Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Zach Johnson- you da man!!

Tiger Woods is an excellent golfer and all that but I kinda got tired of him winning ALL the time. Every time you would turn on the t.v., you'd hear that dred sports announcer "Woods won the 70th annual Master's championship for the 98th time in a row!! YE-HAH (cuz you know all sports anouncers are from the south)" It was starting to sound like he was the inflated celebrity and all the other contestants were there just to make hime look good. Here's an article with him trying to explain himself for losing without saying the actual words "It's about time somebody beat me..."

Woods Reflective On Runner-up Finish (article from masters.org)

Sunday, April 8, 2007Art Stricklin
When Tiger Woods thinks about why he tied for second in the 71st Masters Tournament, he won’t reflect on Sunday’s dramatic play. He didn’t consider the four-iron he broke off a tree on No. 11, not the approach shot in the water on the par-5 15th, or the missed six-foot birdie putt on the par-3 16th.
His thoughts go deeper than that as the chief reason he failed to win the fifth Green Jacket.
“I basically blew this tournament with two rounds (Thursday and Saturday) when I had bogey, bogey finishes,” he said “That’s four-over in two holes and you just can’t afford to do that and win major championships.”
That bogey-bogey finishes proved to be vital as the winning margin for 2007 Masters champion Zach Johnson was two shots.
“It’s frustrating in the sense that I just made a couple of mistakes,” Woods said. As he usually does, Woods made things interesting for the patrons on a sunny Easter Sunday. He entered the final round playing in the last group, one shot behind third round leader Stuart Appleby. A first nine 37 dropped him farther back. Then the traditional second nine fireworks started. He bogeyed the par-4 10th hole to fall three shots behind Johnson, Appleby, Retief Goosen and Rory Sabbatini. On the 11th hole his drive went into the woods on the right and finding himself stymied behind a tree, Woods broke his four-iron but the ball flew into the fairway.
“That’s not the first time that’s happened,” Woods said of the broken club. “I did that at the 1999 Tour Champions when I hit a rock.”
Despite snapping his club, Woods managed a par save. On the par-3 12th, he said he hit a 5-iron and managed another two-putt par.
“I had to hit it a hard as I could and work it to get it on the green, but it worked out,” Woods said.
He made his only eagle of the week 13th, rolling in a two-foot eagle putt to cut his deficit to two shots, but that proved to be his last challenge of the round.
“I thought it would be great,” he said. “I made three there and hit a perfect drive on 14 and wound up in a divot. So I’m thinking, ‘here we go.’ I probably hit the best shot I hit all week to give myself a putt at it.
His six-footer on the par-3 16th, his last realistic chance to close to gap on Johnson, also failed to fall. Woods said he is never happy to finish second, but he was not surprised to see Johnson, his 2006 Ryder Cup teammate, earn his first Green Jacket.
“Zach is a good player; he proved that making the Ryder Cup team and he played the best today,” Woods said.
With that, the four-time Masters champion and world’s top-ranked golfer was gone.'

PS: If you didn't understand any of that golf mumbo-jumbo, you're not alone. I have no idea what a bogey is.... I might as well be reading spanish.

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