Tiger Woods at his best is unmatchable. Even when Woods appears to be slightly slack, others still find it hard to keep pace with him. That was demonstrated at East Lake when the American ace golfer scored his lowest career score at the Tour Championship yet won the competition by an overwhelming eight strokes.
This was Woods’ fourth win in his last five events and the 31-year old now becomes the only two-time winner of the event and the champion of the inaugural FedEx Cup. This presents him with $10 million for winning the FedEx Cup and also gifts him $1.26m dollars for winning the tournament.
Woods finished the FedEx Cup on 23 under, two strokes better than his previous best total of 21 under at the 2000 NEC Invitational. He sustained the lead throughout the final round carding a four-under-par 66 at East Lake and ran away with the championship.
But Tiger Woods’ gallop to glory wasn’t a free ride on the highway and was punctuated by edginess early on when the American appeared a little shaky, with a bogey at the par-three second followed by a 10-foot par save at the third after starting the final round with a three-shot advantage over fellow American Mark Calcavecchia.
But Tiger can rarely remain withdrawn in his den. Woods came out and went up three birdies in four holes starting at number six to go four shots clear at the turn and added three more birdies on the back nine before bogeying the 17th yet still managed to shatter the tournament record by six shots.
The FedEx Cup victory was Tiger Woods’ 61st victory on the US PGA Tour and he is now just one win behind Arnold Palmer on the all-time list.
After the win, Tiger Woods said:
It’s been just a phenomenal week. I just hit shot after shot and when I got on the greens my speed was good all week.
Calcavecchia shared the second place with US Masters champion Zach Johnson on 15 under while Sergio Garcia of Spain finished third on 14 under.
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Source: BBC
