posted August 13, 2009 at 17:36 EST in Golf Articles
Tiger Woods Leads at the PGA Championship
by Tim Furious
Nobody made a stronger case for favorite odds heading in to the PGA Championship this weekend. Tiger Woods has thundered out to the lead at 5-under at Hazeltine National. He is flanked on the fairways by Paidrag Harrington, the man he crushed during the Bridgstone Invitational just last weekend. Harrington, along with Hunter Mahan, is second on the leaderboard.
Woods is in a majors drought this PGA season after returning from knee surgery. He has, by far, been the most successful golfer of the 2009 betting season, winning the Arnold Palmer, the Buick Open, the AT&T and the Birdgstone, but has been a shadow of himself at majors this year.
In a now infamous performance, Woods missed the cut at The Open Championship, finished and tied for sixth in both The Masters and The U.S. Open this season. This will be his final shot at winning a major in 2009. In 15 years on the PGA, Woods has failed to win a major in just four of those seasons (1995, 1996, 2003, 2004).
Dominating performances at the Birdgestone, where he stormed from behind to make Paidrag Harrington piss himself on the back nine, and at the AT&T gave Tiger Woods all the momentum he needed to march in to Hazeltine National as the favorite. The experts always say, “If it’s a major, it’s Tiger’s to lose” and this is becoming the least of his exceptions.
Tiger will have to contend with playing partner, Padraig Harrington, Phil Mickelson and the always lethal Hunter Mahan this weekend in hopes of catching Roger Federer for 15 major victories in a career. Teeing off today will be Stewart Cink, Angel Cabrerra and Lucas Glover who have all won majors this season. Still, they are long shots compared to Tiger Woods who has won the PGA Championship four times in his illustrious career.
Federer did at the biggest stage in Tennis by winning at Wimbledon. This is the final major event of the season. Can Tiger do the same?
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