I mean, I love to be able to put myself in contention, coming down the stretch and having to execute a golf shot and your nerves fluttering a little bit, eyeballs are beaten, palms are sweating. It's fun to be able to experience that and somehow be able to control it. That's what he was able to do at Augusta in '97. That's what he did at the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach last year, at the British Open at St. Andrews and finally the PGA again at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville. He was in control.
Woods now holds the scoring records, in relation to par, in all four major championships.
That's a slam dunk. It seems ridiculous now to think anyone ever suggested such a thing when Woods went through a mere handful of tournaments without a win. Although Vijay Singh is the defending Masters champion, though the big man from Fiji is playing well, Woods stands alone this week. He is No. 1 in the world. He is a golfer who says he played too much at the end of last year, who traveled 27,000 miles on four continents, who didn't take a real break and didn't fully have the energy he needed to begin a new year.