Mon 20 Aug 2007
Tiger Woods Wins His First Major as a Father
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That Tiger Woods is a force that is capable of steering off his fellow competitors out of green is an established fact right now! What we are actually looking forward to see whether he is going to touch the standard set by Jack Nicklaus in the years ahead.
With grabbing the PGA Championship he made it to at least one major for the third straight season taking his career total to 13 and this is what precisely soared up his fan’s expectations.
Woods concluding a dramatic finish (he finished at 8-under 272), now has more majors up his sleeves than the rest of the world’s top 10 golfer combined. Woods is now 31, and already he has beaten Nicklaus in pace - Nicklaus won his record 18 professional majors and he was 35 when he won his 13th. He is also ahead of the pace set by the Golden Bear.
This is the fifth time of the year that Tiger woods bagged another win. He remains the only one in the circuit who has won more than twice! The game for the second straight week, culminated into an eight-shot victory in the Bridgestone Invitational at Firestone. This has been a special win after coming in second at the Masters and the U.S. Open.
On the emotional front this victory was quite different than the previous others - this championship did not see the great Golfer throwing himself in the arms of his father or his mother cheering on his win. This time it was his two months old baby daughter in the arms of her mother who came to congratulate him on his two-shot victory. No wonder, the baby Sam Alexis was all red when she met the winner. It was a grand surprise for the golfer - this was Elin and Sam’s first trip to a tournament and Woods was totally unaware of their coming to the course.
“It’s a feeling I’ve never had before,” Woods said after concluding victory over Woody Austin in the final major of the year. “Having Sam there and having Elin there, it feels a lot more special. And it used to be my mom and dad. And now Elin, and now we have our own daughter. So it’s evolved, and this one feels so much more special than the other majors.”
However despite being at 13, Woods feel “it’s still a long way away.” He said. “You can’t get it done in one year. It’s going to take time. It took Jack 20 years to get it done, 20-plus years. Hopefully, health permitting and everything goes right and I keep improving, I’ll one day surpass that.”