100th PGA Championship thread

What an incredible shot by Tiger.

 

Was his reaction pissed it didn’t go in?

 

It looked like it. I do not blame him, being that close and all.

 

The PGA didn’t need to move to May. It just needed Tiger.

 

Shame Tiger isn’t going to win this.
That fucking putt on 11. Even a half rotation. Or a hard wind.

Edit: he just sprayed his drive on 17.

 

We all love a comeback story.

While not this level, I felt the same way seeing a 36 year old Kurt Warner nearly lead the damn Cardinals to a Lombardi Trophy. Or Watson damn near win the British at age 59.

We all want to see Billy Chapel. Push the sun back into the sky one more time.

We all want to feel young one last time. (A year ago, at age 42, I played in a competitive basketball tournament with my old high school teammates. We didn’t win but they were in awe of the game I played compared with when I was 17. They couldn’t believe it. We lost in the title game but I walked off the court, satisfied with how I played. And I “retired”. Haven’t played since. Don’t plan to. I can’t top that glorious four-hour stretch.)

For those of us in our low 40s, we started in the business when Tiger tore thru the Masters in 1097. He was our age. For people like me who don’t play golf, we watched (and largely covered it) because of him. He’s 42 now. Not much left in the tank after the surgeries.

Nostalgia is powerful.

 

Two of those three are really good guys, and it's always nice seeing good things happen to good people.

I root for an 88 every time Tiger plays.

 

I don’t disagree. But there is something about all this. The red on Sunday. Me flashing back in my own life and career. I had my first big break in sports journalism the weekend he won the 97 Masters.

Getting engaged the next week.

Oh. Wait.

Maybe it wasn’t so great.

 

Last time someone won 2 majors in a year?

 

Jordan Spieth in 2015. Rory McIlroy did it in 2014.

ETA: Koepka will, however, be the first one to win the U.S. Open and PGA Championship in the same year since Nicklaus in 1980, and only the fourth person ever to do it (Gene Sarazen in 1922 and Ben Hogan in 1948 were the others).

 

Spieth three years ago.

 

So basically it’ll take a Van De Velde to get Tiger into a playoff.