PO’IPU – Tiger Woods continued to write more golf history, finishing his fourth season as a golf professional by winning his second consecutive Vardon Trophy and setting two records in the process. Woods earned the Vardon Trophy by posting a
PO’IPU – Tiger Woods continued to write more golf history, finishing his
fourth season as a golf professional by winning his second consecutive Vardon
Trophy and setting two records in the process.
Woods earned the Vardon
Trophy by posting a record 67.79 adjusted stroke average, braking his 1999
record of 68.43. Woods also ended the season with an “actual” scoring average
of 68.17, surpassing Byron Nelson’s 68.33 average during the 1945
season.
Because of World War II, however, Nelson was not awarded the Vardon
Trophy in 1945. Thus, the official total that Woods broke belonged to Sam
Snead, shot in 1950.
Woods also captured his third PGA Player of the Year
Award following the PGA Championship in August. Woods is the ninth player in
history to win both season-ending awards in the same year. Tom Watson performed
the feat three times (1977-79).
Tiger misses match play
Tiger
on why he would rather the Grand Slam of Golf were this year being contested
under the match-play format, as it has been for the past two years, rather than
stroke play:
“I like the other way, just because after a day like today,
hopefully somebody would have beaten me 7 and 6 or I would have beaten them 7
and 6 [and] I could have gone in early. I’d be asleep right now. Instead, I had
to play all 18 holes.”
