Tiger had never lost a major championship with a share of the lead

Tiger had never lost a major championship with a share of the lead

Woods is winless since the ’09 JBWere Masters in Australia – before the car accident in the early hours of the morning after Thanksgiving which led to, well, everything after that. But, Bissinger’s timing is wrong.He needed to look three months sooner to Hazeltine, when YE Yang became the first player in Woods’ career to defeat Woods when Masters The greatest Sport event in the world he had a share of the 54-hole lead in a major. That was the moment that did in Woods as we knew him. The car crash, the litany of women (real and imagined) to have relations with him, the rehab and the divorce all played a role – how could they not? – in digging a deeper trench for Woods, but the first Korean major champion deserves more credit than a fire hydrant for derailing Woods’ march to history.Tiger had never lost a major championship with a share of the lead after three rounds. 14-0. He was on his way to 15-0 when Yang had other designs. Tiger tried every trick in the book and to pull out all of the stops, but the final dagger of Yang’s hybrid into the 72nd hole ended one of the most savored records in sport.

Woods had never won a major when trailing after 54 holes. Be the margin one shot or ten, Woods had been unable to puncture the pinata of major goodness without looking over the field with an advantage.And that’s where Bissinger lost his way in his analysis. Perhaps still bitter about feeling duped – or foolish – for buying into Woods’ marketed persona (which was implied, not explicit, but that’s another article), Bissinger said the old Tiger would have capped off that front nine run with enough in the tank to take home his fifth Masters.