Tiger Woods Gets Win No. 73 at Jack’s Place, Ready to Resume Major Title Hunt

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Published: June 4, 2012

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Tiger Woods took another step into golfing immortality yesterday with career win No. 73 to tie Jack Nicklaus on the all-time PGA Tour wins list.

Jack Nicklaus did not get PGA Tour win No. 73 until the age of 46, although it was his sixth Masters win, Tiger is only 36.

Sam Snead is next on the list for Tiger with 82 official career wins. Sam would argue with you that he had a dozen or so more wins that the PGA does not recognize. 

He put the prize money in his pocket nonetheless.

If Tiger can average three wins per year he will pass “Slammin Sammy” sometime in 2015.

Can Tiger win over 100 PGA Titles before he hangs up his spikes?

Tiger was struggling coming into the 2012 Memorial.  He did have a win at the Arnold Palmer Invitational and was a runner-up at the Honda in March.

In his last three starts, however, he had missed cuts at the Wells Fargo and the Players plus he had an unspectacular T-40 at the 2012 Masters. Tiger obviously did his homework over the past few weeks at his compound in Jupiter Island. 

He played very much like the old Tiger all four days.

He struck the ball beautifully on Thursday and Friday.  Tiger made nine birdies over his first 36 holes.  The only blemishes on his cards were two double-bogeys, one on each day.

His strong play continued through the front nine on Saturday posting a near perfect two under-par 34.  Swirling winds, cool conditions and a fever of over 100 degrees took their toll physically and Tiger limped home on the back nine with four bogeys and a lone birdie at No. 13. 



Saturday’s round is what really won the 2012 Memorial for Woods.  Even though he was struggling physically he was able to keep the damage to a minimum and get into the house with a one over-par 73.

He was able to stay in touch with the leaders and gave h...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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