And like everything else for him at this U.S. Open, it was no contest. Woods turned Pebble Beach into his personal playground, leaving everyone else so far behind that he might as well have been playing all alone. While the rest of the field was playing for second, Woods took aim at the record books. When the final putt fell Sunday against the spectacular scenery off Carmel Bay, Woods claimed the U.S. Open, along with the kind of records no one imagined possible. His 272 tied the lowest score ever in a U.S. Open, first set by his idol, Jack Nicklaus, in 1980 and later matched by Lee Janzen in 1993.
More history awaits next month.
Woods goes to the British Open at St. Andrews with a chance to become only the fifth player and at age 24, the youngest to win all four major championships. Some of us who saw Tiger on the Merv Griffin show in the early 70's knew we are looking at the future of golf. We knew with a certainty that defied the facts. Perhaps it is easy to make this point now that Mr. Woods is winning the tournaments and rewriting the record books. We could say the same thing about God.