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Happy to be Blue
He’s getting pretty good at having somebody else put a jacket on him. Usually it’s green.
This time it’s sapphire blue. And, somehow, he didn’t really mind about the color.
This one is pretty special, too.
“Over the course of my career, I’ve won a few tournaments
here and there, and it’s been nice,” Tiger Woods
said. “This one, considering the field and the golf course
and the conditions, I’m ecstatic to have won here.”
Woods’ victory meant four of the five winners of the
Wachovia Championship have won majors. The others
were David Toms, Vijay Singh and Jim Furyk.
Woods finished at 13-under 275, the lowest score in the
five-year history of this event. He earned $1.134 million,
and went atop the FedExCup standings for the first time
last year, despite playing only six times. Just 10 starts
after his Wachovia Championships victory, Woods won
four more times and held the inaugural FedExCup trophy.
It didn’t start out as a wall-to-wall walk for Woods, who
changed clubs when he felt the wind shift and still flew
the 18th green to take bogey and an opening round of 70,
four strokes back of leader Padraig Harrington.
“It was an eight (iron) when the wind was off the right,
then it became a seven when the wind was in, and then
the wind went in off the left, then down off the left, and
when I hit it, it was down off the right, when I thought it
was in off the right,” he said. “There you go.”
And there it went.
BY JIM CHIAFFREDO
PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF THE PGA TOUR/GETTY IMAGES
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