|
Event |
Combatants |
Opening Shot |
Counterpunch |
Big Swing |
Knockout Blow |
|
Ford Championsip at Doral |
Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson
|
Woods eagles the 12th hole after reaching with a 300-yard three-wood |
Mickelson responds with birdies at 13 and 14 to pull even |
After Mickelson bogeys 16, Woods birdies 17 |
Phil's chip-in to tie it on 18 lips out |
|
Masters |
Tiger Woods and Chris DiMarco
|
DiMarco birdies the 15th hole to pull within one |
On 16, Woods makes his amazing Nike-commercial birdie to go back up by two |
DiMarco draws even after Tiger bogeys 17 and 18, but Chris's chip to win lips out |
From almost the exact same spot, DiMarco again misses his birdie chip. Woods follows with a curling 15-footer for birdie to win |
|
American Express Championship |
Tiger Woods and John Daly
|
On the first playoff hole Daly blows his drive by Woods
|
On the second playoff hole Tiger's on in two while Daly's drive sits in the trees |
Daly hits a brilliant recovery shot to 15 feet |
After both miss their birdie putts, Daly's two-footer to extend the playoff misses left |
|
Senior British Open |
Tom Watson and Des Smyth
|
Smyth goes three under to pull even at the turn |
On the third playoff hole Watson hits his approach just off the back of the green |
Smyth tries to answer, but puts his ball in a greenside bunker |
Watson chips to three feet, then makes the putt to win |
|
Senior PGA Championship
|
Mike Reid and Jerry Pate
|
Reid, who came to 18 three shots behind Pate, drains an eagle putt |
Pate misses his three-foot par putt |
On the first playoff hole Reid hits a five-wood to the middle of the green |
After Pate misses an eight-footer for birdie, Reid taps in for the win |
|
U.S. Womens Open |
Morgan Pressel and Michelle Wie
|
In the showdown that never materializes, Wie double-bogeys the first hole on the way to an 82 |
Pressel arrives at the 18th tied for the lead with Birdie Kim
|
From the right bunker Kim does the improbable, holing out to go up by one |
A stunned Pressel misses her birdie pitch and a chance at a playoff, then two-putts to fall into a tie for second |
Nothing excites golf fans more than a head-to-head tussle between two big-name players or a back-and-forth battle down the stretch that includes just about anybody. Here are blow-by-blow recaps of some of the 2005 season's best knock-down, drag-out brawls.
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