No Laying Up - Golf Podcast - NLU Podcast, Episode 302: Tiger Woods in Majors, Part II

Episode Date: April 15, 2020

**In Part II of our deep dive on Tiger's major history, we cover everything from 2002 onward, including the two majors he won that year. the two in '05, the '06 British, '07 PGA, '08 US Open, Y.E. Yang, the slump, and of course last year's Augusta triumph.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I'm going to be the right club today. Yeah. That is better than most. How about him? That is better than most. Better than most. covering everything from the Amateur Golf days, up through the Tiger Slam. And now we're on to part two. If you missed part one, I do suggest you go back and listen to that. I want to thank everyone for tuning into the content lately,

the Chip Drive and Putt. Jammy Chip was a lot of fun to do. And if you haven't watched it, please go check that out. The Wild World Golf that we posted with Jim Fierrick. TC, apparently, you've been getting some slides in the DMs asking about your shoes there in the Chip Drive and putt for legal purposes.

I can tell it's about it. People flooding in, left and right. People talk about shoes in our videos more than anything. Which I got a lot of comments on the shoes and the bowling shoes. Yeah. Well, we're a golf, which those were not as positive for the ones in the chip driving putt,

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which usually do not have a lot of grip, but do have a lot of structure. And the quater ringers have been a good upgrade for me with some real firm spikes. I don't get blisters and I feel like an athlete, which is what it's all about out there. The blister thing is so enormous. I've always hesitant to change shoes because I hate blisters

and I'm a coiter legend guy. I've been wearing the legends basically ever since they sent them to us. I probably need a new pair because they're white and they're starting to wear down color wise a little bit because I've been wearing them so often They're the take on the traditional tour shoe, which I know TCU wear that one as well Yeah, when I really want to go out and shoot a good round not not drink fierce and hang

I typically wear the legends. I actually wore those on a Really really rainy California trip back in December and warm for every single round and my feet were dry the entire time. They hold up. These coiters are the, it's the first golf shoe I've worn that hasn't given me blisters on, you know, the first or second round, which is a very nice change of pace for me. Maybe it goes hand in hand, but they're also just very comfortable. No blisters and comfort might be the same thing.

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Quote, there has never been, never will be, a killer like Tiger Woods. Not then, not now, not ever. The boy is a man now, and the man is as unstoppable as winter. He has all the empathy of a luger. He's the kind of man who buries you and comes to your grave on your birthday, kicks over your tombstone.

Oh, Jesus. Riley was ominous. Riley has some excellent stuff from this 2002 master's dispatch. So let's just go through the quick logistics here. It was a three shot win over for Teef Goose. Teef Goose and had been significantly talkingf Goose had been, he busts significantly. He's talking.

Two years, two, three years, he bucked hard. Uh, Phil. I think you got struck by lightning. Exactly. Phil finishes solo third, another close call. At the Masters leading up to, of course, his, his breakthrough a couple years later. I'd like to note, this is the time period. It was pre-2002 and pre-2006 that Augusta changed a lot.

They lengthened. We are. Absolutely going to get there. Well, I got to interject, too. We're nowa changed a lot. They lengthen, we are. We are. Absolutely, going to get there. Well, I got to interject, too. We're now living in a post-911 world. That's exactly right. And DJ losing control of the classroom. We went straight to the winner.

I thought we might bring this gift. I'm trying to, I'm trying to set the concept. Everybody knows the winner. I would say my students are too good. They're too well read. So I don't know if this post-911 world has people feeling things, but in the Rick Riley report apparently Phil was reading books by both Stephen Hawking and Deepak Chopra

leading into this week and was feeling very intellectual. Tiger would become the third player to ever go back to back at the Masters following Mr. Jack and Mr. Faldon, a pretty good company there. It's not Mr. Faldon, it's sir. Well, here in America, son, it's Mr. Faldon. We speak of my own neighbor, John. Just to set the stage, because I think there were a lot of Bob Mays, a lot of, not the shit on anybody,

but not a lot of huge names in a lot of these past Tiger victories. The people who were chasing him at the 2002 Masters, World number two, number three, number four, number five, and number seven. Well, it's a limited field event. All of who we held up. Still, they don't all show up every year.

World number five was Sergio, who Riley said, shot a quote, W win B 75 on Sunday. One thing of note here, second round was suspended because of weather. So Tiger had to play, I believe, 26 holes on Saturday. Second round was suspended, you're PD. And on that Saturday, he went 6966. So whereas I think a lot of the rest of the field

was kind of a little gassed. Tiger just completely stepped on everybody's throats. This was also the year that it was notoriously smelly at Augusta. There was just an un... Really? ...in like a weird, unnamed source of just complete stink. Are you setting this up for something or is that what's in it? It was Nandina.

No, that's not. No, well that's, that's a great... No, that would have been a good bit, but I do mean it was literally smelly. I've never heard that. Riley said it smelled like, quote, a cross between Gary, Indiana, and a 4-H fair. I think it was a lot of the rain,

and I think the rain, I don't know if it's the stuff that they put down so people don't slip, or I think the green jackets had said it was like, you know, either like dead grass underneath that stuff or nobody really knew what the source was, but it was notoriously stinky. I'm just reading the research. Going back to your tiger endurance there

on Saturday, right? The 69, 66. I think that's my enduring memory of the Atlanta athletic club is this was right as Kat was getting into the massive bulking up days where I mean like everybody was saying he was working out like crazy in the fitness center which was right next to the range at Atlanta Athletic Club and Kat was just going in and working out like two or three hours. So maybe he figured it out over that winter of 01 and kind of got optimized into okay now I can work out like crazy

and still go break everybody's face, which he did. Another good one, I think you guys, I can't say it enough, shout out to Rick Riley, repeatedly here because he, like, a bitch will line stuff. I can't, he is the SI Vault in general. Just say the SI, the literary, Icarito. He may have been, maybe even like do vol.

He just kind of faded away. I don't know that he really like burned up. He just kind of just kind of bounced. I think he got, I think he burned up when he was being running a big ass check. Boys just took the money though. So this, you'll remember, got shot at the Riley for like printing all this stuff.

This was also the year that Augusta National sent a letter to past champions Doug Ford, Gay Brewer, and Billy Casper saying, quote, your record is not indicative of active participation, meaning like, yo, you're out, your lifetime exemption has run out. You will not be playing this here. Riley said, quote, all it lacked was a note that said, PS, we've included some hemlock for your personal use, which I think was a shout out to the execution of Socrates, which is pretty great. Are our coody Tommy Aaron in that kind of click on notice now at this point? Well, I think everybody's on notice. I'm glad you bring that up because this would be Arnold

Palmer's final masters because he goes out and I think everybody's on notice. And I'm glad you bring that up because this would be Arnold Palmer's final masters, because he goes out and shoots 89 in the first round. And then it's like a whole story that like, yo, they shot all these guys in the face. And now Arnold Palmer just shot 89. And so he announced after round one, okay, this will be my last masters. Did you mention Billy Casper? Yes, I did. Well, he would play more tournaments.

And I'll have a little bit more. Can't wait. So Arnold said after round one, tomorrow will be my last round because quote, he didn't want to also get a letter. So he shot 85 in his final round at the Masters. There also was an excellent coverage take from Riley in the game story. I just wanted to point out that these coverage

takes about CBS go all the way back to 2002. We did not invent them. We inherited them from a previous generation. We actually go back to 1956. We can talk about that in a different episode. I would love to. So this is this is kind of quoting a whole passage that starts with a quote from from Earl. I don't care what any of these guys say about not looking at him or not noticing what he's doing. a woods mused. Tiger intimidates people through osmosis. You feel it. It freaks people out.

The whole week kind of did that, Riley says. Sam Sneed hit the ceremonial first drive of the tournament straight into the spectacles of a spectator. And yet CBS announced or Jim Nance didn't mention a word about the shot in recapping it on Saturday. Then again, being a master's announcer on CBS is like writing for the Baghdad bugle. One negative word and you're hanging upside down by your toe nails. Baghdad bugle. Oh my god.

Again, post 9-11 world. Exactly. Call it out to Baghdad bugle. So as TC mentioned, this was also the year that they had significant tiger proofing of the golf course. They had lengthened nine of the holes. They had put in a bunch of like 50 year old trees that were... Shout out to the Faws. Shout out to the... Always a shout out to the Faws. And how fucking good is this quote from Earl Woods, whatever this is 18 years later, this still hasn't really sunk in for people, but Earl was screaming it from the rooftops.

Quote. You want a tiger proof of golf course? Move the T-box to the ladies' teas. Eliminate the rough completely, cut the greens to eight or nine, and I'll guarantee you, Tiger won't win. But right now, this course just plays directly into his hands. God, Earl was. It's like a wise man.

Why would, like God, this guy hits it so far. We need to make this thing longer, man. What are you doing? What are you doing? Anybody else have anything from the 2002 masters or should we move on? I think we're I think we're good. I don't remember like the drama of it. Oh, was it? Oh, sorry. He won by three over Riteef Goosin. Another great quote from Riley there is that the final round had all the suspense of a good floss, which I believe he was tied. He was tied with Riteef Goosin heading to the final round and Goosin just kind of shit the bed coming out early and it was just it was over before it started.

Did you say no drama? It just couldn't find over before it started. They were saying no drama. Couldn't find any lightning. That's exactly what I'd say. Or I'd used it all up. And for you to see. Movie phenomenon with Travolta's going to start with Tiefkeeson. That'd be crazy.

The only thing I'll say about the O2 Masters is I distinctly remember my dad, we were like spring break in Arizona. And we were like, do we watch the final round the Masters and Tiger took like a one shot lead. He's gonna win. Let's go. Exactly.

This is all the drama of a good flop. Yeah. Let's move on to the 2002 US Open ad. Of course, my favorite place, Beth Page Black. I believe this was the first US Open ad, Beth Page Black. It was a big deal that they were taking it to the people's. Yeah, I remember the US people's meetings with the guys

putting their shoes on in the parking lot. You're like, this one's for you guys. Yeah, totally. Yeah, they set it up, you know, just the way the average people play it. Just totally super playable. That's a joke. It was like the hardest setup in US Open History, basically. Tiger, of course, wins.

He wins. I don't have the headphones on, I can't hear you. You go after. Tiger, of course, wins. He wins it at three under over, runner up. Phil Michelson. Phil Michelson. His 16th top, this is Phil's 16th top ten in a major

at this point, without a win. Worth mentioning, we're halfway to what would be another slam here. He's won the Masters in the US Open at this point. First time anybody's done that in 30 years. And this was this is a Sergio. That's exactly right. A couple more notes before we get to the Sergio.

This is Tigers eighth major of the 26. Yes, 26 years old of all the people who have won eight majors ever, he's the only one to do it entirely in his 20s, which is pretty wild. He's the cat. And this one speaking of no drama, I mean, he takes the first round lead and goes wired wire.

Nobody else. So there's some excellent. It's maybe one of the class, the class display of sauce in that, some of the club turtles, he lets loose in the front around a vote two. Of cert. What's the shot he hits into 13,

like the two irons from like 263 or something like that? He walks after it with a twirl, like he just absolutely let it fly. Yeah, I feel like he's just really, shout out to Earl's painting thing. I feel like he's just discovering his tour sauce capabilities at this point. Did we talk about the photo of the Stevie Williams toss

at the O2 master? I assume that was O2. Oh, it was O2, I forgot about that. No, I tweeted something that I couldn't find who took the photo. There was no photo credit in it. I've gotten this, I, but at least four or five DMS with that picture this morning.

People asking to make a shirt. What is on a shirt? That's not exactly legal. Exactly. Sorry, dog. But the, yeah, Tiger is, there's this epic photo of Tiger and Stevie Williams. I believe it's on 13. Though he looks like he has a wedge.

What do you have had a sandwich in the 30s? I looked at the photo very closely. I think it's like an eight iron. Like I think it's, it, but the sign in the back says through 12. It's definitely 13 fairway. But he just hits a shot into the green. Obviously, presumably it's it but the sign in the back says through 12. It's definitely 13 fairway, but he just hits a shot into the green. Obviously, presumably it's an excellent shot based on what happens next. And from about what would you say 10 15 feet?

It's yes, he throws his iron and Stevie throws his putter at the same time of the two clubs cross and he chips in the night. Just as you're leading the fun around of the masters, I think that's about as good as it gets from a swag perspective. So back to the 2002 US Open, like I said, Tiger, he takes first round leading, never relinquishes it, wired wire victory, low am. Anybody know the low am at 2002 US Open? I'm just going to tell you because you don't, it's Kevin Warwick, never played another major, only am to make the cut. Never heard that name before. Peter Warwick's brother. Peter Warwick's brother. Peter Warwick's brother.

Of note, Tiger doesn't get the SI cover, which I thought was a little interesting. Can anybody tell me what was going on in June of 2002 that would have taken the SI cover? E-World Cup. Tron, that's exactly right. See? But the Dawn?

No, that was an Aldo. No, the US gets the World Cup cover land and Donovan's on the cover forgetting to the quarterfinals. Oh, that was that's right. It was a dawn. Yeah, that's the big it's like their first time in like 80 the head boat was a headboat was later oh 98 was Ronaldo and the Brazilians in France exactly okay, but US gets the cover after beating Mexico. Oh, six was the headbutt. Yeah. Oh two was Sorry, I know. Oh two is South Korea. Is that when they beat Portugal and then beat Mexico in the round of 32? And then I think that's exactly what's exactly. Oh two South Korea. I think it was Japan South Korea

co-hosting. Yeah, who can possibly say tune into the men and blazers Just a couple of quick notes and then we'll get to some fun stuff. Nick Faldo got a special exemption. He had not qualified. Got a special exemption to this one, finish fifth. Oh, wow. Baller move. On the flip side, he wore an I Heart New York hat,

which is a very chowed move. So I just wanted to point that out. Andy Miller's son, or sorry, Johnny Miller's son, Andy, qualified and made the cut while Johnny was in the booth. I thought that was very cool. To defend Nick a little bit, this is like the first major back in New York after 9-11. Well, I didn't think about that.

So come on, Deeg. I didn't think about that. Come on. Don't make me worry, and you might get to it. All right, less chodish, but still. So Sergio and Tiger Pay. Play together might get to it. All right, let's show this. So, Sergio and Tiger Payton play together in the final round. We're gonna get there. We're gonna get there right now.

Well, I'm curious, you said it's wire to wire. What was his lead after 54 holes? Because I kind of remember this duel, or them setting it up, it's like, oh man, this is gonna be finally the duel we've been waiting for. My research experiments were gonna come on. So, before we get that was manufactured. Before we get there, let's set the stage on Sergio. Three years before 99 and Medina, everybody,

I mean, he's the America's sweetheart. You know, everybody's just riding for Sergio. Script has completely flipped three years later. Cat leads by four in the going and found around. Thank you. People are no longer calling him El Nino, they're calling him El Wino. According to one SI dispatch I saw, the New York fans are ripping the number of waggles

he takes. They're counting them out loud. At one point, Sergio turns it down and flips off the crowd. Allegedly, he, you couldn't get someone to just outright say that he turned around and flipped the middle finger, but it's pretty widely, pretty widely known. However, Sergio was one back after Round 1, so it is setting up for this epic duel between him and Tiger. Round 2, horrible weather moves in.

It sounded like an inch of rain fell during the round, which is a ton of rain. So cold players could see their breath most of the day. 29 players failed to break 80 on during round two, which is sick. Apparently the weather was a lot nicer in the morning, which is when Tiger played. And then all, you know, this, the temperature dropped, the rain moved in, it just got horrible in the afternoon. There were a couple of Sergio quotes I had here.

He said, quote, I believe if Tiger was out there, they would've called play. Do we have to be swimming before play is stopped? And then he said, if you get the luck of the good side of the draw, like somebody seems to in these tournaments and you're the best player in the world and you make a lot of plots, that's going to be hard to beat, which I thought was actually kind of funny more than more than whiny. Which like a lot of these quotes feel kind of in Cendiary, like the Earl stuff and all that.

But it's also like, yeah, yeah, that's right. Like that's totally accurate. Yeah, they would have called it. Are you sure? Sergio wasn't, you know, obviously, he's a bit better in the world. Obviously a lot of rain fell. So there's one key thing that the USDA does here,

which is that with a forecast for horrible weather and rain and wind and cold, they do not change the setup of the golf course at all. They stick to the plan, which means that holes like the 10th hole had a 250 yard carry to the fairway. And there was not like just normal rough in front of the way, fairway, it was like the heavy fest, like New York fest, you Steve Pate said he was aiming for the walkway, because he knew he couldn't get to the fairway, because it was like 45 degrees, 50 degrees.

He knew he couldn't get to the fairway, so he was aiming for the walkway where the where the grass was mowed. I don't think he actually hit it. Scott for playing kit one won 226 yards. He said he thought about taking an unplayable and going back to the tee, except he realized there was no way he could clear it with a million balls. So he had to just play from the heavy, heavy fescue.

For Plank said, quote, the USJ made it playable for one guy, and he's a freak of nature, which is. Sergio, was that what they meant? Exactly. Was that Mike Davis? No, it was, oh, it was another guy. Who's a freak of nature. Which is. Yeah. Is that what they meant? Exactly. Was that Mike Davis? No, it was, uh, I was another guy who's named.

Like, Davis, he was still. He was involved. He wasn't said. He wasn't there. This was back when the USGA had a spine. And when you go back and look at it, there, uh, there was one guy, gosh, I forget. I didn't write down who it was. But one of the guys went, uh, when driver driver and happened to make birdie on one of these holes in the USA,

it was like, yes, so you like, you just got to hit like, yeah, like, it's obviously fair because like that guy did it. So that was, it was, it was very much, very much that attitude. How Sutton called it the worst setup the USA has ever done. Those fesky, long aisle, they got issues with, with ticks and Lyme disease. For sure. Putting the players in danger. I've been playing that stuff. Should use dangerous animal relief. I never even think about that. So yeah, there's this it was just it was very tough setup. And of course, as Earl pointed out,

pressionally at the masters that of course is going to factor into a favoring one guy and he goes on and wins wide-wire. So Tiger has now won eight of his first 22 majors as a... I just wanna say though about the Sergio, the, I love the waggle thing. Oh, it was the best. I remember watching him be like, you're the boy!

You know, you fucking pussy. That's what made Neil realize he wanted to live a D-Art who's yelling at the foregars. Well, no, I don't really remember the people. I don't remember the crowds as much as just like, man, that guy can't pull the trigger. And to search his credit, he's kind of fixed the glitch. That would be, that would be hard to try

to win a major while the whole crowd's a little bit here. Yeah, this was also the advent of the, you know, people sleeping in their cars at Beth Pays. Exactly. Exactly. Yeah. Thing that is just so tiresome. We're going to take a quick break in this show because you guys need to hear more about our friends at Precision Pro.

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2002 Open championship. It's Ernie yells at Mirafield. That's exactly right, Tallah. Tiger opened 70, 60, 80s, two back, going into the weekend. I mean, is he gonna, is he gonna get three legs of the grand plan? Can you do it? I don't know. He might. No, he can't.

A big ass storm rolls in for round three, and Tiger shoots 81, his highest round as pro I think that you know, I think that kind of validates what Sergio was saying at the US open well it well I would say it can invalidates So you got it. He made a both. I think it's both both ways it goes both ways I said I soil, they're, you know, they give them the... They give them the... That's a good one.

They would have gone for a long time. They say, hey, no, man. Just to show, so to my point where like, yeah, he could have conceived of, like, one, like, 12 meters in a row. He opened 70, 68, like I said, two back on into the weekend. He had seven lip outs at round one. He's coming. My point.

My point. Thanks, Tron. Well, that, that seven lip outs. The footage from, from Saturday of that, that that seven lit that footage from from Saturday of that that that that hearing people talk about that storm. It was like the apocalypse and they don't cancel playing in the UK. I said it was quote like

walking into a sneeze for four hours. Uh 30 mile an hour winds 40 degree windshield and sideways rain just to put it in context and during round two, Thomas Bjorn, the fifth hole is a par five. Near field Thomas Bjorn went driver one iron on Friday and on Saturday he went driver one iron one iron. Wow. So that's, so Tiger goes out and shoots 81. Finally makes a birdie on like the 16th hole and tips his cap and takes the whole bowie that he had good spirits about the whole thing

I think all right He got Ernie goes out and shoots even that day, I believe 72 I don't know what part was but he shoots 72 Which is extremely impressive. He goes on to a four-way playoff Tom Slave Stuart Applebee and of course elk That's the choked it's. It says on two twos. Exactly. And Mont just, Tiger was not the only person

who obviously played poorly. Monti was also two back, Chai 84 that day. Monti not, decidedly not a mutter that day. Monti winning in Mirfielder, but in the, it would have been, the ultimate. It would have been the singularity,

possibly. Tiger finished his T28, kind of as to, you know, turns into, oh, he actually comes back and shoots 65 after, after his 81, he comes out and shoots 65. The next day. That's what I've noticed about a lot of these tournaments. To shoot even for the tournament. Like, doing my research was just cat finding these little

things to play for or to take, you know, to take solace and to find inspiration. Well, I know, like, I know six shots is a lot, but despite shooting 81 in the third round, he was only six shots out of the playoff, which is kind of wild. And with his seven lip outs, gosh, those go in, you know, who knows? He wins it outright, but 2002 PGA championship Hazel team Of course, Mr. Rich meme Becomes your your champion Hazel team is you know, just a harbinger of heartbreaks to come for the cat

Who could possibly say tiger is two back after round two He's T4 after round three five back of Justin Leonard who had a three shot lead and mega-shit the bed with a 77 in the final round. Tiger shoots 67 in the final round to your points, Oli. I believe he birdies 15, 16, 17, and 18 to get within one of Richmeam, but can't quite hold him off. Richmeam to three putt the last hole and absolutely took all three of them. You gotta remember Rich B was deep in the seven wood game also during this major.

A heaven wood. I wasn't specifically a heaven wood. I was deep in the seven wood game in that era as well. But the seven wood and the heaven wood are two different clips. Well, the heaven wood was the calories seven wood. For sure. Yeah, I don't know that I think rich beam was like a

sonar tech guy or something. But we can look that up. Rich beam on coming up 18. I took a deep breath. Wack that sucker down the middle found out I had a two shot lead, thinned an eight iron to the front of the grid, it managed to three jiggle it from there. If you guys haven't listened to the rich beam pot, he said he's like, I don't know how I couldn't hit that shot. Like, I was going to shank it. Like, I was positive. I was going to shank that shot.

Which one? The A. On 18. Yeah. He's like, I thin-bladed it, but like, I was terrified I was going to shank the shot. He was so nervous. So a comfy five. Very comfy five.

So a couple of things that this one signifies one, you know, he still has not won a major from trailing from behind Which of course will continue to be a theme until 2019 And also this was cats first ever runner up at a major Interesting So that's gonna be kind of the last of the deep dives 2003-2004 were also in my purview. He did have two top 10s in majors, both of them were at the open. I don't know if that's a coincidence because he's kind of in full swing breakdown rebuild

at this point. He fires Bocharmin, splits with Bocharmin, hires Hank Haney. So they're rebuilding stuff. I don't know if the opens, maybe just a little more fluky and he could be a little more of an artist over there than a, you know, you know, you know, a lot more specific. Yeah. And so as mentioned in the last episode, Neil, these are kind of the quote slump years of his career. He was still player of the year in 2003 after winning, after winning two WGC's, you got to remember how bad the major winners were in

2003, apart from Jim Fierrick. In September In September 2004 he lost his number one spot in the World Rankings to VJ. I just want to say 2003, like he's still like the same odds favorite in all these events. Like he's still. He finished two after one. Second on the money list in 2003 and fourth on the money list in 2004.

And his master's slump years. Winners, master's winner. Mike, come on. Mike Weir, Jim Fierrick, Ben Curtis, Sean McKeal. OK. O304, during this rebuild. Cat finishes outside the top 25, three times out of 37 events. Yeah.

Tough slump. What's wrong with Tiger? From a major's perspective, I'd say his best chance to win one in this period would have been that O3 open against Ben Curtis. He was actually tied with Ben Curtis going into the final round. They were both two back. Ben Curtis shot 200 in Tiger shot even. So it didn't, didn't quite get it done.

And that is, that is post-Tiger slam through 2004. Wonderful stuff. Enjoy it thoroughly. All right, guys. Roll in the calendar to 2005, DJ, excellent job setting it up. Tiger loses his number one world ranking. As you said, it hasn't won a major since the O2 US open. And so he's he's with Haney.

The process is starting to, know bring fruit if you will He goes to the Buick Invitational and he wins it But before we dive into Buick Invitational, the story pines. Yes, and what did he do with the car? How many Buick there was a Buick open Buick Invitational and Buick Classic? You challenged for a while, which was the one. I think that was the amateur one, right? Oh, that was the one that's down in Pine Mountain, Georgia, Calabar, and this.

Oh, I see. There's also the Buick Scramble. Remember, it was like all the same, it was like the Sam Magger competition, where like the four guys from your club would get together. Anyways, before I go any further, I should say my time frame is 2005 through 2008,

so we're looking at a four year window. I wanna paint the picture here. He makes 56 PGA Tour starts in this four year window. Anybody wanna guess how many top 10 finishes? 37. 42. Oh my God. This is five percent of his starts and then top 10 finishes.

Uh, two thirds, 66% are top three finishes. So he actually finishes in the top three 37 times, including 25 wins. So he's winning PGA Tour starts at a 45% clip in these four years. I think it's higher than any other time it is career, right? Yeah, everybody talks about 2000. Yeah, this is, this is one more during this period. He'll have 14 major starts, which of course I'm going to get into in detail, but just to give you an idea, in 14 major starts in this four year window, he wins six times.

He finishes runner up four more times 13 top 12 finishes and one miscut, which we'll get to. Uh, 13 to 14 majors he finishes in the top 10 top 12 top 12. Okay. Uh, top five of that top five 12 times out of 14 majors. So, uh, the only, but before we get to, which is a slump is over, I'd say, I'd say the slump is going to be over. Before we get to the masters, I want to quickly shout out after his Buick imitation win, he then wins at Terral. And this is the year he and Phil

have that final round duel neck and neck, whole final round probably the best Phil tiger duel I think That was the Cadillac championship, right? This was like the heyday of a car sponsorship. Yeah, that's the that's the famous Phil photo with the Marshall behind That's you don't know what he's talking about just yeah, I know what he's talking about. He's talking about just. Yeah, I know what he's talking about. Just Google Phil Nichols and funny. Derives. Funny picture.

Yeah, so that was that tournament. So Tiger has two wins on the year heading into Augusta. If you'll remember, Mikkelsen had won his first major in 2004. So this is the first masters after Phil's first victory there. Entiger shoots and opening round 74. Seven shots back of Christophe to Marco. Yeah, Christophe to Marco.

Just wanted, as the resident odds maker for this, he's three and a half to one to win this. Phil, four and a half to one, Ernie seven to one, VJ seven to one. Zero respect for VJ. Yeah. How can they all be that good of odds? It doesn't make any sense.

I think it was just like super top heavy. Yeah. Yeah. So this is the masters again that got completely messed up, scheduled wise with weather throughout the week. The one thing I did wanna point out, you had mentioned Billy Casper earlier. I think what was at 2002, they sent the letter. So 2005, he shot a 106.

Oh my God. Really? Yeah, but with Drew, and didn't officially post the score. And I believe that was then his last masters. Oh my God. 106. 106 106. I did not know that. Yeah.

I already played in, and I did who he played with. I did not look that up. Okay. Are they sending these guys out like an hour before the next group? I mean, no, they, you know, it's, you can't just take his master's ways to all my title of the article is Casper's last shot ends up being 106 of them. Oh no. You think you could break 106?

So he had lost his conditions in a way. He lost 60 pounds and was ready to take on a gust of one last time. I was back. He might have been but his back wasn't. Shot 34 over but purposefully failed to turn in his scorecard So it didn't count he withdrew from the tournament. So it sounds like there was some injury His back nine score of 57 would have broken the previous Mark of high shots by eight. What do you guys think about not turning in the score?

Scumman, I think it's going. Wait, he went 39 57. That's that's pretty cool He said, quote, we had a lot of fun out there. That's a DJ pie. Handicap maintenance, right? 40 to 57. Oh, 49. I have the card in my pocket and I'm gonna frame it. And he should have posted a score.

I agree. If you're gonna frame the card, like if you're not, if you're not ashamed of it, well, at least at least you get a, you wonder if the green jacket said, listen, bud. I think that's far more like. We're not, we're not doing this. At least you got to put it up if the green jacket said, listen bud. I think that's far more like. We're not doing this. At least you got to put it up on Jim.

Not here Billy. We're not doing this Billy. It's over. This is the end of the road. We told you about this three years ago, okay? This is what we were worried about. Casper the dishonest ghost. So Tiger, he shot the opening round 74, seven shots back,

comes back and shoots a 66 in the second round, but he's still six shots back at DeMarco. So the leaders only get to play. This is again the weather. The leaders only get to play nine holes of their third round on Saturday. DeMarco shoots 33, Tiger shoots 31, so he closes the gap a little bit. DeMarco now at the end of day Saturday is 13 under through 45 holes. He's got a four shot lead on Tiger.

They come out Sunday morning to complete their third round. Tiger shoots 34. The mark of shoots 41. So Tiger completely flips the script as three shots up going into the final round, which is later in the day then Sunday. That has whiffs of the USM stuff with 36 whole days where it's like he closes to one down or whatever heading into the final round on the same day and then just, you know. Well, this is where he had momentum. It's a complete Mongolian reversal.

One of those challenges that they used to have in the Tiger Woods video game was can you birdie seven holes in a row at Augusta and he he birdied seven eight nine ten eleven twelve and thirteen over two days for round three So yeah, he flipped the script. He was six back of de Marco going into round three and left the day three up Yeah So those two are paired together Final round. It's it's really just tiger andarco. I mean for for all intents and purposes Demarco keeps it close the whole final round Tiger kind of has a one to two shot lead most of the day

standing on 16 Demarco's trails by one shot That's of course Tiger pulls his T-shot left of the green on 16 and hits the miraculous chip shot that an Ike commercial that is the Nike commercial. Yeah, so he obviously makes birdie, Dermarco, par. So Tiger takes a two shot lead going to 17, he bogies 17, which you know, he never does. And then he follows that with a bogeon 18. Demarco, short of the green on 18, hits his chip. It doesn't hit the flag stick,

but it hits the lip of the whole taps in. And so they're tied, they go to a playoff. 2005 is the first year where the playoff starts on 18. All the previous playoffs had started on number 10. They play 18 again. Demarco has a similar chip. It's really, it was a bad miss. I mean, they were both in the fairway.

Demarco just comes up short, rolls off that kind of front, false front on 18. Very similar chip hits it to like a foot, makes this par. Tiger hits it behind the hole and runs home about a 15 foot birdie putt to win the tournament on the first playoff hole. And then this is the tournament, of course, Phil puts the jacket on Tiger redemption for him.

You know, really, I think it's it's momentous in that, you know, he hadn't won a major since 2002 and it's like I'm I'm back. Was that a tough moment for you? It was. It did. Did you get a good bar send that a tough moment for you? It was. Did you not come up for it? Did Bar send you a bunch of text messages? Of course. Yeah.

That's Phil's brother-in-law. Were you anti-tiger at this point? Oh, 100%. Really? Oh, very anti-tiger. I'm a Phil guy. Get why it has to be so binary. You, well, you were a little younger.

It was like, it was, it was like, it was like, it was bad aligns, man. It was either you were a fill guy or a tiger guy. The media set it up that way too. You're the media now. For sure. So you wins the Masters. Do you think, man, the chip shot just seems like such a,

it's just too good to be able. It was a simulation. And with the, well, I was gonna save, I kind of offhand in the last episode with the Morpheus reference And it seems like picked a red pill. Yeah, we might have all taken the red pill Yeah, that was like that's it. It seems not like not real in your life Have you ever seen anything like it? It's back to like the the 2000 p.j. Ball Hall feels like the simulation too

Interesting, some where where the simulation kicked in. Yeah. All right, we take that off. The 2005 US Open was at Wingfoot. No, that was O6. Shannickock? No, L04. Pinehurst.

Oh, right. Number two. Shout out to Michael Campbell. I'd be very impressive. Anybody can remember the 18 and 36-hole leader? Jason Gore. No. Good guess. Good guess. Martin Kimer. Olin Brown. Close. This is the US Open. So, Olinlin Brown leads after 36 holes, Tiger right in it, opened 70-71, but third round, Ritef Goosin surges to a third round lead with a 69.

So he goes into the final round, three up on Olin Brown and Jason Gore. I don't have to tell you guys what happens to poor Jason Gore and Ritef Goosin in the final round. That's unbelievable. So he would have been what? Three out of five. That's what happens. He was the kid.

He had a six. At this time. Yeah, this is like Goose. He's not gonna close. It's over. Yeah, this is. He doesn't miss putts, he makes every eight footer. Like this was a pine herst.

Yeah, pre-rennow. So it looks completely different. This is the year that John Daly walked off right. This was at Pinehurst. Yeah. Pre-Reno, so it looks completely different. This is the year that John Daly walked off, right? Maybe. I don't know about that, but three minute, huge number at number five. Really? Yeah, I believe.

I thought it was number eight. I think it was long of eight. Oh, great. You made me great. Which, going back, I could see Sully, labeling Michael Campbell was one of the biggest OWGR manipulators of all time. Probably was. Probably was. So Tigers six shots back going into the final round of that 2005 US Open. The leaders Riteef shoots an 81 Jason Gore shoots an 84 Olin Brown shoots an 80, a guy named Michael Campbell.

Kind of emerges through that pack. What's interesting about Tiger, Tiger is, he's never like right there, but he's, you know, two, three, four shots back of what will be the winner, Michael Campbell. So Tiger finishes, runner up, but it's not like he really threatened to do three, four shots back of what will be the winner, Michael Campbell. So Tiger finishes runner up, but it's not like he really threatens threatens as a runner up. But you know, second place finish at the US open coming off a master's win.

And then we roll forward. Well, question. Why? Yeah, sure. Guys shoot. I'll shoot 80 just like was the course playing differently that day. Like was it was there an outside variable? Or were they 80 just like was the course playing differently that day? Like was it was there an outside variable or were they all just like? No, just it just choke city.

More choke city than like outside variable. I mean, I think Pyners is the place that like when it starts going bad for you, it can go bad all day. Like those balls just don't stop on those greens if you can't if you're not precise but shooting 25 over in the last group as Exclusimus pretty sick Yeah, and then you get a little tim you know you leave roll one over the green you'll tim it on the next body. Oh, it's coming back to your feet So he chases the US open runner up with a runner up at the sea Alice Western open shout out T.C. Whoa amateur at the US open in 05 No idea Seattle, Western Open, shout out TC. Whoa, amateur at the US Open in 05.

No idea. Was this Spencer? No, it was a four. Matt, every. Really, how about that? That's cool. Matt, every plus 11, Ryan Moore plus 16. Oh, this was right after Ryan Moore's epic summer. Exactly.

Oh, so we head to the British Open. It's the 134th playing at St. Andrews. It's Mr. Nicholas's official last open championship. Tiger shoots an opening round 66. He leads Mark Hensby by one shot. He shoots a second round 67. Monti by four after the second. This is just a tiger. This is like clinical tiger. Like nobody else ever had a chance. Like there's not even that much interesting stuff to talk about really. He was two up on Jose Maria Olethorbal after the third round, and then he shot a final round 70 to win by five over Monti. Was the runner up.

Tigers round was the only round under par in the last 14 groups, his final round 70. So just like the most clinical, robotic, tiger victory, like it was over. Is that where he like decided not to hit driver? Or am I thinking is that? That's what I like. It's what like next year.

So that's a second major of 2005. That might be the one I wanna go back and watch them. I don't have any memory of that. Or no like placing that or not seeing the highlights enough of it, maybe because it was just kind of boring and methodical. But yeah. So then they wrote a PGA championship at BalticRall 2005, hugely for you, which Tiger opens

with an opening round 75 and then shoots three rounds in the 60s. He ends up finishing two off the lead tied for fourth, but again, isn't really a threat. I mean, he's always there. This was the one though that Michelson wins a second major in a playoff, or not in a playoff, but in a Monday finish over Elkington. And do we think that one at both the sorrows faked? Like 2016. Yeah, because it's fell so great.

Yeah, I can't say. What do you want me to say? I almost considering his record it almost would make it more likely that it was baked. So he caps. Well, after the PGA, he wins the, he goes we shocked. He wins the firestone, the NEC invitation. Is that when he finished in the dark? That was 2000. I think O5 was maybe when he beat Furek. Okay. It could be. That was 2000, that long ago. I thought that was more recent.

How about that, huh? Yeah, I don't know. I don't have who he beat. So he regains the big takeaways 2005. He regains his marble one at the O5 and he's sea invatational. To mark it. To mark mark a little stretch there. Tiger regains is number one world world ranking wins all the player of the

year war and you know, it is back. He is the cat. So he wins Buick and Dural again, just like 2005. This is in 2006. When's Buick at Tory Pick and Dural again, just like 2005. This is in 2006. Wins Buick at Tory Pines, wins Dural. Heads to the Masters, shoots his opening round 72. But weirdly, again, this is like what DJ I think what you were saying is, he doesn't truly threaten,

but he finishes tied for three back. So it's like he's, he never is like, it's not, he's not a non-factor, but he's also not really like a threat. He kind of has like a, instead of a back door top 10 coochervive, it's like a back door top three. He's like guarding the door.

Yeah. He's just always, he's just always linger. He's like the bouncer. No, he's the bouncer at the VIP. Yeah, exactly. He's inside the club, but it's like the intersecting. He's kind of keeping a lot of people out. So I call these tigers still up there, I don't know.

Yeah, of course, everybody knows who wins the 2006 masters. But so of course, you want to linger on this one for a little longer? Mr. Michelson. So the masters has now gone, Michelson in 04, Tiger in 005, Michael Sinan 06. It's like, this is the peak of when the Jack Arnie, like, you know, Hey, Tiger Phil, this is the rivalry we need.

Like this is gonna be the best thing in golf forever. Tiger two to one to win that one and Phil eight to one to win that one. Doesn't play after the masters doesn't play again until the US open. This is because on May 3, 2006, something very momentous happens in Tiger's life. Earl passes away. Earl passes away. Tiger speaking of his dad says, quote, my dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend. I wouldn't be where I am without him.

So this is obviously this is, you know, just unbelievably difficult and kind of the first real tragedy or real adversity. I would say that that tiger deals with, at least as it pertains to kind of his his life and how it affects his golf career. So long story short, his first start after all of this is the US Open at Wingfoot and it's the only cut he misses in a major in this four-year window. I wanna ask you guys a trivia question though. The Miss Cut forum at Wingfoot

is the first Miss Cut in a major as a professional that Tiger has. How many cuts had he made in a row? At majors or total? At majors. As a professional. As a professional a professional had to be like 40 some 46 39 I'd made 39 straight majors or cuts at a major as a professional

Seems good. Yeah I don't have to tell you guys what happens at this US Open at Wingfoot. Phil's going for needs no introduction. For his third straight major, gas is it. Hit it off the hospitality tent. Yeah, finishes runner up. So Tiger gets back into it. He plays the Western Open, gets a runner up finish,

and then we move to the British Open, played at Royal Liverpool that year. The cat's back. The cat's back. The cat, again, just a clinical, clinical win opens with a 67 over GMAC. Second round, 65, puts them one up over Ernie L's and then DeMarco L's and Sergio are all one shot back.

Just to clarify, GMAC opened with 66, Tiger Shot 67 in Round 1. So GMAC had the one shot. Oh, excuse me. Yeah, no, you're exactly right. And then this is tiger shoots to find around 67. This is the other runner up that DeMarco has to tiger in a major Little loaded final leaderboard cat DeMarco L's Fierick Garcia Taunihara of course on Hularbrero, hot Carl Patterson, and Andres Romero, Adam Scott. I'm assuming you're gonna hit us, but the quote

from after that final round from the cat on Surgees. No, please, I just bludgeoned Tweety Bird. We played the fun around with Surgee and the dumbass yellow outfit. And I forget, text of that to somebody, or text and hang hanging or something, said I just bludgeoned Tweety bird That's hard to argue Very hard to argue the PGA championship. He I mean guys. He just

He wins it's at Medina shout out. Just outside Chicago DJ guys surprise he wins Yeah, like I don't I don't know I guess in my research, it was just like, okay, shoots opening 69 68, but he's actually not, he doesn't have the 36 hole lead. He's in a battle with Luke Donald at that point. This was Chicago's end. Yeah. Well, throw the trivia out for the group who finished runner up to to cat at the O6PGA. Because it's a name that people like to make fun of a lot for having a major championship, but he almost had to. I think herds.

Todd Hamilton. Sean McKeal. Really? How about that? Well, I will say in my four year window,, the runner-ups to Tiger's six major wins are, as you just said, Sean McEill, Chris DeMarco twice, Monty, Rocco Mediate, of course, will be the end one at the US Open as anybody knows the other one. I mean, you're never going to get it, I don't think.

But Woody Austin. So it's like, you know, he's not... With a little bit of space from this. He's not, it's not exactly a murder or a show. It's kind of guys that got lightning in a bottle. Yeah. One week. Yeah. Yeah. But the moment might be too big for him. And the cat is the jackal. So he's just a professional killer. It seemed like in a few of these, the cats just ran away. I mean, nobody else was even on the same playing field. That's what happened.

Medinae comes out and shoots a course record tying 65 in the third round. And it's just like, that's it. So, it's just never, like it's just not close on Sunday then. That, this, yeah, that time period, I remember the least about ironically. I think the word that just is so associated with it is like everything is just clinical.

Yeah, it's just. It's just boring. Yeah, yeah. Of course, he's out. He didn't win. Oh, weird. What happened? Or it's like, oh, Tiger shot 67 this week.

Like, yeah, he's going to win, I guess. Like, you know, like you and your dad, like, yeah, I'm going to go play call. Tiger's going to win this one. So he sweeps. He of course sweeps the player that your awards is rank number one in the world. 2007, he wins a traditional, Buick invitation and derailleur to start 2007.

I would feel like this is also the peak of like billboard tiger, like gay rate, Accenture. Like he's just, and he's like on every airport billboard, he's just like, you know, the... This is probably the peak of like Perkins Tiger, too, right? Yeah. Probably true. I mean, we wouldn't have known it, but yeah.

Perkins Tiger. So the 2007 Masters TC, do you remember who won the 2007 Masters? Yeah, I don't really want to talk about it. That's the year of the great stink at August. So this is the Zach Johnson victory. I thought interestingly, Saturday was the apocalyptic day. If you remember, ZJ ends up winning over par. Saturday wins gusted to over 30 miles per hour, and there was no score

carded under 70. So nobody shot in the 60s on Saturday. Fingers crossed, we get one of those days in November. Yeah. I hope it's biblical. There was a name that does anybody, does anybody remember Port Brett Wetterich? Yes, because he's on the Ryder Cup poster in the bathroom at the kill house. So every time I take a pee downstairs, I look at him. I'm like, Brite Wetterick was on the, was O6 Ryder Cup team? Yes.

That's wild, man. And I believe he was in the final group on Saturday, and that's the apocalyptic conditions and he shot 83. And I'm not sure if anybody ever had a question. I'm not sure if anybody ever heard from Brett, what are you again after that? That was the year of Sabatini was tied for the lead going into our after 13 on Sunday. On Sunday, yeah. Yeah. Royce have a teeny masters winner would have been

Wild. Yeah, would you guys Bit off topic. Would you say a good comparison for ZJ would be David Tom's? Hmm I feel like the two the two majors makes puts in a different category unfortunately I think but yeah, I mean mean it's not a bad one. I would think there's a big asterisk on the on the on the British road.

Sure. What kind of asterisk? Both historically laid up in the major. That's what I'm saying. Smaller guys, cash machines. Can you see that? That's good take. Yeah, but I mean you're just completely discounting ZJ's military service. That's a good point.

His record is a civilian, I believe. So in addition to Sabo, Tiger actually eagled 13 on Sunday, was one shot back, but part out and obviously never caught Zach Johnson. But did finish, like this was a runner-up finish at Augusta for Tiger. 2000 US Open, anybody remember where that was?

Oh, seven US Open. Oh, that's exactly right. This is the duck. On-hell. This was the duck. Yeah, a few things, few good nuggets to pull out of this. First of all, Tiger finishes runner-up again. Like, he, like absolutely could of one.

But first round leader, two under was Nick Dority. I've been better members of that name. Tiger was runner up here, you said? Mary to the Tiger would finish runner up. Sky Sports or BBC, the woman. Is that right?

Die Dority, yeah. The one who was in the NXT commercials with Scovve and Pelopfer all the time. Anyhow, okay. the one who is in the NXT commercials with Scott Vampel for a long time. Yeah, okay. Heading into the weekend, Tiger is five back. On Hell is your 36-hole leader. He leads by one over Bubba and a host of others.

Wow. On Hell actually shot a 30, excuse me, a 76 in the third round. Aaron Badalai grabs the 54 hole lead. He is cumulative plus two. He's two ahead of Tiger. He shot at third round 69. Bads subsequently ejects in the final round with an 80. Bads.

He made like a triple or a quantum first hole, right? Yeah, it was like it was over in a hurry for poor bads. But this is where On Hell has his kind of welcome to the golf world, fun around, smoking darts. Go drive on 18. Yes, yeah. Until of course, 2016. Thank you.

So On Hell ends up winning the tournament, of course, Tiger, Bogeys 11 to move one back to fall one back of on hell and then can't find a birdie coming in and finishes one shot back as as runner up. That one feels like it got away. He doubled three, birdied four, and then all parts coming in except for the, the bogey on 11. Yeah. Yeah. But that's where like Cabrera made some shots too.

Like Cabrera, you know, I think everybody was expecting Cabrera to make a bogey, you're kind of fall apart down the stretch and he held on. I just waddled right in. He was a treasure. He is. Yeah. The only other score I want to point out,

some guy named Anthony Kim, shot a final round 67. At Oakmont that year. There was a suite that finished T3. You guys know who it was? Hediado. No, I don't think he's Swedish. Was it Gussford?

No. It's all his screens, so I won't say. Hot Carl Pedison. Nicholas's a guest group? No. So I was screened so I won't say. Hot Carl Paterson. Nicholas Fast. Ah, sure. I was looking on Tron's Scantron. Nicholas Fast played the back nine on Sunday and 200 par. That actually might be a good nickname for TC, the Scantron.

Always speaking out, talking over people in class. Of course, Lens, it's tough to scam Tron. That's disgusting. The 2007 British Open was at Karnusty. This was where Patrick Harrington defeated Sergio in a playoff. And weirdly, this is like where Tiger just wasn't a factory, finished tied for 12th. And, you know, concerning Tiger, he's got in the door. Yeah, I mean, yeah, tied for 12th and you know a concerning Tiger has gotten the door. Yeah, I mean yeah tied for 12th great result from most everybody, but it just wasn't

Truly never a threat and that's when Sergio gassed it Bogey 18 you know, okay, right? Yeah, okay So then they come back to the PGA, which is at Southern Hills So then they come back to the PGA, which is at Southern Hills, Tulsa, Oklahoma, shout out the temperatures were like 105 degrees that week. Tiger shoots the first round 71, six back nowhere near the top of the board comes about in the second round and shoots a major tying 63. I don't know if you guys remember his putt on 18. Lippur McGoo, wouldn't it? Like the most Lippur McGoo.

Watching the highlights from that championship, like violently horseshoed that final, the final cup, which would have been a 62. Tiger post game says, you know, and is hamming it up, says he shot 62 and a half. Going back to not to take us off track here, but 07 British Open. That was one that Andres Romero made 10 birdies in the final round, led by two at one point in the final round, doubled 17, bogey to 18 to miss the playoff by one. He is the Argentinian. doubled 17, bogey 18 to miss the playoff by one. Wow. He is the Argentinian mom. Go, Rita. He birdied eight, bogey nine, birdied 10, birdied 11,

doubled 12, birdied 13, 14, 15 and 16, doubled 17, bogey 18. So he didn't have a par after seven. That's pretty sick. I kind of remember him like being off the plant like he was hitting from some really weird, really weird spots. So the PGA Tiger 63 gives him a two shot lead over Oklahoma's own Scopper Plank, going into the weekend. And this is where like clinical tiger takes over like, ho-home 69, three shot lead going into the fun around. Could be an instance of everyone just getting sleepy with the hot tap shirt. And then yeah, and then a fun around 69 kind of the same deal. This was the Woody Austin runner-up.

And Austin, you know, he punched,... You just don't have a chance. Like, he's never really had a chance. Yeah. Tiger with the win improves to 13-0 in majors when holding a share of the 54-hole lead. This is the PGA championship win is the second in a row. He had won the week before and what would be the fourth win in five weeks to close the season for them.

So, just like, and of course goes under when the FedEx kept as well. Yeah. Like I think Tiger just was like sucking oxygen at this point. They just wasn't, it just wasn't enough resources for them. It was just all him.

Like I think to that point, it was Mania was done. And I'm not saying this was boring, but I just, as we go through these, I'm like, yeah, I don't really have memories of these. Like I do. Totally. I feel like you gave, like,

Culp for one, I'm like, there are a couple of highlights, like the Lippin' for a 62 on 18, but then it's just like, yeah, it just goes out and plays really good golf. It feels like empire building. Like some of these venues, like the Roman Empire.

It's like, yeah, they're up at Hadrian's Wall. I mean, we're also in a seven, there's not a whole lot of flair in the venues either. Well, this is O7, PGA is of course where he does the big Pimp step or the big fist pump and steps on the sprinkler head. Oh, of course. The knee buckler. Yeah, that was on golf channel last night. I couldn't believe it. Like sitting there, just doing preparation, just had golf channel in the background and that highlight of him,

like, is knee weirdly buckling on a fist pump. It's right there. That could have been the beginning of the end. Could have been it. Well, speaking of that, so we start the 2008 season, he wins Buick, of course. I mean, Torrey Pines like Tiger unbelievable.

Just chill out. Which and all these same years, you probably won Bay Hill too, right? This year he wins Bay Hill. When's match play. So he's won five. He's won his last five starts on tour plus plus the target world championship. And we come to the masters. And the 2008 master what is last five starts on tour Like for the second time I think in his career, you know like he had already you'd already done that He doesn't really threaten at the

2008 masters, but he finishes runner-up But this was I totally for I kind of blocked it out. I didn't know I was the Trevor Imelman plug that here. He was a clean 150 to 1 to win that. Tiger was 1 and a half to 1. Yeah. I'm in dusted. And I think Imelman had like a six shot lead going into the funnel round.

Two shot lead. Two shot lead. Oh, okay. So he must have been six up on Tiger. That's what I had in my notes. But in one minute shot, I found around 75 and still one by three shots. Which is that might be the most boring of the last 20 years. Yeah. I think that's why. I've blocked it out. I have no real memories of that event. He was up by like five or six and then

real memories of that event. He was up by like five or six and then doubled 16 and still just like cruise to a win. Yeah. Like I think the Zach Johnson wing gets made fun of for a lot of reasons but the Imelman year was really like the worst masters in my lifetime. Yeah. Was that one sneds was in the in the hunt and they like he shot 77. Broke down and got really. It's really cried, yeah. emotional. Yeah, which I list, I'm a fault in the guy. Steve Flash, right?

I'm one of the Kentucky shot 78. Fun around. To finish six back. So where we go from here though, is very significant. Tiger finishes up the master's early April, and then on April 15th, undergoes arthroscopic knee surgery. Maybe a side of blood spitting.

Yeah. It's somewhat, I won't say routine, but it's not overly, what's the word I'm looking for? Invasive? Yeah, invasive for catastrophic, thank you. But I'm going to say anybody and what would come out later is during his rehab, he suffered a double fracture of his left hibia. And so this is what that's what puts him on one leg then going into the 2008 US open

at Torrey Pines. And he's dying to get back in the squat rack. And the kill house. Yeah. If anybody can name either of the first round leaders at the 2008 US Open at TORI Pines. Bobby Gates. Bobby Gates is a good guest with no. I thought he was. I know.

Oh God, I know it. Because Smurries talk about this all the time. Justin Hicks. Yes, that's right. uh, Justin Hicks. Yes, that's right. Yeah, yeah. Justin Hicks and Kevin Strillman shared the first round lead.

Tiger Open just as Hachaka. Really? Wheat Noodle, yeah. Very cool. Tiger opened up with a 1 over 72. I think comes back in a second round. Shoot's a 68. It puts him at minus two for the tournament

and one back of the 36th leader, which was... Raka, not Raka. Steward Applebee. Shoot's a third round 70. I mean, kind of, again, pretty clinical golf. Golf and his ball, navigating Tori. He's exceptionally familiar with Tori, has had unbelievable career success there.

They shouldn't even be having US opens there, considering his record. I mean, I would listen to that for sure. He takes the lead, so he can't give us what to do at his backyard, his backyard chipping setup that he's got at Jupiter. I mean, it's honestly, he captures the lead though in the third round, which of course is significant

He's 13-0 when holding a share of the 54 whole lead Lee Westwood is one shot back and Raco is two shots back He captures it draining a sick 35 foot eagle on the And Dan Hicks he has there's your leader Which was pretty deaf any eagle 13 on the back nine that day too, and chipped it on 70. Was the eagle on 13 the one where you like, skulled it and hit the pin?

No, that was the 17 chip in was one you got way too much ball and the guy in the, no one in the crowd has ever nailed something better than the one guy in the crowd that goes, one time! And it drops right in the hole. And the cheer, the cheers in the crowd that goes, one time! And it drops right in the hole. And the cheers in the sound from that round are like some of my favorite golf memories ever. Like the great outfit too, with the blue,

with the black vest. God, I love that. That day was, because that was like, like I said, he'd never, he'd only won from ahead. So like getting ahead on that Saturday was like seen as the most important thing. It felt like, yes, he's now captured the lead. He's absolutely gonna win on Sunday

if his knee holds up. It's over. It's garbage. I mean, he is limping, that's true. And then he's limping, he's. He doubles the first hole on Sunday. He doubles, he comes out Sunday, doubles the first hole for the third time that we

Yeah, I Think we all know where this is headed. So I just want to Point out some some highlights or low lights Rocco shot 71 he just So close to birding 17, but he he finishes before Tiger so he's not playing with Tiger So he's he's the leader in the clubhouse. Tiger Bogie's 15 and actually trails by one shot at that point.

So he goes to 16 T down one shot, has to have a birdie coming in. Part 16, part 17. So now of course the part 5, 18th, he hits it into the right rough, if you'll remember, and with his layout. So he's someone out of position watching the broadcast. They're, you know, they really question one, how good the lie is, is again, get the ball to stop, et cetera, et cetera. It's kind of a front pin. His approach, his

third shot from the right rough, he gets the ball to spin backwards, which I think is a pretty underrated, like, you know, US Open Rough. You gotta remember, this is pretty 2010. Yeah. But the ball actually backs up, leaving him, you know, the 12 foot breaker that he has to have to get into the 18 whole single area. Westwood, I think, another underrated aspect of this, Westwood hits his approach shot onto a very similar line as Tigers and Westwood misses his putt, which would have gotten him into the playoff as well. So Tiger steps up, hits his putt as a good feel for, you know, kind of what the ball is going to do.

This is the day in Hicks, expect anything different. Of course makes the putt, like I, I don't know. Like when you talk about a 12 foot putt with break and like, I don't know. It both felt like of course he's gonna make it but like what if he misses that? Like it's such a missable putt.

At the end of the day, on probably pretty bumpy greens. Oh yeah, it's crazy. What's kind of like the juxtaposed zad against our memories of Phil growing up. Right, of course, he's gonna miss this. Yeah, that's exactly it. And the ball kind of curls in too.

Oh yeah. It catches some lead. Did he putt before Westwood? No, Westwood puts first. And so it wasn't like the exact same line, but he gets a decent, you know, and he would have gotten some. Yeah, and also he's won an equity into 150 times.

Yeah, yeah. So that was just the moment where it's like, yeah, I mean, like literally his whole career, like every coin flip scenario has gone his way, which is amazing to think about. And I can't remember if like, going to his knees on the tee shots, was that Sunday or was that Monday? I don't know if he did he go full knees or was that later?

Was that late? I thought that was in the US open when he was like... Well, because this was his last start. Yeah, because he was like, you know, dropping to his knees and pain and like,ping that off the T-box and I can't remember if that was during the weekend. I'm guessing it would have been at least throughout the weekend. Yeah, and in the Monday. So, uh, yeah, the 18 whole playoff, which is just exceptional. I mean, it goes back and forth. Again, Tiger comes 18, needing birdie to tie. Again he gets it. Well, you know, I watched this, this is summer after my senior year and I'm working out

for football at Marist High School and the guy that runs away from Coach Mandy. The Marist school. The Marist school has it on TV at a TV in his office. And it's like a bunch of meat sticks up there, summer, like some high school kids and other guys going to play college. And it was like the peak of like everybody just be like, like, oh, I'm into golf all of a sudden, like all these non-golf fans up there.

And like, you know, like everyone's a tiger expert at this point. It's like the peak of like just the mania, like, of course you make that, like, yeah, you know, it was just such a vivid memory of watching the playoff on Monday. Like everybody's like supposed to be working out for the, I'll just huddle around the small TV,

you know, in the strength and conditioning coaches office. So that's funny. Well, and I should have mentioned too, I didn't see any of the final round, but shout out to Sirius XM Radio. I was in the car driving home from Philadelphia from a wedding that day and listened to the final, the whole final round.

It was, but it was captivating. So yeah, Tiger, it wasn't as difficult a put. He wedged it much closer, but makes his birdie putt to force sudden death now. For some reason they go to the whole number seven, which I'm not sure how. That was so weird. How they decided on that, whether it was like a random draw.

Tigers four under on this all this week. Let's go to this one. Well, I was gonna ask, does anybody have any insight on how the seventh hole, I couldn't really find anything on how they picked the sudden death hole. No, that's a fantastic question. But they, yeah, so they go to the seventh,

it's a par four, and they, yeah, so they go to the seventh. It's a par four. And this is where it's like, it was a bit melodramatic, I guess the ending here. Rocco hits his approach way left. Tiger wedges it to the front of the green. Has, I don't know, a good sized birdie putt, but Rocco's got a pitch on. He's got a 20 foot par putt

so Tiger Lags up his birdie putt taps in for par Rocco's got the 20 footer that he has to make now to force another son death hole and runs it by on the high side so it kind of you know Just a military flyover's going on, an honor of Tiger's 14th major victory. It doesn't, and the only I guess regret I have is like for such an iconic tournament,

the actual ending is like Tiger hitting a little six inch in and then, you know, we got to wait for Rocco to miss his 20 footer. What did they shoot in the playoff, do you remember? 71, 2-7, yeah. So I'd like to mention, just three amateurs made the cut. Do you know who they were? I don't.

He's not on my head. I know. Ricky Fowler was one of them. Oh, dang it. Derek, Derek Fathauer finished 15 over. Ricky finished 13 over. Michael Thompson finished 8 over. How about that? So this was Tigers 14th major. He's 14 and 0 now when holding a share of the 54 whole lead. And shortly after this tournament, he announces he has to have surgery to repair his ACL and misses

the remainder of the 2019 season. And I don't want to jump on any of TC's research, but imagine somebody coming to you right then when he makes that put on 18th Tori and being like, yo, check it out. It's going to be 11 years before he wins another one. It's like no chance. it's gonna be 11 years before he wins another one. It's like no chance. Jeff to amputate his leg, is that why? That was not in the realm of possibility. And then we got the podrix slam after that. Yeah, so to put a bow on my four year window,

it's the Hank Haney, the Big Miss, the just clinical surgical tiger era in my opinion. Good stuff, Randy. Thank you, Randy. just just clinical surgical tiger era in my opinion. Good stuff, Randy. Good stuff, Randy. Thank you, Randy. Thank you, Randy. Thank you, Randy. We are your Arby.

So yeah, Harrington wins both the British and the PGA that year, picking up. Which kind of is like the Houston Rockets winning exactly. When, when Jordan was running us. The NBA championship, yeah, well said. Yeah, so we're on to, we're on 2009. And T6 at the Masters, anybody know who won that one?

Oh, I'll be the duck. Correct. That was, I found, I found it interesting. It was Cabrera, Campbell and Perry, like all the way through the tournament. Shout out to KB. Like it wasn't really anybody else, it was just those three kind of tough finishes.

Going back to our What If guys, and shout out to Billy Payne for maybe the first RIP cat. That was 10. That was 10, no. Okay, I thought that was 09. Yeah, so 09, yeah, this is, you know, 09 is, is, you know, is, we're still like, everybody's still. Squeaky clean still.

Yeah, with the cat. But yeah, cat, it was not great. T6 is obviously a good finish, but yeah, you just wasn't really in the mix. 70, 72, 70, 68 finishes T6 with John Merrick's D flash and Steve Stricker. I will point out that the week, not the week, but his start before the Masters was Bay Hill, which he won. And that was the week where he was in jeopardy of losing his number one ranking, because

he had been injured all the 2008. Michael Senn was spiked his hat on the ground after he made that fight. Yeah. Michael Senn was closing and Tiger comes out and wins Bay Hill when he has. Think about that. He just hangs on a number one in the world. It doesn't play.

Yeah. He was up by a lot. Yeah. So we'll move ahead to 2009. You're so open. That's a Beth page. Look, it's clever. Look, it's clever.

One cat was nine back. nine back on the final round. Okay. Finishes T6 there as well. I'm gonna say it was because it's trying to open around 7-4. Yeah, just really didn't get all that close, but it was a weird guest list that he was protecting up there.

Yeah, the Lucas Glover do a ball. Two ball. Mrs. The Cut at the British at Turnberry. That was the one by friends Stuart Sink. Of course. Over and over. Over Mr. Watson. Tiger Sheets 71, 74 to miss the cut.

Kind of a tough scene all the way around. And then the PGA at Hazeltein. This was really when I think a small part of the cat died. Because maybe a large part. Yeah, 67. 67, 71 plays a pretty flawless first three rounds. Should 75 in the final round and YA just conquers the soul. So he was, sorry, he was leading going into the final round?

It was, it typed, yes. Right, it was not was, it breaks. Yeah, because the break is a first night. That's where the streak broke, right? Yeah Going into the final round it was Tiger solo leader minus eight Podrig minus six Y. Yay minus six. So I mean, yeah, why you should 70 tiger should 75 You know why he burp eagles 14, Bogey 17, birdies 18, but yeah, Tiger, he was tied

after 13, and then birdies 14 to Yang's Eagle, and then Bogey's last two, 17 and 18. Yang was just hybridding him to death. Yeah, never. So with hindsight, do you guys think, like the numbers, the probabilities just finally caught up with Tiger? Or do you, how much weight do you put on? Because this would have been like the off-course stuff was. He just couldn't make any pot. It was crazy at this point. But he was winning regular PGA tournaments.

I think what's interesting, and I guess what I'm trying to ask is, did anything really change? Was it just like an inevitability at some point he was going to lose a 54-hole lead? That's a good question. Who could say? First of all, who could say? Can you get that many coin flips that land the right side up? Like some of them are going to flip.

A couple quick shout outs to Y-Yang, First, lifting the golf bag up over his head. One of the all-time great celebrations. Two of my favorite stories from my days at the PJ tour. I forget who originally heard this, but it's just been passed on forever now. But he's signing out, Y-Yang signing autographs after one of the rounds. And all these kids just kept shouting out of me.

Like, KJ, KJ, KJ, sign KJ Side mic semi autograph semi autograph and one of these I Sorry to whoever was whoever's story. I'm stealing but Tour staff was kind of walking behind me. It's just they hear him just muttering to himself Always KJ never why I think KJ somebody I've ever I've ever seen this written afterwards was like KJ was at one point tied for lead on the back nine with Tiger and was 10 to one to win. Like, and they said the bookmaker, the bookmaker later said, I don't know regrets. Like that guy was not going to be Tiger.

Like, have you, you can't, he was not going to do it. He should not have done it. I do want to give a shout out to Padre herrington going for his back-to-back you know p g a's makes a quintuple bogey on the par three eighth hole to drop from t two to typhoon ten tough scene a little bit of a what if there or podrick

no doubt plays tiger jam that offseason but it and it starts to emerge emerge that the Achilles was also in bad shape as well. This is where we start to hear the full extent of the injuries from the US Open, the year prior. And then, so going in 2010. First of all, the whole world explodes in 2009. Yeah, I don't think we need to re-litigate that. Just for context. Yeah. So going in 2010, first of all, the whole world explodes in 2009.

I don't think we need to re-lit again that just for context. We're talking about Nailers. It's a major incident based on Niel's definition to the present. It's a major, major incident. He finishes T4 at the Masters in 10. Which is fucking insane. That was nuts. We have ma played anything. After Billy Payne,

Billy Payne, when the most self-righteous speech of all time, the blue curtain at the PGA HQ. Ponte Vedra, beach to Vedra. What's the blue curtain? The apology. Oh, that was press conference.

Yeah, he shoots his lowest first round ever, I think, right? It got 68. Let's appreciate it. I think that would be the first first yeah, who wins that one? Solon I went for the family correct Um, and then yeah, so I mean I think everybody's kind of feels That was his first turn of it back right after all the yes scandal after everything hadn't played anything Yeah, it comes and

finishes T-Files. Well, I was just, what I was just thinking about there was, did he take the, you know, we talk about Tiger-Finding Fuel from like, made up slites. It's like, did he take the Billy Payne thing and say like, how sick would that have been? Tiger and Billy Payne in Butler Cabin. How does my ass take that? Billy Payne, I don't think has gotten enough. Zini got eight or derision or whatever. Like that was, everything about that was just like, oh, you man.

Yeah, the cat shot, I mean, 68, 70, 70, 69 that week. Yeah, like that's good enough to win a lot of, a lot of masters. It was, it was a win for the family though. So we head to the US Open at his old, you know, Pebble, which obviously I don't have to tell you guys his record at Pebble. The comfy spot. Yeah. Doesn't get off to a great start.

74-72, you know, really, really kind of trying to glue it together a little bit. And should 66 in the third round. This is one of the ones that I don't really remember. That's the crispy tan outfit sweater. The tanable outfit. But this was a good one. And then he hits the shot underneath the tree into 18. Like that was a sexy, sexy day.

The bobcat. So he's five back going into the final round. Dustin Johnson has three shot lead over GMAC, five shots up over Tiger, six shots up over Ernie and Gregory Hevere and then seven shots up over Mikkelsen. This was really one of the what ifs that I didn't really remember Tiger being in the mix, all that much in this one.

Tiger really gasses it in this one, in my opinion. Bogey's won, Bogey's won. Bogey's for Bogey's six. First birdie the day on seven gives it right back on eight. Bogey's 10. Bogey's 12. Bogey's six. Bogey's six. Four and six are. Yeah.

Uh, Bogey's 14 and 16. So only had, sorry, Bogey's uh, uh, 12 and then birdies 14 to get it back to three over. But MacDowes and in firm control at that point, MacDowell leaked a little bit of oil coming home. It was four under through eight overall and then finished it even. What did you actually 81? DJ shot 81. 82. 82. Yeah. Yeah. So do you think the cat lost that one? I think you're bearing the lead there.

He said, uh, no, you know, but DJ was, he was, he was out of it after, you know, he, he, DJ part of the first hole, you know, three people forget that. That's all you can ask for really. Was this before after he's a great player all time. This is pretty. This is very much pretty. And low amateurs that you guys open?

Peer you. Russell Henley and Scott Langley tied plus eight. But yeah, just kind of high scores at that open. Davis loved the third plus four. He finished one shot back with Tiger. So I thought that was interesting one. 2010, British open. Everybody loses by a million.

Yeah, we just boat races the field. This back in St. Andrews. Yeah, we boat races the field. The rib shoots a 63 in the first round. Follows with 80. Yeah, that's a job. Thats. Yeah. Louis boat races the field. The rib shoots a 63 in the first round. Follows with 80. Yeah. Drop. This is when cat was between

putters. He was he was he was messing around with putters. He couldn't make any putts. He had 10. It 10 three puts literally. Literally. He had 10 three puts through the three rounds.

One of the rounds he had 35 putts. So this this time period is like, okay, he got beat by Y.E. Yang. All right, but we're going to Pebble and we're going to St. Andrews next year. Like he's, he'll get it back, right? It doesn't beat by the world though. This was wrestling, but this was like, yeah,

is this war going to Island? Island too. Yeah, is this, is this Oragon? No, we're going to these two places, we'll be fine. And when he didn't win it either of those, it was kind of, that's what kind of panic set it. And he's got some neck issues mid season two. Right.

His neck is kind of seizing up on him. It's kind of a my neck, my back situation for the next. For the next half of the day. His body is completely breaking down. This is really like kind of some pre-back stuff. This is just, you know, it's still spinal, but it's mostly neck at this point. Because he lifted himself into this condition,

do you think? Or is this just wearing a tear? What do you get now? Why don't you just say it? I'm just asking questions. You know, I think this is probably trying to either come back too soon or yeah, trying to train too hard to make up for the knee, you know.

PGA goes to Whistling Straits, fun fact it was supposed to be in Saoholy, but the PGA of America pulled her away from Saoholy to go to Whistling Straits because they were worried about conflicting as far as revenue wise with the Olympics that were in Vancouver. Really?

Yeah, I think the year prior, the year after, and they were just worried about the Pacific Northwest being a little support to big events. I was always wondering why Wistling Strait's got 04 and 10. Yeah. That's obviously the Kymar year that was a tough scene for DJ. It was a lot of burbles up there. Yeah, 2010 was a tough year for DJ. But yeah, I mean Kymar should 71, 72, 73.

So, you know, not really the most notable. It's 2011, the cat, T4 at the Masters. You guys remember that one? Oh yeah, that's Charles Warchall. Yeah. That was the last, that was the sweepstakes. Yeah, the complete sweepstakes. That was another one, it was like,

Cat made a move on Sunday, eagled eight and let that fist pump out. I think he tied for the lead at that point. And I think 2010 was, gosh, crank me up, I'm wrong, but 2010, was that one shit got really bleak? Like the end of 2010, like bridge stone and that stuff, was that one he was shooting like 80?

Shipping yips. It wasn't chipping yips yet, but he was playing really bad. And a lot of it was injury related I think, because like the 2011 T4 was still, it was cause another one that was like, how does he doing this? Well, he hit the shot completely out of nowhere. The twirl into 15, like the shot into 15.

He missed the putt, yeah. Yeah, Bridgestone finished T78. Yeah, that was, that's right. That was 18 over. That was with Byron Bell in the bag, I think. Exactly, so. But that's why that 11 run was kind of out of nowhere. It was nuts.

And he had a chance to win that one. Yeah. I think Sports went up winning at like 14 under, but Tiger had an eagle putt to get to like 13 or something on 15 and missed it or something like that. Nobody's mentioned the rib yet. This was the year of the rib hitting it basically into Butler Cat.

That's what was like so like 16 to 63 holes of the rib. It was like no, we got the cat. We're good. Yeah, yeah, it was it was Rory. Right, a four shot lead going into Sunday over Ann Hook, a braira, KJ Choi, Jason Day, and Schwarzel. Always KJ. I was rooting for Han Hill.

I remember. And then yeah, I mean, you were rooting for the rib. Cat cat, 67. Low M at that masters. You may know. 2011. Hedecki.

Oh. Did they penalize them at all? No, it's not in here, so. Comment over. So of 2011, he misses the next two majors. Mrs. Ware. This is where we're gonna do Achilles at three years. Strangers, MCL, his Achilles is in really, really,

really bad shape. You know, these are bleat times. 2011 US Open, who wins that one. That's, where was it? Congressional. Oh, great. Of course. So it's kind of an asterisk US Open.

That US Open was. Yeah, it's not really a really US Open. It's first major everyone to Thanks Darren Clark wins at Royal St George. That was a master's going tough scene. I think tough scene for DJ probably a good thing The cat didn't enter that one with the weather and just everything, you know, it was just not a great great Set up for him. Well, is that the one or Ricky had all the Bad ass range the blue Everyone's here and he was just that was the blue, the blue. And he was just, that was sick. The horrible weather Ricky was ballin' out.

That was fun. Dustin should have won that one. For sure. Well listen, for sure. John, so then yeah, then he goes to Atlanta athletic club, Mrs. the Cut. It was kind of showed up kind of, or it was kind of random that he played that one.

I think people didn't think he was gonna play that one. Yeah, it was not close. Yeah, that was actually, I was working. I was working at the hotel at that point. The cat was staying at the hotel. Rocco immediate, I specifically remember him checking in on Thursday morning, like, like 2 a.m. Thursday morning, like playing the next day,

I was like, yo, what's up? Like, Rocco, what's up? He's got his dick sporting goods, like, like, hoover bag on his back. And I'm like, what are you doing here? He's like, oh, I'm just checking in. Like, the mattress is sucked up at the host hotel, so I'm down here, man, I had to check into the ritz. That was, yeah, I mean, that was a take care of the T.C.

with. That was an awful tournament. Little known, Randy was in town. We went to that. Oh, shit, that was that. Yeah, that's when you, I take exception. It was an awful winner. I'm not a king and guy, but it was an awesome tournament.

No, Duffler kind of gassed it. It was great. It was so hot. Back and forth. He sat on in the, I wouldn't want it to be there, but it's cool. It was on 14.

That's right. And who's Stephen Gallagher? Yeah. And Randy That's right. And who's Stephen Gallagher? Yeah. And Randy's like, who the fuck is Stephen Gallagher? And it turns out his wife is sitting right next to us. His kid is wife. And Randy's just ragging on this guy. Who is this guy?

Who's a club pro? A club pro? To be fair, the franchise was kind of egging me on a little bit. Yeah. Anyway. I shouldn't have got it. Tiger says, quote, I usually stare at us. Tiger says quote, I feel good. My game still. Yeah, I

remember it was hot as shit. John Marin Keith Urban Tag team Tiger Jam. That off season. That was cool. 2012. That was very nervous. Oh, you're going to. That's it. 2012. The injuries is left to kill these again. At Dorao in March. Finished as T40 at the Masters.

Just, you know, really didn't, couldn't, couldn't get anything going. 2012 Masters, anybody know who won that one? Burbo? Yep. Yep. No. Yeah, that's first Burbo. Burbo, yeah.

Burbo over, over Louie. So then, yeah, T40, you know, really nothing to report there. We go to the West Coast. Then we go to Olympic. And Kat is T-2 after first round 69. Anyone, according to, I believe shipnook's Friday night call. That was it. That was it.

It's over. Like, he's gonna win it. It's all his, his return to glory, and then he did not. Can anybody, I hope, I'll check that out. Can anybody tell me who the first round leader was? Jungle Bird. Three shot lead. One of the Thompson dudes.

Michael Thompson. Really? Yeah. Great job. Turnin' just sticks out in my memory. I was gonna guess John Peterson. Of course John Peterson beats speed by four, hustler by six, can't lay by eight.

I didn't see this tournament. I was a big low end, but he almost won the golf tournament. He finished like T-4 right now. So yeah, we're gonna get that. Oh, sorry. I was back packing through the louse. You left. Sorry, didn't see this tournament.

It was after round one, Alan Shipnich wrote, Tiger Woods sent a clear message in his opening round at US Open. It's over. He owes an open. Tournament's over folks. There might be 54 holes left to play, but Tiger Woods has already won the US Open.

Old takes exposed. That didn't age well. So yeah, I mean, G-Magned, Fieric, minus one going to Final Round, Freddie Yacht, two back, Solo, third, Blake Adams, Nicholas Colster, it's Ernie L's. Who would, who would, who would, who would, who would, who would, who would, who would

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Oh, this is 2012. He qualified in 11 and 12. Yeah. Got three locals. Um, so, yeah. And then, you know... That was when he was guardian too. Yeah.

Yeah, Peterson, double 16, becomes back in birdies 17. Yeah, I mean, he was he was legit. Millic at a one-to-one the tournament as a Namiter. And then of course, Fierrick, tough scene. Yeah, Web hard. The T up on the part of his Fierrick snap hooked into the woods, right? Tough scene. Tough. Great post post-round scene though. Legitimately probably the best of all time, at least in my lifetime, post-round trophy presentation. Of course.

So I trust up as a bird, did I just say? Oh! Then we go to the British Open, Lidham, which this was one of the toughest scenes ever for Adam Scott. Which after having played those holes, like the last four holes at Lidham are so hard. The one where you're not doing this, it's really one of the key to that. 1860, 17 or so hard, and then 18's kind of a... Yeah, but you can get tripped up on 18 off that tee. There's no word. There's no easy place to drive it.

Yeah, it's tough scene. Did Adam Scott miss like a really short putter something? Bogey'd last forward to lose by one. It wasn't any really short putters. It's just like a slow burn. But this was kind of a, this was a big what if was cat. He shot 67, 67, 70, 73. He tripled the sixth hole on Sunday, four back, two shots ahead of eventual winner Ernie, and then Cat Bogey, 13, 14, and 15. Man, he was right there. Yeah. Oh.

So, I felt like Lidham was a course that like, Cat should be able to dissect and, and you know, kind of like that hoi lake victory you had. And then yeah, they got a Kiowa, obviously the rib wins. Literally do not have a memory from the rib wins by eight Losing the ball in a tiger tiger finishes T11 He was typhus first through two rounds with Carl Patterson and VJ and then the rib goes 6766 and beats cap by 11

13 T4 the masters Flagstick hit the first thing on 13 lots of T4s at the Masters. Yeah, it does 10 11 and 13 Yeah, so I'm sure I've mentioned this but we'll stand right there when he hit the flag It was absolutely insane probably should have been dequeued. It's just shooting of withdrawn probably should have been dequeed I remember distinctly me and Sean Martin were right next to the rope line And we're kind of like each on a knee any any made contact and I pushed, smart and over, like knocked him

over. I was like, that's right at the flag. It was just a flag. It goes back in the whole honor. I was like, I told you. To be fair, they were pretty thick flags, things. Extra thick. And they got a Marion.

Can we talk about the fifth or the players real quick? Sure. Was that the Cavalier? That was the Cavalier drop, I believe. Exactly. The players. It was. Actually, we can't talk about it because we're only talking about majors here.

All right. Well, I'll take it. Did he take a Cavalier drop that year at the Green Briar, too? Yeah. One of the years, yeah. Like in this, right? You're trying to get it to the Green Briar? Yeah, yeah.

Or like he said it crossed like a hundred guards in front of where it did. I don't know. Marion, Rosewinds, Kat, V.. Yeah, yeah. Or like he said it crossed like a hundred guards in front of where it did. I don't know. Marion, Rosewinds, Cat, V stinky, 73, 70, 76, 74. You go to Mirfield, that was when Mikkelsen won. Mikkelsen's masterpiece. Cat was only two back of Westwood going into Sunday, held the solo lead on Saturday,

and just never really got it going on Sunday. Shoot 69, 71, 72, 74. This is when we get into kind of the weekend scary with Kat, right? Where everyone's like, what's going, like he's playing so good on Thursday and Friday. What's going on? Is he lost it?

The PGA in 13. I didn't watch a single. Was that okay? Yeah, I was okay. I was stuffin' to hit it to four feet on every hole and made about half of them. Woody Austin had too many clubs in the bag in the second round. He got penalized for shots. Catched, 717-370.

Pretty good. He has back surgery after Honda and then it withdraws from API. Mrs. The Masters that year. That was a tough scene. This is like stiny press release season. It The Masters that year. That was a tough scene. This is like stiny press release season. Like, it's not that bad. Yeah, he like, he, that's that the year I think he withdrew it at Tory Pines

and like, that was Glut's active. I think it was the deactivation. Yeah. Deactivation season. Maybe the height of Tiger's career. What was the risk year at the, at the Masters? That's 15 Masters.

Okay, really, really. So 2014, Kymur at Pinehurst, which I want to see Tiger, like new Pinehurst. I want to see Tiger, I can't wait to see him play a major there. Solo 69 at Hoi La, and it's come back. The rib wins there. Tiger shoots 69, 77, 73, 75.

He gets dusted by Tom Watson. I didn't want to give him a shout out though. He bogey the first two holes on Thursday after having missed the previous two majors and shoot 69. So he kind of battle back from a tough job. I feel like that's a theme of all this. It's like, like I was saying earlier, even when he shoots a high score,

he'll play well the next day. If he'd like, yeah, he doesn't quit. Mrs. the Cut of Alhalla, that was the rib one. A lot of assures. 70's rib majors. 74, 74. So we get into 2015, T17 at the Masters, but he did pop his.

Which was out of nowhere. That was coming after the chipping yips at Scottsdale. He made a run at it on the back end. He topped a drive on 13 and then birdie did it anyways. He legit hit like 130 yard drive on 13 and made birdie. That was a wild year. I think that was like, I think I was like, I'm gonna say it, he's back.

And then a lot of stuff unfolded over the next day. Well, I'll say, going back to 06 or 07, I bet Randy, that he would win, no sorry, going back to what, 2010 or 2011, I bet Randy that he would win multiple more majors, and he did. Multiple? Sorry, he hasn't won multiple yet.

I thought he was adamant that he was never gonna win another major. Yeah, I thought it wasn't like a thousand bucks.. Brandy was adamant that he was never gonna win another major. Yeah, I thought it wasn't like a thousand bucks. I think it was a thousand bucks, yeah. I don't know if it's a tape on that one. Well, I just don't remember it. We may have been, TCNA may have been deep in the sauce.

No, I remember that. Pontificating like we did. I think it was it had to do with the, when we were in Atlanta for the PGA. Good of him. So I was involved. 15, he misses the cut at Chambers. Shoot's 80, 80, 76.

Oh, that's what he gets dusted by Cole Hammer, the 15 year old kid. That's very top-down to the bunker. Yeah. That was probably my saddest visual from this whole period. Was that what Marshall tried to quiet the train? Yeah, it was. But it was also for the Pregnig race. I will remember, so obviously it was the first Fox year, not that that was relevant, but the commentator on 18,

was talking earlier in the week about that bunker on 18. Like this is just not, it's not in play for a professional golfer. And of course the one person to hit it in there is the cat. He's top, the top's the three wood in there and has to crawl, like his back's all fucked up. He's gonna like tip toe down into this, like just, oh. And then, it was tough.

They go to San Andrews. Shout out to Speed. Very moody Stinky. 76, 75 misses the cut. When the cat misses it, the cut at San Andrews, you know, shit is up. Uh.

DJ Pine, I were there. Tough weather year. It's all the, you know, there's all the stopping and starting going on Paul done buck the shit out of his head That's right me bro. Yeah, I think buck this head ZJ Should I'm not gonna recognize him as the winner. I'm gonna we have co-champs Louis Uztazin and Mark Leachman Yeah, obviously you can go back and check the tape on what ZJ did repeatedly during the final round. Would speed involve there?

Yeah. What a derailleur. He finished one shot out of the playoff. That was for three minutes. Three legs in a straight run. That's what I'm like. You had a four putt on eight. He drove it.

Yeah. That's right. I've married that one on 16. And then he just had to birdie 18 to get into the playoff, pulled it way laughter over by the grandstands. And then just a little spun off the front, I think. And then they go to Whistling. Jason Day allegedly wins.

Catch, you said he 5, 7, 3. It's been, it's been, we get really, really tough scene. Another back surgery as another procedure. I tweeted out the original RIP cat. That was then. as another procedure. I tweeted out the original RIP cat. That was then. Sometime during this kind of US open through PGA stretch, I think.

Scholars can't identify it. This is where I can. The original RIP cat. Archaeologists could not cover the one. This is where I can. This is where I can't. This is where I can't. This is where I can't.

This is where I can't. The original RIP cat. It got like really, really, really fucking dark. Like the Hero World Challenge before, like, or at the end of 2015, he said, there's really nothing I can look forward to, nothing I can build towards. It's literally just day by day and week by week and time by time.

Where's the light at the end of the tunnel? I don't know. I think pretty much everything beyond this, 14 majors and 79 wins will be gravy. If that's all that entails, then it's had a pretty good run. That was the coolest. This is when he says he's playing a ton of Halo, right? I think he's been playing Call of Duty throughout.

Well, because he can't, he's like, nobody says he's doing it. He's like, what are you even doing? He's playing a lot of video games. Yeah, because he can't walk. He's going to see a lot of movies at this time. Yeah, a lot of reviews. I feel like we need to say this in every turn,

but go listen to the journey of the tiger. It's journey of the cat. 20, 16, he misses the masters. Mrs, the US Open, which was at Oakmont, DJ, you know, one of the greatest performances of all time. One of? Trune, Mrs. Stenson winning, they did not have the PGA that year in 2016.

Okay. And then he has back surgery again in 2017, Stenson winning they did not have the PGA that year in 2016 And then he has back surgery again in 2017 in April. He misses All the misses masters misses Aaron Hills Mrs. Burkdale Mrs. Quill Hollow Don't think I put tunes you together that he just straight up didn't play major for two years Yeah, we see that on there. I bummed he's done Yeah, I'm completely bummed the RIP cat at least eight times from the time frame. Darius Rucker plays Tiger Jam. At this point, comes back 2018.

P32 at the Masters. So everybody, you know, kinda, hey, hey, made the cut. It's dope and beat. We can build on this, right? We can build on this. I think knowing what was gonna happen with the golf horse and losing the golf horse,

he purposely misses the cut at Chinacoch, she'd 78, 72, just really, really stinky in the first round there. Finish the T-6 at Carnegie St. That was kind of the beginning of the, like, whoa. You had to lead on something. He doubled 11, that. Double 11, bogey 12, finishes four back,

but 71, 71, 66, 71. Really, really strong. Good battle on the back behind that with Mollinari. And then he shoots 76, 66, 66, 64 at the WGC PGA Championship in St. Louis. So, started the day five back. I had to one back through 13 and then Brooks kind of took over there.

I bumped the RP Cat at least 14 times during 2018. 2019. He wins the Master. We should scoop and walk off. Like the fact he should have done before that putt. Yeah, but many people forget this. There was a bump during that as well when he got bumped by the security guard. Oh, that's wrong.

Yes. Slide tackle. Was that an Augusta or was that it? It was Augusta. That was on 17. Yeah, that's wrong. That's wrong. Yes. Slide tag. Was that an Augusta or was that an Augusta? That was an Augusta. That was on 17. Yeah, the Augusta on 17. Yeah, thank you.

And then he misses the cut at the PGA. Get's B. RPK. I want to give a shout out to Marty Jertson, Rob LeBritz, and Ryan Vermeer, all club pros at Beat the Cat. At Beth Page. Beth Page. There were also, you know, there were rumblings that the cat was having crazy, crazy parties

on his yacht. I was about to ask, like, wait, did he miss the US Open and Bridge Open that year? And then I remembered that they moved the PGA date. And then, T21 at Pebble, 72, 71, 69gey-4 of his first six on Sunday in still shot 69. So again, getting off to about. That was an easy setup though, but you can hang an asterisk by that.

Listen, I agree. Neil, I wanna call out 2019, British Open. Obviously, one at Rural Port Rush by Shane Lowry. According to Wikipedia, a catchout of opening round 78, his highest round on an open, but that's not accurate. So that is why you do not, you gotta verify Wikipedia, you gotta verify your sources.

Or you could just edit it for him. That would be the T.C. Yeah, that would be the T.C. way. I'm just saying, you can't take everything of this thing. Or if you see something, say something, or do something. Do we want to, are we just glossing past his first win in 11 years as yeah one the masters He got taken up at a security guard. I think else we need to add I think everybody that one fresh all right

That's the listen. That's that's fine. Just two pie I say it's you know allegedly masters week go watch that one. Yeah, this way have they posted it Yeah, that was the journey of the cat. Did they post it last week? No, I think it's coming this Sunday. All right. So that's the one thing I'll say. I was gonna tweet this too, is like, I think maybe

all this coronavirus is happening because people didn't properly appreciate, like, take enough time to appreciate Tiger's win. That's a big task of the point. It goes into our simulation theory. Yeah. So take some time to appreciate that win. I'd also like to point out, 1996 Tiger Woods played the John Deere classic

The only first and only time he played it and made your new That was a major he didn't win it though. He got arrested He got kicked out of a casino for being a Really? Yeah Do you guys know who won the gripper? Kenny Perry and fioriori. Yeah, the Griffith. I think Tiger, Tiger blew the 54 hole here, right? The least so. It's a tough scene. So yeah, there's a there's a good

article in the Gazette, which is I don't even know what some sort of I don't know if the Quad City's paper or what, but well, thank you, Scantron. I've always caught on you to. To correct. Alright, that is, Scantron. I've always caught on you there. To correct me. All right. That was a marathon. That is the longest we've ever gone, I think, on a podcast. I don't know how the radio people do it.

They're like three, four hours on the radio. Y'all need time to listen to. So, there you go. So, that's the journey of the cat through the majors. If it's whole career, if you made it to the end of this, go check out more of our podcast because there's definitely more of them. So, thank you everyone for the research. That was excellent stuff. Great stuff.

I learned a lot. I learned a lot. I think a lot of listeners will learn too. Cheers. Be the right club today. That's better than most. How about him? That is better than most. I'm not in. That is better than most. Better than most.

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