Tiger Woods continues his masterful effort in the clutch, sinking a birdie on the 18th hole at the U.S. Open to force a sudden death with Rocco Mediate on Monday.
Mediate birdied holes 13, 14 and 15 to pull ahead of Woods by one stroke, but Tiger birdied the final two holes as Mediate pared, forcing the second playoff.
Here’s how the scoring broke down in the 18-hole playoff.
After the first nine holes in the 18-hole playoff Monday, Tiger Woods has a two-point lead over Rocco Mediate at the 2008 U.S. Open at Torrey Pines. Woods shot an even par at 35 in the first nine, while Mediate shot two over at 37.
Tiger is going to be awfully tough to beat in the final nine. Of course, he’ll probably screw the pooch for the first two holes before rebounding and winning it close.
More to follow…
Tiger Woods forced a playoff with Rocco Mediate by sinking a 12-foot birdie put on the 18th hole at the U.S. Open Sunday.
“I was planning on going to Mexico,” Woods said when asked where he was originally headed today.
Not now.
Woods slithered a 12-foot birdie putt into the right side of the cup at No. 18 to pull even with Mediate on Sunday’s 72nd hole and force one extra day of adrenaline at Torrey Pines.
Woods and Mediate finished one-under 283 overall.
Lee Westwood’s two-over-par 73 left him one shot out of the party and sent him home at even-par 284. Robert Karlsson and D.J. Trahan finished three shots back at two-over 286. They are all footnotes now.
Woods had lost the one-shot lead he took into Sunday, struggled to a two-over 72, struggled with his driver and with his putting.
But he made the putt he had to make when he had to make it.
“I made him do something amazing today, which is amazing,” Mediate said of the putt. “He does it all the time . . . but I made him do that.”
The U.S. Open is the only one of the four majors that requires an extra 18 holes to determine its champion, like it or not.
It’s almost like Tiger is just playing with everybody. You can tell that his knee is bothering him, yet he still manages to make the clutch shots down the stretch. How can he look so bad on the opening holes yet so masterful the rest of the way? Nothing fazes him.
You can follow Monday’s playoff via ESPN.com’s live blog.
During a recent rainout in a scheduled interleague game with the Mets, several members of the Texas Rangers decided to make the tarp at Shea Stadium into a slip n’ slide.
This is just one example of how close guys can be on a baseball team. When you play 162 games, there’s going to be fights and arguments along the way. But there’s just something about a couple of million dollar athletes sliding around on a tarp that’s pretty cool.
According to The North Jersey Record, Giants tight end Jeremy Shockey and GM Jerry Reese got in a shouting match Friday at the team’s minicamp.
Shockey remained secluded Friday, the final day of the team’s mandatory minicamp, leaving Giants Stadium before the morning practice ended. Reports later surfaced he and Reese had an animated argument, apparently over some points the tight end listed Saturday as reasons for his unrest.
One was the Giants’ insistence he watch Super Bowl XLII from co-owner Steve Tisch’s luxury box instead of from the sidelines. More important, however, was Shockey’s claim the Giants spread the rumors of his off-season unrest in hopes of drumming up trade interest.
During an appearance last Saturday at Corona Park, Shockey said the Giants “released multiple things about myself. If you look back into the media, there’s always a source. Well, I’d like to know who the source is. We’ll go over here and deal it out ourselves.”
If he figured Reese as the source, the argument might have been the “deal it out.”
This situation is going to get worse before it gets better. If he wants to be traded, Shockey is going about it the wrong way by fighting with the general manager. If he continues to speak his mind to the media, the Giants will never get fair compensation in a trade. Either way, it might be time for the G-Men to part with this headache and give Kevin Boss a shot.
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