Sunday, December 8, 2013

Zach takes down Tiger

Zach Johnson takes down Tiger in exuberating fashion. Tiger doesn't lose often, and rarely to Iowans.

Tiger wasn't looking like the man to beat after his Friday 62, and he was beat. Zach who had led off and on through out the tournament, was able to just pass Tiger at the very end, and even in a playoff. He was able to beat Tiger on the first hole of the playoff, but the exciting part was getting there.

Zach found himself trailing by one after both him and Tiger birdied the 16th. He was able to make birdie on the 17th to tie it up with one hole to play, a golfers dream. One hole, you and Tiger. After Tiger just missed the water, all Zach had to do was find the green and make par and force Tiger to get up and down. He wanted a tougher route. Zach hit his second shot into the water, so he was hitting his fourth into the green. This wasn't going to effect him though, he hit a perfect shot literally to hole out and save par. To put the pressure on Tiger to get up and down to force the playoff. Tiger rarely let's us down, and he had no issue getting up and down. In the playoff Zach two putted to force Tiger to make a five footer to continue the playoff. Like I said Tiger rarely let's us down, he did, and missed. Giving Zach the win.

Now Tiger or Zach don't need the money. But that was a costly miss. It cost him the win and $500,000. But Tiger and Zach are friends and I don't think he'll lose much sleep. There were some players that would have hoped for better weeks than this though.

The young gun, Jordan Spieth finished tied for second to last with Lee Westwood. Both of these players are expected to have big 2014 seasons.

Dustin Johnson finished in last place at 11 over. He to is expected to have a big 2014 season, so let's hope this was just an off week for him.

As the weekend closes, more great golf was added to the end of the season even though we are so close to the end of the season.

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