What Makes Tiger Woods and Torrey Pines a Perfect Match?

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Published: January 21, 2014

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Ah, the comfort of home, or as close to it as Tiger Woods may get when he tees it up at Torrey Pines, where he is the defending champion of the Farmer’s Insurance Open and where he has won eight times including his last major title at the U.S. Open in 2008.

Torrey and Tiger go together like the cream in your coffee; add some sugar and you will get an idea of how sweet a place it is for Tiger. When it comes to Torrey Pines, Tiger has redefined the importance of home-field advantage.

As any golfer knows, the more confident you are, the easier it is to play a course. The more you know its nuances and approaches, the more likely you are to play well.

Maybe it’s the cool beach breeze that refreshes Tiger. The 7,600-yard Torrey Pines South Course provides a tough challenge with its narrow fairways lined with some of the roughest rough on the tour. The air can be heavy due to rolling fog banks and the ocean breeze can be steady and deceptive.



Yet, like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, Tiger seems to know there is no place like home. Who knows how many times he played Torrey Pines while growing up in the small town of Cypress just a few miles to the north. Tiger’s comfort level cannot be overstated. He knows how to approach each hole, how to deal with the prevailing winds, the dramatic changes in elevation from hole to hole, the cliffside bunkers and the two-tiered greens.

Even though Tiger resides in Florida, he is a Southern California kid and never is that more apparent than at this La Jolla seaside course. It used to be the Masters that was Tiger’s personal domain and even though he has won at Augusta four times, it pales in comparison to his dominance at Torrey. Tiger has won 14 times in his home state but no other California courses—not Pebble, not Riviera, not La Quinta—are as welcoming to Tiger’s game as Torrey Pines.

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Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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