ConspiracyBuff
07-24-2006, 02:26 AM
Tiger Cries After Winning Open (hasn't been the same golfer since Dad died of cancer-until now)
HOYLAKE, England (AP) - This one had a sense of inevitability about it from the beginning. Tiger Woods was so good he spotted the rest of the field one club and still won. He didn't need his driver. He barely needed his 3-wood.
Woods could have left caddie Steve Williams at home and played this British Open with a putter and a few irons slung in a carry bag over his shoulder.
It was as beautiful as it was monotonous. As relentlessly efficient as it was chilling to his fellow players.
Just the way his father would have wanted it.
"He would have been proud, very proud," Woods said. "He thoroughly enjoyed watching me grind out major championships."
Earl Woods would have loved this Open. Every lesson he ever taught his son about life and golf seemed to be in play over four days at Royal Liverpool.
He raised young Eldrick to be a championship golfer, and fueled the competitive drive that now fires a grown Tiger. Earl Woods taught his son the right way to go about winning, and how to control his emotions when it mattered most.
It was harder to do on this Sunday afternoon than any before. Woods, though, had learned his lessons well.
For nearly four hours, he kept his mind busy with yardages, clubs, lines and scoreboards. He hit every shot flush, nearly every putt true.
The focus was entirely on the task at hand, winning the British Open for the second straight time and the third in his spectacular career.
There wasn't time to think about Dad. And this wasn't the place.
Earl Woods wouldn't have wanted it any other way.
"He was always on my case about thinking my way around the golf course and not letting your emotions get the better of you," Woods said. Woods made that mistake at the Masters. His father was dying of cancer, bedridden at home and unable to come to Augusta for the first time since his son began playing there.
http://msn.foxsports.com/golf/story/5807146?FSO1&ATT=HMA
HOYLAKE, England (AP) - This one had a sense of inevitability about it from the beginning. Tiger Woods was so good he spotted the rest of the field one club and still won. He didn't need his driver. He barely needed his 3-wood.
Woods could have left caddie Steve Williams at home and played this British Open with a putter and a few irons slung in a carry bag over his shoulder.
It was as beautiful as it was monotonous. As relentlessly efficient as it was chilling to his fellow players.
Just the way his father would have wanted it.
"He would have been proud, very proud," Woods said. "He thoroughly enjoyed watching me grind out major championships."
Earl Woods would have loved this Open. Every lesson he ever taught his son about life and golf seemed to be in play over four days at Royal Liverpool.
He raised young Eldrick to be a championship golfer, and fueled the competitive drive that now fires a grown Tiger. Earl Woods taught his son the right way to go about winning, and how to control his emotions when it mattered most.
It was harder to do on this Sunday afternoon than any before. Woods, though, had learned his lessons well.
For nearly four hours, he kept his mind busy with yardages, clubs, lines and scoreboards. He hit every shot flush, nearly every putt true.
The focus was entirely on the task at hand, winning the British Open for the second straight time and the third in his spectacular career.
There wasn't time to think about Dad. And this wasn't the place.
Earl Woods wouldn't have wanted it any other way.
"He was always on my case about thinking my way around the golf course and not letting your emotions get the better of you," Woods said. Woods made that mistake at the Masters. His father was dying of cancer, bedridden at home and unable to come to Augusta for the first time since his son began playing there.
http://msn.foxsports.com/golf/story/5807146?FSO1&ATT=HMA