Tiger Woods Absent From Annual PGA Championship Champions Dinner

“All four days, I didn’t think“.

Palmer created the modern version of the Grand Slam, so he is linked more than Watson as the player missing only the PGA.

“I recognize there’s only been a couple times that people have won three majors in a year, and that would be just such special company”, Spieth said while preparing for the opening round at Whistling Straits in Kohler, Wisconsin.

Perhaps that’s why his rhetoric going into the PGA Championship sounded as un-Tigerlike as it’s ever been. “So my nine holes were the opposite”. But he still missed some putts that the old Tiger would have sunk by a good margin.

Eventually, of course, he’ll have to play the 18th, but not Tuesday. The latter, he has remedied by buying Tiger Woods’ old house in Isleworth, Fla., and the Dukes of Hazzard vehicle, General Lee, the roof of which was adorned with the Confederate flag until he had it painted it over after the Charleston, S.C., church shootings in June. I’ve never been to the course. Watson hit his second shot into the water and that was that. Walter Hagen won when the PGA Championship was played there in 1925 and Jerry Barber when it was played there in 1961.

“I walked out of the fairway to get out of Martin’s way and asked the cameraman, ‘Where did the ball go?’ I thought at worst it was just short of the green in the bunker, and I could chip it up and hopefully make par”, Watson recalled. “There’s no way. And I heard the moans and I was like, ‘How can it be in the water?’ I thought I hit a decent shot”. “I was scared to death playing (majors)”. He is risky every week. It’s the width that might be an issue. Compared to his rocky year, he was having a great round, hitting tons of fairways, attacking greens, largely allowing himself to avoid the short game that has plagued him all season long.

“No, because they look at my accuracy statistics”, said Watson.

Wild, and exciting. Like Phil Mickelson. Woods sounded today like he realized where his game is and that it is a long way from being in contention for a major, or a regular tour event.