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Flying high in Hawaii
Woods eagles No. 18 twice to defeat Singh in playoff
Posted: Wednesday November 22, 2000 8:01 PM
Updated: Friday December 29, 2000 2:01 PM
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After a good night's sleep, Tiger Woods had the look of a champion, and proved it with a thrilling playoff win. AP |
KAUAI, Hawaii (Ticker) -- A double at the 18th hole Wednesday gave
Tiger Woods a triple at the Grand Slam of Golf.
Woods finished the 36-hole, four-player tournament with an eagle
to force a playoff with Vijay Singh of Fiji. It lasted just one
hole as Woods eagled the 18th to win it.
"I've had back-to-back eagles before but never in a tournament
like that," said Woods, who pumped his fist after sinking the
winning 8-foot putt. "Not with everything on the line."
Already the first player to compete in the unofficial PGA Tour
event four straight years, Woods used the two eagles to become
the first to win the Grand Slam in three consecutive seasons.
Despite suffering from jetlag after claiming his 10th win of the
year in Thailand over the weekend, Woods shot a 4-under-par 68
to tie Singh at 5-under 139.
"I was pretty tired and I got a great night's sleep," he said.
"Slept about eight or nine hours and felt great this morning."
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| Tiger Woods made even more magic -- and history -- Wednesday at the PGA Grand Slam of Golf. His two eagles on No. 18 -- the first to force a playoff with Vijay Singh, the second to win -- were vintage Woods. Check out Tiger's rounds using CNNSI.com's Tiger Tracker and see how he made his charge. |
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The reigning U.S. Open, British Open and PGA Championship winner
claimed $400,000 after breaking his own tour earnings record by
collecting $9,188,321 during the season.
Singh, the 2000 Masters champion who was runner-up to Woods when
this was a match-play event in 1998, led by two strokes after
the first round but settled for the $250,000 second prize. He
won more than $2.5 million during the tour schedule.
Tom Lehman finished third at 1-under 143, and Paul Azinger
placed fourth at 149. The two qualified as alternates in the
event that is designed to bring together the year's four major
winners.
Lehman was one stroke behind Woods and one ahead of Singh before
finding the water on the par-4 13th hole and taking double-bogey
to drop to even par for the tournament. He had a triple-bogey
on Tuesday.
"Both days I feel like I played pretty well and suffered, well,
one bad swing each day, which cost me five shots," said Lehman,
the 1997 Grand Slam and British Open champ and PGA Tour Player
of the Year.
Woods had three birdies on the front side to take a two-shot
lead but fell back into a tie with Singh at the par-4 10th,
where he bogeyed and Singh birdied.
Singh bogeyed the next two holes to fall two strokes back but
birdied Nos. 13-15 to take a one-stroke lead.
Woods, however, tied Singh at 5-under with an eagle at the
550-yard, par-5 18th, where he went driver, 6-iron before
rolling in the 10-foot putt. His driver, 7-iron combination in
sudden-death helped him win it.
Before Woods' winning eagle, Singh had a chance for a 3 on the
hole, but rolled a 12-foot putt four feet past the hole.
"He made two good shots and he made the putts," Singh said.
"Bottom line is, he did what he needed to do."
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