Admit it: you miss him. Especially as golf’s toughest test beckons. Tiger – his aura, dominance, and clutch play – will be missed this week. Watch, as all but a handful of the best players in the world wilt under the stifling pressure that is the U.S. Open, and think back on how Woods dealt with it. Granted, although your image of him has undoubtedly changed in the past 18 months, the game of golf is missing a talented entity like no other. Instead, here’s the only peek we get at him this week; a long way from the fairways of Congressional CC…
Wish he was teeing up this week? Believe me, so does he…
And hitting good tee shots will be paramount, as always, at a national open. Woods’ driving of the golf ball seems to be constantly crawling from out from under the bus, but in the summer of 2000, it was dialed. Enjoy the clip below – one of TW’s patented “stingers” – taken during a clinic at Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club just two weeks before he won his first U.S. Open Championship, by an unprecedented 15 strokes.
