posted May 7, 2007 at 14:25 EST in Golf Articles
PGA Golf Betting -The Players Championship, TPC Sawgrass
by Brock Murphy
Tiger Woods won The Wachovia Championship at the Quail Hollow Club last weekend with a three-under par 69 in the final round. He’s good at this golf stuff. He ought to consider making a living at it.
Woods has entered only six tournaments this season and has won three of them, while finishing in a tie for second at The Masters. Woods’ win at the Wachovia Championship put him in first-place in the FedEx Cup, followed by Vijay Singh and Charles Howell, III.
Woods’ Wachovia win was by two strokes over Steve Stricker and four strokes over Phil Mickelson and Rory Sabattini. Stewart Cink and Anthony Kim tied for fifth at 8-under, while Ken Duke, Arron Oberholser and third-round leader, Vijay Singh, finished in a three way tie for 7th-place. Singh shot 2-over par to take himself out of contention on Sunday.
Crafty veteran Bernard Langer represented his German countrymen well with a 5-under par 10-place tie.
Now the Tour swings south to the TPC Sawgrass - home of the famous island-green (17th-hole) - for The Players Championship.
Stephen Ames won last year’s Players’ Championship by a whopping six-strokes over Retief Goosen. Jim Furyk finished nine-strokes back in a three-way tie for third place. Jose Marie Olazabal finished ten-strokes off the pace but one-stroke ahead of Ernie Els, John Rollins and Vijay Singh. Woods finished twenty-second in last year’s Players Championship. Only Goosen is not entered in this year’s field.
Woods was runner-up in 2000 to Hal Sutton and he won the tournament in ’01 by one-stroke over Singh. Davis Love III won in 2003 by six-strokes over Jay Haas and Padraig Harrington. The next year, Harrington was a one-stroke runner-up to Adam Scott. In 2005, Fred Funk beat out Tom Lehman and Scott Verplank by a single stroke.
Last year’s winner, Ames, has two top-ten finishes this year (most recently, a 9th-place finish a the Arnold Palmer Invitational). He was 24th at The Masters, 21st at the Verizon Heritage and 61st last weekend in North Carolina.
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