Another magnificent ending for Tiger Woods again tonight! Going into the 72nd hole, he needed a birdie to force a playoff. His tee shot landed in the sand. His second shot was in the rough. On top of that, he has a bad knee. But he sank a 12-foot difficult birdie putt at the 18th hole in dramatic fashion to earn a spot in the playoff tomorrow. Amazing!
T1…. Rocco Mediate -1 18 E 69 71 72 71 283
T1…. Tiger Woods -1 18 +2 72 68 70 73 283
3…. Lee Westwood E 18 +2 70 71 70 73 284
T4…. Robert Karlsson +2 18 E 70 70 75 71 286
T4 …. D.J. Trahan +2 18 +1 72 69 73 72 286
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
He will lose playoff
After the obvious pain Tiger was in for most of the round, going 90 holes seems unreasonable. Having a full 18-hole playoff is a barbaric way to decide a US national title. They should instead play a system of “Fast Holes”, where golfers have only 30, 15, 10, and then 5 seconds to make the next shot. If the playoff is still tied after 4 Fast Holes, then they should decide the final hole with an Arm-a-Get-On contest: they dive after a ball rolled between them on the green, lock arms to try to pick it up, and the first one who can dunk the ball in the hole wins!
Armageddon playoff!
I’d guess that this Rocco fellow has even more reason to be satisfied. Going two shots below Tiger to force a US Open playoff seems to be the more impressive feat here. Bad knee or not.
yawn.
Who cares? This is a chess blog, not for golf. If i wanted to follow golf they have their own websites. Why waste space here talking about an irrelavant subject?