Chasing Tiger | PGA TOUR Originals

In his decorated career, Tiger Woods has left his mark on the PGA TOUR record books. While celebrating the worthy challengers who hope to chase after Tiger’s historic records, “PGA TOUR Originals: Chasing Tiger presented by Genesis” pays tribute to how vast some of those numbers truly are.

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well I’m guessing this is about Tiger
Tiger trivia tiger trivia oh
boy oh that’s a good question ah Tiger
Woods holds the top six
spots tiger stuff is just such an
anomaly in this world that it’s always
hard to
comprehend oh this is false I don’t know
if we’re ever going to see anyone come
close to what tiger did oh wow it’s true
True Tiger is truly in a league of his
own every time we talk about his stats
they’re just mind-blowing I was Bloody
11 off dang that’s amazing I’m like how
the hell did he do this and this and
that and winning this much in that one
year he made it look so easy for so long
that I think a lot of us just really
took it for granted at the
time it’s always neat to be part of
History to be part of things that no
one’s ever done
ever it’s beyond numbers you can’t
quantify
it he just absolutely rewrote the
book the first 11 years of his career he
won 14 major
championships for 13 years number one
playing how about that
huh one more and he stands alone at the
top of the
mountain he sets a benchmark that the
young players can strive
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toward big cat he’s back
next on the te from Jupiter Florida
please welcome the founder of the tgr
foundation and the tournament host Tiger
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Wood it’s like he’s never
left 82 PJ tour wins the tiger slam I
will Lowry just like you guys witnessed
him shatter break all the PJ tour record
books his stats profound unfathomable I
can’t remember the last time he even
used that word he’s not done yet even if
his Sunday red looks a bit different
than it did nearly three decades
ago it was a a different era you know
when I came out I mean I know it’s 20
plus years but the mentality was very
different you had the mental of earning
your stripes and eventually as you gain
more experience handle the
situations you start to win well I saw
there it’s no different from when I
played junior golf to Amer Golf and
Collegiate golf that I won at each level
why can’t I win here the story here at
Brown Deer Park was the pro debut of
20-year-old Tiger Woods what would be a
successful week here of Milwaukee that
Victory would been awfully nice
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a victory do you think um to me that
comes off as uh a little cocky or Brash
well I when you come out here your you
know what I’m saying your first pro
tournament you say you know I can win oh
I understand that um I’ve always figured
that why go to a tour if you’re not
going there to try and
win you’ll
learn and Tiger Woods would open his pro
career with a four under
67 I won two times in ’96 and then did
well in ’97 the rest of my
career you look at that time mid to late
90s into the early 2000s like real great
world beater players talking about Davis
loves of the world Ernie El FJ Singh and
then my group of youngsters that were
just starting to come through just
trying to really figure out how we were
going to find a way to deal with this
guy he ties ear El for the tournament
record at 17 under it was towards the
end of my playing career so I I saw a
lot of it up close in personal and
relative to the field it was a different
level C a strange referenced basically
what everybody said in in the locker
room you’ll learn because nobody was
that much better than anyone else you
know I have learned something I think
you’re better than I thought you’d be
thanks are you better than you thought
you’d be this early yes winning
as much as I have so far I never thought
that would actually happen until I got
in until the flow of playing on tour
which is probably about 22 23 maybe in
24 in his first full year as a
professional tiger Amad six wins growing
to his total to 15 by the age of 24
including eight in 1999 alone the season
that followed rewrote history as we knew
it that time I was what 24 25 99 2000 so
you know that athletically it’s
generally when you Peak and fortunate
for me I was able to take advantage of
my my Peak
years it was an incredible start to the
year you know going head to-head with
Ernie right there at caloa I was just on
a run where I was making everything what
do you think about
that we had this saying that every now
and again I’m just holding a play I you
shouldn’t hold up play I mean you should
just give this to me it’s a 15 20 footer
I mean I why am I holding up play and I
was just making those butts time and
time
again I played well out of gust but not
good enough I think I finished fifth the
BJ but the next three Majors were were
positive when he won in those events at
peble beach in 2000 then at St Andrews
when he ran away from the field that one
which was the second leg of the tiger
slam actually completed his career Grant
slam the Third Leg of course was the PG
Championship to have the opportunity to
do something that only Ben Hogan’s done
win three majors in a year and that was
that was nerve-racking but
tough n had to wait for eight months
until Augusta would come around
again also in 2000 I was one in Greens
and reg and number two in putty and so
you’re hitting a lot of firway a lot of
greens and making everything it it’s
going to add up to some W’s but also if
I do it properly it’s going to add up to
some bigger margins too and I had some
nice margins there 158 and then a few
other ones so I won the dog fights but
also um had a couple
blowouts Tiger Woods his ninth victory
of the year and the second man to
capture the Triple Crown the US the
British and the Canadian opens in the
same
year it’s a tremendous honor to be able
to win you know three open championships
in one year and especially since not too
many guys have ever done it I started
that run I’ve won with eight times in 99
and then nine and in 2000 so 17 times
and four majors in that 2-year
span with one of the greatest seasons of
all time in the books Tiger’s fourth
straight major title was still up for
grabs in April of 2001 the tiger slam
was
complete when I was a kid I I never
thought about winning four in a row or
be a part of the Grand Slam I never
thought of that I won the the so-called
fifth one at the The Players
Championship so I have I guess the five
biggest tournaments you could possibly
win sitting on my M right now better
than most I had an opportunity and I was
able to capitalize on
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it during the entire 2000 PJ tour season
how many rounds did Tiger Woods record
higher than
73 I me I’m just say something crazy say
two one dang
close that’s that’s
ridiculous Scotty shefflers 2022 23
scoring average of 68 63 ranks seventh
all time on PJ tour what six names are
ahead of him on that list
I would guess there’s only one and I
would imagine it’s just six tiger years
there’s only one name Tiger
Woods it’s too easy it’s kind of the
reason I got into the game of golf so
it’s not totally surprising but to have
the top six spots is pretty
absurd that’s incredible I mean to have
to have the six lowest scoring averages
what he’s done is
uncomprehending the 25 under tournaments
and I think that’s the most impressive
thing about it if you look at the actual
schedule he played to hold his top six
scoring average seasons on the PGA tour
it’s probably the most impressive thing
is is where he played
them next on the te from Dallas Texas
please welcome the 2023 players champion
Scotty
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shuffler after a crazy 2023 Scotty sheer
is the first player to win back-to-back
play of the Year honors since Tiger
Woods while today’s Stars continue to
chase that dominance it’s no mystery why
sheffer’s name is sitting right beside
tiger in those history
books I just laugh like his statistics
from the early 2000s were so absurd like
I I looked at the player of the year
stuff to see how many times he won it
there was like eight years there where
he won it almost every
year if you followed Scotty schiffler
week in week out out last season you
would have seen how consistent he was
Tia green starting right trying to turn
it
again and it’s a pretty good spot here
it
comes texbook Tiger Woods did that to
six different seasons so Scotty
schiffer’s season should stand out but
it should also remind us of that next
level that no one else other than Tiger
Woods is a
t tiger holds the first six I think that
kind of tells you everything need to
know on how good Scott he’s been playing
you finish the round with him shot 68 or
67 you kind of step away from the round
and kind of Blown Away at how easy he
made it look and then you actually think
back to the shots that he hit and you’re
like okay he actually only missed one
green and it was in The Fringe and oh
yeah he hit 12 out of 14 Fairways oh wow
yeah that’s actually
unbelievable in addition to the seventh
best adjusted scoring average in PJ tour
history sheffer’s 2023 Strokes Game T to
Green ranked second only to tigers in
2006 oh Scotty how about that for a
moment Scotty’s unbelievable he’s doing
things that are tiger esque anytime
you’re doing something where you’re even
mentioning the same breath as tiger
you’re on an incredible
run the reigning Player of the Year
earned 13 top fives last year the most
by any player in a single season since
tiger in
2005 that just speaks to such
consistency that you don’t really see
that much so Scotty’s an unbelievable
player and he’s going to be a top player
in the world for a very long
time if he keeps this up for the next
few years he’s going to be the greatest
player of Our Generation there’s no
question Scotty has proved to be the guy
to beat every time he plays he’s
incredibly consistent and he has a
chance to win every time he tease it
up I think we’re all trying chase that
consistency um that’s something that
I’ve tried to chase for a number of
years and to have a year where I I
really did play consistent for the bulk
of the year is a nice little little
thing for
me sheffler made buly or Worse on just
over 10% of holes last year no other
player has averag below 11% since Tiger
Woods did it back in
2002 the thing about Scotty that’s so
impressive is he doesn’t go outside of
his comfort zone finding himself in the
biggest golf tournaments every single
week and winning at a
very Swift pace and winning very very
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frequently after a breakthrough victory
in
2022 shefer won three of the next five
starts breaking Tigers record a fewest
days between his first PJ tour title and
reaching world number
one he’s the first person in quite some
time now where there’s been some
significant separation from one to two
in the world and from the rest of the
pack he’s really special it’s no
surprised he’s been killing it the world
number one has maintained that dominance
to start 2024 with three victories in a
span of four starts and tiger likee
fashion baby this is my eighth
tournament win now out here I’ve tied
him in Players Championships outside of
that you know I got 14 more majors and
you know 70 something PJ tour events to
catch up and he joins only tiger in
winning the Players and the Masters in
the same year golf is so difficult and
he made it look so easy for so long that
I think a lot of us just really took it
for granted at the time think about the
cuts for him not to ever have just one
really bad round the first two rounds of
a tournament like it happens so easily
all
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right we may have witnessed one of the
great streaks in
golf in order to to be number one you
have to win and order to win you have to
make it around for the
cut 142 cups
consecutively can be looked at a 100
different
ways Tiger Woods really wasn’t a class
of his own so his bad goal was still
good enough to at least play the
weekend different sports you see you
know let’s just take pitures in baseball
for example a lot of them will go three
four Innings they don’t quite have it
even though they’re Superstars they get
pulled off and out of the game a golf
that can’t
happen I was a fighter I was consistent
and I’m very proud of that whether I
felt good or or not I went out there and
I
executed over that period of time he
found a way to have consistency like
we’ve never ever seen before and I think
that’s why that stat gets so much
respect from his
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peers yeah it’s a most
amazing record in sports I know uh the
hits record in baseball is pretty
remarkable but I think you have to be
out here for a year or two to realize
how
utterly impossible that that would be
there’s some things that are out of your
control when you’re playing golf and
weather is one of them and getting sick
or just playing poorly for a just a tiny
stretch can sometimes mean missing the
cut four or five bad holes in a row you
know you’re you got no
chance you just shake your head you’re
like that’s just that’s just crazy you
know I don’t
know that’s not humanly possible you
know in in in our game so there’s so
many things where you shake your head
it’s just so outlandish it doesn’t make
any sense especially in some some of the
bigger fields and the majors we was
playing the best tournaments every week
I don’t know how you can’t wake up one
day on a Thursday and something hurts or
don’t feel good how about that one huh
making a oh baby God love it it’s just a
testament to how well his game is cuz if
something was off he had five other
things that are still the best in the
world well tiger asked me what the cut
score was and I said well it looked as
though it was going to be one over and
he gave me a big smile and said I love
the
pressure it just manifests the power of
this man’s mind and then the desire he
would find a way to make it happen and
that to me was the most admirable thing
is how he would make a way
by hook or by crook Tiger Woods was
going to do
it blind hog finds aade corn every once
in a
while he can have things stacked against
him beyond belief but he will never ever
give
up what got me to that level was my my
will to to not give a shot back I I
hated making poogies I still do I just
hate making a bogey and I think making a
part putt from 10 ft is more important
than making a birdie putt
he never dropped that
shot it gets perspective because it made
news when he missed a cut when he didn’t
have a weekend tea
time only the third time as a
professional Tiger Woods will fail to
get to the
weekend it’s disappointing anytime you
miss a cut uh because you’re here for
four rounds to compete and win a golf
tournament and I don’t get that
opportunity to win a golf
tournament he thrived on the pressure
and sometimes that is just to make a cut
it’s not just to win a tournament or win
a major championship is to keep momentum
make a cut give yourself a chance on the
weekend and that’s what he did so well
for
so tiger trivia how many pj2 wins did
Tiger Woods earn in his
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20s so
97 he was what 21 or something at the
Masters uh hold on hold on hold on what
is he he was born in 19
75 uh we will go
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with 40 I’m going to say it has to
be close to 40 but like I would say
35 46 that’s not bad I was pretty close
I was Bloody 11 off dang that’s amazing
I’m not sure I had a win in my 20s
so um not to say that I would ever
compare my career with Tigers but
um you know every time somebody pulls a
stat of his you just have to shake your
head
Tiger’s role in elevating his sport is
larger than any other Superstar athlete
had an impact on whatever that given
sport is so if you try to boil it down
to numbers yeah the DAT is still going
to be highly favorable for tiger and his
impact on the game but it goes way
beyond that
it’s Way Way Beyond
numbers before he had a single
professional Victory to his name tiger
faced a level of hype never before seen
in the game of golf there was such a
hoopla around him tiger this tiger this
tiger this tiger this and you
everybody’s like wow this kid’s going to
have a lot of pressure on himself he
just came out ready to play I Remember
bch Haron telling me this kid’s going to
beat you guys to death and sure enough
he was
right I know he made the first cut of
and then sure enough he went out and won
to the next six events made it to the
Tour Championship and almost won the
quarter mer on the PGA tour the pegy
exceeded expectations Paving a way for
today’s Tiger inspired generation to win
early and often at the end of 2017 my
best season on tour won five times I
just finished winning the FedEx Cup won
a major and one of the first text again
I had when I got done with tiger and it
was congrats now do that nine more times
and that’s what I’ve done in my career
cuz he’s won whatever five or more times
10 times or something like that the best
season of the quarter
Century eight
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wins I won five in one year and
everything had to go like my way like I
I honestly had to pinch myself sometimes
on like is this really I felt like I was
in a simulation cuz I just like I didn’t
know if it was like real or not but to
do that that consistent for that Ro was
just remarkable I mean will it ever
happen again maybe probably not though I
wish I could just see it firsthand and
go back to really witness that at this
age where I’m at now I I definitely
understand it more than you know where I
was as a as an 8-year-old trying to see
what he’s doing he gave those guys a
license to say I could do it because
they’ve seen it happen in their lifetime
but maybe that was their biggest gift
something he wants people to break his
records he wants a dominant future
players they go win most of the events
with everything he’s accomplished
there’s a new challenge to go
chase tigerwoods streak of 24
consecutive Cuts now goes to
25 game respects game and with each new
star comes a mutual respect for just how
difficult it is to maintain early
success when karawa burst on the scene
and won the PJ Championship he was in
the middle of a run of 22 straight
consecutive cuts that was is very
reminiscent of Tiger Woods when he first
turned Pro 25 straight consecutive Cuts
while no two careers are ever the same
the tiger comparison finds those who
come within Striking Distance of his
records it’s obviously the the biggest
compliment you can ever receive in the
game of golf so if you ever mention in
the same sentence as him I think you’re
doing quite
well when we start trying to make these
comparisons to people like tiger it’s
interesting because a lot of these
players are so young and still
growing up it’s always a lot of fun to
make these comparisons but in a lot of
ways too I think it’s kind of unfair and
we should just allow all these players
to come out and run their race so to
speak and enjoy what they bring to the
table you can argue a lot of the same
things with Michael Jordan I mean LeBron
has obviously had a great career as well
but those kinds of careers or people
like that don’t just come around they
stand on their own so look at it as a
compliment and then let them go play
from there and Tiger’s 46 wins in his
20s is a record that forever may be
chased the guys today have an
appreciation with just how hard it was
to do the things that tiger made look
easy he reset the bar every bar for
everyone all right tiger trivia true or
false tiger spent more time at world
number one than the length of Michael
Jordan’s career with the bulls does
Jordan’s career with the bulls include
the years of his Gap years or
no let me figure it out I’m from Chicago
I should know this I reckon he must have
been there well he
won I know he won six so that’s six
years at least they won in 91 92 93 so
he left he was he wasn’t there for 94
and 95 so 94 to 80 90 83 to 94 is how
many seasons 11 Seasons or 12 tiger I
want to say had
like 600 and something weeks at world
number
one that’s actually quite close I think
tiger was only no world number one for
13 years I want to say total maybe more
or I feel like this is a trick question
though oh this is false I
reckon MJ had a long career with the
bulls I know VJ was number one for in
the world for a little bit in 2004 and
then tiger was back from 05 to 09 so
that’s 5 years now I’m going to go with
Michael Jordan St with the
bulls oh wow it’s true it’s really close
though unbelievable Tiger 13 years 5
weeks Jordan 12 years 28 weeks really
close within months I was right about
the 13 years though my math is wrong at
Jordan’s Jordan’s ears though
the amount of time that Tigers spent at
world number one is Untouchable but it
doesn’t take away from others who made
it there Roy maoy has reached the top of
the mountain a number of times
throughout his decorated career and he
holds one achievement even tiger can’t
claim it is Rory mroy with his
extraordinary talents that wins a third
FedEx Cup
title to share two FedEx cups with Tiger
Woods I thought was a really cool
accomplishment but to to even separate
myself from that tie and get to three
you know I would put that up with you
know some of the biggest achievements
I’ve had in the
game with his 23rd PGA Tour victory in
the fall of 2022 the northern Irishman
became the number one player in the
world for the ninth time in his career
totaling 122 weeks only 561 shy
tiger 683 or whatever it is I can’t faom
it’s unbelievable I just don’t think
anyone can speak highly enough of what
tiger did you know over that stretch of
Gulf it was just
insane tiger will never pass me any
mantle in the game because I’m just not
I’m not him I will never be him his
success on the golf
course I don’t know if it’ll ever be
matched again Rory’s embraced what it is
to be at the top of the game maybe in a
more comfortable way than tiger ever did
and that’s why people seem to flock to
him pretty easily and that’s been a big
part of what I think his legacy will be
I think he set a great example for a lot
of us going forward and I understand and
I realize that I I will never have the
influence on the game that he has had I
think there’s a bunch of us now that can
fill his shoes but it’s not just one or
two of us it needs to be 15 or 20 of us
I’m not going to remember the exact
numbers but like we’re playing at Riv
this year and I hit my t this guy yells
out like congrats on being number one
Scotty you know 11 more years to
go 11 more years to
go at 21 years old Tiger became the
youngest player to reach number one in
the
world a place he will call home longer
than anyone in PJ tour
history one of the best records is Tiger
Woods being world number one for 13
years collectively that’s like three
careers really at the highest level
it’s almost half my life really you
think about how hard it is to stay
number one for just 6
weeks I think the Last 5 Years the world
number one’s changed every year so it
just goes to show you how how incredible
that
is getting to number one was much easier
than staying there staying there is hard
because the amount of time that you have
to allocate to practicing and playing
gets smaller and it gets a little bit
harder it gets a little more challenging
from 1999 to 2004 tiger set a record of
264 consecutive weeks at world number
one only to surpass his own Mark with
281 straight weeks from 2005 to
2010 let’s not forget he did this with
almost three or four iterations of his
golf swing he was like okay I’ve scaled
Everest let’s find another way to do it
there was this un quenchable thirst
inside just to find his very best even
if it was Reinventing himself my
goodness he’s done that multiple times
the number of weeks at number one
obviously something that you’ll never
see broken you know it just goes to his
ability to compete and play his
dedication to craft dedication to
Precision dedication to Middle game that
just was that much better than everybody
else you add in you know lifting
sessions of an hour and a half to 2
hours a day plus Training Table you know
practice time the next you know it’s a
10-hour day and you do that week in week
out and then you add in a decade of that
it’s the fact that he continuously found
the motivation and the drive and the
dedication to keep getting up keep
putting the work in keep finding ways to
improve himself in his game to stay on
top of the mountain for that long it’s
one thing getting there but then finding
ways to sustain that is mega mega
impressive to me
all right tiger trivia what is Tiger
Woods career win percentage with
outright 54 hole
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lead oh
oh wi percentage whenever I watch tiger
highlight is this it’s as if he’s won
every tournament he’s ever played so um
no I can’t tell you the ones you didn’t
win I know he lost once no wait was it
tyer Le when he lost Yang I can’t
remember I don’t remember him losing
another one other than that maybe
there’s another one 98% I think it’s
like
97% somewhere there I know it’s
extremely
high okay so that I was close I gave
tiger too much uh yeah he won 95.7 of
the time that he had a 54 H lead yeah D
for 44 out of 46 is great 44 for 46 that
is so impressive man cuz I think in
theory you lose more in Sunday than than
win actually people tend to forget
really quickly how good it really was
man he was he was stupid
good the legend just grew and it got to
a place in a Sunday in the final group
if you’re alongside Woods you’re one
down before you’ve hit a shot because of
the stature he carried and how he owned
space rentree in everybody’s head
if I’m playing with the
lead whether it’s one or 10 if we tie I
win simple mathematics my job is to make
sure that I shoot a number that will tie
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you I think we were paired together in
the last round I remember birdie and ju
to tie for the lead and uh you know
tiger kind of gave me a
smile there are times when yeah I’ve got
to put the hammer down and I’ve got to
make a bunch of birdies here in the next
four or five
holes all of a sudden boom it’d make a
20-footer boom iron shot close or par
five you know wedg it two
under three under another three you know
next thing you know he’s five or six
under for the day and and has a five or
six shot
lead it’s like a football team when the
other team needs some turnovers or some
things to happen some bad play and you
need that from Tig
it’s not like we were playing scared we
were actually playing a little over
aggressive trying to hit six iron or
four iron to a tighter pin knowing he
had an eight iron that he’d fly it
straight up in the air and be able to
access it that is a real tricky mental
space for an athlete to be in because
you start to question yourself and that
really to me was the thing that really
separated tiger really for about a
decade even if they had their best they
probably weren’t going to get
him tiger won a career best seven
consecutive starts from 2006 to 2007
second all time behind Byron Nelson’s
record of 11 straight on five separate
occasions tiger had streaks of three or
more victories in a
row if I won I was going to do it again
just how soon I was going to do it he
treats 72 holes like it’s the the last
hole to win a golf tournament every time
that’s where he was better than
everybody he rolls up he’s got the red
shirt black pants everything that that
is coming along with that that record of
constantly winning dominating beating up
on his
opponents everyone on the course seemed
to have one eye on what they were doing
another eye on what was Tiger doing they
could hear the roar they knew that was
reserved for him when Tiger’s making a
move there’s a different noise and you
cannot Escape that so there was there no
escaping the pressure you couldn’t hide
from the moment and that was maybe you
know Tiger’s 15th Club in the back what
tiger could do in the chaos that tiger
brought is what made him so great in
those
positions it’s hard to isolate one thing
over another and say this was his best
achievement you know the Run of major
championships winning seven out of 11 at
one time or the season where he ran this
tournament win
streak but all had the same feel this a
big shot for him if he wants to win this
thing all eyes on tiger a low strafe for
turning up the left Center going down
the left side this should be good has
not lost a tournament that he’s played
in in more than a half
year and then to watch him not only rise
to the occasion but do it often times in
a dominating fashion over and over
again I would almost bet you that was
been a foot of where he was aiming it
that’s how perfect that shot
was Tiger Woods with a chance for birdie
to put away his 64th PGA Tour Victory
his win percentage on tour is something
that I don’t think will’ll ever see
again seven consecutive wins worldwide
four for four in 2008 one of the most
amazing runs in sports history
continues those are nice numbers and in
our sport the win rate is very lows 5
6% our guys are in the Hall of Fame with
that you can see him do something that
would produce a massive reaction 500 ydd
away on the golf course you would see
another player falter is like it
just the world crumbled because they
knew the and was making a move he was
charging the first 11 years of his
career he won 14 major championships and
he was ahead of Jack Nicholas he was
ahead of everything he was ahead of
every record in golf he would front up
and he had that look in his
eyes tiger he was a dynasty
himself I’ve never seen anything like it
in sport and I’ve covered a lot of them
well I got to earn my way into 83 but
that’s a career that’s just not
something that happens overnight that’s
going to be done
over an expansion of decades took Sam
close to 30 some years to do it we’re
measured in
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decades tiger
trivia if you only took Tiger’s total
combined wins in California Florida and
Ohio where does he rank old time PJ tour
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wins so
California I mean Tory Pebble I think
there’s got to be close to about seven
or eight in each state so I’m going to
say
like oo I’m going say like 20 to 25 wins
and then that would put
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him my geography is not great but
Florida Arnold Palmer he’s won a bunch
in Ohio Memorial I mean he’s got to be
around maybe sixth or seventh all time
list 30 wins where would that make you
on the PJ tour
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probably top 10 okay the answer is 10th
he’s got 16 in Florida 14 in California
and 13 in
Ohio that’s that’s crazy so
43 wasn’t too far off I said about 10 in
each state but uh wow and I even
highball it and I’m still short just in
three states in the United States and
he’s 10th in the all time and he’s got
over I mean he’s got over 35 wins that’s
pretty
incredible I’ve had 82 wins on on the PJ
tour and 15 majors and I can name most
of them but there are a few golf courses
which I’ve done really well at I’ve won
seven times at Tor even though I counted
as eight cuz I want to US Open there as
well I’ve won eight times at Bay Hill
eight times at
five times at
Memorial that’s a pretty big chunk of
the the bulk of my
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winds his seventh Victory here at the
Farmers Insurance
open tiger you won a Tory seven or eight
times that’s eight
times and one I was a junior so
technically nine so I like that place uh
I I I’ve enjoyed playing Tor for some
reason just fits my
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eye the best player in the world has won
this tournament three times in a row and
unless something unforeseen happens
there’s a pretty good chance he’ll win
it
again four and in a row for Tiger Woods
and Bill the experiences that I’ve had
there and on top of that be able to win
it and to have you know the king there
they give me a big handshake and a hug
and and some of the experiences we
shared you know after round and
throughout the
years it’s very close to my
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heart the lights out at akan was big we
were in a race against darkness and by
the way Darkness one tiger was 178 yd
away in a fairway I couldn’t see anybody
out there he strikes an eight
AR and when it
lands it was genius is what it
was flash bulbs are going off everywhere
and I believe I said something about
lights out and Tiger Woods is done it
again how about that huh
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he ran off three wins in a row there at
one time five times overall and he
pulled off shots there on a couple of
years chipping
in look at this shot look at this might
go in might go in might go in it is
in that was one of the most incredible
golf shots I think you’ll ever see
played it was always going to be a
special place for Tiger because it was
Jack’s tournament and Jack was someone
that he not only respected but he
competed
against Jack set the standard and he
wanted to do what Jack did and he wanted
to do it to The Next Step Above and
Beyond he grew up with Nicholas’s
records on the wall in his in his
bedroom Tiger’s records are going to be
a little bit like Jack where not a play
with think we
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unreachable to host an event and to have
the same status as two of my Idols Jack
and Arnold I miss it’s a dream come
true receiving a trophy from Tiger
that’s one way to get your name right
beside him in the history books but his
records that may take a lifetime to
break
chasing tiger isn’t so much about
overcoming his stats or surpassing
achievements but it’s about pursuing his
commitment to the
game I’ve always been one who likes to
break records and push the envelope I’m
always trying to push to get better that
has been the Hallmark of my
career winning means a lot to me second
sucks and third’s even
worse I look back on it now
and uh I wish I could have won more
Tiger’s dedication and winning mentality
BR the success that we witnessed for
decades only history will tell if we’ll
see it
again I would equate it to having the
opportunity for the first time in your
life to go and watch Michael Jordan play
it’s like Muhammad Ali it is the elite
of the elite as an announcer it was
wonderful because he could perform magic
you get to the point sometimes where
your reservoir of superlatives is bone
dry what’s the next great superlative
that you can come up with they’ve all
been used it was a wonderful challenge
to have when you’re looking down the
18th and the actions happening right
below
you you get to hear
that it’s one of the great gifts of my
career
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