressive stuff.

Tiger, again, doesn't do much 73 in the first round, bounces back again, 67 in the second round, but never really factor. Can we just give a quick shout out to Shingo Kateyama? Sure. Huge, like just a breath of fresh air throughout that whole tournament. He's a major, major inspiration.

We'll pack up the 2001 season, I would say, it's gonna most be remembered for the Tigers' land. The last three majors, not really too much happens. So that is it for part one. That's a lot of majors, but we still have a lot to cover. It's physically impossible to cover the Cats majors in one podcast episode. Well, because you have to talk about the amateur majors. Of course, absolutely.

Absolutely. You have to set some context, TC. So stay tuned, come back. Circle back with us for part two of Tigers' Major Championship history. Cheers. Be the right club, be the right club today. That's better than most. How about in? That is better than most. Better than most How about in? It is better than most

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