Tiger Woods amazes once again at Torrey Pines - "He’s good enough he can beat us on one leg"

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Just when you thought there was going to be one less thing to believe in – namely the invincibility of Tiger Woods with a lead in a major golf championship – along he comes to amaze once again.

He slid and bounced about a 15-footer into the side door on the 72nd and final hole to tie the tournament and force the playoff and it was a putt, a moment, that represented the highest kind of drama this sport has to offer. It was amazing stuff, really, and he has done it before and he surely will do it again and no one should ever be surprised when he performs miracles. But he keeps doing it and who isn’t constantly amazed, if only by the sheer volume?

"That man will crawl around if he has to play," Rocco Mediate said of Woods’s wounded knee, which dominated the TV talk and surely was making an impact on Woods, too, although he said the reason his tee shots, most of the day, kept sailing left was “just bad swings."

“He’s good enough he can beat us on one leg,’’ Stephen Ames had said about five hours earlier, when asked who would win. Ames then assumed the stork pose and swung away.

“He can stand up like this and still hit it – ding – 250 (yards) and beat us.’’

Well, maybe. Only Mediate can stop him now.

*Update Jun 3, 2012*

Woods, at His Best, Matches One of the Greats
DUBLIN, Ohio — There are “safe house” signs scattered around Muirfield Village Golf Club, residences of refuge for the golfers during weather delays. The course built by Jack Nicklaus, the Memorial Tournament host, has long been a shelter for Tiger Woods.

Woods, a four-time champion, came to this year’s event forecasting ample sunshine. Gone, he insisted, were the clouds that had darkened his game at the Masters, where he failed to contend and finished tied for 40th, and the ill winds at the Players Championship, where he had to grind to make the cut.

After ending a more than two-year victory drought at Arnold Palmer’s tournament in March, Woods on Sunday basked in the warmth of another trophy presentation. With a five-under-par 67, Woods finished at nine-under 279, two strokes better than Rory Sabbatini (72) and Andrés Romero (67). It was Woods’s 73rd PGA Tour victory, tying him with Nicklaus, behind only Sam Snead’s 82.

At 36, Woods is 10 years younger than Nicklaus was when he won his 73rd, at the 1986 Masters. “A nice run since I turned pro,” said Woods, who equaled the low round of the day. “To do it at age 36 is not too shabby.”

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Original Source: TheStar.com